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by Dewie 4665 days ago
The intent is so that men can't use the tickets. Sure, they could have used a different colour, but they needed to differentiate those tickets.
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Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

No need to talk about the max three people with epicene names and faces who maybe could have abused this, they don't matter.

> Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

Using a generic ticket for every woman is more simple than assigning a name to each ticket... so no.