TL;DR - The Rape Culture of Female Only Parking [12/Jun/16]

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Sources:

Female only transport:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-creates-women-only-parking-spaces-which-are-longer-wider-and-marked-by-pink-chalk-9435686.html
http://jezebel.com/very-smart-german-men-think-women-only-parking-spaces-a-1723403881
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/10/the-debate-over-germanys-sexist-women-only-parking-spaces/
http://globalnews.ca/news/2729472/chinese-parking-lot-creates-female-only-spaces-citing-concerns-women-have-trouble-parking/?sf275110
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/06/01/extra-wide-women-parking-controversy-china/
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-used-the-women-only-train-carriages-in-tokyo-for-good-reason-and-id-welcome-them-in-the-uk-too-10472514.html
https://www.rnw.org/archive/women-only-taxis-introduced-mexico-city
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11824962/Women-only-trains-and-transport-How-they-work-around-the-world.html

Women are scared of being alone:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SxGZDTA2m58C&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=women+fear+walking+to+their+car+in+the+dark&source=bl&ots=wjmbB7J_X1&sig=rRMrRxEE73Ap1Mxv_K81tmMR4E0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0l96qw6LNAhWLBcAKHdBACscQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.rolereboot.org/life/details/2014-08-im-sick-afraid-walk-alone-night/
http://www.thelocal.de/20150730/women-only-parking-spaces-sensible-or-sexist
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikerose/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-night?utm_term=.oqW5Qvq2L#.rt3VxN0qe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGW9UjCTjY0
https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-2007-5-page-101.htm

Women are scared by constantly being told they will raped/attacked/assaulted/harassed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1eggWrFBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KORLrUGIo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ST_suvc9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwJRFClybmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP7OXDWof30

Even though they are statistically the safest demographic:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/229133.pdf
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expanded-homicide-data
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-1

Unfortunately for all the people claiming 'sexist' it does seem men are actually objectively better at parking on aggregate:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/biopsy/papers/Wolf_Ocklenburg2010.pdf

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