<p>A pretty young Asian woman and a young man both got on the subway at same time and were sitting across from me yesterday. He was listening to something and offered it to her to listen, too, which she did. It became obvious that they were not together, but he was putting the moves on her. She was not understanding everything he was saying, but she was being very polite. He was quite persistent with his attentions and leaned on her. She kept responding, but somewhat awkwardly. I said something to the woman sitting next to me about him, and she responded with concern. I was trying to think of whether something should be done, but my stop came and I got off. What would any of you done, except worry and wonder?</p>
<p>She’ll need to learn how to deal with that kind of attention on her own sooner or later. As long as he wasn’t threatening in any way, there’s not a whole lot you can do without coming off as an overly neurotic citizen.</p>
<p>I have a feeling guys putting the moves on girls has been going on for a very long time. </p>
<p>From what you wrote nothing sounds untoward and no action from any of the passengers, including you, was warranted. If the girl didn’t want the attention she could have ignored the guy, told him ‘no’, or gotten up and moved to a different part of the car. If it was real bad she could have looked to others for help. It sounds as if she didn’t do any of those at the time you saw her.</p>
<p>All people need to know how to ward off unwanted attention as a basic life skill. She’s a pretty girl in a big city, I’m sure this isn’t the first time she’s received attention she’s had to deal with.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. You didn’t do anything wrong but it was good of you to be as aware as you were and have a guard up - that’s more than some people would do.</p>
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<p>If she was responding to his actions, then she liked what was going on. Sounds like she might have just been shy.</p>