Is It Even Safe For Our Women To Get Into A Taxi Alone These Days?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-170276/No-woman-safe-minicab-says-rape-judge.html

/// Police figures show that 214 women were sexually assaulted in the capital last year after getting into illegal minicabs and 54 raped. ///

But it would appear that the Transport for London is withholding information on the number of women who are sexually assaulted when they get into taxi cabs, why could this be?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-minicab-drivers-claim-tfl-hiding-data-sexual-assaults-taxis-they-are-demanding-truth-1544945

[Retrochic]

Our boys in blue
Our hard worked nurses
Our soldiers on the front line
Our girls rowing the Atlantic for charity
oh yes very derogatory....not

Don't be too harsh though Divebuddy - being outraged distressed or fainting at unpleasantness for some is a leisure activity

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divebuddy

AOG vehemently objects to being called a 'Brit'. He stated that on a thread about racial epithets.

So, if EccleCake, or indeed any other woman on AB wishes to state that they do not like the term 'our women', they should be free to do so.

No-one has the right to tell anyone else what they and cannot be offended by, even if we don't get their point of view.

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divebuddy

Nope.

Got about twelve more.

[EcclesCake]

I find being claimed by a stranger cringe worthy, in much the same way I dislike 'love from us all' type posts, birthday posts etc.

I'll speak for myself and I certainly don't need another to speak for me!

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divebuddy

Oh, c'mon. This is a debate. What would the site be like if we discouraged opinion/rebuttal?

I was merely pointing out that different people have different key words they object to.

AOG doesn't like being called 'Olg Git', or a 'Brit', so I think he should be sensitive to the feelings of others.

[pastafreak]

anotheoldgit
Question Author
//woofgang

/// BTW...I really dislike the phrase “our women” I am not anybody’s woman. ///

The things some choose to be offended about, they must lead a very lonely life.//



I haven't even read beyond this patronising remark...but I'm bloody offended by it also. It smacks of the same possessive attitude some accuse certain other ethnic/religious groups of having.

[retrocop]

One day we had women here banging on about how they are as fit as any squaddie and should be allowed as infantry troops to act out their natural Bodicea roles charging after Johnny Taliban. Now ,on this thread,we have tears and the vapours because they are regarded as (nearly said O?R) equals. :-)

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EcclesCake

One thing that struck me though...I don't think that AOG was necessarily trying to be condescending with his term 'our women'. I think he was using it in the context of 'one of our own'. A phrase he used on a thread about white farmers being kicked out of their land in (I think) Zimbabwe recently. Contextually, I take it that 'our women' are simply 'women who are part of our collective society, as opposed to any ownership status that men have over women.

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EcclesCake

One thing that struck me though...I don't think that AOG was necessarily trying to be condescending with his term 'our women'. I think he was using it in the context of 'one of our own'. A phrase he used on a thread about white farmers being kicked out of their land in (I think) Zimbabwe recently. Contextually, I take it that 'our women' are simply 'women who are part of our collective society, as opposed to any ownership status that men have over women.//

Wow. You cotton on quick!

[naomi24]

Another load of nonsense. One word perceived to be out of place by the incurably offended and they're out in force again.

[douglas9401]

[Mamyalynne]

Follow the safeguards many of us have put on this thread and you'll have done your level best to safeguard yourself and if anything feels wrong - don't enter the car and make a report.

[Zacs-Master]

Another glass half empty headline question by AOG, completely ignoring the millions of taxi journeys taken by women, which happen without incident.

[whiskeryron]

The words knickers and twist spring to mind over a collective innocuous term by AOG which was pronounced in all innocence.

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naomi24

I think that's a little unfair.

EcclesCake, wolfgang and 237SJ don't come across as being people who are perpetually offended at all.

And if someone tells me that they don't particularly like being referred to by some term, I simply stop using that term.

No skin off my nose.