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from: `bluesmama` onebluesmama
date: 2005-03-21 11:59:00
subject: Re: Heavily pregnant women forced to stand on buses

John Templeton wrote:
> My point was, I'm not gonna give up my seat for anyone unless I see
> that they need it. If you want to start calling names and screaming
> about the rights of pregnant women, go ahead, but don't call anyone
> else boorish without taking an inward look. I've actually had a
> pregnant woman call me a pig for offering to help her with her bags
> when she was sweating under the weight of about 25 lbs. You ladies
> wanna talk about chivalry being dead? How about common decency by
women
> AND men being dead?

Everybody's boorish sometimes; it takes effort to be courteous, even if
it's something your mother and father taught you well. You're
absolutely right, though, common decency by men and women certainly
seems in danger of disappearing.



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