I really don’t believe I am. A man who does not respond to a woman’s greeting is embarrassing her, plain and simple. Shouldn’t we go to whatever lengths possible to avoid such embarrassment? It’s fine if a man doesn’t want to initiate the greeting, but to turn one’s head and not respond seems wrong to me.
Why don’t some people say Good Shabbos to anyone? I don’t understand.
Baltimore is overall a friendly community, but in certain parts I have seen this rudeness. One memorable occasion that does not have to do with saying Good Shabbos involves an interview I once had to be a Bais Yaakov Camp counselor. The woman who interviewed me was very rude and basically judged me from the get-go because the high school that I went to was not “frum enough.” And when I told her that I wear pants, the expression on her face could not have been more disdainful. No matter that I was prepared to wear skirts the entire summer, even outside camp as per her request.