To find this poster in a train station wrong?

[megadude]

Hi Mumsnetters,

I'd be interested to read your opinions about this poster. I don't want to say right now what I think about it, as I'd like to know how you'd interpret it.

TIA,
Megadude

It isn't reminding "people" it's reminding women.

I haven't read recent posts, but no one has complained that the women white. Or that they are young and not 65 years old and about to have their bag snatched. Or the poster is in English rather than Polish for example. Or someone in a wheelchair. There are other sections of society being ignored.

Alpaca I did make a point yesterday about the various other sections of society that could possibly be targeted, but that even then, it can still happen to anyone.

remind people to stay safe

"Stay safe" implies a choice. How can people "stay safe" if someone chooses to attack them? It's already unlikely that people would decide to "stay in danger".

I'm dying to know how - if I read this poster I wont end up as one of the 10% - please some one educate me

Oh ghosty, ghosty, ghosty, because you'll not just be taking care you'll be taking extra care

D'ya get it now?

M+S Care!

how special

only no one has answered the point about me often going out ALONE - I go to gigs alone I go to the theatre alone and I go to the cinema alone - I often go clubbing with mates and go home ALONE - I wanted some one to tell me if the solutions was A) stay at home forever or b) make some pretend friends to tag along with

Stay at home forever obviously. I'm surprised you had to ask.

I'll have to give up work then so I can stay at home forever, or hire a few mates to tag along with me whenever I want to go out.

Mind you, that doesn't solve problems like Cologne where it was groups of women being attacked...

Hmmm, if only we could think of a way that we could target the perpetrators instead of the victims...

Nah, that's just crazy talk, the way we are handling it right now is just fine.

Target the perpetrators? Oh stop it! What will you silly feminists think of next?!

Ghosty order your shopping on line but don't open the door to the deliveryman. Shout through the letterbox for him to leave it on the doorstep and watch through the spy hole to make sure he really has left and isn't lying in wait behind the shed for you to come out.

Grown women don't need reminding. It's not the same at all as telling your children to be safe. They are children. Not grown adults.

You can obviously do both.

But society doesn't do both, just tells women to adjust their behaviour. That coupled with low reporting rates and miniscule conviction rates send the message that it's a crime you can get way with, which it is.

yes

Itsmine can you answer my dilemma?

do you tell your adult children to stay in doors unless they have adult an escort?

It is blaming, and like the poster in the OP it's also not particularly helpful.

When you're sightseeing, you look at things and wander aimlessly and sometimes get lost. What is the point of going on holiday otherwise?

No matter how I dress, when I'm in Spain or Italy I am usually recognised as a stranger because I am paler than most local people.

I live in a very popular tourist place. When I go out I don't dress like a tourist but I wear things that might make me a target, like high heels. That is because I am going to work and my office is smart.

I risk travelling to work in my heels alone. So far I've been lucky.

Bike, rather than walk. Moving quickly in the street on a bike makes you far more difficult to confront than a pedestrian

This tip was especially funny. With my balance I'd be more in danger of being run down by a bus before I got the chance to get mugged or raped.

Thinking about it though, perhaps I'll hire a tricycle and fix swords to the wheels like Boudicca. That should make brigands keep their distance.

I think it's saying be careful when you've had a few and don't let your mates do stupid things if you see them trying to.

or wear an electrified suit or armour Limited!

"2 eldest dc one at uni one at college so, 'grown ups", get reminded to stay safe from me."

You know that is different. You are their mother and it is not comparable at all. I think it is really think it's disingenuous to suggest that it is the same thing. A mother telling her children (children of whatever age) to be careful/stay safe is very very different to a poster dreamt up by a government body/train company/whatever which sets out to warn one particular group of people that they should behave in a certain way because if they don't....

I feel like i'm repeating myself over and over again.

Women are blamed for rape and assault. In the papers, on-line, by barristers (in the rare event that it goes to Court), by other women. All the time. It isn't unusual, it is commonplace. People are rarely (if ever) blamed for being mugged. Can you honestly not see the difference?