To think all men who travel should call 777 and have their GPS tracked and location checked?

[SummersOverSeasideTown]

As it says.
I'd be open to a curfew time, so men can travel during the day maybe, but at night they would have to log their journeys and expected arrival time.

IABU and men should continue to enjoy limitless freedoms and it should be women who have to call and be tracked.

IANBU and this is a reasonable solution to the alternative.

I voted YABU by accident
No one should be tracked at all.

Why are those the only options? What’s 777?

Huh? What would this help?

Surely someone who was out to commit a crime wouldn’t voluntarily phone a number to be tracked?

The post is a response to the chief exec if BT proudly crowing today how for £50million his firm would track all womens phones so they could get him safely.

I imagine the OP read this and like myself was outraged that this is seen as a solution!

This is quite an interesting one.

I think, all other issues aside, the main issue around this would be policing this, you could easily end up in a scenario where men who are decent do this, but men who aren't don't, and are still free to do what they want, but can claim they were at home etc because they hadn't called 777, if you see what I mean.

As an example:

A woman is attacked outside tesco. My DH, who is law abiding logged his visit to tesco and so his gps puts him in the vicinity at the time of the attack. George who lives three doors down actually attacked the woman, but as he is a violent individual he never bothered to call and log his activity. Therefore he doesn't have a gps tracking him to the vicinity at the time of the attack.

I was thinking exactly this this morning. Why isn’t it men who need to log their journeys and be accompanied?

There's a proposal for women to check in on an 888 phone number when walking home and if they don't arrive police will attend.

And I get what you are responding to and how annoying that is too. Lets just provide a live database of where all women are at all time. Because no attacker ever has ever been able to hack databases and the dark web cant possibly exist... And of course women want to be tracked at all times

All designed for “women’s safety”. It’s straight out of Handmaid’s Tale.

Well if anybody is going to be tracked and have what limited freedom/privacy they have taken from them, it makes sense that it should be the group of people who perpetrate most of the crimes, not the group who form most of the victims.....

What's been offered is an option for those who think it might make them feel safer.

But your suggestion is to impose on all men?

You can think BT suggestion is rubbish but you could much better ways to express it.

Is the ultimate cowardice the solution from BT, isn’t it? A jolly solution for women to modify their behaviour while ignoring the root cause.

Aye, yet again the burden of responsibility is put on women's shoulders when it comes to the behaviour of men.

Can imagine when this becomes live.

'Well what did she expect, she didn't even log in'

No one is forcing you to use BTs offering?

Well this is interesting. Weren't people harping on about them wanting to track people?
What better way to achieve that by making people think its for their own safety. Willingly allowing themselves to be tracked.
I'm sure they will find a reason to bring men in on it too.

I may be way off the mark here, but that's what it made me think of.

Er. Okay then

@SummersOverSeasideTown - that's such a ridiculous idea

Ridiculous

Definitely not.

Yanbu. Tag all the men first, why not even with an ankle bracelet, before adding all women to this database.

Well obviously tracking womens movements is the only solution. Obviously men shouldn't change, unrealistic idea....
There's a post now about 7/8 year olds looking at girls knickers whilst getting changed in PE. This is where we start making change.
You can almost hear it now, we've invested 50 million in tracking and limited women's freedoms for their own protection, its not working, what else are we supposed to do? Dear dear what a crisis. Anyone for some proper British fish and Chips?
What is appropriate to invest in is the education for boys and men, about respecting women, boundaries. Prosecuting more rape cases and taking sexual harassment seriously. That would be if they actually wanted change. This suggestion is beyond belief and really makes me feel the government have no desire to actually make a safer society for girls and women.

I think as an option to make anyone feel comfier then maybe there is some way this could work. I don’t think anyone should be expected to do it though!

at all the people on here who don’t know what you are referring to OP, but still think they should comment.

And I voted YANBU. But the boss of BT is.

@Annasgirl

at all the people on here who don’t know what you are referring to OP, but still think they should comment.

And I voted YANBU. But the boss of BT is.