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.

Ridiculous.

All men should be tracked without their consent, there we are problem solved 😀

YANBU

@HalzTangz

It would be more sensible to force install an app on all phones (let's face it most people have smartphones nowdays) that automatically tracks GPS. All phones meaning male and female.

Set the app so it can't be turned off.

That would help solve a lot of crimes not just violence to women.

However, again this would only work if a perp was carrying a phone at the time of the crime

It would also rely on the phone being on contract rather than PAYG

@Tana433 shame that cause it is the world we live in. You have spectacularly missed the point.

@daisypond

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

exactly

@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.

Your eyebrow would be better raised at OP who didn't explain rather then the posters who didn't have a clue.

If a vulnerable woman tried to ring BT to report her immediate danger, she'd spend about 400 years trying to get through to a call centre, then would be inexplicably cut off.

Yabu why should men that don't commit crimes not be allowed to go out. That's in effect keeping them prisoner at home or punishing them for crimes they don't commit

Oh, the irony.

Tell me a point goes over your head without telling me a point goes over your head.

Agree.

The vicar has got nothing to do with walking home at night.

Oops, the post I was quoting didn't show.

I don't understand why people are so annoyed about it. It's only for people, can be used by men as well as women, who want to use it. I know people that have texting systems in place to say they're home safely. Maybe this would be comforting for some women. BT aren't suggesting that the authorities don't need to put other things in place as well.

A better solution would be compulsory DNA registration on a database, for all males over 14 years old.
Many rapists/abusers kill their victims because they don’t want to be caught. DNA would be a way of preventing some rapists/murderers.

Also better arrest, conviction rates for all forms of harassment and sex attacks is required. As fell as stronger sentences.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Yabu why should men that don't commit crimes not be allowed to go out. That's in effect keeping them prisoner at home or punishing them for crimes they don't commit

Oh, the irony.

Indeed

Please stop all this, ‘“Two legs good! Four legs bad!” Men are the vast majority of persons who hurt women are men. At the same time, the vast majority of men are good people. We can’t reshape society overa few bad men.

Getting a bit fed up of this fucking nonsense on MN. I was hounded on a previous thread similar to this previously for daring to suggest that innocent people no matter their sex should not be treated like fucking monsters - it's alienating and self-fulfilling shittery.

Just fucking fix the problem or at least understand the foundations - their youth! do they have a decent male role model? do they watch violent porn? do they have a responsible adult in their life to discuss problems with, as opposed to gang members or 'unexperienced' peers - are just some avenues to process.

Stop sticking plasters on problems. I do NOT want to EVER be in a position where I wished I'd had a daugher instead of a son, because someone in power has decided to tag ALL men.

What about young men who are set up on in the streets and stabbed - can they ring 888 too, or will they have been tracked AND a victim of a crime.

Before anyone chimes in with the oh so obvious 'you're one of those it's not all men people' - stop and think how this effects everyone - why on earth would we change the LIVES of every innonent man in this way, in order to single out the vile monsters who commit crimes - it's not realistic and it's mentally damaging.

YABU.

I will add, I have been followed, driven away from home in a taxi and attempted rape in my early 20s.

Giving the whole class detention is simply not how the world works.

Tell women to avoid being out at night alone and use a tracking app = sensible precaution.

Tell men to avoid being out at night alone and use a tracking app = outrage.

SilverBirchWithout
A better solution would be compulsory DNA registration on a database, for all males over 14 years old.

If you are going to do this it should be at birth and all children.

Although I suspect that there are a lot of women out there that would hate this.

@VenusTiger Agree with everything you say. Sick of my husband, my Dad, my brothers, grandfathers and everybody else's all being tarred with the same brush!!!

Not unreasonable but obviously no men would call and be tracked so it would fail

@AmDillDandin

Tell women to avoid being out at night alone and use a tracking app = sensible precaution.

Tell men to avoid being out at night alone and use a tracking app = outrage.

The app is voluntary. Women don't have to use it but the idea here is ALL men should be tracked. Ridiculous!

SummersOverSeasideTown
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.

what I really like about this is that not only do you get to crew men over once you do it twice by allowing them to keep all the shitty night shifts jobs.

If you are going to do it, do it properly and lets get the jobs done by women.