Women only parking spots

trigg_27 · 23 Jun 2018 at 12:54

Saudi Arabia is creating 'women only' parking spots following the decision to allow women to hold driving licences.

I can't help wondering what these spaces are supposed to achieve - will the be wider than standard ones, with more room behind to help with reversing?

Destination · 23 Jun 2018 at 12:56

It is to leave safe areas where women won't be accosted and raped upon leaving their vehicles.

I am not joking, or trying to be funny, this is a real risk if out unaccompanied by a male family member.

trigg_27 · 23 Jun 2018 at 13:00

Ahh you had to take a joke thread and make it serious, didn't you?

Is that a genuine risk in Saudi though? I would have thought the harsh penal regime would have curbed such attacks

Destination · 23 Jun 2018 at 13:05

trigg_27 said:
Ahh you had to take a joke thread and make it serious, didn't you?

Is that a genuine risk in Saudi though? I would have thought the harsh penal regime would have curbed such attacks

The harsh penal regime means that a mans word counts for 4 women's words, so unless you have a male witness (or four female) in a he says she says trial, or happen to be related to the judge, any report of rape will result in the woman doing time for indecency and adultery, the man will be let off for not controlling himself in front a succubus.

Sorry for messing with the joke element.

Scam · 23 Jun 2018 at 13:21

trigg_27 said:
Is that a genuine risk in Saudi though? I would have thought the harsh penal regime would have curbed such attacks

Lol.

Antar Bolaeisk · 23 Jun 2018 at 15:55

I would have just assumed the women would do the same as the men and just stop their car wherever it was most convenient regardless of other drivers.

Gerard · 23 Jun 2018 at 15:57

trigg_27 said:
Saudi Arabia is creating 'women only' parking spots following the decision to allow women to hold driving licences.

I can't help wondering what these spaces are supposed to achieve - will the be wider than standard ones, with more room behind to help with reversing?

Football pitch sized parking areas for women is a must

Delvis · 23 Jun 2018 at 16:27

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I would have just assumed the women would do the same as the men and just stop their car wherever it was most convenient regardless of other drivers.

Sure, then get a male rod shoved in their orifices because they're basically animals and can't control themselves

Destination · 23 Jun 2018 at 17:05

Delvis said:
Sure, then get a male rod shoved in their orifices because they're basically animals and can't control themselves

Shush

Of course they can control themselves, it was the women fault for ankle or wrist, or pheromones or something which stopped the man following the true path of non-rapey-goodness.

arknor · 23 Jun 2018 at 20:13

stops them from hitting a man car if you keep all the women's parking space well away

Angilion · 24 Jun 2018 at 01:14

Destination said:
It is to leave safe areas where women won't be accosted and raped upon leaving their vehicles.

I am not joking, or trying to be funny, this is a real risk if out unaccompanied by a male family member.

It's probably also to try to maintain some degree of segregation and to try to defuse some conflict. There is some controversy over the reform. Regardless of how unreasonable that controversy is, it is a real thing and it makes sense to take it into account.

Of course, there should be a suitable number of men only parking spots too. Either an equal number or a number proportional to the number of drivers or (much harder to assess) the need for parking spaces. Anything else wouldn't be fair.

asim18 · 24 Jun 2018 at 03:22

Destination said:
It is to leave safe areas where women won't be accosted and raped upon leaving their vehicles.

I am not joking, or trying to be funny, this is a real risk if out unaccompanied by a male family member.

I'm pretty certain that the risk of getting raped after leaving the relative safety of a vehicle is a "real risk" for ALL women across the globe, not just Saudi women.

Also, being accompanied by male family certainly does reduce the risk of the female getting raped. Are you trying to say that the risk of a woman getting raped remains exactly the same whether she is accompanied by her family or not? Because the absolute fact is that being accompanied by your family certainly does mitigate the risk of getting raped; very close to absolute zero in fact. There would have to be some seriously dodgy/crazy scenario going on for a woman to be raped in the presence of male family.

asim18 · 24 Jun 2018 at 03:31

Furthermore, they have separate queues for men/women at KFC lol. Is that to stop rape at KFC even though the queues are just feet apart?

Eurofighter · 24 Jun 2018 at 05:40

They just like to split men and women up, so maybe this is simply more of that. Dunno.

lunar · 25 Jun 2018 at 00:42

Men and women are segragated in Muslim weddings too.
At the mosque the females pray at the back searated by a curtain or even put into an inferior room, which is uncomfortable.

FoxEye · 25 Jun 2018 at 02:10

Saudi Arabia sure sounds like swell place! What's not to love? Get up, start the day with heartfelt prayer to your entirely 100% peace-loving (honest) God. Have lunch, a spot of after-dinner rape, then a bit more praying. Perhaps a bit of preaching death to the West in the afternoon, then maybe beat your Chinese/African servant to within an inch of his life, before forcing yourself on your concubines. A final round of prayers and then drifting off into a contented sleep. Big day of arms dealing ahead tomorrow.

[FnG]magnolia · 25 Jun 2018 at 02:19

FoxEye said:
Saudi Arabia sure sounds like swell place! What's not to love? Get up, start the day with heartfelt prayer to your entirely 100% peace-loving (honest) God. Have lunch, a spot of after-dinner rape, then a bit more praying. Perhaps a bit of preaching death to the West in the afternoon, then maybe beat your Chinese/African servant to within an inch of his life, before forcing yourself on your concubines. A final round of prayers and then drifting off into a contented sleep. Big day of arms dealing ahead tomorrow.

I know you're going for sarcasm but you actually sound slightly jealous

FoxEye · 25 Jun 2018 at 02:21

[FnG]magnolia said:
I know you're going for sarcasm but you actually sound slightly jealous

You know me too well! Trouble is I just don't look very good in a thawb, or I'd be on the next flight...

robfosters · 25 Jun 2018 at 03:22

The public beheadings are a jolly day out for the family too.

ianh · 25 Jun 2018 at 09:37

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I would have just assumed the women would do the same as the men and just stop their car wherever it was most convenient regardless of other drivers.

Yeap!

Haven't seen any so far but it's fairly "conservative" where I live, even for Saudi. TBF they can't be any worse than the thousands of <12 year olds who already drive/chaperone their families out here!