If you do not see this as a case of street rape, you have a real problem. . .

This is NOT funny. It is not playful.  It is not: just “kidding around”.

It is violent, it is a personal attack, and to my mind as I see it here, and without a shadow of a doubt, a case of street rape. A painful reminder of our social context and strong need for rectification.

What Does Gender Have to Do with Safe and Abundant Cycling?

– – – > IT TURNS OUT QUITE A LOT. KEEP READING.

Source: https://momentummag.com/a-little-more-fuel-for-the-helmet-debate-fire/

Researchers in Canada have determined that mandatory helmet laws have no impact on bicycling injury hospitalization rates. Other factors, namely mode share, were much more likely to affect the outcome.

Main conclusions of investigation:

JOKING ABOUT RAPING WOMEN

“Can we stop with the rape jokes already?”

– February 7, 2016.. Article in today’s The Malaysian Insider

– Full text at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/…/can-we-stop-with-the-r…–

“Why does your hair look like it has been gang raped?” So asked a friend of mine as I stepped into the cool air-conditioned room after a long afternoon walk under the scorching George Town sun, my hair fried to a crispy frizz.

Rape jokes are aplenty in the world, and just like perpetrators of any acts of violence against women (VAW), those who “crack” rape jokes can be anyone – of any gender, age group, religion, class, etc.

Geetam Tiwari on Safe Transport for Women

In sharing this posting with you in the first week of this new collaborative project, we have two objectives in view. The first is to draw your attention to an excellent recent discussion paper on barriers to safe and efficient travel facing women in cities by Prof. Geetam Tiwari of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, which appears in a program of the Research Centre of the OECD’s International Transport Forum. (The full series of Discussion Papers can be downloaded from http://goo.gl/yCFomK).

The second motivation is to encourage our readers to profit from the software package that underlies this program in order to consult and read not only the contents of the entire website, but also to access the documents that will be stored in our shared library. Think of it as slow reading, the best way to grasp a complex topic.