https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/3005...omans-aid/
By way of clarification, here's what our "damsel in distress" looks like:
![[Image: 111115_tube_art1.jpg]](https://s.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/151109/111115_tube_art1.jpg)
I'll spare you the video, but the most significant part to me is that, despite there being both men and women present on the car, it's only men who step forward to stop the fake indecent assault. Not one female passenger even looks up from her phone while this is going on.
Admittedly to me this seems a bit of a mixture between White Knighting and someone doing the decent thing to step in and stop an assault against another person, but the punchline of this story comes in the video's ending:
These idiots were going for a "10 hours walking in NYC" effect, hoping nobody would get involved in the staged event ... and their social "experiment" proves entirely the opposite.
This incident, insofar as it is an "experiment" -- i.e. an attempt to prove a proposition -- proves that when this shit happens on trains, men will, in fact, step forward to stop a total stranger from being "sexually assaulted". There is no water at all in the assertion that "a lot of the time people see it happening and nobody says anything."
The irony, though. The smartest bloke on the train is the one who says it's fucking stupid to do this -- mainly because of 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' syndrome. Next time this happens blokes will be less inclined to intervene for fear of being made to look like a fool.
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A social experiment on the London Underground nearly ended in violence when several angry men rushed to help a "groped" woman and nearly hit her apparent attacker.
The mock sexual assault took place on the crowded tube carriage with a blonde actress feigning distress as a lecherous man pressed up against her.
"Can you not touch me, you know that's sexual assault. Excuse me, you can't be doing that," the actress pleads aloud.
She tries to avoid her fellow thespian by moving toward some unknowing commuters, shouting: "Excuse me! Stop!"
The actress tells the strangers she does not know the man, but the leering man tells them: "I want to touch her."
As the scene plays out over a minute, another passenger leaps from his seat to intervene, charging the apparent sexual assailant, ready to give him a bloody nose.
Another passenger steps in to protect the woman from her attacker and the situation becomes tense and dangerous, causing the actress to break character. She pulls the pin and tells the marks they're in a social experiment.
By way of clarification, here's what our "damsel in distress" looks like:
![[Image: 111115_tube_art1.jpg]](https://s.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/151109/111115_tube_art1.jpg)
I'll spare you the video, but the most significant part to me is that, despite there being both men and women present on the car, it's only men who step forward to stop the fake indecent assault. Not one female passenger even looks up from her phone while this is going on.
Admittedly to me this seems a bit of a mixture between White Knighting and someone doing the decent thing to step in and stop an assault against another person, but the punchline of this story comes in the video's ending:
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But someone had already pulled the trains emergency brake prompting the police to be called.
"That's a bit fucking stupid then," one passenger says.
"We are trying to raise awareness of sexual assault on trains because a lot of the time people see it happening and nobody says anything," the woman tells them.
These idiots were going for a "10 hours walking in NYC" effect, hoping nobody would get involved in the staged event ... and their social "experiment" proves entirely the opposite.
This incident, insofar as it is an "experiment" -- i.e. an attempt to prove a proposition -- proves that when this shit happens on trains, men will, in fact, step forward to stop a total stranger from being "sexually assaulted". There is no water at all in the assertion that "a lot of the time people see it happening and nobody says anything."
The irony, though. The smartest bloke on the train is the one who says it's fucking stupid to do this -- mainly because of 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' syndrome. Next time this happens blokes will be less inclined to intervene for fear of being made to look like a fool.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm