Everyone Jumped To Help When A Woman Was Being Hurt, But Laughed When A Man Was

westhau · 2014-09-28T04:44:44+00:00

I just want to say that the reaction to the man abusing the woman was correct. What we are looking for is the same outrage when a woman abuses a man. No matter who the aggressor is, if the victim is not able or willing to defend themselves, people should step in to defend them.

2014-09-27T21:08:52+00:00

Fuck you with your white male priv.......... O wait.

dalore · 2014-09-28T09:23:50+00:00

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2014-09-28T01:35:28+00:00

This made me sad. Especially with that music.

ExpendableOne · 2014-09-28T13:11:46+00:00

I don't understand how people can look at this and still think "we need HeForShe", to end violence against women. Clearly men are already getting involved and will go out their way to defend women, in any circumstance. The reality of the world indicates that, if anything, we need a SheForHe movement(or people for he), to bridge this disparity between the way we treat men and women.

HappyAtheist3 · 2014-09-28T06:17:49+00:00

I hate this double standard...but stereotypes aside it seems like the woman did a good job at seeming helpless while the man seemed to just be "taking it." I don't know if it is the specific acting or cultural bias.

rollerskatinghal · 2014-09-28T05:10:17+00:00

I want to see the second scene again but with more female bystanders

2014-09-28T06:19:06+00:00

Why not just link to the YouTube video instead of this contentless article?

AllMenDrip · 2014-09-29T10:06:05+00:00

Society views men as aggressors so most of the time other white knights will step in when women are beaten by men. The only criticism I have about the "experience" is that it doesn't take into account the difference in size and build and the seriousness of the aggression e.g a woman throwing punches to a man instead of a woman giving cute slaps and looks like she's going to fall over in her low heels

Quintrell · 2014-09-28T03:35:04+00:00

This experiment is, unfortunately, ~~very~~ flawed. You could just as easily conclude "everyone jumped to help when the shorter, skinnier person was being hurt, but laughed when the bigger person was being hit."

Yes, the guy getting beat up was pretty thin, but he was still noticeably bigger than the girl.

If you really want to determine whether gender is the decisive factor (and I expect it would be) you need to better control for other variables.

EDIT: many down votes and yet no counter arguments. It's so disappointing how much of an echo chamber this sub can be.

Horizal · 2014-09-28T18:27:18+00:00

As shitlord white males, we need to realise that this is our male privilege.

Wargame4life · 2014-09-27T22:30:44+00:00

As stated before replace "man" with "adult" and woman with "child" and you get the same reaction.

This is how society views men and women in that physical threat context, men as the "adult" and women as the "child"

Its not anti man, its basically because women are seen as child like wrt to violence.

You replace the woman in the experiment with the evil boxer woman from million dollar baby and the guy with danny devito type frame and people would rightly be as concerned and alarmed.

Title	Everyone Jumped To Help When A Woman Was Being Hurt, But Laughed When A Man Was
Author	dynamite1985
Upvotes	224
Comments	45
Date	September 27, 2014 9:00 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2hn8g9/everyone_jumped_to_help_when_a_woman_was_being/
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