And, once again, the zealots have insulted the last two or three generations of gedolim who tirelessly worked to build mosdos to teach our kids proper midos and behavior by assuming none of that teaching actually meant anything, and no one educated in a yeshiva or seminary in the last 50 years will know how to behave in public. They have also just told generations of parents that they have sent millions of dollars spent on that education down the drain, because cholilo v’chas someone should actually be put in a situation where the things they learned should actually be put into practice, rather than avoided meikoro.
The point is to act with menschlichkeit and tznius on the street, on a bus, in a store, not to remove yourself from the street, the bus, or the store. Its like saying – best not to go to shul this shabbos because I am afraid I’m going to talk during davening, so if I don’t go, I won’t talk. Ridiculous.