I'm similarly baffled by these ideas. They seem like bad ideas for so many reasons. 1. The point you make. 2. Any man or masculine-looking woman who winds up

I'm similarly baffled by these ideas. They seem like bad ideas for so many reasons. 1. The point you make. 2. Any man or masculine-looking woman who winds up there (either accidentally or as the result of the other areas filling up) will be automatically viewed as a threat. 3. They're the western equivalent of burkas in that they promote the idea that men are uncontrollable beings and that the onus is on women to insulate themselves from us. (Though obviously they're far less extreme than a burka.) 4. A woman who can't be there finds herself alone in a sea of men, which seems like an extreme version of the situation they're trying to avoid.