All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?

C.S. Friedman
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All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led.

What had I let myself in for? This quote captures the theme of what happens when you are separated by sex. The narrator is immediately struck with this feeling of dread after she sees men on the train, but there is also a sense of surprise that this feeling of dread motivates her to do something about it.

Source: The Madness Season

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