I definitely get where you’re coming from. My girlfriend has had some serious complaints about the police/enforcement in Northwestern Europe. My initial feeling was a hint of annoyance at people profiting from underlying deep policy problems but I’m sure she would’ve appreciated female only trains when she was in…

They might excuse behavior in some situations, but I’d take that price over having to get groped on transit.

It would be sexist if women were obliged to keep to women-only cars. Providing them as an option in light of women having a need for more safety and for freedom from harassment is not sexist.

It’s optional, and has been requested for some time.

Yeah, all of the Nazi jokes are pretty fucking offensive, and I’m Jewish, for God’s sake. And I blinked at where the article asserted that this line is “near Cologne”- Leipzig is nowhere near that part of the country.

I believe they have them in Shanghai, as well, although it’s been a while since I was there. They were all over the place in Japan. I’m not sure why Jezebel is reporting on the general concept of all-female train cars as if it’s Totally New and Unheard Of. It’s been a thing for at least a decade or two now in other…

Women CAN go wherever they want - the women only cart is optional, the rest of the train is still open for everyone.

Being jewish I find your conflation of those two, very different circumstances, offensive.

Again, I’d like to point out that this has hardly anything to do with German men (not that they are especially cilivilized or anything).

Forgive me, but that sounds like an overtly delicate liberal sensitivity in the face of a real issue. Sort of like women who refrain from who, say, refrain from grabbing their keys and hurrying when a black man enters the parking garage, when that’s exactly what they would do if a white man came in. Women really do…

I’m not really sure what to think of this. On one hand it’s good for women to have a safe space, if it proves safe, but on the other hand, a portion of society shouldn’t have to be removed from another portion so that they are safe.

They have these in mostly migrant-less places like Tokyo.

No. Women are allowed in the other cars. They do this in Tokyo and other places. It’s not a big anti-female conspiracy.

I may not have read through the comments enough, but is anyone considering the availability of porn in Europe especially Germany (granted it has been 20 years since I was there) that might affect how men treat women? I am a woman who watches porn all the damn time but I can't imagine what affect it would have on me as…

Technically, men are the ones who are more limited in where they’re allowed to go now.

I’m so torn on this. On one hand, in the context it’s obviously stupid, isolationist, and kind of racist.

This is already a practice in India, where women don’t have their own space and many men are quite aggressive in their harassment of women. I did the daily commute by train for years and no woman would even think of this as something less than a necessity. If men got into the compartments, the woman would band…

There are other ways of reducing sexual assault that don’t involve physically separating people by gender.

How about this — put all the men in special cars and let the women go wherever they want.

You can find women-only communities in the United States, too.