Taking the subway today with a few friends, a man took offense to my friend standing in the aisle in front of where he was seated, and insisted he move.
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Taking the subway today with a few friends, a man took offense to my friend standing in the aisle in front of where he was seated, and insisted he move. Friend did not move. Man stood up and kept arguing, and a third guy chimes in and starts tapping him to move.
I'm thinking this whole thing is headed towards a fight when this young woman a few feet away speaks up and is like... "Sit your ass down. He is perfectly welcome to stand there; you do not own the train. You are going to get the...
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... Conductor involved, and they will stop the train, and the cops will come, and they're going to ask who started it and I will tell them exactly what happened. What are you trying to prove here anyway? That you're some tough manly man?"
The dude tries to tell her to shut up.
"What are you going to do? Come punch a young girl? Ooh you're so tough! Get over yourself man! This is entirely unnecessary and just plain stupid."
She continues in this vein for some time and just shuts him DOWN.
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He sits down. He keeps his comments to himself. He leaves the train.
The other dude who tried to get my friend to move tries to argue with her again, and she delivers the most blistering intergenerational "You are what is holding us back" critique I have ever heard in my life. He quiets down and leaves the train too.
Props to that woman. Delivering a tongue-lashing that skillfully, and in a way that defuses an escalating threat of violence, is a real art. I hope she's having a great night.
