Scheme designed to help women criticised as insufficiently inclusive

[SomepeopleareTERFSgetoverit]

Just fuck off.

Remind me again how many women are killed at the hands of men every week? Not really a club anyone should aspire to joining, is it.

“ ‘Felt like it wasn’t meant to be used by someone like me (trans masc nonbinary)’ another commented, highlighting an inclusivity issue with the scheme that one security worker called a ‘girls club’, owing to the fact that posters are often only positioned in women’s toilets when they are used.”

metro.co.uk/2021/11/13/weve-been-testing-ask-for-angela-and-it-doesnt-often-work-15568159/

Those comments are plain stupid and should be ignored. The scheme covers anyone who feels vulnerable, as it should, and we all know which sex is the most at risk. If someone 'feels it's not for them' they should maybe explore why they feel that.

Get more posters printed, put them in men's and disabled loos too. But for God's sake let's train the staff properly.

I wish these people would realise: when something is designed to help people as a group, and the designers/those trying to help are inundated with witterers about it doesn't work for them specifically and specially and exactly as they would like -

• they are training everyone with an interest in trying to be public spirited that the general public are too hard work and whiny to be able to cope any more with this sort of thing, and it's just not worth bothering.

This is a general issue: try setting up any kind of local event and brace yourself for the whining to start. It's why less and less events based on volunteers are happening. It's just got too discouraging and complicated.

I don’t see why they need to complicate it by asking for “Angela” or anyone else. Surely if you approach a staff member and explain you are being harassed and need help, they will understand much more easily than having to remember a code name and its meaning?
And “Angela” doesn’t help to keep it secret if the abuser is standing next to you, since the publicity campaign means the abuser will still know immediately that you are asking for help.