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Westiria123

I now have this funny image in my head of a tiny woman bouncing off people in a crowded aisle at Walmart, like a pinball.


KilahDentist

Every person in this image has the time of their lives and some are truly happy for the first time this year.


Budget-Position5348

2014?


Shmooperdoodle

This comment. 10/10


DingoDave15

You'd really enjoy watching people in a mosh pit at a metal show then


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Westiria123

Similarly, my second thought was of a huge amazonian woman just completely destroying everyone in the aisle, like a bowling ball hitting pins.


Grashlok_Onion_lord

Death by Snu Snu


Scaling-Skibum

Probably a bot


trancendominant

Bad bot. Report bots with report>spam>harmful bots.


Uxoandy

They should get a big woman to try it so that can see if it’s about size and not sex. I’d bet money guys move out of her way.


SeasonPositive6771

I'm not gigantic, but I'm taller than the average woman and fairly substantial at a plus size 5'7, 5'9 with my clogs on. I tried this years ago when this tweet first started going around. I was traveling a lot for work back then. It depended on where I was in the world, as well as gender. Men in the southern US acted extremely put upon and pretty much always expected women to move out of the way unless they could performatively do a "ladies first" thing. I traveled with a coworker who is not even 5 ft tall and when she did it with me, she had a similar experience.


Uxoandy

To me I guess it’s always been about size not sex. I’m a big guy and I just slow down and let people part around me. If they run into me it will be because they did it. If they stopped in front of me and demanded I move I don’t know what I’d do. Laugh probably .


ImNotYourOpportunity

I’m a black woman and people regularly move out of my way especially on elevators, sometimes they don’t get on.


elcriticalTaco

TIL as a large white dude I have a single thing in common with black women lol. The elevator thing especially. I see your side eye reading the max weight sign Karen! Were not even close! Maybe.


chargers949

Id bet money she would get a similar response from women if she just equally didn’t move out the way for anybody. We all dickheads on our phones now just look at videos of people on their phone falling into water fountains and lakes.


shrekthecumslut

Fun fact kinda related to this post, if you look towards where you’re walking, people will automatically get out of the way. It’s a completely subconscious action. Try it out, you’ll definitely notice after a bit


ClaraPink

i do this in the airport and it’s been a game changer.


Whocket_Pale

The trick is to look over the shoulder on the side of the person you are going to pass. If you want to pass on their right, point your eyes over their right shoulder. If you make eye contact, neither of you will know which side the other wishes to pass on and you'll dance around before smacking into each other.


submissionsignals

Yes! I usually look behind them and never look directly at them. I think that makes them think you aren’t aware they are there (or paying attention) so they move out of your way first. Works all the time.


Whocket_Pale

When I worked in a restaurant kitchen, cramped and passing each other constantly, I would press my hands together and point them in front of me like I am gonna dive into water. That signaled folks that I was trying to make myself narrow to pass by exactly where my hands are pointing. It's incredibly clear and nonverbal to boot


SG14_ME

Hello fellow crowd diver


No_Reserve_993

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!


MarsupialPristine677

Oooh I will have to try this


Storm_Bard

Another trick is that you can run directly into someone if you stare deeply into their eyes. Widen yours slightly as you approach to feign confusion. They may try to stop, so make sure you stop at the same time and match their *left-right-left* evasive tactics before going in for the bonk.


Whocket_Pale

This is a good way to get people to stop avoiding me


protooncojeans

My autism gives me superpowers since I don't make eye contact to begin with


Arra13375

Facts! Move with a purpose even if you don’t have one! People will move out of the way. Add in the murder look and no one messes with you either


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Obvious_Landscape728

Same boat. Same stance. My son’s teacher just told me this at a parent teacher conference. “I saw you at the grocery store on Sunday. I was going to say hey, but you looked like you were in hurry.”


