Painting many people with the same brush is foolish. However, every group of people has their Shtuyot and every group has individuals within their groups that take those Shtuyot too far. I have twice witnessed someone in Chareidi dress make ridiculous claims in the name of not sitting next to a woman (once he was clearly just attempting to use it as an excuse to get an aisle seat). So while stories like this don’t surprise me, they really don’t matter. They’re not indicative of anything Chareidim are doing wrong. They just show that one or two (or 15) Chareidim sometimes took something too far, like everyone does sometimes.
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