Is it because they don’t have the same problem as Japan or India where there’s sexual harassment in crowded trains?
Because China has adequate and well trained police forces that take women reporting sexual crimes seriously, particularly in urban areas where most rail traffic is. Along with that they actively patrol and monitor stations and trains for any illicit behavior. They will then beat the shit out of perverts and rapists before throwing the book at them.
In countries like Japan and India, police forces rarely listen to women, and even if they do it’s just an annoyance to them and they will do no follow up. This leads to extremely high rates of sexual abuse, even in public, as perverts and sexual criminals know they can get away with it. So segregated train cars become a necessity.
Thanks for the reply.
Is it because they don’t have the same problem as Japan or India where there’s sexual harassment in crowded trains?
Most likely yes. I don’t have specific numbers, but as far as i can tell the incidence of sexual assault/harassment in China isn’t high, and it’s not an an outlier at all. Not zero obviously, but pretty low and in line with Western developed countries like the US or EU, which also do not have woman only carriages.
Despite them being right next to each other, you can’t really compare China to Japan which is frequently considered one of the most rapey countries in the world, due in part to the nearly nonexistent enforcement of sexual assault laws. Meanwhile China takes sexual crimes extremely seriously and has zero tolerance for it.
Actually, women’s rights and protection in China is some of the best in Asia.
Most countries don’t have that problem.
Sexual Assault and Harrassment have a high conviction rate on the mainland and severe punishment. I think r@pe is one of the crimes that still carries the death sentence - mandatory death sentence against minors.
If you want to do sex crimes in China, do it in Hong Kong or Taiwan. The ‘civilized’ world will fund protests and riots to protect you from extradition.
It’s even worse, they were trying to extradite the murdering creep back to Taiwan for trail, mainland China wasn’t even a factor in the case. But because there was no formal agreement between Hong Kong and Taiwan, when one was drafted that’s what sparked the riots since the extradition was a four way agreement between China, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong.
Yeah because Hong Kong recognises Taiwan as part of China, it has to deal with Taiwan as if it’s governed by PRC law, while on the other hand HK has its own legal system under the ‘one country, two systems’ principle. So any extradition treaty between HK and Taiwan has to be between HK law and Mainland law.
Women only passenger cars is like trying to fix a problem without addressing the root of it. Women shouldn’t feel the need to have their own passenger cars. They shouldn’t feel threatened where they live, as nobody should. If women have to have their own segregated spaces then there is a cultural and judicial problem to be addressed.
Your question seems to presuppose women will always need to have their own segregated spaces and the causes of that need are intrinsic to human nature.
Crime is a disease of capitalism. The willingness to do harm is systematic to social alienation. We don’t kill people but we kill animals because there is an alienation between us and the beast. The willingness to exploit comes from the trauma of exploitation. The willingness to treat people as cheap commodities comes from the commodity fetish.
Likewise look to your super structure. When you alienate women from their identity beyond a replaceable means to a sexual end, and when you represent the female body as a consumable commodity object to be bought and sold, then you’ll need to have separate cars.
Treat people with the dignity owed to them and present people as dignified and worthy of the same attention and respect due all people. Cultivate the community and allow people to feel as members of a greater whole whose needs and concerns are met and respected, and then you can ride the train next to each other without fear that your neighbor will harm you.
Thanks, I was just genuinely curious, maybe I should’ve worded my question better.
I figured you were. I don’t think your wording was poor. I hope I didn’t come off as coming after you. I thought it was an interesting question worth responding to.
I didn’t even know this was a thing :(
Why don’t they segregate their public services? What?