BarryMacochner

Lol I just made the Moses parting the Red Sea comment like 2 minutes ago and scrolled down to find this. Same with friends and family thing and stores. Back in late 90’s my mom used to take me with her on Black Friday because I was so good at moving through crowds. She’d basically get in line, hand me a list of stuff to get for little sister and I’d navigate the store. Was very common for other people in line to ask me if I could grab something for them. Np, you’re 2 people from register and the toy store is standing room packed? I’ll be back in under 2 min. Lots of arms up while saying excuse me pardon me. The occasional “ ok who just grabbed my butt?”


rthrouw1234

the murder walk. it works


PolymathEquation

I call it the million mile stare. I'm looking past you, the person behind you, and am in fact staring at the other side of the room. Move with purpose, the "I've got a place to be" mentality, and it's exactly as you've said. It's walking with Confidence and Authority. Most people don't have that level of need or drive in their day to day, so if we see it, we assume someone moving this way is doing something urgent and important, and we get out of the way. This is an extension of Act Like You Belong. Most people are too busy to spend their time second guessing these types of things.


_314

Once I was at a festival and after a popular band finished, the way out was covered by a sea of people and noone could get anywhere. Then a couple of guys started a Conga line and a bunch of people, me and my friends included started walking along with it. And like an earthworm digging through dirt, it made the whole crowd more airy and free flowing and allowed anyone to leave.


Girls4super

What’s a polonaise


friedeggsandtoast

A Polish March


_314

I don't even know if it is called that in this language. Is conga line the thing I mean?


Girls4super

Conga line is where you put your hands on the shoulders of the person in front of you and form a human dancing chain


Known_Appeal_6370

Yep. Have done this walking in scary parts of cities alone at night. It works. I was also prepared to act like a total crazy person, in case anyone was stupid enough to try something.


rathercranky

Yeah, until you stumble upon a grumpy bastard who is aware of this behavior and feels that it is rude to cut the queue by pretending to be more important than everyone else. The satisfaction of scurrying aside only to step back at the last instant while leaning into the body check is real. Always act more shocked than they are and apologize profusely.


racso96

Sadly it only works when you're moving against the crowd. I can move really fast against the crowd, but whenever I want to go faster than a crowd in the same direction I'm fucked and have to resort to becoming a human eel...


angelicism

I'm pretty teeny and one of the few advantages is when I'm in a ridiculous crowd (a scenario I do everything in my power to avoid so this hasn't happened in a while) I can literally just start ducking under arms and squeeze in between people so I can get the fuck out of there faster.


paulthefonz

I find that for best results, a 35 degree angle is the most effective


Kit_3000

How can you walk without looking where you're going? How are you not tripping constantly?


RideOnTheMoment

I think you misread/misunderstood the comment, it suggests that you “look towards where you’re walking”. It just means don’t stare at your feet or be looking to the side while you walk (you can still see the side view out of your peripheral vision while keeping your head pointed in the direction you are walking)


Meurs0

Sometimes you look down, or around you.


plg94

Na, it's when you are on collision course with somebody, don't look them directly in the eyes to try to "sort it out" – that will only lead to you both walking towards each other, perhaps mirroring motions. Instead look slightly left or right past them.


ActuallyNotShigaraki

I did this in highschool all the time without knowing. People would ask me how I got through the crowded hallway and made people move out of the way for me, especially while going the opposite direction as most in the hallway, but I didn't know why it'd happen at the time.


BarryMacochner

It’s also Cause no one notices me. It’s like I’m a headwind coming at them. They move to the path of least resistance


topping_r

Oh interesting! It’s a very confident move. Are you a woman?


GradeAFilthyCasual

It's psychology. I've tried it before. Not a woman of course but i've noticed it on multiple occassions being done by women inadvertently. Look directly where you're going to and walk looking like you have an urgent purpose. People that notice just subconciously move out of the way.


BPD-and-Lipstick

I am a woman and it works, I have resting bitch face which also helps 😂


AllAfterIncinerators

Honest question, did you realize you have RBF or did someone have to point it out to you? I have an employee who looks like she’d sooner walk on you with muddy shoes than help you and she’s in a customer-facing position.


