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China: "Women-only" parking lot unveiled
Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2010-01-11 04:20
Indeed, it seems that women are such timid and easily-frightened creatures, with men being so foreboding, menacing, and indeed, unbelievably dangerous, that otherwise public services need to create women-only parking lots with pink parking space lines and wider-than-typical parking spaces in order for them to "feel safe".
Add China to the growing list of countries that is allowing women-only public spaces or services of this or that kind while gleefully ignoring the way they they are short-changing their male citizens. But I couldn't make this stuff up if you paid me. Excerpt:
'A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.
The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.
Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".
The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.
The Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre had also "installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs", he said.'
My dear old mother, who is past 70, lived all throughout the terrible, terrible years before feminism and never once, to the best of my knowledge, found mixed-sex parking lots absent pink parking space dividers to be the least bit threatening. But I guess she was also a lot tougher than the soft, frightened fawns of today. Hey, wasn't women's lib supposed to empower women to be less timid and fawn-like? I don't get it.
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Good point
"the soft, frightened fawns of today. Hey, wasn't women's lib supposed to empower women to be less timid and fawn-like? I don't get it."
Open Your Eyes by Jay Hammers
Remember one of the pillars of Feminism
Indeed, I read your linked-to page.
Feminist Pillar #236: Women and girls are entirely capable of making their own decisions around sex as long as no one else thinks it is an "inappropriate" kind of sex (whatever that may be), at which point it was the fault of the nearest man.
And yes, one can never strike a woman, even in self-defense. Just ask Tiger Woods or Charlie Sheen.
Seems Tyra has replaced Oprah as the Voice of Misandry in daytime TV. And if for some reason Tyra moves on, there'll be someone else to spring up and take her place.
Like some multi-headed hydra, if it attracts ratings, whatever it is, it'll get on the tube. Misandry is a sure-fire ratings-getter among the sit-at-home-all-day crowd that complains that while being at home all day whilst a husband is out working is kind of nice, it is in fact a cruel thing to do to her in some way (ie, to allow her to live this terrible existence surrounded by a nice living room, swimming pool, lovely children, and plants), and so she is justified in whatever vengeance she may want to exact.
Hey, Tyra knows her audience.
Maybe this is necesary
Lets have some sense of humor.
Please look at this video and tell me if women dont need "special help".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn0e6xA5G_8
After this no one can say that men and women are equal.
Hahahahaha
About misandry
IMO, misandry was far more widespread historically than misogyny. Since women had little power institutionally, this hatred was seen as innocuous, even endearing, like a two year old stamping her dainty foot during a tantrum. The very commonness of misandry is why the word did not appear in the English language until three centuries after its counterpart misogyny: the former was seen as ordinary, the latter as pathologic. (The same reasoning can be applied to the words heterosexuality and homosexuality. The former being the norm, the word was virtually unknown in the 50s, while the latter, since pathologized, was in common usage.) It is no coincidence that the feminist thrust for female supremacy in ALL positive human spheres has led to growing acknowledgment of the word.
The above sexual petty apartheid, like countless others, though seemingly harmless, is preparing the populace psychologically for the gender-based, two-tiered society in the works. The male useful idiots, who unwittingly cooperate in this scheme, have always been part of the radfems "big picture"; in the early 70s, they openly bragged about using men's chivalry/chauvinism in their crusade against them, a kind of gender judo.
It's amusing how the article diplomatically handles women's lack of parallel parking skills, to wit, "different sense of distance." ROFLMAO. And again after the video.
Do women need more space?
Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".
Does this mean that the spaces are 3ft wider so that women can park their cars without denting the cars either side?
Institutionally
Hunchback I totally agree with your post except when you say women had little power institutionally I would like to clarify that even if they didn't comprise the institutions historically, the institutions gave them power in areas such as parental rights, the right to stay home and not work, the right again not fighting wars...etc. In those ways they still did have power institutionally by virtue of the power the institutions gave them. I do agree though that the lack of participation power within institutions helped make misandry so common and acceptable.
Marc A., I was
Marc A., I was distinguishing male institutional power from female domestic power, the former greatly supporting the latter. Six of one...
manonthestreet Hunchback
manonthestreet
Hunchback that's a very interesting point. I had not thought about it before. But you are correct I knew the word homosexual before I knew the word heterosexual. In fact I don't think I heard the word heterosexual until the 80's.I think before that it was just sexual or sex that was used.