A company starting a new women-only bus service has stoked controversy, with critics contending that the services represent sexual discrimination against men.
The new “woman only” bus service operates in the Okinawa town of Tomigusuku, and as its name suggests, men are not allowed to board the pink buses.
The buses are decorated with flowers and have pink curtains, whilst the driver is of course a woman.
Boys of no more than elementary school age are allowed to accompany their mothers on the bus, and women requiring attendance are allowed to bring male helpers on board. Otherwise men are banned from alighting.
Just as on women-only carriages, the bus service runs under capacity – reportedly one bus seats around 28, but typically only 20 seats will be filled. Meanwhile, normal services which men are allowed to use are usually full.
Due to its size and geography, Okinawa itself has no rail network, and is thus completely reliant on buses.
This is not the first such service in Japan – reportedly a similar women-only service in the northern wastes of Hokkaido has run since 2003, and a number of inter-city coach services offer women-only passage (variously pictured).
In such cases operating companies claim they take care to arrange schedules so that men are not left waiting at the bus stop after female customers are allowed to board their buses – particular concerns given the frigid conditions in winter Hokkaido and the severe summer heat and ferocious typhoons in Okinawa.
Japanese buses do not suffer the chikan problems associated with the nation’s overcrowded trains – operators report that “customer preference” is the reason for running such services, without citing any specific concerns.
Japan is the only developed nation to widely operate such gender-segregated services, and most of the countries which do operate them are backwards religious nations.
Naturally, the introduction of even more discriminatory transport services has not passed without comment – the “Campaign Against Women-Only Carriages,” a group formed to oppose the trend, asserts that the bus services constitute illegal discrimination against men:
“According to the laws governing bus services on public roads, operators cannot deny people service according to sex. Based on the notion that ‘Most chikan may be men, but most men are not chikan,’ we wish to protest these moves.”
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This will only encourage more traps in Japan...
maybe this is why the birth rate in japan is so low
lol Japan. This would never happen in America.
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We need to put up some Men Only signs again.
They should just come right out and say "No one with a chin-chin is allowed" - even little boys.
Wait, how the well you need a woman only service for THAT kind of bus?
They should make men-only carriages to balance out the trend.
Make a manly bus,women enter at their own risk.
If this bus gets lost, who're they going to ask for directions?
*watches Japan take another huge leap backwards*
I don't know what's more offensive: the fact that they've made buses exclusively for women, or the fact that they made them pink.
WELCOME TO EQUALITY!
ah were section is were they cut your balls off and transform you into a pussy ?
I wonder if they have invisible man porn of women only buses yet?
it will make it easier for predators to victimize women, now they can hijack a bus like this and avoid dealing with possible heroes.
watch out for lesbian gropers.
yes, watch out for me !
Of course they're discrimatory, but who's really gives a damn in light of the huge chikan issue. Besides, it's a private company; if they so please they should be able to discriminate against blacks, asians, jews, christians, atheists, muslims, etc. Sometimes America has got the right idea.
of course, all the complaining people are men , who have of course never been groped in a japanese train at rush hour
of course i'm not sure the phenomenon is so visible in busesunless we talk about buses with lots of standing-up places such as the mentionned trains
as a woman (or as a trap :p ) i'm not against women only transportation as long as you get some guy's crotch pressed against you in crowded wagon
toilets and changing rooms are not only places where women prefer being separated from men, c'mon, it's about any place where you don't want to be forced to have genital contact with another gendre, may it be visual or tactile ...
Please, just go extinct quickly.
The problem is that the trains are overcrowded. The solution, therefore, is to increase capacity. Segregation treats a symptom, but not the disease.
Holy shit! a non-sexist way to treat the solution! Dude did you divide by zero?
No he actually used sense, whoever this anon is he deserves internet.
Isn't alighting getting down?
I sens something big gonna happen: like an okama (woman in disguise*he's a man) got in and do some unbelievable stuff
Well then we'll go make our own bus service!
With hookers!
And black jack!
...
You know what
Forget the black jack!
and bus service!
Maybe traps can get aboard XD
First, the bath houses & now the buses: The bath houses because of us foreigners, and now the buses because of men. And both of these happening mostly in Northern Japan. In America we usual look south for segregation, but apparently you look north in Japan. Wonder what one finds looking east or west?
here's hoping the bus crashes into a wall
better yet falls off a cliff, with all the feminist inside dying,
wuhahaha,
this world has gone fucking crazy, what a stupid gay bus and idea
Seeing how easy it is for japanese women to sue random males for alleged groping and shit (and of course they don't even have to prove anything, the guy just gets condemned on the spot)this would be rather beneficial for japanese men, i guess. It's complete bullcrap, no doubt. We all know what this is really about.
I just want to say, people if you don't want to lose all of your freedom and dignity, you should demonstrate regularly. Most of this worlds democracies are slowly turning into totalitarian, "big brother" states. Democracy dies in thundering applause. It's true.
Funny how the bus drivers in the bus aren't women (at least from the photos).
Okinawa does have a monorail, so it's not entirely correct to say that buses are the only way to get around. It is true however that the monorail only covers a small part of the island. When I visited there I tried to take the monorail as much as possible because buses in Japan are kind of cramped at the best of times.
Geez, dudes... chill out.
What man would want to ride the "pink bus", anyway? (I'm talkin' about _transportation_ here, not gettin' laid...)
I wouldn't want to ride the sweaty, stinky GAR bus, either.
I guess I'll just wait for a (probably crowded) mixed-gender bus.
And in Malaysia here we thought that having their own women only coach on the KTM Komuter is bad enough... but this happens else where too!
Did anyone of watched the recent episode of Hotd?
Yeah...
I bet most supporters of the “Campaign Against Women-Only Carriages” are male chikans. Lol.
Isreal has sex segregated buses in certain portions of its nation. It's because the hardcore hasedics don't cotton to the mixing of men and unrelated women--- cause the women have cooties (seriously, they are considered "unclean" as long as they are of age to be bear children).
They have recently put this in Guadalajara, Mexico. The buses are pink instead of green. Reason? Chikans.
Also, when you enter a subway station on Mexico City during rush hour, a cop is standing saying "Only kids and women in this section!". Mexico City's subways are literally as crowded as Tokyo's, the only difference is that the people themselves do the cramming inside the wagons instead of the staff, and well, this is where chikans get their chance...
photoshop the pictures, change the "WOMEN ONLY" to "WHITE PEOPLE ONLY" and ask them for a comment.
recoilless rifle
I don't approve of discrimination, but if sexual harassment is a problem on the buses and trains, this might be a viable solution at least until there is effective sexual harassment education is in place.
"if sexual harassment is a problem on the buses"
it isn't.
men only...
do not want
Problem is, those companies have every right to discriminate against men.
And yes, a black man with a bus should be able to not let white people ride and a white man with a bus should be able to not let black people ride.
You wouldn't want strangers on your property no matter how black/white/red/lizardman they were, so whats the difference between rolling property and your house?
this is stupid (im a woman) i understand why they did it with trains but this is rather stupid "facepalm" this company is just making money from the escandal
It is a private company so I have no real problem with it, if these were public buses however, like what they do with the trains. I'd be fucking pisssed.
Next time, they will be a Lady-Only-Trains and instead of male groping the females, we'll see the news headline "Female accused a female for sexual act in Lady-Only-Train"
Segregation is wrong.