Female Parking Spaces: Pros and Cons

A local train station recently opened up female parking places. These parking places are directly next to the police station, and coincidentally, the nearest parking places to the train station. In fact, they are directly next to the handicapped parking places. What benefits do these parking places provide society? Are police trying to say that females are handicapped?

Upon further inquiry, the local police officer told me that it has successfully reduced the number of assaults against women - no statistics were offered to support this claim. This may, no doubt, be true, but why are we concentrating our efforts on reducing assaults against women when international statistics show that more than 2/3's of physical assaults are against men?

It is true that sexual assaults occur more commonly against women, but assaults against men often leave them crippled for life. Perhaps, this is just society's perverse way of treating women as an enfeebled half of society. That being said, physical assaults don't likely occur in people that are traveling in groups.

With this logic, why not build a "carpool" parking lot as far away from the train station as possible. Better yet, why not build this "carpool" only parking lot in a deep alley with no lighting. A group is able to better defend themselves against assault than people traveling alone, so under this logic it makes sense to punish everyone that travels in groups.

Using the same false logical argument we could advocate homosexual only parking. In some cities and towns homosexuals are often harassed and physically abused. Would it make sense for local city ordinances to create homosexual only parking in order to avert these assaults? If so, would there be a public outcry?

If safety is the key concern with these parking places then perhaps police could increase patrols and lighting in order to help protect everyone from the violence that hides in the shadows. This measure would be far more effective, yet at the same time amazingly cost inefficient. After all piece, of mind is far easier to buy with a few buckets of paint, than it would be with an increased number of salaries.

Female parking spaces not only put males in excessive danger by making them park further away from their location, but they also tear down the gender rights work that feminists have fought so hard for in the past years. By creating prioritized parking for females, society has yet again come out and stated that there is no equality in the gender. While were at it, we should mandate that all police officer's be male, well over 6 feet tall, and participate in body building. This ideal of difference simply isn't true or even logical.

Why do the same people that continue to advocate gender rights discriminate against the very same people that they are advocating?