Granny solves mansplaying problem!
The annoying, selfish habit of men taking up other people space on the train by spreading their legs or arms out too much. Despite the cartoon this is a serious suggestion as to how to solve it: start a 'Train Granny' system.
Each train could have a retired old lady whose job was to go up and down the train, saying to people taking up too much space “Now, now young man - consider others please.” And since it was an inoffensive elderly person 99% of folk, even macho aggressive men would reply “Ok, fair enough granny. sorry.”
Isn’t THAT actually a workable solution that would end up making life more relaxed and calm for millions of commuters?
Why is something like that not done? I bet there would be queues of grannies volunteering to do that, feeling good that they are doing something useful, and everyone would love them for it. It's a win win.
Of course the occasional nutter would be aggressive towards the Train Granny... but I imagine the level of that would be considerably less than happens now, when two men sitting next to each other and become aggressive over this problem.And anyway everyone would leap to the defence of their Train Granny heroine.
It's also been mentioned that men should take the responsibility themselves, why should these old ladies do it for them? Indeed, men - and all humans - should take the responsibility to be respectful and considerate to others, I agree. But since various men refuse to take that responsibility, or are even not aware of it...we need the TG plan, and various other things, to nudge them in a better direction.
And in general - It's amazing to me that various ordinary troubles, that annoy millions of people everyday, are largely ignored. We do very little to combat, decrease, change such everyday problems...while focusing so much money and effort on other things...so lets sort this crap out!
So how about we set up the 'Ministry for the Solution of Everyday Hassles' (MSEH), and lets all join in with our good ideas.
This note is the first in a series I intend to write under the MSEH banner. It was suggested by an artist in Scotland that it would make a good book, and I agree!
The annoying, selfish habit of men taking up other people space on the train by spreading their legs or arms out too much. Despite the cartoon this is a serious suggestion as to how to solve it: start a 'Train Granny' system.
Each train could have a retired old lady whose job was to go up and down the train, saying to people taking up too much space “Now, now young man - consider others please.” And since it was an inoffensive elderly person 99% of folk, even macho aggressive men would reply “Ok, fair enough granny. sorry.”
Isn’t THAT actually a workable solution that would end up making life more relaxed and calm for millions of commuters?
Why is something like that not done? I bet there would be queues of grannies volunteering to do that, feeling good that they are doing something useful, and everyone would love them for it. It's a win win.
Of course the occasional nutter would be aggressive towards the Train Granny... but I imagine the level of that would be considerably less than happens now, when two men sitting next to each other and become aggressive over this problem.And anyway everyone would leap to the defence of their Train Granny heroine.
It's also been mentioned that men should take the responsibility themselves, why should these old ladies do it for them? Indeed, men - and all humans - should take the responsibility to be respectful and considerate to others, I agree. But since various men refuse to take that responsibility, or are even not aware of it...we need the TG plan, and various other things, to nudge them in a better direction.
And in general - It's amazing to me that various ordinary troubles, that annoy millions of people everyday, are largely ignored. We do very little to combat, decrease, change such everyday problems...while focusing so much money and effort on other things...so lets sort this crap out!
So how about we set up the 'Ministry for the Solution of Everyday Hassles' (MSEH), and lets all join in with our good ideas.
This note is the first in a series I intend to write under the MSEH banner. It was suggested by an artist in Scotland that it would make a good book, and I agree!