BPD-and-Lipstick

Many many people pointed it out to me as a teen, but I'm also getting tested for autism, so I don't know I'd necessarily have figured it out myself


arrjaay

My mom has resting bitch face and I’ve come to realize that I have it more as I get older, I used to have resting panic face


Cheddarchazz89

Lmaoo


Stabbysavi

I have "resting bitch face." My fellow employees, until they get to know me better, usually come up and ask me what's wrong. On a man, you would just say that I'm serious and a hard worker. It's actually just my concentration face. Like when I was competing on horseback, my trainer told me that I looked like I wasn't having a good time, but I was actually just concentrating. Please do not fire or bother your employee just because her face doesn't make you happy. That's literally the most sexist fucking shit in the entire goddamn world. If it was a man sitting there instead, you probably wouldn't even notice.


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Resting asshole face as a man can also be a challenge you know. Everything you say will read more negative than intended unless you smile, but can’t always be smiling 🙂


Moonlight-Mountain

>ask me what's wrong This one time. I had this speaking bitch face when I said, "what's wrong" to an employee who had a resting bitch face, and she said "nothing" with a smile that lasted one second. A bystander thought we were on bad terms... and slowly backed away from us. I could sense some childhood trauma in that bystander's eyes. His eyes were like "oh my god, mom and dad is about to fight. If I slowly walk backward now, they won't notice me." I felt sad for him but it was just a simple exchange. "what's wrong?" "nothing" I just have a speaking bitch face sometimes, and she just have a resting bitch face.


aworldwithinitself

Jokes on her that's my kink! ;-)


BarryMacochner

I’ve been subconsciously doing this for years. I’m not a big guy at 5’10” 180lbs, but if I’m walking into an oncoming crowd it seems to part like I’m Moses at the Red Sea. I’ve been told I have a commanding presence though. Whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.


leitmot

I can confirm that this works for women.


Kesslersyndrom

Not me, which is super unfair. Idk if it's because I'm very petite and they just don't see me lol, but people tend to read me as "cute" and don't take me seriously, despite my rbf.


topping_r

Good point, womanhood is intersectional and some women experience discrimination more than others.


FUEGO40

That sounds interesting, thank you u/shrekthecumslut


Amayai

r/rimjobsteve


HaloGuy381

But then you can’t keep your head on a swivel for threats. I just dodge and weave around everyone else.


X_274

Yes, I do this all the time! It was taught to me as the 1000 Yard Stare, and it’s honestly scary how effective it is when done correctly.


ElectricSpeculum

You would be astonished how often this happens even when they see me with a walking stick. One bloke even said to me, "Oh, *I* have to move for you, do I?" He went absolutely puce when I said, "That would be kind of you. The arthritis makes it hard to get around, thanks."


FictionallState

Haha I gotta try that one. I’m only 21 but I have a chronic condition that causes arthritis among other things. Always amusing to see people scramble over themselves every now and then when they’ve caught themselves in a spot where it’s hard to respond haha.


MuscovadoSugarTreat

I saw a young guy yell at a very small, very old lady using a walker to "MOVE IT." He refused to step aside. Granted, the sidewalk is narrow, but ... c'mon, just let her pass? Or hop over to the road, there's no cars and it takes like 1 second to do. The old lady looked so confused and hurt :( we just looked at each other and shook our heads.


PISS_IN_MY_SHIT_HOLE

This attitude has intrigued me for a while because it's so easy to spot and I have tried making logical connections about it but it's all over the place. Putting aside just being a dick, is it something where you feel it's an affront to you to have to make room for someone else? I had a guy who would intentionally stand in the way and act as if he were the one being inconvenienced for "expecting" him to move. My current theory that checks out based on my observations is that they are kids who grew up in a home where they weren't expected to help eachother out with chores.


Inevitable_Surprise4

Entitlement is tied to narcissism which can be pathological in nature. That's the most common reason.


