JESSE POWELL writes:

I had an interesting experience walking home this evening. I was standing at a busy intersection patiently waiting for the crossing sign to turn green. I had hit the button signaling that I wanted to cross and was waiting. It was already dark and had been dark for about an hour. On the opposite side of the street a young woman, about 30 years old and well dressed, quite attractive, white, stepped into the street. When I first saw her do this I thought she was confused, that she didn’t know that the light was red; maybe she thought she saw a green light and just wasn’t very aware of her surroundings. She got about two feet into the street and then stopped, not wanting to go further, trying to get the cars to stop for her. She spent what seemed like a long time just two or three feet into the street hesitating before she moved forward; I looked at her more closely to see if she was really in the middle of the traffic lane or if she was on the curb but she seemed to be right in the middle of the street waiting for the cars in the next lane to stop for her. Finally a car honked and she jumped forward waving her arms in a hostile way towards the offending vehicle. She casually sauntered her way across the street. After her initial jump forward she walked with deliberate casualness as if defiantly not in a hurry. At this stage I was staring at her in stunned amazement. I was a bit afraid a car might hit her while making a left turn as she got towards me, but only at this stage was I starting to realize that her show was deliberate. She noticed my attention and our eyes met; her head was tilted towards the side with a haughty expression on her face. She was quite beautiful; after a few seconds of this intense interaction I looked away not wanting to get involved in a fight, finally she got to my side of the street and disappeared into the night. 

As she walked away, now safely on the curb, she continued with her exaggerated swagger and I was mesmerized and stunned, still not fully cognizant of what had just happened. Now, thinking back, I am convinced her dangerous display of “power” and “assertiveness” was her “giving it to the man”. All told I’ve seen about 20 men “giving it to the man” in my neighborhood; deliberately slowing down traffic as they cross the street in a show of bravado, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen a woman do it. Most men who do this look like outcasts, but this woman was white, beautiful, and well- dressed. Furthermore, the men who do this do this in daylight; this woman pulled this stunt when it was dark. I don’t think any of the men actually got a car to honk at them during their display but this woman drove a car to the extreme of honking. Her stunt was more dangerous than anything the many men pulled; she’s got all the men beat!

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John Purdy writes:

This is an interesting story. I’ve seen blacks doing this in Montreal on side streets but I can tell you if you try that on a busy intersection, drivers will kill you. Drivers here are ruthless. I’ve often crossed at intersections where a car, after a perfunctory halt at the stop sign, will inch into the intersection while I’m still crossing. This is illegal by the way.

I see so much foolishness by pedestrians and motorists it’s disheartening. People don’t seem to be in contact with their surroundings much anymore. This is, of course, a different problem from the one Mr. Powell is describing.

Laura writes:

Many people are disengaged, attuned to their phones and pods.

By the way, I used to live in Montreal and I was perplexed and amazed by the Canadians (English Canadians) who religiously stopped at red lights when they were walking down the street even if there were no cars coming. I considered a red light a suggestion, perhaps a warning, but not a cause to stop unless cars were coming. This was foolish. Canadians seemed less impulsive.

Josh F. writes:

What does radical liberalism look like? When one “decides” to exist in a state of all-accepting indiscriminancy, what will we see but those purposely toying with self-annihilation? There simply is no quicker or surer way to die than to be absolutely nondiscriminatory and tolerant. So we witness this female (why call her a woman?) literally rejecting one of the most basic survival lessons given to a child – look both  ways before you cross the street – with the most absolute confidence that the two-ton box of steel traveling at killer speed will be driven by one who has thoroughly embraced this most basic of childhood lessons.

This female IS SAYING, “I need not look where I go” while at the same  exact moment willing to BET HER LIFE that the oncoming drivers DO NOT THINK LIKE HER.

It’s radical autonomy manifested. What is the death of the West but  the death of its “beautiful” people?

Laura writes:

Liberalism is suicidal. But the liberal presumes that not everyone has the same death-wish and that others will save him. Like a disobedient child, he counts on there always being enough order and authority to disobey.

Lawrence Auster writes:

 I had the opposite experience last night. I was crossing Broadway in my neighborhood, with the light, when the car waiting at the light began to edge into the crosswalk in front of me. I gestured to get the attention of the driver, a black woman, and indicated for her to stop moving forward. Then I continued walking across the street.

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