Women only carriages on trains

More cameras, places at stations that women can report this immediately, people of authority on trains? A whole lot cheaper and quicker than more train carriages which cost through the earth and are in short supply due to there only being one or two British companies making them any more. This means importing from other countries (Even more expensive).

Importing more carriages is a bit moot, as I'm not (and nor is anyone, bar the OP) suggesting this is a necessary policy in the UK. The problem with Japan, at least as I understand it (and this has been ongoing since at least the 1980s when my parents lived there) is that the carriages are soooooo full, cameras would be useless, as the reason the men do it is because there is extremely little chance they would be caught. Unless you do as my mother's friend did, and grab the hand, force it skywards and call out in your best japanese demanding to know who's hand this is, and see who goes reddest first. Unlikely that there would be room for 'people of authority' on the trains to move around (seriously, they have 'pushers' CRAMMING people in through the doors - imagine the Tube then times by 10), so I suppose this seemed like the only solution.

Of course, what really needs to be changed is a culture where men think it is ok to grab a woman without her consent (and that IS a feminist statement).

I can see absolutely no reason why this would be beneficial.

True but it's near enough impossible to change the culture, but more men get assaulted, attacked, robbed and that on trains then women. May want to focus on the bigger things like people dying on trains, or preventing terrorism on them, rather than touching a woman. Which is why its pretty unlikely to happen and is countries where it does happen, it has raised a lot of issues about it.

Disgusting that you view someone getting sexually assaulted (which is what touching someone in an inappropriate manner or area is) as worthy of almost ignorance, just because there are 'bigger' issues.
You evidently have no idea how intimidating and horrible it can be.

Better to focus on all the issues possible, rather than ignoring one because you think its less important. Although how you can think sexual assault isnt important is beyond me.

London don't have it, everyone too busy to have time to annoy women on trains

Disgusting that you view someone getting sexually assaulted (which is what touching someone in an inappropriate manner or area is) as worthy of almost ignorance, just because there are 'bigger' issues.
You evidently have no idea how intimidating and horrible it can be.

Better to focus on all the issues possible, rather than ignoring one because you think its less important. Although how you can think sexual assault isnt important is beyond me.

I'm not saying I'm ignoring it, I'm saying that the people who make these decisions will end up putting a lot of things in front of this. There are limited resources so they can't do everything that people campaign for. I'm not being disgusting, I'm saying what will most likely happen. If you want them to change then you can go out there and make a stand, but posting on TSR and quoting me, not going to make a difference.

How's he ignoring it? He even agreed it was a problem. He was merely pointing out an obvious statistic that men get assaulted more than women on public transport. And to be honest I'd rather get groped once than have my head kicked in.

They have time to do this:

I dont think they do tbh. If you counted every single woman who got assaulted (sexually or otherwise) on public transport im not sure the numbers would be higher for men when also considering numbers of various assaults on public transport.
If you compare just violent assault then yes men get that more than women, but assault in general is debatable.
(Assuming this conversation is about places where this is a problem, im not talking about the uk right now)

Isnt the sexual assault percentage something like 80% for women in India? There was a big thing about the problems on their transport a couple months back.
I dont think 80% of guys there will have got beat up.

Not that it isnt a problem, but making one more important than the other, whatever the statistics (and the stats will be very high for both) is ridiculous.

Yes there are more incidents in which men are the victims by a long shot. and that fact that no one can spare carriages here, they are already far to busy, as said before like in Japan, pushing people onto the train. they cost thousands and thousands of pounds and simply cannot spare trains, especially seeing as they will have to be imported. It's not just a simple fix.

What is the benefit of this most women would either cry sexism or just laugh at it, and, if you introduced women only carriages why stop there, men's only carriages, carriages for gay people... See where I'm going it would lead to greater division