Is Chivalry Dead?

On the news the other day on CNBC (go the Foxtel at work!) they ran this acted scenario in one of the local parks (middle of the day) where a man was shouting and pushing his girlfriend around. Then they filmed passer-by's reactions to the scene, and what people would do. They found out, compared to men, double the number of women stopped to tell the boyfriend to back off.

This is ordinary! I would hope that as a male, I would be willing to step up in these situations.

I hate to admit it, but I did watch one guy get beaten up by three other guys outside a dance party once. In those cases, your body just freezes. And you think too much, like "what if the other guy was getting beaten up cause he was beating up someone prior?". And another thought that comes through, "I don't want to get caught up with this stuff". Looking back, I'm still not sure if I did the right thing.

I would say, though, with a degree of confidence, that I would come in to defend my friends and and females. Lucky my friends don't get in fights all the time!

Damn! three cheap calls already:

hey i saw that too. pretty freaky stuff
sadly, it was also emphasised that due to legal issues nowadays, people are more scared to intervene.
i hope that my friends would help me if a guy was hurting me. i hope that my friends would intervene if one of their friends was being hurt. No i dont condone fighting, but if someones getting hurt, you will soon know who your friends are..
addy - 03 October '05 - 14:18

Mate don't ever doubt the Doraemon incident mate, not good to step into that one. I'll back you :)
PeeDz - 03 October '05 - 20:22

legal issues, as well as the chance that you get your head smacked in. There is more chance of the guy turning on you if you're a guy, rather than a girl. No way I'm stepping in to protect a girl from her boyfriend. Why the fuck is she going out with an abusive boyfriend?

RC
randomcow - 09 October '05 - 05:33