Sometimes I long for the old days, when these kinds of altercations were often just diversions to cover pickpockets or train robbers and whenever they'd occur, everyone would avert their eyes, get off at the next stop and wait for another bus.
Nowadays and maybe it's just the parent in me, but if I were to witness such a fight, I don't know that I could film while keeping an eye out for a gun.
I'm reminded of recent conversation about how women should be running the financial world because they're much more conservative and socialated (big deal, I made up a word).
Unclear what really started this- we only have one side- but having lived in SF for many years, some Chinese-born women, especially older ones, are as aggressive as linebackers, they will plow you out of the way on a crowded bus. This woman was younger, but native Chinese have no problem jostling strangers on transit, and that may not have sat well with the African-American girl , if she were bumped without apology when the other lady went for the free seat. Don't know the story of course, but Chinese-born people in Sf sometimes have different ideas about "personal space" on mass transit. Seen it a lot, and wonder if that's part of this incident.
@Baroness: If you think the Chinese-born of SF have aggressive ideas about personal space, try the Hong Kong subway: more contact than most rugby scrums.
@Cynical Media Bitch: Hate to sound like I'm going on with stereotypes here but: on a crowded SF Chinatown streetcorner once, a guy tripped over the protruding leg of a woman's old-fashioned metal shopping cart, and you could hear his knee crack as it hit the sidewalk.
As I was helping the poor man up, the woman started screaming at him in Chinese- like, how dare you trip over my cart, idiot! was what I got as they argued in Chinese. It seems like they can be quite rough with each other in the public thrum sometimes.
This is what people mean when they say "I will take you down....I will take you down to Chinatown!". -It means you will get your ass beat by a tough old Chinese lady.
Ha, this is the best part (from the translation over @ youtube):
Old Man#2(1:26): Hit that bitch.
Old Man#3(1:33): Beat that bitch ass.
Old Lady#2(1:37): Don't fight no more.
Old Man#2((1:59): Beat the fuck out of her till she is scared.
I kept hoping this was a John Woo Hong Kong-era movie, and that the quiet lady sitting in the orange jacket was going to jump up, pull dual handguns (and a dove) out of her backpack, and cap somebody.
I would be lying if I said I did not get a kick out of this.
That black woman was so typical with the finger in the face, trying to push the other person so they will react first all the while talking all kinds of trash. Of course, she lands up throwing the first punch. What a surprise.
Well - she messed with the wrong woman. That Chinese lady was scrappy.
You know, I read an article a few years back in the New York Times about Chinese immigrant high school students in Queens who routinely are beat up on the subway by black and Latino punks. It made me so sad. (Of course if it happened the other way even once we would never hear the end of it).
@breadpudding: Human fail. Now as a 'typical' homo I will put my Judy Live at the Paladium record on and lipsynch while being sarcastic and witty, before my big march tomorrow trying to take away the sanctity of your marriage.
Even if it there weren't the deterrent of getting a secret Kung Fu beatdown from an old Chinese lady, the, let's say, pungent nature of Chinese groceries would keep me the hell away.
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Chun Li would win because Balrog was a charge character with no legit air defense.
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Nowadays and maybe it's just the parent in me, but if I were to witness such a fight, I don't know that I could film while keeping an eye out for a gun.
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As I was helping the poor man up, the woman started screaming at him in Chinese- like, how dare you trip over my cart, idiot! was what I got as they argued in Chinese. It seems like they can be quite rough with each other in the public thrum sometimes.
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Old Man#2(1:26): Hit that bitch.
Old Man#3(1:33): Beat that bitch ass.
Old Lady#2(1:37): Don't fight no more.
Old Man#2((1:59): Beat the fuck out of her till she is scared.
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- I will never understand Chinese/Mandarin
- Not all black people can lay a beatdown
- I still never, ever want to ride public transit in SF
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That black woman was so typical with the finger in the face, trying to push the other person so they will react first all the while talking all kinds of trash. Of course, she lands up throwing the first punch. What a surprise.
Well - she messed with the wrong woman. That Chinese lady was scrappy.
You know, I read an article a few years back in the New York Times about Chinese immigrant high school students in Queens who routinely are beat up on the subway by black and Latino punks. It made me so sad. (Of course if it happened the other way even once we would never hear the end of it).
I wish they had this woman to help them out.
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