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Men's Safety Not so Important for TTC
posted by Scott on Monday January 07, @06:22AM
from the inequality/double-standards dept.
Inequality AFG sent in this story and writes "For the last little while, the Toronto Transit Commission has had a "request stop" program for women on buses in between 9pm and 5am. This safety initiative (scroll down on the web page) allows for a woman to request to be let off a bus in between designated stops. While such a program is helpful, men are not given the same option, despite the fact that, in many ways, they are more likely to be the victims of violence/assault."

Source: The City of Toronto Web Site [Canada]

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Unbelievable (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Monday January 07, @01:17PM EST (#1)
Unbelievable
Bus privileges? (Score:1)
by Angry Harry on Monday January 07, @08:32PM EST (#2)
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Here, in the UK, Men are more likely to be mugged, assaulted, maimed or murdered by a stranger than are women - by a factor of about 3 to 1.

If the same is true in Canada, then this special privilege for women is truly disgraceful.


Re:Bus privileges? (Score:1)
by AFG (afg2112@yahoo.ca) on Monday January 07, @09:56PM EST (#3)
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"If the same is true in Canada, then this special privilege for women is truly disgraceful."

It is the same.

I wonder how long it will take before the TTC allows women to pay lower fares.

BTW, I love your site and I visit it regularly.


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Re:Bus privileges? (Score:1)
by tparker on Tuesday January 08, @12:56AM EST (#4)
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In the US, about 77% of all victims of any kind of violent crime are men. More than 80% of those who commit suicide are men and boys. In terms of violence, that 4 to 1 ratio seems fairly consistent in this country. Is the ratio about the same in the UK and Canada? If so, is that a measure of society's view of the relative worth of men and women?
Re:Bus privileges? (Score:1)
by Hawth on Tuesday January 08, @12:16PM EST (#5)
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...is that a measure of society's view of the relative worth of men and women?


It's a measure of apathy that springs from men being largely the known perpetrators of violence, as well. Somehow there's this thinking that intra-gender violence is not nearly as bad as inter-gender violence.


Also - it's a measure of what I conclude is a belief that, while violence simply comes with the territory of being male, the only justifiable physical "attack" on a woman should be childbirth. Beyond that, there are no accepted venues for women being put into harm's way (except in certain professions which continue to be mostly male, anyway), and so any victimization of women from anything other than biology is construed as a travesty of the social order.
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