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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    edited March 2021
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    The baroness was making a point that’s all, a serious point though.

    i personally don’t go out after dark if I can help it, I’d never thought about it as a self imposed curfew but I suppose that’s what it is. I just don’t feel safe in the streets at night at all. My partner thinks it’s amusing but she seldom goes out after dark either.

    during the day time if I find myself walking behind a woman I cross over to help her feel more comfortable and I might slow down to give extra space between us. There’s not much else I can do.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
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    This article outlines some interesting and simple ways to ask for help discretely

    https://news.sky.com/story/the-simple-hand-signal-that-lets-people-know-youre-in-danger-and-other-ways-to-ask-for-help-12243563

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 50,016 Disability Gamechanger
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    @leeCal I wouldn't go out after dark either  unless I was in a vehicle 
    @lisathomas50 I had a quick read
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  • AlisonNetty
    AlisonNetty Community member Posts: 192 Pioneering
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    Not all men are bad, by putting the curfew in you would be using the same brush for every man.... that's not fair!
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  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,624 Disability Gamechanger
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    There will be no 6pm curfew on men I can promise you that here and now, not even in Wales, we are not some third world country, and if you step back and think about it considering we have a population of 66 million, in 2019 (i'm not comparing 2020 due to covid) there were just 650 murders down from 774 in 2018.
    The current case that is attracting so much publicity is only doing so because the alleged murderer was a serving policeman, and if that is the case it will be highly unusual (I'm choosing my words carefully here).
    What we need to do imho is educate our young men that women should be respected, something that is being missed ,as very young men have easy access to porn on their mobile phones and laptops, and they are being lead to think that women are just objects that are there for their gratification, I firmly believe that the internet is in the main a force for good in our lives but sadly it does have its dark side.

    As ever knee jerk reactions serve little or no place in a modern society.
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  • Geoark
    Geoark Community member Posts: 1,463 Disability Gamechanger
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    To be honest I don't think it will be passed. First the majority in all four parliaments/assemblies are men. Second it is totally impractical. For one thing it would kill off the economy if all men had to be in by 6pm, or even 9pm. Finally how would it makes things safer for women, and children in abusive relationships where the abuser is forced to be home from 6pm?

    At best it is an interesting talking point to get more air time and inches in the press.

    On the other hand what I do like about the current conversation is it not about how women are to blame, but rather what men can do to help make women feel safer. Plus more talk about teaching young men - though it is a lesson many older men could do with - how to treat women, and in particular how not to treat them.


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