From the HuffPost piece: But it seems to me that the way to eliminate taxi harassment is to increase penalties for lecherous drivers, install cameras or tape recorders to provide evidentiary documentation, and to encourage women to file complaints and grievances that would lead to harsher penalties for the drivers - loss of license, suspension, and the like. Hiring more women as "regular" taxi drivers wouldn't hurt either.
That seems to be missing often on discussions like these on whether women-only things are sexist or not. Sure, maybe they do reinforce gender binary and whatnot - but sometimes in severe situations, women need a safespace. In the meantime, now that we've got a safespace, instead of worrying that it's a bad thing, let's start focusing on what we can do to eliminate the need for a safespace in the first place. Like, let the pink taxis carry on (if there's a niche, the market will fill it) and instead of feeling insulted by them, why not focus on education campaigns towards men to lessen the need for that particular niche?
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That seems to be missing often on discussions like these on whether women-only things are sexist or not. Sure, maybe they do reinforce gender binary and whatnot - but sometimes in severe situations, women need a safespace. In the meantime, now that we've got a safespace, instead of worrying that it's a bad thing, let's start focusing on what we can do to eliminate the need for a safespace in the first place. Like, let the pink taxis carry on (if there's a niche, the market will fill it) and instead of feeling insulted by them, why not focus on education campaigns towards men to lessen the need for that particular niche?