Via Drudge, I learned about a coming crackdown on rubbing in the crowded DC Metro.
They are using this provocative picture.
It’s not all that different from one I used here in one of my numerous tirades against public transportation:
Needless to say, the image of the sexy young woman being “rubbed” is supposed to be a reminder to all men that if you ride the bus or the subway and get crammed in so you are pushed against a woman, she may bring charges!
And they want us to ride public transportation, right? Go figure.
While it may be a new development in the nation’s capital, it turns out that the photo and the message are old. The Boston Metro has been using the same ad since 2008:
What I had not known until I really researched the hell out of it was that a close examination of the ad actually reveals a very different form of harassment than what most people suspect:
…blessed is the ad photo, showing a tall, handsome gay commuter, helpless to avoid the harassment of a wanton harlot attempting to drop it low and rub all up in his business during a rush hour commute. That is the message, right?
If the man is gay, that would mean the female is engaged in anti-gay heteronormative harassment.
Two can play the victim game! Overly amorous females beware!
UPDATE: Many thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link, and a warm welcome to all.
Remember, harassment can strike anyone, anywhere, anytime!
Comments welcome.
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23 responses to “Therein the exposed rub lies”
Indeed, when I first saw the picture, I thought the woman was trying to squeeze through between two guys. If the guys are just standing there, isn’t she the rubber, not the rubbee?
When the rubber meets the road do they make a date?
My first thought as well–the woman appears to be rubbing against the man, not the other way around.
Of course, this never happens. (Not to me, anyway–more’s the pity.)
News Flash: Public transportation is PUBLIC. Der.
Want some privacy? DRIVE YOUR CAR. (Heh.)
I’ve ridden the DC metro. Ain’t nobody going to do anything when a gang of teenagers rubs against people. Or a single psychopath. Not the one fat middle-aged woman Metro Station Manager, not two fat middle-aged adults if two managers happen to be there, not 5 station managers. Not the cop, if a cop happens to be there. If nobody needs an ambulance, forget about it.
The only men this will impact are the ones stupid enough to stick around trying to defend themselves. Commuters are focused on getting to work and getting home; they aren’t going to wait for you to go find a manager or cop to whine to. So, this campaign is anti-tourist.
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Who not a car for men, another for women, like they do in Saudi Arabia? To show we are “broad” minded and not warring against women, why not the front car for women, the back for men?
everyone has it wrong. clearly the only person in motion and therefore rubbing is the woman on the left. still anti gay, but way hotter.
DC Politicians are criminal scum. Then again, most politicians running the cities meet the “criminal scum” criteria.
This ad is just one more example of BS waste of the taxpayers money.
my mom is now 98 and years ago she said that todays work rules took all the fun out of the office
she worked at American Red Cross in downtown DC during ww2
I know she would never have taken the DC trolley (yes DC had a trolley on rails and overhead electric power, clean efficent) with lawyered up lawsor regs or rules LIKE THIS.
TO: All
RE: Heh
There is NO ‘War on Women’. That’s just disinformation.
Rather, there is—in reality—a War Against Men. This business is just evidence of the reality.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out…..]
Based on picture blur and gaze the woman in the blue blouse is intently jacking off the red pole (note it is red with excitement). Meanwhile both men are standing still while the lesbian in the green top shoves her buttocks backwards into the lady in the blue top trying to attract her attention away from the pole. At the same time she has grabbed the man on the left by the penis and his lifting him up off the floor causing his head to move backward. A minority in the background attempts successfully to photobomb this sex session between the two women and the pole. A ginger in the further background tries to photobomb the photobomb.
Women in DC don’t have elbows and heels?
The psych term is frotterism. Currently it is a diagnosis in the current DSM. However, in the up is down world of psychiatry, they are trying to get it removed. When it does, can we then rub till our hearts content?
well, this certainly makes it clear what to do if a man is ever accused of this crap by a woman – just claim you’re a homosexual – in the closet – and start flinging the counter claims against them!
Hah!
If you are a man and “accidentally” rub up against a woman you had better be proactive and in a loud voice tell the woman to stop rubbing her boobs/rear up against you as it is harassment and you won’t stand for it. mpw
If a chick backs that azz into me she’s getting arrested for abuse and if she’s got money she better pay up or charges will be pressed.
Or maybe she has Gender Identity Disorder, and she is a gay man trapped in an apparently straight female body.
It’s like Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.
Interesting article. I would point out, however, that there is no “Boston Metro.” The public transit system that serves Boston and the surrounding metropolitan area is called the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority), commonly referred to as the T.
the question is…are they rubber?
I agree, the chick in the middle is totally rubbing her goods all over that dude’s stomach.
Or perhaps that dude is about to shove his sweaty armpit in that chick’s face. I don’t think that’s what they mean by rubbing.
Maybe the ad should read, “This is why you need to own a car.”
Are they kidding? Try riding a subway in Asia and frottage happens every day whether you like it or not as they pack ’em in like sardines. The above photo is nothing.
Can we make a campaign with signs to report the a-holes who in a train as crowded as the one pictured above believe the entire pole is theirs to lean against?