When Claire Watson moved to Sydney in 2022, the keen runner was excited to try out the famed track around the city’s vast, picturesque Centennial Park.
But when the 29-year-old turned up for her first run shortly after 6am before work one morning, she was stunned.
“I’d heard so much about Centennial Park, but when I got there it was dark and there were no lights, so I just turned around and went home,” Watson says.
“As a woman, I know it’s not safe to run in the dark.”
The problem isn’t confined to Centennial Park. Watson was unable to find accessible running tracks lit up before sunrise or after she finished work.
But, but, we’re all being told to reduce the amount of light because it obscures the stars, aren’t we?
It gets dark at night: women hit hardest.
Centennial Park is closed overnight so there is no point adding lighting so a tiny handful of people can run on winter mornings.
There must be dozens of gyms with treadmills in Sydney. And hundreds of well lit streets. Use one of those instead of moaning that everyone else should pay for you to run exactly when and where you want, you fucking stupid selfish bitch.
Run it in the day with a go-pro or similar video thingie, then get yourself a treadmill. And an extra lock for your door, as women get attacked in their homes. And don’t get a partner, as most attacks on women are by partners.
Sydney has more gyms than you can imagine. Including plenty open24 hours a day.
Women used to get lots of exercise. Like walking to the shops, walking the kids to school. All during the daytime.
Run in the lunch-hour or on the way home from work (not on the way to work unless you have a shower in the office)
Street lighting doesn’t have to cause light pollution.
There is no evidence that turning off street lighting reduces crime.
https://britastro.org/dark-skies/cfds_advice.php?topic=misconceptions
There is no evidence that turning off street lighting reduces crime.
So? The point here is that the park is closed at night. This woman is demanding, ostensibly on behalf of womenkind but actually herself, that expensive lighting is installed and paid for by everyone else, so she can run there before dawn in winter.
“There is no evidence that turning off street lighting reduces crime.”
The cited article cited states the opposite: “ There is no direct link between higher levels of lighting and lower crime levels.
Indeed, crime rates have decreased in many UK areas where street-lighting has been turned off in the small hours of the morning. ”
“‘As a woman, I know it’s not safe to run in the dark.’”
Apparently it’s not safe to run in the light either.
“As a woman, I know it’s not safe to run in the dark.”
The world must be turned into a university campus so childless middle class white women can have the temporary illusion of safety.
Prof Nicole Kalms, of Monash University’s XYX Lab of gender-sensitive design, has conducted projects researching women’s sense of safety in Victoria and New South Wales.
It was more dignified when illiterate Melanesian tribesmen cargo culted science.
Our work in Victoria actually found that many women bought dogs to make them feel safer exercising at night,” Kalms says.
Women trying to live independently of men, finding it doesn’t make them happy.
Men are to blame.
However, experts say a lack of lighting at parks, transport stops and other public spaces can make women feel unsafe, limit their engagement with their communities, affect their health and curtail their freedom.
Wait till you see the Diversity eating cats and ducks from the local park you will never go to again, because it’s no longer safe for Eloi. Then you can complain about Patriarchy or something.
“In the end it’s not just [about] darkness. Darkness doesn’t rape or attack women … we should be designing for women’s autonomy, because we want women to feel as free as they can to do whatever they want without changing which way they go, when they go, or what they wear.”
They want to live in the Barbie movie, but they keep voting for The Road.
There is no evidence that turning off street lighting reduces crime.
So why are we paying for it? Save money and do what we do round here – if you want to go out when its dark carry a torch or wear a head torch.
@BiND
That is not the same as there being no evidence that turning off street lighting increases crime