Two women at work today were talking about pregnant women wearing the baby on board badges on the tube. They were waxing lyrical about how awful they are and criticising women for wearing them. Comments included:
‘Why should a pregnant woman have any more right to sit down than me?’
‘Why should I be forced to stand up for someone else?’
I’ve been on both sides: struggling to cope on busy trains when I was pregnant and so grateful that someone offered me their seat, and wondering if someone is actually pregnant or not and worried that I’ll offend them if I stand up mistakenly for them. In both case I think baby on board badges are a great idea.
AIBU to wonder, if you are healthy and able, why on earth wouldn’t you stand up for someone who is pregnant and might want a seat? And to be amazed that someone thinks wearing one of these badges is being ‘entitled and pushy’?
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AIBU to be totally baffled by this attitude?
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BB2000 · 22/10/2013 21:13
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