You’ve been there. We’ve all been there.
Perhaps you were at a party or a concert. On a packed train. At your local fireworks display. Maybe you were at your child’s football game, or maybe you were at the real thing.
And there’s a dangerous man. And he’s swearing and yelling, infecting everyone’s experience, polluting the atmosphere with an edge of anxiety and uncertainty. Inserting a sharp sliver of danger into what’s supposed to be a shared experience to enjoy.
We’ve all been there, sitting in that paralysing place between knowing you should speak up, but being terrified of what will happen if you do.
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I think we need to move away from the "scary man" narrative here and focus on the cause. Australia - you've got a BIG drinking problem. I would hazard a guess that just as many people at footy games, or on trains, or wherever have had issues with drunk women who can be just as scary and violent. It's not the gender - it's the drinking (and the drugs) - why do some people need to get so smashed and where is all this anger coming from? Making good women fearful of good men does nothing to help the situation - we all need to join together and try and solve this problem - thug bogan culture seems to be becoming way too prevalent.
I move away with the kids. Not going to risk getting punched, spate on and getting urine thrown at me. I tell security and they can deal with it. When someone is angry drunk you can never ever reason with them.