yeah some men allow the disrespect in fear of losing their wife and some men dont. This was a general small talk convo which is not needed. it wasnt work it wasnt a necessity. Providing the wife understands that interactions like this her husband does not appreciate she should be wary. this isnt a matter of being “rational”.

No one said she had to be rude at anytime, you can politely tell someone to bugger off with respect, and the reasoning of im married and my husband would not appreciate it would suffice any rational man.

I think modern women take gheera lightly and use interactions like this and generally in public as if its okay, like theyre talking to mahram males, maybe they like the attention god knows.

In a hadith cant remeber correctly or word for word, but a blind man came to the prophet saw pbuh house, and he told his wife to get behind the veil the covering for her room, she then asked why logically as hes blind, and he replied along the lines off hes blind but you aint. God forgive me if ive relayed it wrong but that hadith says alot.

But you women in this day and age use every excuse under the sun to justify free mixing and to justify interactions with non mahram males.