I was a little staggered by the "move to another car" comment. Say there's a guy acting in an aggressive, irrational, generally hostile manner on the subway - with a mix of men, women, possibly children, who knows - what sort of man gets up and leaves them all to it? What sort of society is that? And when everybody in the car goes to do that, how do you think the aggressor will react then?
I was a little staggered by the "move to another car" comment. Say there's a guy acting in an aggressive, irrational, generally hostile manner on the subway - with a mix of men, women, possibly children, who knows - what sort of man gets up and leaves them all to it? What sort of society is that? And when everybody in the car goes to do that, how do you think the aggressor will react then?
It’s very much the type of response that assumes that it’s okay for one person to benefit while others don’t. As you point out, probably not everyone can leave (and also older or more burdened people are probably the ones left behind). Also as a person who has done that, it’s not necessarily easy to pull off — it very much depends on where in the car you are, etc.
As a fellow big-city-dweller I didn’t take it that way. He was more saying, “people weirding you out is common, and you could just safely leave the subway car if you were bothered; this was different and people probably were in danger.”
If there was a mom with an infant or a small child, burdened by carrying all the crap mom’s have to carry, or a physically challenged person in the subway car it’s not as easy to move quickly.
And moving cars while the train is moving is absolutely crazy to me.. how is safe? You’re walking on a small grating completely exposed with no sides or walls? Shiver.
I was a little staggered by the "move to another car" comment. Say there's a guy acting in an aggressive, irrational, generally hostile manner on the subway - with a mix of men, women, possibly children, who knows - what sort of man gets up and leaves them all to it? What sort of society is that? And when everybody in the car goes to do that, how do you think the aggressor will react then?
It’s very much the type of response that assumes that it’s okay for one person to benefit while others don’t. As you point out, probably not everyone can leave (and also older or more burdened people are probably the ones left behind). Also as a person who has done that, it’s not necessarily easy to pull off — it very much depends on where in the car you are, etc.
As a fellow big-city-dweller I didn’t take it that way. He was more saying, “people weirding you out is common, and you could just safely leave the subway car if you were bothered; this was different and people probably were in danger.”
If there was a mom with an infant or a small child, burdened by carrying all the crap mom’s have to carry, or a physically challenged person in the subway car it’s not as easy to move quickly.
And moving cars while the train is moving is absolutely crazy to me.. how is safe? You’re walking on a small grating completely exposed with no sides or walls? Shiver.
A Jesse sort of man does that.
Yes it’s really a pointless thing to say
"what sort of man gets up and leaves them all to it?"
The kind that pees sitting down, most likely.