Admiral Beez
Superstar
Race, unlike having only one leg, is not a handicap.
Race, unlike having only one leg, is not a handicap.
Single white males are the most likely to choose bikes as a mode of transportation.
That's a coincidental though rather than causal, no? More of a byproduct of bicycle-friendly areas being dominated by younger white people.
I mean, bikes are pretty dominant in places like Vietnam...
I don't see the need for such prejudice and sexism here.White men seem to be more confrontational than others in my own experience ...
I don't see the need for such prejudice and sexism here.
Or am I supposed to start describing in which ethnic neighbourhood I regularly observed people parking on streetcar tracks, and who don't understand the concept of getting off the rear doors of the streetcar?
My only disagreement is that prejudice and sexism shouldn't be coming out here.You're free to disagree. Seems that way to me.
Making sure people are safe when using transit and the system is accessible to all is one that everyone agrees upon. This idea of reflecting gender, racial, or socio-economic sensitivities is Miller 101 and exemplifies how not to build a transit system.
Higher immigrant populations will be more dense and more likely to take transit. Single white males are the most likely to choose bikes as a mode of transportation.
On the matter of gender equality, it is very important for the TTC (or any other agency for that matter) to ensure that their attempts at gender equality doesn't inadvertently cause gender discrimination.
The TTC Request Stop program is a great example of this. If my memory serves me correctly the program was initially created after a string of assault on female customers of the TTC as they were leaving stops. And though the program had the noble intention of making female riders feel safer on the TTC, it eventually lead to gender discrimination.
The program suggested that men could not be sexually assaulted and therefor did not deserve protection. Of course this is not true. Males get sexually assaulted by both men and women quite frequently. But males are often reluctant to report that they've been sexually assaulted since it is stigmatized. Male sexual assault victims are often viewed as either being liars who "enjoyed" the assault or as being weak. Now if I were a male sexual assault victim who has to deal with Request Stop advertisements saying that the program is designed to prevent assaults exclusively for women and implying males don't get assaulted, would I want to report the assault? The answer would be different for every man, but what I can say is that it would certainly make me more reluctant to report the sexual assault.
As the request stop has been available to all genders on TTC for a while now, I don't see much point in discussing sexist practices that have now been fixed.And not just sexual assaults. What about physical assaults and robbery? It applies to both men and women. I don't think the request stop program should be women specific. It IS actually discriminatory against men as if they never get assaulted. If a man doesn't feel safe getting off at a station at midnight, he should be entitled to request stops too.