Quote:In a TikTok video circulating on social media, one woman recounted a recent experience she had on Washington, DC’s metro system, in which she was allegedly sexually harassed by a man while onlookers did nothing.

"I’m making this TikTok because I had a really horrible experience on the DC Metro, and even after two phone calls with the police, I don’t think anyone cares, and I don’t think I’m going to get help unless I reach out to a different audience," the woman, who goes by Helen Molteni on TikTok, said in the video while sobbing.

I was at the Foggy Bottom platform waiting for my train and it was about a 13 minute wait for my train at the time, and there was a man who… looks like he’s carrying an alcohol bottle."

She described the man as 6 foot 5, white, and around 30 years of age.

"He just hits on me, just, you know, shouts, and I keep walking because I don’t — I’m used to that, and I don’t want to pay it any mind."

The woman continued to say that the man became angered by her walking away, and began shouting vulgar things at her.

"And then he gets mad and he starts yelling at me as I’m walking away, telling make that I have a stanky a** p*ssy, that I’m disgusting, and I’m a wh*re," she said.

The woman said she called DC Metro’s non-emergency number, told the operators what happened, "and then I just had to wait another, at that point, 10 minutes for my train."

"And the situation kept escalating. He kept yelling at me, he moved closer, he told me that — he made threats to rape me, and told me to come sit on his lap, kept calling me a wh*re, talking about my p*ssy."

"And at the time, there were maybe 20 other people within a 20 foot radius, and no one did anything," she said.

The woman said she eventually turned to the crowd and lambasted them for not stepping in, which was met with mockery from the crowd.

"And with about four minutes left toward the train, I finally looked around and I looked at — I’m sorry, but most of them were men. About 90 percent of them were men and I said 'you all hear this? Why aren’t you doing anything?'"

"And it was just like these men ganged up on me and they turned it on me and told me 'well, why don’t you just go away?' Like, well, I have to wait for my train, I have to get on my train because I have to take this Metro to and from work. And this guy is just keeping and going and threatening and harassing me. And now I have the bystanders who are not only being silent, but now they’re yelling at me for calling them out for being cowards."

The woman said that people just continued to watch her cry, even on the train, until a woman came and gave her a hug. "Thank you to whoever did that."

"Metro, there’s a systemic problem and so many women don’t feel safe taking the train to work, and I hope that some change can come from this."

The video prompted outcry on social media, with Twitter users both blasting the bystanders for not stepping in, as well as the city for allowing such an incident to occur.

Monthly statistics released by MetroTransit Police, a tri-state police force tasked with keeping all DC public transit types safe, shows that crime on public trains have creeped up compared to last year.

In June, MetroTransit Police recorded 74 incidents of crime on trains in the DC, Virginia, and Maryland area. This is up from last June, where 52 crimes were recorded.

In the 12 months ending in June, 293 crimes had been reported, up from the 212 reported in the 12 months ending in June of 2021.

With six months remaining in the year, from the date of the last MetroTransit Police report, this number could easily double, surpassing both 2021 and 2020, when Metro ridership was down. In 2019, the last full year before the pandemic, 962 crimes were committed on Metro train cars.

In April, shortly after the Brooklyn subway shooting, Metro Transit Police Chief Michael L. Anzallo announced revamped safety strategies for public transportation in the DMV area, including on trains, buses, and at Metro facilities like bus stops and train platforms.

"While crime is a community and regional concern, customers should feel safe on Metro, and that means using every tool at our disposal including investing in the community and partnering with local resources for essential services," Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld said in a statement, according to the Washington Post. "In addition, MTPD is strategically targeting enforcement efforts in areas where crime has increased."

Included in this new approach is the placement of both plain clothes and uniformed officers at stations and in buses, increased patrols, an anti-harassment public awareness campaign which was launched in May, and easier access to MetroTransit police lines through the usage of QR codes.

Metro is seeking to bring large numbers of people back to their ways of transit, with average daily ridership numbers nowhere near their pre-pandemic levels. Rates of crime, and the removal of 7,000-series train cars from service due to safety concerns, have not helped their ridership levels.

In 2022 so far, the average number of daily rail entries is 191,000. The last year to see a number over this was 2019, where 626,000 people on average rode transportation methods in the city and nearby neighborhoods daily, according to WMATA data.

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She needs to check her white privilege.

I agree that men should step in. But in a place like Washington DC if it escalates, the Good Samaritan could easily end up in jail why they figure things out

Exactly. Her white privilege is to blame. I think she needs to vote for more democrats and demand more criminals be free on bond.

She was hoping for some toxic masculinity to step in and help.

The police were defunded. She was supposed to call a social worker.

It started when we taught a generation of males that their safety is more important than their wallet or someone else's wallet. Your money isn't worth your life. Just give them the money. I remember that lesson in elementary school quite will.

That changed though. Next they were teaching boys that everyone who gets in a fight is guilty. They all get punished. That is almost universal school policy today.

We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

Congrats on being equal and in a prog filth shitehole.

(07-28-2022 01:46 PM)Claw Wrote:  It started when we taught a generation of males that their safety is more important than their wallet or someone else's wallet. Your money isn't worth your life. Just give them the money. I remember that lesson in elementary school quite will.

That changed though. Next they were teaching boys that everyone who gets in a fight is guilty. They all get punished. That is almost universal school policy today.

