Volf99 said:
ok I'll be serious now. I understand that and I realize that nobody defended her. However I don't think that people are wrong to express their opinion and I think that the people who make those comments make a fair point that we still live in a society that try's to be equal despite the fact that most people would get involved if the gender roles were reversed.
Case in point:
This going to be very half-hearted because I'm sick of having the same argument with the people on this site, it's honestly like pissing against the wind.
The people on the train should have gotten involved and stopped her but that has NOTHING to do with equal rights.
People not intervening is down to deep-seated ideas about gender-roles, the idea that you can't hit a woman comes from the idea that she's frail and wouldn't be able to take it. Historically, that is a male construction. Most feminists reject these gender notions but no one here wants to listen to that, for some reason they're emotionally attached to the idea that feminists are out to get them.
I don't even understand how equal rights came into the equation. She hit the guy and was put down forcefully by the police, what else would people have liked to happen? If the people (both men and women) on the train were in any way decent they would have stopped her, but they didn't, that's on them.
She will be put through legal punishments, the same as a man would have been if he had been in that position.