How do I politely request that she stop?
So when haredi Jews cannot book tickets early enough to ensure they sit together, it seems fair that they politely request that passengers be shifted around.
In the vast Augustiner beer garden in Munich, signs posted on the trees politely request that customers keep their dogs on leashes: "Bitte Hunde an der Leine halten".
If I am in a cab and the driver blows his horn unnecessarily — and I define "unnecessarily" as blowing the horn out of pique rather than warning someone of danger — I politely request that the driver not blow his horn unnecessarily.
In no way is it tokenism to politely request that games more accurately reflect the makeup of the game-playing public and indeed society, instead of existing in a strange alternate reality where 90% of noteworthy people are white and male and have a number two buzzcut.
At the theater, we post signs, put notices in playbills, and politely request that phones be turned off during the preshow announcements.