We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

This is absolutely insane. Completely ridiculous. Parents need to tell their kids to kick the other kids arse if they start it then deal with the consequences.

Somehow, I'm just wondering if there's more to the story than this...

A) I don't doubt that if the man moved toward her she might have felt threatened.. but I don't see her asking for help prior to that point. She just tries to ignore it until that point. Fine.

B) Out of "20" men on the platform, not one stood up? What about the women... they're not helpless in this matter either. Ehh... that's the part i find hard to believe at all.

C) She comes out to chastise those people ("smooth" move lady), and they "all" start to respond to her in a derogatory manner? I'm gonna call baloney on that one.

I refuse to believe our society has sunk to that level of non-caring to start with, and it's just awfully convenient that she can't get the attention of one person to step up on a crowded platform, until one lady hugs her after the escapade is over?


Mark me as skeptical on the whole story to start with...

Large city public transit is a sociology study on how to be disinterested and detached from your surroundings. It's a form of self preservation for many.

Totally disgusting. But 100% learned behavior.

She needs to man up. We are equal. If some women was sexually harassing me I would laugh it off. I have had homeless women do that to me. DC subway is the real world not a safe space.

(07-28-2022 01:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 01:46 PM)Claw Wrote:  It started when we taught a generation of males that their safety is more important than their wallet or someone else's wallet. Your money isn't worth your life. Just give them the money. I remember that lesson in elementary school quite will.

That changed though. Next they were teaching boys that everyone who gets in a fight is guilty. They all get punished. That is almost universal school policy today.

We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

This is absolutely insane. Completely ridiculous. Parents need to tell their kids to kick the other kids arse if they start it then deal with the consequences.

Yep. This is part of the school shooter issue. These kids are literally taught that both parties in an altercation are equally guilty because they are given equal punishment.

When some kid murders his classmates he figures they are as at fault as he his.

It drives me nuts.

Headline “Non Birthing People fail to intervene while ‘currently unhoused’ bum harassed Metro passenger”

(07-28-2022 02:41 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 01:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 01:46 PM)Claw Wrote:  It started when we taught a generation of males that their safety is more important than their wallet or someone else's wallet. Your money isn't worth your life. Just give them the money. I remember that lesson in elementary school quite will.

That changed though. Next they were teaching boys that everyone who gets in a fight is guilty. They all get punished. That is almost universal school policy today.

We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

This is absolutely insane. Completely ridiculous. Parents need to tell their kids to kick the other kids arse if they start it then deal with the consequences.

Yep. This is part of the school shooter issue. These kids are literally taught that both parties in an altercation are equally guilty because they are given equal punishment.

When some kid murders his classmates he figures they are as at fault as he his.

It drives me nuts.

I was told in mid school (Late 90's/early 2000's) that if you watch the fight, you will be suspended. If you attempt to defend yourself in a fight, you will be suspended. If you are attacked by a foreign student, they will not get in trouble, because they do not understand English, because they do not understand our laws. But if you defend yourself against them, you get in trouble.

I suspect people would have stood up if he actually threatened her instead of just sounding like a drugged up ass. Doesn't sound like he ever really got close to her (I'm not going to listen to her TikTok).

Because feminism and liberalism has neutered the millennial generation to the point where they don’t see a woman needing help. They don’t want to offend her but thinking she couldn’t defend herself on her own.

(07-28-2022 01:46 PM)Claw Wrote:  We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

This.

And the green energy fools want everyone to use public transportation rather than drive

(07-28-2022 01:46 PM)Claw Wrote:  It started when we taught a generation of males that their safety is more important than their wallet or someone else's wallet. Your money isn't worth your life. Just give them the money. I remember that lesson in elementary school quite will.

That changed though. Next they were teaching boys that everyone who gets in a fight is guilty. They all get punished. That is almost universal school policy today.

We no longer teach our young men to fight. They don't know when to fight, and they don't know how to fight. When it is time to fight, they can't. They literally don't know what to do.

This is the result of such foolishness.

Talk about fighting. I was a regular in getting to fights at school. I earned multiple paddle pops every school year for fighting. Didn’t find out until I was 16 a HS football coach said I needed counseling for anger management. Same coach told me some players have a chip on their shoulder but I have the whole boulder.

It would never have been good for me to be in those situations. I remember threatening this AC DC shirt wearing hippie for being disrespectful to a teacher. He said to me what are you going to do? I told him that’s fun part of this equation you don’t know but I promise you will find out in the parking lot. He never said another word. But, I wanted him too. Glad I’ve mellowed out.

This is what happens when you emasculate men in society.
Remember Toxic masculinity? When you neuter men don’t complain when they don’t have the balls to protect you.

My Son is 32 now. I raised him to respect women. I told him if I ever caught him being disrespectful to a woman in his life… one of his sisters, his Mom, his Wife… I would beat his ass. I also raised him to hold the door for women, walk on the correct side when he is with a woman and to protect women.

When he was a Senior in High School, he would attend field parties with friends. We lived in a rural area and the parents of the kid hosting the party collected cars keys and locked the gate so the kids couldn’t leave.

At one of the parties he walked in on a group of guys about to take advantage of a drunk young lady. He told them this ain’t happening, got the girl dressed and got the parents to call the young lady’s parents.

I’m not sure what happened after that. I didn’t find out about what had happened until the next week when the young lady’s father came by to thank my son for what he did.

I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of him.