Would you save a random woman being attacked?

mr_fegelien wrote: »

This is something interesting, I say a YouTube video that was a social experiment of a man beating a woman and then a woman beating a man. Unsurprisingly, men and women in the street intervened way more to the former situation.

But I'm wondering, let's assume that it's not a domestic violence situation and a woman is getting jumped/mugged by three or four guys late at night in Dublin near a bus stop. Would you save her or run away.

I'd have to abscond from the scene as fast as possible. I'm a scrawny 5ft 5in, 60kg guy, I'd have no chance with these scumbags. And besides, I don't care about a random woman.

Do you care enough to call the Gaurds, or just don’t care about random women?

jesus has a month passed already?

While I do agree there's an inherent social stigma that makes people want to "white knight" and defend a woman in this circumstance more than a man, it also can't be avoided that there is also the desire to defend someone from risk, or to otherwise address an apparent imbalance.

Someone might also intervene if they saw;

- A bigger child attacking a small child (where you don't know either of them)
- A bigger dog attacking a small dog
- A full grown person attacking a person with dwarfism.

But would be less likely to intervene in;

- A smaller child attacking a bigger child
- A small dog attacking a bigger dog
- A person with dwarfism attacking a full grown person

Because in the latter scenarios, the victim is perceived as being in less danger of injury, or perfectly capable of repelling the attack alone.

And this is how it is partially seen when a woman attacks a man; I don't need to intervene because he's not in any real danger. However wrong that may be.

Thankfully I've never had to intervene and I would always have been wary of doing so; you're more likely to get yourself attacked by both parties even if you're defending the woman.

What I would try to do instead is appeal to them both to stop, as if they are having a fight as opposed to treating it as an "attack". If you don't go white knighting in and throwing fists, but instead be a non-aggressive barrier, you're less likely to get battered.

Guess who's back.........

Back again.........

It was nice peace while it lasted!

Seems like the scenario described is merely an excuse to shoehorn in the "Poor me, I'm short and ugly schtick".

The German piano teacher is a new addition though.