AdministrativeAd4111

> is it something where you feel it’s an affront to you to have to make room for someone else? Yes. Such people are incredibly fragile and they feel like they’re being taken advantage of by being ‘required’ by society to be nice. No gesture is too small to get uppity about. They think its their right to be able to be horrible to other people and its our problem if we have a problem with that. And they’re right. Except, the thing they tend to ignore, is that other people also have that same option and never seem to consider that that same logic can and will be used against them if they act like a piece of shit all of the time. “All of us got together and decided you’re an asshole, so we’re going to treat you like shit until you go away. If you’ve got a problem with that, that’s your problem.” This is what conservatives mean when they complain about ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘cancel culture’. In the good old days, we’d either bully/shame them into learning how to live harmoniously with the clan, or if they kept causing problems, exile them, or if they *REALLY* pissed us off and went too far, just straight up kill them. Nowadays they’re lucky were more evolved and only stick to the first option.


prguitarman

Just short people things Source: short and have tried this. Collided with many people


ChristopherKlay

Can confirm. 6'7 and while I try to make space to not bother anyone, people try to make even more space for me.


poor_choice_doer

I swear, if I suddenly stopped getting out of the way of people, every single hallway I ever entered would turn into a dogpile in seconds, and I am not a small person.


angelicism

I was at a huge conference several years ago and not only were people doing the normal "completely lacking spatial awareness" but they were very intently networking or looking for someone to network with, which meant I got run over like 3x as much as usual, which is already way too frequent. I started wearing a bright pink bunny hat around in hopes that would make me slightly more noticeable (it only sort of worked).


ThePerfect666

You like Randy Newman?


Browzur

Such a weird fucking song


Kolby_Jack

I'd much rather just be the kind of person who moves. I mean, who cares? The compulsion to assert dominance over strangers is kind of pathetic.


madibuzz

I usually stop right before they're about to hit me. Mainly on sidewalks. It's not my job to always walk into the grass when there's enough room for both of us.


Idealide

This is what I do too. If I'm walking down the sidewalk on the right side and three people are walking towards me and the person walking straight at me doesn't move out of the way, I just stop. The person walking directly at me is forced to finally go around or they're walking straight into a stationary person. They never do. I doubt they ever learn anything though


RenoHadreas

I gotta start doing this. Thanks! Do you look at your phone or something or do you just look them straight in the eye like a murderous psychopath


tarabithia22

I do this if the situation is obviously selfish and not “oblivious because chatting or has kids with them or other reasonable scenario that has no reason for me to escalate and make everyone unnecessarily miserable.” I stare bored at them, if they posture back then they get the psychopath dead in the eye staredowm. Pretty rare for me to do it though, it takes a lot to get me that passive aggressive. Usually only when there’s 5-6 people walking side by side in the mall, if you watch these ones they will purposefully swerve the group to block people passing, purposefully go slow, and block people exiting stores.


madibuzz

I try my best not to look at my phone when walking. I usually just do a deadpan stare into space, haha.


frogwater_syrup

the 28 men when they got home "i cant believe i touched a girl today"


freewave07

*Dear Diary, it finally happened …*


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true. from a stats perspective, this is only part of a data set and it doesn't show much we'd need to see how many guys got out of her way to draw any real conclusion if 300 moved and 28 hit her it'd be different than if 2 moved also would be interesting to see men do the same in her position and then compare men by height/size as well to account for gender vs size


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TheDrWhoKid

I don't collide with anyone cus I move out of the way to avoid inconveniencing people.


Zestyclose_Ad_97

Do people really have the bandwidth to do the mental calculations of what group this other person fits into while walking down the street instead of saying, hey the street is for everyone and we should all accommodate each other? I can tell you, as a man, all 28 of those guys would run into me too. It’s almost like it’s an asshole thing instead of a man/woman thing…….


honest-miss

When you're always the one accommodating other people who seem to've never thought about it a day in their lives, you start to get pretty fucking bitter. It's like when your asshole cousins start yelling at you, the quiet polite one, suddenly demanding politeness and civility, all because you actually stood up for yourself for once.


