Australia: Chivalry will be the death of some

Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2011-05-24 10:32

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A good Samaritan bashed when he tried to help a woman involved in an argument after an AFL game in Melbourne says he'd do it again.

David, who did not want his surname used, was leaving the Carlton-Geelong game on Friday night when he saw a couple arguing on the walkway between Etihad Stadium and Southern Cross railway station.

The 41-year-old from Ocean Grove intervened when he saw the man push the woman, but was punched in the face a number of times and kicked by the man.

He was helped up from the ground by a friend but the man attacked him a second time.

Constable Hannah Smith said the woman was hysterical and kept screaming for the attack to stop but also tried to hold David's friend back.

Nursing a badly-bruised eye and bruised ribs, David described his attacker as "a gutless wonder" but said he had no regrets about helping.

"It's what you do," he told reporters on Tuesday.'

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No, it's what "good men" are *expected* to do and accused of being cowardly if they do not. However if it's a match between two men and other men do not intervene, no one accuses them of cowardice. Likewise a match between two women-- no intervention from any part is expected, except that of the police. If a woman assaults a man and a man intervenes, then he is more likely as not to get into trouble for it.

There seems to be one fight-intervention scenario where it is always reliably considered a good and noble thing that someone intervene: Man assaulting woman with man or woman intervening. But if a woman intervenes she is considered remarkably brave. If a man is intervening, he is doing merely what is expected of him. You see, chivalry doesn't reward masculine disposability: it insists upon it.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2011-05-25 00:35