More rude behaviour on public transport 😡

I use a rollator and was on the pavement walking to the local shops yesterday. The pavement is wide enough for two approaching without anybody moving. Five teenagers, in uniform walked towards me and refused to give way, although I was on my own. I wasn't moving onto the busy road to give way to them so I stopped for a few seconds and they did the moving. Manners, decency and common sense are sadly lacking nowadays.

MissAdventure

I reckon this kind of thing is tied in with the "woman hating" individuals on social media.

That's my thinking, too.

There's an article in one of the newspapers, can't remember which, about a man - I think in India - who drove around with a pair of scissors stabbing women at random - because as he admitted, he hated them.

The news item was re-produced on Facebook, and - the very first comment I read was from a man who said that this was because of feminism. Other men were saying things like, 'what do you expect when women are misandrist and hate men'.

Then you have toxic individuals like Andrew Tate whose main premise is that 'women have ruined society'.

There are some brave men sticking up for women - and doing it in a way that belittles the misogyny and those men spouting it - and of course they attract the attention of the rest of the 'manosphere' and get called things like "simp", "cuck", and "beta-male" - and worse.

I find it quite alarming.

Ah, yes.
That's who I was thinking of, but couldn't remember his name - Andrew Tate

Fallingstar

Dickens

It takes some gall to do what he did - but then to pretend to be sleeping with stunned people glaringly watching you - makes me wonder if he's a tad unstable?

This is not normal behaviour - even inconsiderate and self-absorbed men would normally be embarrassed enough to relinquish the seat, however unceremoniously.

Am wondering if is some kind of trend initiated by TikTok or perhaps a more toxic site online where young men do horrible anti social things then report back to their followers, afterall the young man who recently prevented an elderly woman from climbing the stairs safely did film it, which makes me think there must be an audience.
And it seems to be on the tube.
I just think that some people will literally do anything for ‘likes’ online.

Hmm, I didn't think of that Fallingstar - you could be right.

It was so deliberate.

There are so many content-creators and others competing for attention that it's inevitable their material will become ever more off the scale and pernicious.

<<< sigh >>>

People like the Tate brothers and others who promote misogyny could be the cause of this disgraceful behaviour.
Consideration for others seems to be a thing of the past for some people.

I reckon this kind of thing is tied in with the "woman hating" individuals on social media.

The man who obstructed the elderly lady was savaged, and rightly so on X. I don't know about TikTok. There was some horrible individual called Mizzy a while ago who persistently put nasty things he did to older people on TikTok. After umpeen warnings he eventually got a custodial sentence.

Dickens

It takes some gall to do what he did - but then to pretend to be sleeping with stunned people glaringly watching you - makes me wonder if he's a tad unstable?

This is not normal behaviour - even inconsiderate and self-absorbed men would normally be embarrassed enough to relinquish the seat, however unceremoniously.

Am wondering if is some kind of trend initiated by TikTok or perhaps a more toxic site online where young men do horrible anti social things then report back to their followers, afterall the young man who recently prevented an elderly woman from climbing the stairs safely did film it, which makes me think there must be an audience.
And it seems to be on the tube.
I just think that some people will literally do anything for ‘likes’ online.

Unbelievably rude. Unhinged possibly

It takes some gall to do what he did - but then to pretend to be sleeping with stunned people glaringly watching you - makes me wonder if he's a tad unstable?

This is not normal behaviour - even inconsiderate and self-absorbed men would normally be embarrassed enough to relinquish the seat, however unceremoniously.

pably15

That is so ignorant, I remember years ago, men would rise and give a woman their seat, whether she was pregnant or not,
I know not everyone is like this man ,there are some gentlemen still around

Indeed including the man who got up to give the woman his seat.

That is so ignorant, I remember years ago, men would rise and give a woman their seat, whether she was pregnant or not,
I know not everyone is like this man ,there are some gentlemen still around

What you describe is appalling and can scarcely be believed. Is it just the frenetic activity of the Tube do you think? It makes me appreciate the behaviour on our local bus(we only have one) where everyone goes out of their way to help each other and the elderly will get up immediately from the priority seat if they see someone more disabled than themselves getting on. People squash up if they see yet another mum getting on with a pushchair and the drivers have infinite patience putting the step up and down. Seats are readily offered even if you don’t really want one and strangers chat with one another. I love the bus .

Correction - a kindly soul offered…..