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Demovictory9

(32,456 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:43 AM Mar 2018

In one of Chinas biggest cities, the women-only subway cars are full of men.

Room is hard to find. So when the Guangzhou government began reserving cars for female passengers worried about being groped and harassed, they filled up — but not with the intended passengers.

“Men are totally clueless,” said Lu Lili, a 28-year-old bank employee, who was waiting for a train on Guangzhou’s Line 1 to appear. “It’s basically all the men trying to squeeze in.”

She gestured at the passengers like her, waiting for a women-only car. Many were men.

“In the past, there would be workers trying to tell them and remind them repeatedly: ‘This is a women-only car,’” she said. “But all these men still want to rush over. They really are uncivilized.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/business/china-women-only-subway-cars.html

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In one of Chinas biggest cities, the women-only subway cars are full of men. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Mar 2018 OP
They aren't clueless, they know they are being BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #1
Isn't there anyone around who can enforce this? What happened to the workers smirkymonkey Mar 2018 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
1. They aren't clueless, they know they are being
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:57 AM
Mar 2018

asses and don't give a shit, just like our moron in the W House and a ton of men in this country too...hence the #metoo movement.

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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. Isn't there anyone around who can enforce this? What happened to the workers
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 10:54 AM
Mar 2018

who used to be around to tell them that it was a woman only car? I would really hate to be a woman in China. It sounds like they are completely disrespected in every way.

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