Um, are you saying you didn't intervene because you've been "feminized"? Because that's what it sounds like. And who the hell has ever said that women are supposed to be physically equal to men? Even the most ardent feminist will acknowledge that men have on average 40% more upper body strength.
Men in general, do very, very little actual protecting of women and it's been that way for a long time - it's not a modern phenomenon.
"The only reason we believe today that the Middle Ages, for instance, was a time of ‘unprecedented chivalry’ is because of a literary genre created centuries later — Chivalric Romance. Yup, the stories of legendary knights in shining armour rescuing helpless damsels in distress are, as medievalist Richard Walker once put it, ‘just as much a fiction then as now.’
And no, the ‘women and children first’ thing was never a legal requirement either. Actually, according to a study by a group of Swedish economists on sea disasters spanning three centuries, it was women and children who had the lowest survival rates out of all demographics."
But, you could have gone over and asked her if she was OK. You could have asked if she wanted you to call for help. Nobody said you had to physically take the guy on. Turning an intentional blind eye is exactly how this culture of violence against women perpetuates. Thanks for giving such a clear and direct example of that.
