What do you think of this - Glasgow club "We don't allow females to leave on their own".

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RePlay near Central Station is one of the city clubs that has adopted "lone women policies".

They no longer allow women who appear vulnerable ? drunk ? to leave the club on their own without a taxi or a friend to pick them up.

Mark Donlevy is business development manager for RePlay's owners, Stefan King's G1.

He said: "We don't allow females to leave on their own. There are people outside who try and approach such girls.

"We would rather keep intoxicated customers on our premises than have them go away.

"If we don't have a safe venue customers won't come back."

I'm in two minds about it. If I had a teenage daughter, I'd probably be quite pleased that they're adopting this policy. However, I think I'd be equally enraged if I wasn't allowed to leave. This information is taken from a longer, excellent, article about what the police and clubs and pubs are doing to keep the city centre safe at night - taxi queue wardens, street pastors with flip-flops and phones etc.

You'llLaugh, think you're right. A lecturer made this point in a lecture we had on "the geography of fear" while I was in Uni.

Frankly I wouldn't have a problem with this scheme if it meant that I could get a taxi a bit quicker at bucking out time! However I hope they'd have some sort of arrangement with a reputable cab firm- I was reading this morning in the Belfast Telegraph about a woman of 32 who was attacked by a mini cab driver when she left a (quite posh) club on her own when her mate went with a fella.

Minicabbing's always been a popular job with rapists.

I've often been clubbing alone and walked home or got a night bus alone. I never wanted to waste beer money on bloody cabs. And would have hugely resented any officious twat trying to insist on me not leaving the premises... I'd have been standing on my rights and telling them that if they didn't let me go I'd be the one calling the police. How the fuck do they think they are going to enforce this idea?

Well, they don't, do they? They're just coming out with what they think is a 'caring' soundbite, clueless as to the fact that it's both condescending and totally unworkable.

Blimey, I spent my student years clubbing in Glasgow and I would have been LIVID if I was ever prevented from leaving when I wanted.

I think it's fine. All clubs should do it for women AND for men who appear vulnerable too. That is to say, and man or woman who appears out of it but not aggressive, should be helped into a taxi.

My friends DS was attacked as he walked home so drunk he'd wet himself. It was terrible as he was starting a new job and had to take time off due to the state of hs face. He was only 18.

This kind of thing drives me mad because actually, statistically men are more likely to be victims of violent crime than women are interesting graph here, though may be American

Sounds like a well intentioned but badly thought through idea. It gives the club a higher and possibly slightly better profile than it may have (caring staff etc) and may give some women more of a sense of security.
Don't see how its workable though.

I think this is exactly the way we don't want society to go
Limited freedom for women is not the way to attack this problem - which after all, is a problem in MEN not women.

I forgot I started this post !

I agree with those who think well-intentioned but not properly thought out, and, to whoever asked, it is part of a wider strategy with pubs, clubs, police, taxis etc working together to make the city centre safer. I am old, and my clubbing days are over, but I generally feel safe in the city centre and will gladly walk to the station or bus station at chuckingb

Sorry.

..at chucking out time - ie, before midnight. I will also happily stand in a taxi queue and have never felt unsafe. I accept though that at 3am, the streets are very different.

The G1 group own loads of pubs and clubs. Not sure if this a policy throughout the group, or club specific.

Anyway, it was interesting to read your differing views.

Of course, free drop-off services for pissed clubbers would be a lovely idea. They'd have to be well-policed, though, firstly to make sure that the drivers were not rapists, and secondly that the passengers were not going to go hatstand and eat the driver or hurl themselves out of the vehicle while it was moving.

Probably still a better idea simply to let the pissheads get on with it.

Our students union ran a Nightbus service from the clubs to the student areas, which was free for students. Great idea even if it never quite worked in practice

I'm not sure that it's legal for them to prevent women leaving!

Also agree with other posters that men are more likely to be attacked. What a twattish idea to come up with.

When a night out ends, the job of keeping women safe begins

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To be honest I would have been over the moon with this in my younger days as it would have meant that I got to stay inside all warm and cosy waiting for my taxi rather than stagger round the corner and stand with all the other pissheads in the pissing rain at Central station.

It's clear they are trying to do the right thing, but they are going about it in totally the wrong way. At university I worked at the union bar - if people (of both sexes) left late on their own we always asked "Do you have a safe way home?" or "Do you want us to call the campus walking service for you?" This kind of duty of care approach for both men and women seems infinitely more sensible.

This is infuriating. I live in Glasgow and they have been working hard to make the city centre safer. Manned taxi ranks, clearly signed have been brilliant. Also, most taxi companies in the area will bump you up the list if you are by yourself, then tell you the make, model and reg number of your taxi. In fact one company I use, if I call back to check on it, tells me how long and reminds me of the details.

We are not children and we should be able to go out without being made to feel we are or that if we go against their 'rules' that we won't then be blamed if something did happen. I can imagine a defence lawyer using that against a victim can't you?