Anecdotal, but my GF, prior to changing employers during the pandemic, commuted on mass transit for a decade.
She was already uncomfortable at times prior to COVID accelerating remote work, and after the number of commuters declined significantly and the level of antisocial behavior increased, we went from a one-car to a two-car household.
She speaks a second language fluently and would often pretend not to speak English, because wearing headphones and burying her face in a book was insufficient to deter the kind of low class losers who shotgun advances while employing the Boomhauer method among commuters on mass transit. This happened to her probably a couple times a week on average.
But what only has to happen a few times to really sour a woman on using mass transit, is, the one or two times a year some creep got off at her stop just to follow her and talk at her after previous attempts to get her attention we’re not acknowledged.
When our metro’s mass transit became a collection of mobile homeless shelters and twice in a single week some mentally disturbed men got off at her stop and followed her for several blocks, we were visiting car dealerships the following Saturday.
I’ve had my ass pinched by women in bars. One, drunk, introduced herself to me by licking my forehead. But these things aren’t scary because I’m not worried about being overpowered by some woman with a lack of boundaries. But that’s different for nearly all women. Usually the creep bothering them is significantly stronger than they are, so when a strange guy follows them home from their stop, it’s very unnerving.
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Anecdotal, but my GF, prior to changing employers during the pandemic, commuted on mass transit for a decade.
She was already uncomfortable at times prior to COVID accelerating remote work, and after the number of commuters declined significantly and the level of antisocial behavior increased, we went from a one-car to a two-car household.
She speaks a second language fluently and would often pretend not to speak English, because wearing headphones and burying her face in a book was insufficient to deter the kind of low class losers who shotgun advances while employing the Boomhauer method among commuters on mass transit. This happened to her probably a couple times a week on average.
But what only has to happen a few times to really sour a woman on using mass transit, is, the one or two times a year some creep got off at her stop just to follow her and talk at her after previous attempts to get her attention we’re not acknowledged.
When our metro’s mass transit became a collection of mobile homeless shelters and twice in a single week some mentally disturbed men got off at her stop and followed her for several blocks, we were visiting car dealerships the following Saturday.
I’ve had my ass pinched by women in bars. One, drunk, introduced herself to me by licking my forehead. But these things aren’t scary because I’m not worried about being overpowered by some woman with a lack of boundaries. But that’s different for nearly all women. Usually the creep bothering them is significantly stronger than they are, so when a strange guy follows them home from their stop, it’s very unnerving.
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