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Social experiment domestic violence, double standard?

Are you more likely to step in and intervene if it's a man or a woman

  • I'd only step in if its a woman being hit

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • id step in if either was being hit

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • I wouldn't get involved period

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • I would be too afraid to get involved

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I would call 911

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • Total voters
    12
I probably wouldn't get involved, regardless of the genders involved, unless it looked like someone might be seriously injured.
 
We go by what we see. Instinctively it looks more wrong... Ok more cringeworthy when a man punches or slaps a woman. I also think some women milk the "I'm a woman card you can't hit me", when stepping to men. In that case they deserve to be hit back and I don't feel sorry for her one bit. It would be interesting to see people's responses if the woman was bigger. What I noticed about the video is the response was the same from young and old. I was actually surprised to see young men stepping forward.
 
Should be equal reaction, laws and punishments. But people are hypocrites.

Er no. Alot of it is that men dont report it because they are afraid of looking weak.
 
Boys are constantly told to keep their anger in check, that they shouldn't fight other people (unless it's a man and it's consensual in the ring) and so forth from early on. Girls, however, are not. They're often encouraged to be emotional and expressive even when that surfaces in very negative ways.

For the most part, I disagree with this. Yes, schools are finally starting to learn that "boys will be boys" is not an acceptable for violence, petty or grotesque. But our society is having trouble accepting that truth. And frankly, you could not be more off-base with your implication that girls are not told to keep their anger in check. Hell, the trope of bickering females is what keeps many "reality" TV shows alive.
 
For the most part, I disagree with this. Yes, schools are finally starting to learn that "boys will be boys" is not an acceptable for violence, petty or grotesque. But our society is having trouble accepting that truth. And frankly, you could not be more off-base with your implication that girls are not told to keep their anger in check. Hell, the trope of bickering females is what keeps many "reality" TV shows alive.

Well that's my point - 'bickering females is what keeps many reality tv shows alive' is a good example of how society embraces the angry women but not the men. Honey Boo Boo and that other one with the dancing kids is a good example of how it's embraced and showcased.
 
Well that's my point - 'bickering females is what keeps many reality tv shows alive' is a good example of how society embraces the angry women but not the men. Honey Boo Boo and that other one with the dancing kids is a good example of how it's embraced and showcased.

I think we partially agree on this. But let's get honest here: Why doesn't man-vs.-man bickering generate as much ratings as does women-vs.-women? Because we still live in a gendered society where "boys will be boys." Hell, in some people's eyes, you might as well make a reality show about the perils of day-to-day accounting.
 
One video is a social experiment and one video is an actual abusuve relationship. Both videos show both genders being violent but nobody defends the man, only the woman.

Is this a double standard that doesn't bother you, a double standard that makes sense? Would you have reacted the same way? The second video is rather long but it's the reason I couldn't live in the city.I don't see how people transport via subways everyday!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyrYThlOag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81CKcMQKt6k&app=desktop

Did...did the black guy in the second part of the experiment just join in on beating the boyfriend???
 
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