Men DO NOT have right of way!

I play it walking my dog. He is a big lad and moves for no fucker. Very satisfying.

I said a very sarcastic "thank you so much" to a man who barged in front of me onto tube carriage.

Turned out we were the only 2 in there. He grinned and said "its dog eat dog, luv!"

We actually struck up a convo and he was an ok bloke. Just generally hadn't realised what he was being like.

No, it doesn’t.

The poster said she was trying to get into the train station,and a guy tried to walk through her.

So presumably the encounter happened once he’d already got off his train or whatever and was now coming out the station.

I'm not a man, or a male apologist, but surely if 2 individual people (obvious disabilities excepted) are walking in opposite directions, irrespective of sex, then neither of you have the right of way or should assume the other is playing some sort of game? Or do we just expect men to make way for women? Surely then we are setting feminism back? Maybe the man was thinking, "Bloody women, always expecting me to swerve round them, well, they want to be equal, so they can move out of my way today, I'm grumpy!" If women can be tired / fed-up / menopausal / in a rush, then we have to accept that men can have valid excuses too. And also, all the "hidden disability" arguments are a bit poor too, men have them too.

What I DO find annoying is our local park is near a college and a busy urban area and what I do find is groups of three or four people ambling along taking up the full path. On some of the paths there are flower beds either side of the path. Erm, Where do you want me to go? For those groups, I stay left and keep walking. I've only once not had someone budge over a bit. And I have to admit, that was a man in his late teens / early 20's who did know what he was doing as he was looking me straight in the eye. I just kept looking at him, right until my right shoulder made me some space.

It's annoyed me for a while- even happens with the girls at school (no quarter given by me), but what makes me absolutely RAGE is when I'm helping my disabled husband to walk and selfish idiots expect us to get out of the way.

There’s a really scary social media trend called butsukari otoko which is essentially men deliberately shoulder barging women with the intent to surprise or hurt, which is starting to appear in London. Apparently originated in Japan.

And when a male female couple finally realise I am not giving way it is always always the female who steps to one side...

That’s crazy - what happened next? That’s assault surely?

This is so funny, I thought I was the only one this happened too. I even commented to my husband about it a couple of weeks ago. Prompted me to buy the book Hags which I am still to read.

Yes most pavements will fit 2 people passing on it. I too keep left but won’t give way to people who won’t walk single file.

I like a game of this on the school run. It’s also fun on trains when most of the men in aisle seats man spread. I just barrel down the aisle and take out their knees. Your bollocks aren’t that big love that you need to take up half the aisle with your leg. I get some shocked looks but I always have my sunglasses on and often headphones too and just keep going. They can see that the train has just pulled into a station and people are moving about the carriage but they don’t think to shift themselves.
Recently on a train a guy had a reserved seat at the table I was sat at with my 2 dc. The train was half empty but he sat there and proceeded to spread out his laptop, travel mug and peanut butter sandwiches. He was opposite me and his travel mug was placed on my side. The ticket guy came round and I reached out for something and knocked his travel mug in the process-whoopsadaisy-and he then moved it. Arsehole.
men on bikes 🚲 on the pavement and I refuse to move.

I've been playing patriarchy chicken since I was knee-high to a grasshopper! I find men are surprisingly scared of small, angry-looking women who walk straight at them.

Anyone? Surely you mean men? It’s hardly bowing to the patriarchy to give way to a woman. Some posters on here just don’t like older women. ‘They’ - these older women - are seemingly all the same. It’s almost a meme on here.

I used to live on a canal boat, and would watch people on the busy towpath for hours. I think it's more that people are totally unaware of their surroundings. I've watched people walk straight into gates, trip over ropes, have head long collisions with bikes, simply because they weren't looking, or lost in their own heads.

That sounds like you were trying to get on the train while he was trying to get off?

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I’ve never noticed this as a gender thing. What I do notice is that most people are oblivious and entitled and some people are not. So if I’m walking somewhere busy, I am very likely to zigzag around and most people manage to largely walk in a straight line.

This happens to me all the time. It drives me mad! They do it in cars, on bikes….. yesterday on the towpath a man just ran at me and past a couple of much older ladies and I really wanted to stand my ground and not move our of his way, but I thought one of the women involved would end up in the canal! It’s so maddening

Oh my god I thought it was just me who followed the keep left rule! It was a rule at school and I always follow it. I always try and make people walk around me.

My DH is short and idiots try it on with him when he's pushing me in my wheelchair chair.

He's of the "No surrender" mentality which is interesting sometimes. It also works with groups of people hogging the pavement.

They probably think they have to because to give way to anyone is to bow to the patriarchy...

Men have been doing this my entire life. I am ugly though so that may be why.

I haven’t noticed this, but I have noticed on my morning commute that increasingly men will barge anyone else out of the way (elderly, pregnant etc) to get a seat.

Often the doors will open and the same guy I see will push on first to ensure he gets a seat. Must be in his mid twenties.

I also had to travel to and through a large airport recently with a buggy and luggage - and got knocked out of the way repeatedly by men (who looked like they were going to work). It was very bizarre. Trying to get on the train, out the barriers - definitely no help, but people pushing in front of me.

This literally happened to me yesterday. I was walking through a door at the train station and a guy (mid 20’s maybe) tried to walk through me. Nope. I just carried on with my laptop and bag and walked into him.

lots of swearing from him but I just carried on and got on my train. Didn’t acknowledge him or even turn around

nope, not today!

Exactly what i was thinking. A game takes too participants and the OP and those complaining are obiously just as bad as the men they are complaining about.
I have found most of the time i move slightly to left the person coming at me moves slightly to their side and no problem.
I have been deliberately barged by the odd teenage girl when i have moved to the side a few times