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Today I made a pregnant woman cry.

I was in a very full tram and people were crushing themselves into the doorway. I moved my self out of the doorway to the other, less full, parts of the tram and watched as people carefully held onto their territory.

Finally, frustrated, I started suggesting that people more out of the doorway to let more people in and a woman asked me how. So in small words and steps I explained to her that every one who could should take one step away from the door. She exclaimed that she was pregnant and had to have some where to hold on, if she moved and fell and lost her baby it was my fault.
I answered the only way I could. I loudly proclaimed her pregnancy and insisted that someone give up their seat for her.
She got all self conscious and burst into tears while refusing to take the seat I had arranged for her.
after a reasonable time, I tookthe seat myself.
I'm a bad woman.

I hate the macho pregnancy culture we seem to have at the moment. Why can't women admit that they need help and extra consideration ?

Also, why can't people maximise the available space on the tram without the intervention of busy bodies like me?