All the while, she had her siddur open

Boarding a bus in a Haredi neighborhood, a frum woman is sitting in the front part of the bus, which any good frum women knows is for the men. The women's part of the bus has its own door and is actually easier to enter since you don't have to walk around the driver booth. I'd prefer to sit in the women's section as in crazy Israel, I don't like sitting with my back to people. So let's not call it the "back of the bus," because that evokes associations with Segregation. It isn't the back. It's half the bus. Actually on accordion buses it always turns out to be more than half because the women still sit in the second half of the first bus.

So this woman sits in a four seater, when a one seater is available in the men's section, all by herself. Chassidic men who board the bus have nowhere to sit. The are standing, rocking with every swing around the traffic circlez. So this woman opens a siddur and starts davening pizukei d'zimra as the men stand. More men board and she doesn't move. She's allegedly praising G-d and she makes Jewish men stand and she makes herself very visible since she's surrounded by men. I once had to walk into the woman's section of a bar mitzvah to open a locked to door to let in a nice frum woman who was locked outside. I felt such discomfort being in the woman's section. This woman obviously felt no discomfort, obviously not enough to move, even though there were plenty of seats in the women's area. And all the while, she had her siddur open.