Pay No Attention to the Subway Masturbater

[kingyak]

The comments section of this article has what has been described as a MAGICAL flame war. I haven't read them all, but so far they are living up to the hype.

http://jezebel.com/5837687/a-guy-jerked-off-to-me-in-the-subway-and-nypd-didnt-do-a-thing

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow, that's really magically special. It's amazing to me that the one guy absolutely refuses to get that the question raised by the blog is "how should I have protected myself?" but "I took all appropriate measures to report a crime and nobody gave a single fuck or responded, why the hell not?"

I agree that a public masturbator is a lower- priority crime than a shooting or a robbery in progress, but there should be some kind of reasonable response from the transit police to such a report. Completely ignoring such reports is inappropriate and negligent.

That said, I would start carrying several pleasingly shaped stones or fishing weights with me, and work on my aim. If the cops won't be a deterrent, maybe being used as target practice will be. (Fishing weights would be ideal for this, as they are compact yet heavy enough to hurt like a motherfucker.)

Either that, or ALL women get free gun safety lessons and concealed-carry permits automatically upon reaching age fourteen.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  it turns hilarious at the end though.

[kingyak]

I think my favorite was:

This whole conversation has me thinking dark alleys are probably the safest places on earth at this point. Since they've been made out to be like these black holes where all the crime happens, nobody walks down them, so criminals have no motivation to be there.
All the dark alleys are just teeming with ditzy women with no self-preservation instincts. They can't hurt anybody.