By Sharanya Gopinathan
Earlier this month, Nathalie Gordon posted a series of tweets that all women everywhere instantly related to, and that sparked instant tweets in response from women expressing solidarity and sharing their own experiences. Beautiful stuff.
In the thread, she tells the story of how she was sitting on a bus with her earphones on, and a guy gets on and sits next to her, asks her where the bus is going, where she is going, what she’s doing after this, and then, if she’d like a drink. Once she said no, he took her earphones out of her hands and says, “don’t be rude”, to which she says she apologised, because she didn’t know what else to do, because she didn’t want to provoke him. Of course, dude needs no reason.
https://twitter.com/awlilnatty/status/860141055093637120
When she complains to the male driver about the illegal incident happening on the bus, he has an infuriating but in the scheme of things, honestly unsurprising response:
https://twitter.com/awlilnatty/status/860141590819594240
Well, obviously:
https://twitter.com/awlilnatty/status/860143739427270656
Like we said, this conversation brought lots of women together to share their stories, but of course, it also brought out the #NotAllMen brigade, and some plain old trolls, who told her to dress decently, or that it was her fault, or that it didn’t happen in the first place.
https://twitter.com/cpfcdazzler/status/860172465758195713
As always, we saved the best for last (don’t ever say we don’t tell you both sides of the story). The driver of the bus came out with his version of events and feelings, and it’s just as gross as you’d expect it to be.
https://twitter.com/antispamuel/status/860205919715692545