Musings: Chivalry is dead
Yesterday I had to take an Uber to get me from PJ to an LRT station around midnight, where I parked my car. My Uber driver was a masculine person (perhaps a trans man?), and we had some small friendly chat along the way. When he was dropping me off at the dark car park, he said he'd wait until I started the engine before he leaves. The only other Uber driver who was kind enough to offer this, and not just speed off leaving me alone, was an old man (he said he wouldn't want his daughter to be left alone in such a dark place). I think it says something about our society that out of the many e-hailing drivers who have driven me late at night (mainly Malays, and all men), only two actually cared about my safety at night: a gender-ambiguous Malay person who was probably raised as a girl, and an Indian uncle who is a father.