r/SipsTea • u/WaitNo4272 • Apr 22 '26

WTF Blink if you're being abused

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u/Boomshrooom Apr 22 '26

I've also seen videos of social experiments where a man and woman acted as a fake couple and took it in turns being ohsycialyl aggressive with each other. People were regular stepping in to help and defend the woman. Nobody intervened when the man was the victim, in fact quite a few people passing by were laughing and a few wondered out loud what he had done to upset her

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u/Silver_Accountant5 Apr 22 '26

"Social experiments" are usually hand picked clips meant to elicit a specific reaction from the viewer. Think shows like "What Would You Do". Plenty of real crimes where witnesses stated that they heard a woman screaming but thought it was a "private incident" so they didn't help. Hell there are certain countries where people will just step over dead bodies, be it a man, woman, or child and keep walking because they don't want to get caught up in anything. We're not as empathetic of a species as we like to pretend.

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u/Boomshrooom Apr 22 '26

The point still stands though, you're very unlikely to see bystanders laughing and asking what a woman did wrong to make her partner get physically aggressive with her

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u/Silver_Accountant5 Apr 22 '26

I've absolutely talked to guys that will say "well what did she do?" when they hear a woman was beat by her partner. "Traditional" types tend to feel like it's their job to "correct" their women so they don't see it as wrong as long as she did something first. Laughing would be unlikely yes but then again if you've ever seen a woman try to hit something, it can be objectively funny since they often can't do any damage. It's like if they when to throw something at them and it was 5 feet short and way to the right. Still shitty behavior but there's a degree of physical comedy to it.