I am sure this sort of thing does happen, and if this particular photo were not staged, I would find it quite upsetting. However, you can see in the reflection in the window that there is no one sitting on the opposite side of the train, just 2 men standing, so if she wanted to sit down, there is probably lots of room.

As I have found to my cost (twice now) however giving up a seat or a place in a queue to a woman perceived to be in need gets you only an ear full of abuse and the label of sexist patronizing pig, but then of course I'm white and a man so whatever I do is likely to be wrong to a member of the permanently offended millennial light weight brigade.

I went to the ER last night getting checked out to make sure I didn't pick up something from a tick bite. I was laying in the bed and could hear a woman complaining that she can't sit anymore and needs to lay down. They said they were full up and her only option was to wait or go to the waiting room and wait there for a bed to open up. I thought that was dumb cause the waiting room chairs were worse. So I snagged my IV and quietly asked if I can give up my bed. I didn't want to ask loudly cause if there were some stupid reason that I couldn't give it up and have her hear me and get her hopes up.. but I could and they turned the room out in like 2 minutes and got her in there. Kind of a win win cause it forced them to hurry up with getting me discharged so I wasn't hanging out at the nurse's station and got someone a bed who needed it more.

Bad news is, they couldn't find anything wrong with me.. and for my first time taking muscle relaxers, doesn't seem like they do anything.

Too bad

You mean the uncivilized louts sitting while the pregnant woman is standing? Stop calling people "bitch". It is insulting to us real bitches.