Title : Will pregnant women wear "Baby On Board!" buttons as a way to get subway riders to offer them a seat?
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Will pregnant women wear "Baby On Board!" buttons as a way to get subway riders to offer them a seat?
And will subway riders with seats respond by giving them what they're wearing those buttons to try to say?In New York City — where people used to believe in direct speech — the Transit Authority thinks these buttons are a good idea:
That's a terrible idea!
1. The button doesn't say what it wants to say: I need your seat a lot more than you do, and you need to give it to me. Oblivious/selfish people can continue with their oblivion/selfishness.
2. The phrase comes from an old sign that used to be stuck in the rear windows of cars, conveying the message that other drivers should be more careful than usual because there is a baby in that one car. This message annoyed a lot of people and came in for much ridicule because of the implication that it's okay to drive carelessly around non-babies. This new button stirs memories of bygone irritation.
3. "On board" implies that that a woman is a vehicle, a thing, so it's dehumanizing.
4. It's simultaneously discreet and indiscreet. You could just say to somebody, "Please, I need a seat" and if they're slow to respond, "I'm pregnant" (or "It's a health need"). But instead you wear a button. Now, you don't have to talk (to one person) but you're wearing a damn button everywhere, and you're announcing your private physical condition to everyone who looks at you.
5. Everyone — including every pregnant person — has a different level of need for a seat on a train. All are able enough to have gotten themselves onto the train, but beyond that, you don't know how hard it is for anyone else, including those you'd like to shame for taking a seat. Pregnancy is not the only reason for needing a seat, though at the point pregnancy becomes obvious, it's one of the conditions that announces itself, so we have the idea that people are mean if they won't give up their seat to someone we know is pregnant. The button allows any woman to get in on the shaming that obviously pregnant women already wield. But then why shouldn't there be even more buttons, making other claims for needing seats? I have arthritis and work on my feet all day!... I'm terribly sad because I can't get pregnant!... Not sitting down makes me nauseous and I vomit! There's no end to the potential button talk.
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