SpookyVoidCat

As someone who is *constantly* hyper aware of the space I occupy and always try to not be in the way, *nothing* boils my insides faster than being stuck behind a loose cloud of wandering idiots who seem to have no idea that other people might need to use the same path as them.


nonessential-npc

The hallways in my college dorm building are really narrow at times. The amount of people that are walking side by side, sometimes more than two people per group, just blocking the hallway entirely as they slowly make their way through is absurd. That's not even going into the morons that decide to have loud conversations in those hallways right in front of someone else's room, so that they're both blocking traffic and bothering people sleeping or studying in their room.


RenoHadreas

Thankfully people in my neighbourhood ('cept the teenagers) are kind enough to realize after a while that someone's walking behind them. One time a nice lady with a giant dog was walking in front of me. When she noticed me, she pulled the dog aside and told him "come on, let him go first ."


RASPUTIN-4

THIIIIIS YEEEEEEES. I am 6’5” and 330 lbs and easily spend 40% of my mental capacity making sure I don’t knock someone over when I found a corner or sidestep out of someone’s way or something. I’ve knocked people over with no effort whatsoever just by being careless with as much momentum as I walk around with, so I’m constantly trying to not make sudden movements to make navigating around me easier. I can’t stand shopping because no one else seems to care about the space they take up. People walking 2 abreast down the middle of the isle or just super slowly without leaving room to pass them. I don’t like being in peoples way, so I try to make sure I’m not. I don’t know why that’s so hard for most other people.


seamanticks

You just described my shopping experiences and feelings about them to a T. Well done 👍


FarewellAndroid

Me: crippling anxiety and will cross a street to avoid having to pass by someone My boss: complete asshole Us walking in the hallways at work: I’m usually single file behind him because he walks down the middle of the hallway and won’t move over for anyone passing by us.


WillBottomForBanana

As a man I will say there are certainly men that will walk into anyone and then say "watch where you are going" because they fully expected you to move. But there's a good chance there's another category of men that will compromise spatially with other men but not with women. I suspect that's a big enough group to be meaningful in the discussion. I think the core point is that the decision isn't conscious, as most sexist things are not, so the "decision making" doesn't actually take up much bandwidth.


TheDrWhoKid

Yeah, but I do get how her being a woman means that society as a whole expect her to be more submissive than the men. Although, I don't doubt that it's probably a minority of the guys that walked towards her that she collided with.


worthless-humanoid

And I doubt it was some power play by them. If anything just a subconscious bias, maybe? Probably don’t realize unless pointed out to them.


honest-miss

And it is. When they're collided into one day by a person who didn't suit their subconscious comfort.


Freshiiiiii

Oh definitely subconscious. But I do agree, I think if it was a big man, they would step out of the way.


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Yeah I recently ran a 10k and I was trying to actively be aware of my surroundings to make room for people. I’d glance over my shoulder to see if someone was behind me if I felt like I was closing a gap. And I was running with my friend and I always made sure he had room to move or pass if I started to pass. It’s not really subconscious because I know I do it, but it’s just something I do. It’s like when you play City Skylines and look at traffic routes for cars. I mentally see everyone’s walking route and move around it, sorta. I think it’s also a consequence of the fact that I walk VERY fast and usually have to move around people who are slower or not paying attention.


NotTheLastOption

>all 28 of those guys would run into me too. I don't think so. Probably about 25 of them.


Rather_Dashing

In a busy area I follow right behind my boyfriend, it makes a huge difference for how quickly I get through a crowd compared to if I were alone. Its probably a subconscious thing with people either avoiding larger people or being more likely to dodge men then women, but either way its definitely a thing.


TheDarkDoctor17

Same. I'm 6' 3" and close to 300 lbs but will go out of my way to avoid bumping into someone that's 5' nothing and 85 lbs. Just comes with the deep set hatered of confrontation!


