I was just about to say that this is really REALLY standard and really REALLY common. Are people really surprised by this?Here's the thing though. These encounters are not as rare as we would like to think they are. There are tons of videos out there of women being pestered by entitled shitcunt men on public transport. I just....I don't know. Obviously I hope the man is caught and all that soon but tht does little to stem the flow of men thinking they're entitled to a womans attention or worse.
Focussing on the important point as ever. Seriously.I don't think 'unmanned' is allowed anymore. And it was obviously not unmanned, there was one there at least. Unattended.
I was just about to say that this is really REALLY standard and really REALLY common. Are people really surprised by this?
ETA And not just on public transport.
What a cunt. Hopefully he'll have been caught on CCTV so is potentially identifiable.
Hope the woman is OK.
The woman shared the clip to TikTok, writing: "!!Watch out for this man!! On the 20/10/23 I was waiting alone for a friend at Bruce Grove train station when a man joined the other platform. He crossed the tracks to talk to me and immediately tried to intimidate me.
"He sat down and after politely denying him I got up to walk away. He tried to grab me and started shouting, immediately angry that I didn’t want his attention. I stopped recording after he said he would take my phone but he followed me to the exit and blocked my way out.
"I shouted for help from people in the street and even when other people were there he didn’t seem fazed. A brave woman came over to help and the disturbance had caught the attention of other people in street, she simply told me to run.
"I didn’t post this video for any attention other than to share how important it is for young women to stay as safe as possible when travelling on public transport. I am quite tall and believe I am quite capable of defending myself but in situations like this it’s easy to lose composure.
"Please please please make sure someone knows where you are at all times and avoid travelling alone at night, this occurred somewhere I usually feel quite safe and comfortable as it’s near home but it can happen to anyone, anywhere at anytime."
As a male, it makes me hate being a male.
Lumped into that pool of utter cunts.
Really? The men (and it typically is men) who're doing it in the first place make me particularly angry but hey.It’s the stories of people just standing by, not intervening, that makes me particularly angry.
I can't get involved.It’s the stories of people just standing by, not intervening, that makes me particularly angry.
I can't get involved.
I did once. Got 200 hours of community service. I've got 67 hours left. I can't stand up for what I think is right because I might go to prison if I do.
It's not fun. It's not right. But cunts are gonna cunt. I have to literally watch shit go down and not he able to do anythingm it's so hard.
Would love love to.I get what you’re saying and it must be teethgrinding agony to have to stand by.
But you can get involved.
This stuff doesn’t come out of nowhere it’s part of the whole edifice.
So get involved elsewhere. Talk to other men. Have conversations with your brothers. Call out the small stuff. Raise awareness.
To be fair the kind of guy who walks across train tracks can be the same kind who pushes you onto them.It’s the stories of people just standing by, not intervening, that makes me particularly angry.
Yes. Thank God he was just hassling a lone woman, eh?To be fair the kind of guy who walks across train tracks can be the same kind who pushes you onto them.
It can be scary to stick your neck out.