I read with dismay that Germany is about to introduce single-sex carriages on the underground due to the amount of sex attacks on women by migrants.
What kind of message does this send? It sends a message that we are willing to accept this outrageous behaviour and are taking steps to incorporate it into our society and way of life.
This is entirely the wrong message. Just as it was entirely the wrong message to let a man in the north of England get away with molesting a young boy due to “cultural differences”. So while a football player is sentenced to six years in jail for “grooming and molesting” a 15 year old girl, another man gets off with raping someone who really is a child.
These “cultural differences” should not be accepted in our society. In our society it is neither acceptable nor legal to molest young boys. In other parts of the world it is considered almost the norm. Remember that horrendous story about sex-slave boys being chained to the beds of officers serving in the Afghan army? Our army would, quite rightly, imprison someone who did that. In our society you can’t just grab hold of a woman because you like the look of her. In others, men are all-powerful and get away with murder, literally.
I no longer dare let my 12 year old son Leo go to a public loo alone. I have insisted the girls download rape alarm apps. Never mind terrorism, Europe is less safe because of the appalling life in so many other places, which means literally millions of people who don’t share our values want to live here.
Quite what we thought would happen when we opened our borders to people who have in some cases been badly damaged by war and\or others have a very different concept of right and wrong, I don’t know.
What I do know is that by introducing single-sex carriages, we are doing exactly what the terrorists who create such hell in our usually peaceful cities want. We are turning our liberal, safe and democratic society into one resembling theirs. Which means they are winning. And that is the wrong message.
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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.
Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.
Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.
Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.
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More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004
Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)
All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006
Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007
So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)
More, More France; Gibson Square 2009
To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)
The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009
Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011
The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016
The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018
The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019
I understand your sentiments but this sounds like a measure of last resort to protect women who need to travel and get on with their lives now. Ideals and philosophies (no matter how admirable) will not keep them safe. Germany is clearly struggling to deal with a problem that will take some time to sort out and in the meantime, I am sure given a choice between risking a life-changing assault and a single-sex carriage, most women would choose the latter.
God, you thin lipped white women are all the same. None of you ever deign to acknowledge the absolute horrendous and barbaric rape and molestation by your Catholic priests, your friends’ stepfathers who got handsy with you when you went to your childhood sleepovers, your leering husbands’ who tell you they’re out at the pub for a drink when they’re actually getting a rub and tug at the Vietnamese brothel in the seedy part of the city – to you all, the whites are flawless, innocent, pure and civilised. You refuse to accept or even consider that it is white men who drive sex tourism in the impoverished parts of South East Asia, your own men who have grown so sick of you white women and your constant haranguing, your pinched faces and flat arses that they would rather rape malnourished and dirt poor 13 year old girls than face another night with you. Your disgusting fathers who joke about Thai massages and finding out what’s underneath a Muslim woman’s niqab. When you support and implicitly campaign for never ending war in the global South, do you ever think what would happen to the generations of broken and poor people who have very deservedly chosen to seek shelter in your sterile nations? You seem to think rape and molestation is an epidemic exclusive to migrants and are using your racist and hysterical belief to tacitly position your readers against migration and refugees seeking asylum. Your world of lip fillers and hair highlights is so shallow and pathetic but so suited to your empty headed and cold hearted ways that you make no mention of considering what it is that people are fleeing from when they choose to settle in Germany or France. Your societies could never mimic ours, you lack the respect for elders, the warm embracing of traditional gender differences which leads to a happy and healthy household, the inclusivity and family oriented lifestyle that your societies have given up for pansexuals and women getting designer vaginas to keep their toy boys interested. You should be so lucky that your sterile cold country could ever evolve into our societies where we venerate God, celebrate the differences between men and women and care for our elders instead of shoving them into nursing homes. I wonder when you hard faced white women will finally realise that you lust for as much as you pretend to fear these migrant men. You’re a racist, bigoted sad cow.