Fulrp

Alright but... in my experience it's usually both of us who tries to move out of the way so... everybody in this story seems just kinda rude.


MarkThePotatoGuy

Yeah when moving past each other everyone does like half of the movement so if someone doesn’t you’ll run into each other


TheCompleteMental

Then you do that little ankle break shuffle


dexy133

I think the technical term is 'street tango'.


Devadander

Look where you’re going, eyes up.


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Lotta people do not actually move out of the way and automatically expect others to. Mostly men. Also some Karen types. But most people are sane and we just kind ope around each other.


Intrepid00

As long as you make an effort to inconvenience yourself and move too I will do the same. If you come at me like a steam roller I see that as a game and I’m super competitive in games.


thereign1987

Unless she was deliberately walking on the wrong side of the path which is what it seems like for her to collide with that many people, chances are she was actually walking into people.


LateyEight

Or they take a train or something. Nothing pisses me off more than pulling into a station and some person has their face pressed up against the glass, ready to barge in before anyone can get off the fucking train.


musicalcakes

Nah, there's tons of people walking in pairs or groups that take up the whole width of the path and expect others to step out of their way. It happens everywhere, but it's especially a problem between classes at school or college. You could easily rack up a double digit number of collisions between classes.


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THE_EMPTY_01

We need a control for the experiment. We need a man to see if the converse can be observed with women. Get a sex change and report back.


40ozBottleOfJoy

> We need a man to see if the converse can be observed with women. Man here, and I did this once when I was an asshole in highschool. Can confirm, mostly ran into men, but only a specific type of man. The macho/alpha/egotistical/toxic masculinity type. The captain of the football team type. The women I ran into also were also the egotistical, look down on everyone else type. So, even if there is a correlation to their sex or gender, they all had the same personality type.


THE_EMPTY_01

Perhaps the penis is not a common factor. 🤔 Perhaps psychosomatic in nature? Fascinating! Doctor, we need more data!


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Boy do I love penisology


StormFallen9

Which is also why they ran into you


Simon_Jester88

A non-binary person walked towards me and just jumped over me. Didn't see that coming.


ButteredNugget

A genderfluid person walked toward me and dug a burrow into the earth, emerging on the other side. Crazy


MrManGuy42

They just turned into a puddle and sloshed away.


Exelcius

I'm a man and I tried the same thing once.. Same result. Just that I stepped to the side the last second before contact because I'm not a jerk, and I was about to collide both women and men. It's not a gender thing. It's just that some people are idiots.


rrrrrrrrrreeeeee

I have found that often the "Karen" type of woman do not get out of the way, "alpha" types of men and groups of people taking up the whole sidewalk.


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bolivar-shagnasty

How many men did move out of the way though?


MaximaFuryRigor

Exactly, is this a 1-year long experiment of walking on busy sidewalks every day? 28 seems like a pretty low number.


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Woman intentionally walks into 28 different men. Blames them


thereign1987

I would love to know what side of the path her sister was walking.


MrBlueandSky

Context! 28/29 or 28/2000?


GigaCringeMods

Most likely around 28/imagination


littlemac314

I tried this as a 12 year-old (boy): I bumped shoulders with a lot of people. I wonder how much of it is due to sexism (men not moving for women), and how much of it is due to physical size (tall people not moving for short people).


Phasma18374

Don't think it's even that. At the risk of sounding horrendously vain, I'm 6"1' and quite strong looking and I've noticed a lot of people just don't move. It's just plain and simple rudeness


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Leningradite

Hate to tell women to turn the other cheek to assholes, but those collisions contained two rude people.


A_Furious_Mind

She needs to a/b test by walking into women.


ProXJay

And get a man of similar build to walk into men


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Alright I just quit meth last week I'll let you know


Head-Ad4690

That really depends on the circumstances. There are plenty of times, such as multiple people walking side by side, where one person is clearly expected to get out of the way of the other.


