So you would be one of the men on the train, shrugging his shoulders?
I meant that women shouldn’t engage these creeps, because they get off on female attention and it’s dangerous. I remember taking my daughter to Capron Park Zoo some years ago, and two young teens were throwing rocks at gibbons in a cage. Though they were not successful in hitting them, they clearly were discomforting them. Besides myself and my young daughter, there was a respectable looking young couple there. I turned to the brats and shouted, “Don’t you know how to act?” They sheepishly offered that they did and skulked off. The young couple gave me looks askance, as if I had committed some sort of faux pas.
I don’t know what I would have done in the event, but I like to think I would at least have shouted at the creep, “Don’t you know how to act?”
There is something about witnessing unexpectedly crude behavior that can freeze us, with fear of seeming strange or getting involved in a distasteful situation that we would like to avoid that prevents people from taking actions they might ordinarily take. BTW, the T is encouraging riders to photograph these jokers with their cell phones and turn the photos over to the T-police. Should discourage some of them.