Story 1: Two weeks ago, I had to take a ten hour train journey from Sydney to Melbourne. The woman in front of me got in her seat and immediately put it all the way back, which meant I had basically zero room. However, before I had a chance to be annoyed, she turned & apologised.
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See, the thing about the train journey was that, while all the individual *seats* were booked, the cabins at the front were not. Seeing an injured woman in pain struggling to lie flat in a way that inconvenienced others, the conductor might have offered her a cabin. He didn't.
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Instead, he chose to shame her for doing what she needed to do to accommodate her illness, which prompted her friend to come up with a solution instead, where as the conductor on my flight, in response to the same scenario minus any visible injury, did nothing.
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I specify visible injury, because it's quite possible the man in front of me required accommodation for an invisible ailment. He might not have been physically able to lie down across all four seats in comfort, and that's fine! But he still had a choice of seats to recline.
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As I said, it's not a big deal in the scheme of things. Nonetheless, I think it's a salient microcosm of the wider phenomenon wherein men are allowed and expected to take up space in public, while women are censured for doing the same thing. FIN.
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I’m always always confused by the mindset it must take to live in the world with utter disregard for the space or comfort of others.
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