Quote Originally Posted by lucy View Post
@denuseri:
I don't want to have to carry a fucking gun to feel fucking safe, for fuck's sake!
I agree, I do not either. I would also like to be able to go where I want, when I want, in peace. The question is what to do when we can't??

A good start might be a zero tolerance to any violence, even if it be at night and people 'should have known better'. Maybe also, in spite of all the bad statistics, we should stop seeing women as victims. That would be my main reason for not liking the ide of the hotel floor for women.

Then: It has to be said, but when it comes to domestic violence, women are not much better than men. In Switzerland, 40 % of victims of domestic violence are male. Taking into account that it's much harder for a man to go to the police and report that he's being violated by his partner than it is for a women it might well be that half of the offenders are female.
This is a point that needs to be kept in mind, or we leave half of humanity between a rock (the agressors) and a hard place (hidden victims.)

And puleeeze, just for once, leave me alone with US statistics. The world doesn't end at the coast of New Jersey and I'm certainly not going to look up any statistics of a country that's 4000 miles away, especially if the original topic of this thread isn't the US.
'kay?
Actually, although it started with a Danish hotel, it got international in the second post, because looking more into it, I realized that so many other countries, European as well as in US and Canada, also have these women-only floors.

US is not the world, true, but I find it quite natural that we all give examples, including statistics, from our own home turf.