Obviously the comparison is far from perfect. But to my knowledge, if a strange man approached strange woman in SA, he could get in trouble for that. There are

Obviously the comparison is far from perfect. But to my knowledge, if a strange man approached strange woman in SA, he could get in trouble for that. There are expectations and restrictions on both sexes, which ultimately leads to the situation where strange men and women can't interact. If I'm mistaken and men can interact freely with strange women in SA, then my bad. And obviously she wouldn't be the one who laid down the law in that country. But the eventual outcome would have been the same. > , but the difference is that feminists believe in empowering women to decide for themselves who they chose to interact with, So, a strange man should just hold his peace unless spoken to? That sounds familiar. Either that or none of the sexes are allowed to initiate contact with another. Which again leads to the comparison to SA. EDIT: Imagine if a woman from non-SA thought "I want to live under Sharia Law" (for whatever reason). She could then make the free choice to move to SA. Now, while in SA, she would have the same (lack of) woman rights as other women in SA. But it was her own choice to put herself in that situation. In the same sense, women are freely able to express that they want something like sex segregation in "our" society. That is a free choice on their part. But if that somehow comes reality, they might not have so much free choice any more, if SA is any indication. But those two moments in time are different with regards to freedom of choice.