The "No Pants Subway Ride" is an event launched in 2002 in New York by the association Improv Everywhere . Over the past 8 years, the phenomenon has been adopted by several cities in the world, from Buenos Aires to Zurich via Adelaide. Look
And why not Paris? Because there's too cold in January and with ½ inch of snow, nothing works properly? I do not think the climate is tropical in NYC this time of year ...
Then, perhaps because the Parisians are not funky enough to participate in this type of event ? I do not believe Paris is still renowned for its artistic richness and openness of mind, right?
But when it comes to the Paris metro, there is another story. Parisian by birth, I can tell you that the metro is a pretty hostile environment , especially when one is a woman. How many times have I taken aggressive thoughts, lustful looks and how bad I been launched as the men-and women-only because I chose to wear a skirt. How many wandering hands were laid on my back? All that I do over, because I would not be ultimately.
I also, thankfully, received compliments but so little compared to the number of sentences or phrases hateful and demeaning ... thing that I don ' I never felt in large cities, known as even-more-dangerous than Paris, like New York or London where people are free to dress as they like, where women can carry around in a swimsuit by - 10 ° without it offends many people (or yes, it shocks them, but they do not focus on it and will not go verbally or physically assaulted, the person who pollutes their idea of morality).
So imagine men and women who remove the down time of a journey through the Paris Metro? There would obviously amused reactions, others shocked, but there were a great many insults and rude gestures. After, just trying to see what happens. The Parisians would they have the nerve to do it and they exceed the conformism and the dictatorship of look that seems to reign in Paris: Watch just in the streets, looks are certainly different (according to criteria of socio-professional class and age), but they all look alike in the end. The favorite color of Paris Is not black and its variants?
Who has ever heard: "Paris is the most beautiful city in the world, the problem is the Parisians? "
Gloom and aggression that prevail in the Paris metro would not welcome an event as ever pacifist and provocative as" No Pants Subway Ride "is unfortunate, but it is also in Paris.
CC Cancan 2010
