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Sexual harassment exists and yes it's a problem on the tube but that doesn't mean all interactions should just disappear.
I am fairly sure that 99.9999% of women just want to get from A to B, without someone at best stealing furtive glances at them
Maybe that's true but you don't know who was initiating the glances during this exchange and you're also assuming the other person was a woman.
Again I think this is harmless and fwiw my wife also thinks it's harmless and even more so doing it this way than actually trying to talk to them on the tube.
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Sexual harassment is sufficiently widespread on the tube that there is a TFL advertising campaign against it. The idea that it is a space for sparking a romantic relationship gives cover to that. I am fairly sure that 99.9999% of women just want to get from A to B, without someone at best stealing furtive glances at them, and at worst verbally and physically harassing them.
To me, it comes across as a Richard Curtis / late 90s worldview, which I thought we had moved beyond.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/london-underground-daily-reports-unwelcome-23715777
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-underground-sexual-harassment-tube-groping-catcall-a9694736.html
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/sexual-harassment-on-the-tube
You can find thousands of articles like this spanning all media across the last decade.