It just struck me today, there is this womens'-only run event organised by Nike which is a 10km run with a sort of mini-festival set up around it. It happens in the evening and the theme is 'taking back the night for females'

http://news.nike.com/we-own-the-night

It's along the same lines as 'Reclaim the Night' http://www.reclaimthenight.co.uk/index.html

The two things I wanted to point out are the obvious lesbian connotations, there are DJs and dancing and what not until late, women only on a massive scale, and the fact that although the theme is claiming public spaces at night for females, I worked on assembling and deassembling all the stages, lighting, etc. etc. and there were no women working on the whole site. The only thing I saw women do was stand behind the counter and take the girls' numbers. Then they would tell us the numbers and we would go and find the bag, hand it to them and they would hand it out. However we heard them saying the numbers so they didn't even relay them.

If you combine it with the slutwalk phenomenon now women have more rights and privileges than ever before and now a feature of the political and cultural landscape is these mass, semi-sexual, female only (eunuchs sometimes tolerated) demonstrations that public space, (physical and psychological) belongs to women and they intend to make it inimical to males and no expression of masculinity will be tolerated.