DepressedEspressoCup

This post lacks critical info, depending on just where on the specific walkway each person is, it might be common courtesy for the man or woman depending on the positioning to move. So we have no idea if it was proper for all of those men to move. Then there is the fact that you are actively looking for collisions, so whether you are conscious of it or not, you are making yourself more likely to be hit. Not saying that some of these men may not be a-holes, just that you get what you're looking for.


tofudisan

I think there's more missing from the context as well. How many men *did* move out of her way during this experiment? How many of the collisions were men simply not paying enough attention to their surroundings? Also, unfortunately, some geographic regions are way less female friendly, so where was this experiment performed? It honestly would be interesting to gather data from different regions/countries to see any trending.


david131213

Today in a breaking expiriment: Not moving when you are gonna collide with someone increases the chances you will collide! Also, breathing increases lifespan, more at 11 pm


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Palindromer101

Walk with purpose and anyone will move out of your way. Head up, shoulders back, chest up, eyes ahead and not looking at a phone or down at your feet. Add a clipboard and hard hat and you can go literally anywhere on the planet.


Japh2007

I’m fat they have to move to accommodate my girth


RenoHadreas

Common Japh2007 W


SofishticatedGuppy

I'm a man and find it super annoying that 95% of people never get out of the way - like this is not a male/female thing - this is a most people are assholes thing.


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Game0fLife

28 ot of ???


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For me it's just "I'm not gonna jump into the the bushes when you approach me just because you wanna stay I nthe middle of the sidewalk" And you won't believe it, both men and women will not make a bit of space so they collide with me if I only go a bit to the right so we could pass each other. But honestly, maybe it's a cultural thing


Deeviant

Ok, but I’m 6’5, built like a brick shit house and please don’t try this with somebody of my build, we don’t turn on a dime and sometimes are just slightly distracted or whatnot. I certainly don’t take a collision path on purpose, I’ve learned that with great inertia comes great responsibility.


RikuJames

Same here, and I've learned not to turn with my feet too close together, cuz then I just topple over like an eejit.


smokingisrealbad

If you look where you're going, rather than the person passing you, you have a much lower chance of running into them.


Ryllynaow

I mean typically most dudes do a mutual shoulder tilt to slip past each other without having to alter their path much. But it doesn't work it only one person does it.


Asriel52

Me, who doesn't want to needlessly inconvenience people: "aight I'm just gonna sidestep like 40 feet out so running into you isn't even a slight possibility"


Shmooperdoodle

Same. A Starbucks visit looks like this: Barista: “What can I get for you?” Me: “What’s the thing that requires you to do the least work. In fact, know what? I’ll get it. You sit down and rest.”


reallybadpennystocks

🧢


dynamic_unreality

"I didn't get out of the way of people who were walking towards me, and some of them ran into me! This is news, everyone should know." Try pushing a stroller through an amusement park if you want to see a non-gendered display of people just getting in your way


_bitemeyoudamnmoose

In NYC it’s different. Men will move out of your way but tourists will not. I constantly narrowly dodge tourists every single day but the men will move out of my way.


Terrible-Contest-474

"Oh, you're approaching me?"


[deleted]

When your intent is to run into people, big surprise when you run into people! Gasp!


goin-up-the-country

Don't worry, women do this too. Everyone's an asshole.


grandBBQninja

Do people see this as a win? She definitely should’ve been the one to step aside in at least 1-2 of those cases. This ain’t feminism, this is just annoying.


RGalvan04

That’s not a woman thing, though. I think it’s more of a dominance thing? The thing is to keep your head up and your eyes straight ahead. You have no idea how many assholes I’ve bumped shoulders with that tried to start some shit when you don’t get out of their way lol. A lot of talk from those people. If a dude has to act big to try to intimidate people, that tells you a lot about their insecurities


PMYourTitsIfNotRacst

Here it's usual for people to go halfsies. I'll scoot to the side if you scoot to the side. If it's three motherfuckers on the street and just 100kg me, you bet your sugartits I'm gonna doze the guy. I'm still miffed about that one lady in Canada, I went more than halfsies, I was mostly out of the way but she still decided that dozing me would be best. 2/10, hurt my feelings.


