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A Womens Experience of the London Rush Hour

A couple of my experiences may be of interest. The first took place on the London Underground in the rush hour.

For anyone who has not been there, I strongly advise you not to bother. The trains are grossly overcrowded, and people are willy-nilly packed in, in full body contact with several others at any given moment.

The Tube is well known for its gropers, and I remember an occasion where a man started groping me, getting bolder and bolder as time went on. I tried to move away but he wouldn't let me. He was also making verbal threats. Luckily I was near the door, and when I arrived at my destination I leapt off the train at the last minute, and was relieved to see him being carried away by the train. I was absolutely terrified.

However, I was put to shame not long after when a friend encountered the same situation. She had more confidence than I, and grabbed the man's hand and somehow managed to haul it over her head, saying, 'There is a hand on my body. It is not my hand. I wonder whose hand it may be?' The groper turned scarlet and shot off the train at the next station, to the applause of most of the passengers.

Her action turned a potentially nasty situation into a comic one, and probably put the groper off for life, whereas my cowardice merely left my groper confident that he had power over women, and could get away with quite unforgiveable behaviour.

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