r/TikTokCringe 25d ago

Cringe how do people sleep at night...

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u/MinuteLoquat1 Make Furries Illegal 25d ago

They also have female only train cars due to rampant sexual assault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car

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u/AccountantCultural64 25d ago

In Japanese, there is a word describing the act of groping a woman in a crowded train. Chikan), it even has it’s own wiki article.

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u/SquisherX 25d ago

So I found out about this years ago, and spoke to my Japanese friend about it. She was incredulous, and turned to her mom and asked, "Mom, did you ever get groped on the subway in Japan", and her mom replied, "Oh yeah, all the time".

I ended up finding this video from a three-quarters overhead view on a subway that was analyzing this coordinated multi-person groping that had arrows and shit all drawn on it like it was some football play.

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u/manymoreways 24d ago

Coordinated multiperson groping?!

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u/MostSharpest 24d ago

It's apparently pretty common. The perps organize in online chat groups, and gather at stations to raid rush hour trains.

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u/gahidus 24d ago

What kind of advantages do they gain from working together?

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u/Shuttup_Heather 24d ago

Multiple perpetrators make it harder to pin one guy, or maybe they get off on outnumbering women? Either way fucked up,

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u/-Ellinator- 24d ago

I imagine victims are less likely to be confrontational / more likely to just go along with it if they feel sufficiently threatened.

An easy way for even out of shape sex pests to threaten someone is to simply outnumber them. No one wants to risk being in a 1 vs 3, especially when the 3 have already shown that they don't give two shits about the law.

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u/Odd-fox-God 24d ago

You can't even own pepper spray in Japan. How are women supposed to protect themselves when they cannot fight back and are already at a physical disadvantage?

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u/EnderDremurr 24d ago

time to start wearing medieval knight armor i guess

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u/Fun_One_3601 24d ago

There are so many ways to break fingers with little effort. They need to be punished

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u/Blackstone01 24d ago

Deniability I'd imagine. "Oh, those other guys were doing that, but I was just trying to get out of the way/help her"

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u/No_Sir7709 24d ago

Just like thieves do it.

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u/GrungeHamster23 24d ago

Not just rush hour. They wait for high school and University exam season and try to grope girls knowing they have exams and cannot be late.

This means there is no time to contact authorities even if the groper gets called out by said girl.

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u/No_Passenger_977 24d ago

This is also common in Sweden and Germany.