Woman "disappointed" random strangers didn't risk their lives to confront man damaging her car, "We were two women in a car being attacked by this 'Hulk' guy who was just bashing our car up."

Collective82 · 2012-09-19T02:44:27+00:00

6' 200 pounds? Muscular build? I'm I'm 6'2" and 205. I'm by no means a hulk or muscular. Are They sure they are guessing right?

nigglereddit · 2012-09-19T08:31:16+00:00

Something's not quite right here.

The setup of the story concerns me. Basically the complainant is claiming to to be the victim of a totally unprovoked attack which happened for no reason at all.

Now in reality, outside of cases of extreme mental illness or heavy drug use attacks very seldom happen with no provocation of any kind. Most people need to go through a process called "ramping" to go from being calm to being sufficiently hyped up to physically attack, and this doesn't happen instantly.

What's effectively being claimed here is that the attacker had already ramped before encountering the complainant. That's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely since very few people will attack a totally different person to the one whose behaviour prompted them to ramp in the first place.

It looks to me like there's a lot more to this story that we're not seeing. But I'm concerned that so many people are prepared to accept a highly unlikely claim of a totally unprovoked attack based solely on a caricature of the attacker as being like a cartoon character.

MisandryNational · 2012-09-19T01:59:29+00:00

If he's strong enough to trash a car, he's way too strong for any reasonable person to start a fight with. You would expect this woman to understand that.

FireTruth · 2012-09-19T02:11:46+00:00

many women get pissed when guys dont give them special treatment.

i wonder what those 2 girls would have done if they seen 2 tenage boys in the car.

cthulufunk · 2012-09-19T02:15:29+00:00

Dude was on PCP or something...even the police fear dusters.

ambroaz · 2012-09-19T03:36:34+00:00

until we drove off!

Why didn't she drive off earlier? Did she forget that it's the pedal on the right? Whatever, I'm glad that she learned not to provoke people who are "acting crazy," nor to stick around while the situation escalates.

Curebores · 2012-09-19T04:34:15+00:00

I have wonder about the choices people make in life when they are driving around in a Ford Escort with a spoiler. That would apply equally to men or women.

ThePigman · 2012-09-19T01:16:36+00:00

"She is hoping that once he is identified she will be able to get him to pay for the repairs."

Oh yeah, 'cause he sounds exactly like the kind of guy you want to see again...

Xenoith · 2012-09-19T11:48:32+00:00

This is why feminism is bullshit. Women still expect men to sacrifice themselves, but if you run into a feminist, a lot of them will rage at you for treating them like a child or whatever if you want to help them. In a lot of ways feminism hurts women, no one with a brain wants to bother helping random strangers anymore because pretty much all of the outcomes are going to be negative.

occupythekitchen · 2012-09-19T10:42:04+00:00

The best part is she waited till the light turned green to drive away.

2012-09-19T14:04:21+00:00

The article not specifically mentioning men aside, I don't put my life in danger for strangers. My main duty is to myself and to my girlfriend and to get our lives in order, not try to be a superhero and get my ass kicked for the 9 complete strangers that did deserve whatever's happening to them and the 1 innocent stranger who doesn't.

ELTepes · 2012-09-19T17:49:22+00:00

Because we give our tax dollars to the police so that, we can play Bane vs Batman whenever some guy decides he doesn't like some women.

2012-09-19T10:54:20+00:00

the main thing is, is the car ok?

TehJohnny · 2012-09-19T03:10:35+00:00

What does this have to do with MensRights?

nwz123 · 2012-09-19T12:26:18+00:00

I'm of two minds here. Ideally, I'd hope ANYONE would jump in to help someone who's in need of help, be they man, woman, or child. That said, to expect it, not as "help", but as a privilege ("I'm going to be helped because that's what society does for women") kind of thing, it makes me hope they don't get helped at all. Altruism (at least at the individual level) is something that has to be made by a choice. If it's forced, then it's not altruistic and it's not "good". It's extraction.

Grapeban · 2012-09-20T00:34:03+00:00

They were being attacked and were fearful for their lives, of course they were disappointed no-one stopped to help them, wouldn't you be? Is that so unreasonable? Or are women just not allowed to hope someone will help them when they're being attacked?

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