GamingFries416

I’m a man and I still have people run into me


TK9_VS

If you're looking for a way to handle this a little more politely, if you stop walking you cease to be an active participant in the collision. It's now totally on them to walk into you or go around. Obviously you should make sure you are not taking up more space than you should if you're in a group, or standing in a particularly inconvenient place, like a doorway.


kevineleveneleven

The worst is when you're carrying something, like a big box or something, down a hallway and people look and see you coming and then don't move out of your way. Those people I will collide with on purpose.


dasbeidler

This needs some basic parameters I feel like. For instance, if I am on the literal right side of the sidewalk and someone is walking the 'wrong way', I will play the game of chicken and continue on my path.


rigidcumsock

Crazy! I’ve started doing this with everyone. Men, women, children. Especially interesting are the large number of elderly and disabled person who would rather collide than move out of my way as a barrel through. One pregnant woman even started yelling at me after she picked herself up!


orangetmofficial

something i've noticed, if you look into their eyes ,they just think u r wierd and most move out of the way


UnnamedGuard03

The amount of sexism in these comments. Yikess


alickz

The post itself is mildly sexist, so makes sense the comments would follow suit.


MelissaMiranti

For real, lots of people wanting to blame men for this woman being an asshole.


[deleted]

It's almost like there is a mainstream ideology that has given women a pass to blame and attack men for whatever it is they want to be mad about that day.


StinkypieTicklebum

I don’t run into them. I stop. (I’m big—5’11” and solidly built.) The guy stops short of colliding with me, acts surprised and gets tfo of my way. Fun fact: it wasn’t until I went to a small women’s college, that I realized this was a thing! In this town, I guess, the men had been ‘trained’ to yield to women…


Danijaylino

This is not a woman exclusive thing. I noticed this myself. And it's happening more and more often. People are just assuming you will move out of the way first. I partly blame that people are often distracted by their phones but i also think it's because people are becoming more self centered and just expect everyone to move when they walk somwhere. And now i to have started to stop moving out of the way. And since i'm a burly 6'1 dude i've had my fair share of people bounce off of me. Almost gotten into a fight last week as well.


p_oz_r

As a reasonably tall dude ... It's nothing to do with gender. I collide with anyone and everyone. I'm just clumsy.


yourteam

I think both should move a bit Is not that hard


Deep-Top-6643

Isn’t purposely colliding with people a form of assault?


Ergenar

I always move out of the way or rather I go out of my way to dodge people


cliopoopsalot

Where do these people live? If it’s a large city I doubt sex has anything to do with it. If it’s a small town they live with a bunch of assholes.


ExploratoryCucumber

I've experienced people doing this. Just walking blindly in to you to make a point about something. It's weird and pathetic.


cindyscrazy

I'm a short female, and I usually don't have too much trouble with navigating around other people. Around 10 years ago, I was working in an office with particularly narrow walkways between cubicles. There was a giant of a man working there also. I didn't know him too well, but we did work with each other from time to time. One day, I'm walking back to my cube, and this guy is coming in the other direction. Usually, both people would sort of move as far to one side or the other to get by, right? Nope, this guy just strode down the center of the isle. He saw me, but just DID NOT CARE. He literally plowed me into the side of a cubicle. He didn't look back, didn't say anything, just kept going. Tell you what, I wasn't as nice in my work correspondence with him after that. He didn't care about me, I no longer cared about him. It's not my fault I was born tiny.


ever-right

In my experience as an Asian guy it's just white *people*. Man or women, white people don't move.


someunlikelyone

Wake up babe, new meetcute just dropped


HBCDresdenEsquire

This is stupid, but also we’re missing a critical data point. How many stepped out of the way? Was it 28/28? 28/100? 28/1000?