One major issue here is the Rosa Parks experience. Anyone who is capable of a detached observation will recognize that our concerns with the 'back of the bus' is a knee-jerk reaction. Blacks were sent to the back to degrade them. So they were degraded. There is no such objective here. Even though there may be something intrinsically inferior in the back than the front, one has to start by removing al his cultural prejudices. So why the back? It's the most practical arangement. The men hardly see the women. The women don't care to see the men. This is unlike a side-by-side arrangement where everybody gets a good look. A curtain down the middle is really not a practicle option, and it doesn't avoid the jostling problem. Someone suggested seating the men at the back - facing backwards. This person does not seem to be a regular bus ridder, or else he would be aware that the seats do not swivel, and they're fixed facing the front.
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