Here’s one that could cause a Schadenböner:
A clip shared on TikTok has prompted a battle of the sexes as increasing numbers of women argue men should give up their seats on public transport so they can sit down instead.
The video, which has been liked more than 1.4 million times, was filmed on TfL’s Central line and shows a whole row of men sitting down on the tube, while a row of women are standing in the aisle and holding on to poles.
[Another] user posted a clip that also showed a whole row of seats taken up by men on a Jubilee line train, while she and her other female friends stood on the side.
She wrote in text over the video: ‘Men used to go to war for us and now we can’t even get a man to let us sit down on the train.’
My own feelings on this are quite explicit. I always stand up and offer my seat to a woman — always have, always will. It’s how I was brought up.
However: I was also brought up during a time when women were ladylike, gracious and always grateful when a man surrendered his seat to her. It was an acknowledgement of manners, rather than a matter of divine right.
However, young men have been brought up today in a time when men are savagely browbeaten and instilled with the mantra that women are not the “weaker sex”, are equal to men in every respect (even though they often aren’t), and equality reigns supreme. And their attitudes reflect that:
One TikToker said he would only offer his seat to pregnant women or elderly people. ‘You equal woman can stand up just like I would if there were no seats,’ he added.
Another wrote: ‘Full grown adults expecting other full grown adults to give them a seat for no reason.’
Completely understandable.
So you womyns won’t get any privileges just because you’re a woman, then, because that would be sexist.
You feministicals wanted to live in this world, so STFU when it’s not always to your advantage.
And I apologize to my long-suffering Lady Readers, none of whom (I suspect) are women like the above womyns, would always be properly appreciative of the occasional gentlemanly gesture, and might indeed be even more dismissive of the Modern Womyns than I am.