No, but you can selectively take things out of context and sell it to gammon.
I've heard the same suggestion as the Green Party peer made several times before. It can be understood quite logically.
In the absence of any other solution* how do you prevent women from being attacked or abducted on the street after dark?
"Solution" 1: tell all women,
none of whom have done anything wrong, that they should not be out after dark.
"Solution" 2: tell all men,
some of whom have attacked and abducted women on the street, that they should not be out after dark.
Which of these inconveniences the fewest innocent people? "Solution" 2, quite obviously. And yet the advice from police is always for women to "protect themselves" by not being where they want to or need to be.
*Of course none of these are solutions. The solution is to stop men being predators. There's no short term way to stop that. The
long term solution is education from an early age for boys and girls, but mostly boys, about their behaviour towards women. Not a lesson on it, not a lecture on it. Education in the widest sense about what is and isn't appropriate. It has been happening already, no doubt to the horro of the "anti-woke" brigade. I can tell you that my kids have learned and know all about consent, but it certainly isn't universal. Some men still think that they have a right - whether they are on their own on in a group - to harass a woman on their own, to follow a woman on their own, to proposition a woman on their own. If men just say "it's only a few nutters, not me, women just need to stay at home after dark" then that's enabling the crime, not trying to prevent it.
