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We live in a culture where it's better to keep your head down and not make trouble than to stand up for yourself or someone else. Fact is, I'm no good at it. I don't know how to turn the other cheek. I don't know how to pretend to be deaf, dumb, and blind.
I'm not stupid. I would never confront a big group of armed shadowy figures in the middle of the night in some remote location. But I'm not going to sit next to some jackasses on the bus loudly saying truly disgusting things about another woman and then getting agressive toward her when she gets up to move. I'm not going to pretend not to hear, even if she does. It's not okay, and it's not okay to sit there and pretend that it is.
Fuck. I'm really mad, as much at those other people on the bus and the driver as those guys. They were assholes, but they were assholes because everyone else sat there and let them be assholes. I have a little respect for the woman who told them firmly but politely to lower their voices, and a little more for the woman who went to the driver (who did nothing but timidly repeat the request for them to lower their voices), but everyone else was feigning oblivion, and that sucks.
What the hell is wrong with people?
I'm not stupid. I would never confront a big group of armed shadowy figures in the middle of the night in some remote location. But I'm not going to sit next to some jackasses on the bus loudly saying truly disgusting things about another woman and then getting agressive toward her when she gets up to move. I'm not going to pretend not to hear, even if she does. It's not okay, and it's not okay to sit there and pretend that it is.
Fuck. I'm really mad, as much at those other people on the bus and the driver as those guys. They were assholes, but they were assholes because everyone else sat there and let them be assholes. I have a little respect for the woman who told them firmly but politely to lower their voices, and a little more for the woman who went to the driver (who did nothing but timidly repeat the request for them to lower their voices), but everyone else was feigning oblivion, and that sucks.
What the hell is wrong with people?