[wbarmy]

I did not see this in the article, are you quoting something Amanda Marcotte said elsewhere?

It's a line at just shy of the half point of the webpage.

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/08/men-punching-random-women-in-nyc-a-desperate-last-gasp-of-the-male-rage-fueling-maga/

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Eesh!

I feel in sudden need of a shower after reading that.

She really is an unpleasant and uninformed sort of person.

So basically it was what I assumed, it was not the fact she was reading in public but the fact she was not paying a bit of attention to what was going on around her and preventing other people from being able to go on with their lives. She could have been sewing a sampler and gotten the same thing.