Women are more likely to intervene and stand up for the victim.
A female victim will get more support than a male victim even if they are children.
Studies have shown that women are more sympathetic towards situations such as these.
shareThey have said several times on the show that men are afraid of getting involved especially if there's a child because of how it might look. they're afraid that it might make them look like they're the one who is doing something inappropriate especially if they aren't sure about the situation. Like, the experiment with crying kids who were clearly alone. A woman would have no issues with approaching them to see why they're alone and crying but, a guy is more likely to assume that the kid is okay and go about their business since they don't want to get in trouble for talking to a kid, and possibly get confronted by their parents who might show up. It's really unfortunate because there could be real situations like these where the only people around are men, and then who will step up?
But, I particularly hate the ones with the women who were either drugged, or falling down drunk and the male witnesses not only didn't do anything to help the victim, they would also laugh about it and act like it was okay. It really says a lot about how men view women in our society. Even if a guy would not harm a woman himself, he still might be okay with letting someone else do it, and even get some sick enjoyment out of it. It really makes the good guys look even better.
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shareFirst you said that men were afraid to interact because it might look wrong. Which is a shame since they could help.
Then you say when it comes to a drug or drunken girl that the guys won't intervene and think its ok.
Contradiction much.
Girls have been known call fake rape....
That could be the reason why a guy would not get involved if a woman was in trouble. The only time I would get involved is if there is another guy beating the crap out of them.
Better watch out, better start crying. Better hurry up, run and hide. Krampus is coming to town! >:)
You guys are so right about the gender issue. Men look suspect if they approach a drunken girl, for instance. I ended up in the middle of such a situation several months ago. (I'm a woman.) I parked at a store and the couple from the car next to me asked to borrow my phone to call 911, pointing out an extremely drunken girl staggering around in the nearby intersection, with guys in various cars trying to pick her up. The guy and I - he said it would "look better" if a woman was with him, and I absolutely agreed - went and brought her off the street as his wife made the call. Then a guy pulls into the lot and calls something to the girl, and she goes toward his truck. I ran over and prevented her from getting into it. We gave the guy the third degree (and I got some info out of the girl) and gave a description of him, and his license plate number, to the dispatcher. Between the answers to our questions and his voluntarily handing me his driver's license for info, we were confident that he was, in fact, a friend of hers. He was very cool about it; he thanked us for acting out of concern for her. It's a good thing he checked out OK, too; a cop didn't show up until 45 minutes after he'd left with her. (I had to wait for him as the 911 call was made from my phone - ?!)
And BTW, the dispatcher was a rude piece of work. She kept asking me - and not at *all* nicely; she sounded bored and very cynical - how I "knew" that the girl might be in a bad situation. Apparently, staggering around totally wasted in the middle of a busy intersection at midnight with guys stopping to try to get you into their cars doesn't necessarily qualify as "bad." You can't be sure that a dispatcher will feel that your situation is an urgent one, or that police will speed to the scene; all the more reason to step in and help when you can.
I did feel bad afterward about our having grilled this guy who was in fact another Good Samaritan, just helping a friend. He'd waived off our apologies and said we'd had every right to suspect him of being there for the wrong reasons. That's pretty sad, but it's the world we live in.
I don't trust the show to be totally realistic.
To the extent it is realistic, I agree with the other guys that women can be terribly misunderstanding. I know from experience that I might truly mean well and women can twist things around and make it as if I am a jerk. Men too, but probably they are following the lead of women. The important thing is when a man truly intends to be good and is misinterpreted as being bad.
For example, in another IMDB discussion (about Fifty Shades of Grey that is highly sexual) a woman asked if there truly are women that are so sexually active. My reply attempted to be understanding of the woman asking the question and then I get blasted as if I am a man that only cares about my satisfaction. Women are constantly twisting things around and I can understand men being concerned about being misunderstood