Shanghai women protest on underground after being told to cover up

The most recent attack came at rush hour last Tuesday when a man reportedly “exposed”
himself to a female passenger on a packed commuter train.

One witness told the Shanghai Daily the victim had shouted: “What’s that
down below? How sick you are! How can you be called a man? Catch him!”
The man was subsequently caught and beaten by passengers before being led
away in tears by police.

One week earlier police arrested another man accused of ejaculating on a
woman’s legs while on a train at the People’s Square Station, a popular
sightseeing destination.

Lan Tian, a media officer from the Shanghai Metro operations centre, defended
the online warning saying it was intended as “a kind reminder for more
self-protection”.

He described reports of a protest on the underground as “sheer hype”,
blaming it on a “feminist organisation.”

Asked why the offending message had not been taken down despite widespread
criticism, Mr Lan said: “We feel obliged to remind female passengers
about self-protection and they are free to wear fewer clothes. There is no
conflict between these two things.”

Mr Lan rejected calls for the introduction of female-only carriages, like
those in Mexico City, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.

“For one thing, we don’t have many perverts. Secondly, we have to deal
with the passenger flow and transport capacity.” After 3-decades of
breakneck growth, Shanghai now has the most extensive underground network on
earth with around 260 miles of track serving this mega-city of some 23m
people.

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