Ew. Just ew.
Some little tips to guys traveling on trains:
1. Do not fondle strange women without explicit permission.
2. If said woman doesn't immediately tell you to piss off (because she's trying to determine if that thing she's feeling is really someone fondling her thigh/ass), that's still not explicit permission. Especially not if she moves further away and looks out the window.
3. When the woman asks you what you think you're doing, the correct response is not to offer your hand and say, "Hi, I'm X. I'd like to be your friend."
4. When the woman tells you that your behavior is grossly inappropriate, a proper excuse is not "I thought you liked it. Why didn't you tell me to stop right away if you didn't like it?" *
5. When the woman points out that she was willing to entertain the possibility that your hand was on her ass quite by accident, since it being there deliberately would be GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE, this is not an invitation to hold a conversation with her, and the next thing out of your mouth shouldn't be "Where do you live?"
6. When the woman gets up to leave, and you say "Nice to meet you" (still without any apology more profound than "When I feel things, I can't help myself"), and she replies "Bye", do interpret that "bye" as "You are a vile excuse for a human being, and if you ever try anything like that again, I hope the woman will bitchslap you all the way to Sunday, though I suspect you deliberately seek out small, shy and homely girls because you're a FREAKING PREDATOR and should not be kept in polite society."
* If you want a prime example of rape culture, that's definitely one: to call any girl "willing" who isn't currently yelling at you.
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1. Do not fondle strange women without explicit permission.
2. If said woman doesn't immediately tell you to piss off (because she's trying to determine if that thing she's feeling is really someone fondling her thigh/ass), that's still not explicit permission. Especially not if she moves further away and looks out the window.
3. When the woman asks you what you think you're doing, the correct response is not to offer your hand and say, "Hi, I'm X. I'd like to be your friend."
4. When the woman tells you that your behavior is grossly inappropriate, a proper excuse is not "I thought you liked it. Why didn't you tell me to stop right away if you didn't like it?" *
5. When the woman points out that she was willing to entertain the possibility that your hand was on her ass quite by accident, since it being there deliberately would be GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE, this is not an invitation to hold a conversation with her, and the next thing out of your mouth shouldn't be "Where do you live?"
6. When the woman gets up to leave, and you say "Nice to meet you" (still without any apology more profound than "When I feel things, I can't help myself"), and she replies "Bye", do interpret that "bye" as "You are a vile excuse for a human being, and if you ever try anything like that again, I hope the woman will bitchslap you all the way to Sunday, though I suspect you deliberately seek out small, shy and homely girls because you're a FREAKING PREDATOR and should not be kept in polite society."
* If you want a prime example of rape culture, that's definitely one: to call any girl "willing" who isn't currently yelling at you.
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comments there.