Anonymous #1 13w

Not surprised. Technically men have always been more likely to be bystanders in a lot of situations including health if its not their job

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I mean yeah racism is real but it’s also not the same thing. There’s intersectionality to what you’re describing. Black and brown people are an oppressed class and therefore have valid reason for caution. Men are an oppressor class and are not going to be hit with “false accusations” from doing CPR just on the basis of their gender. So what you’re describing isn’t what I’m talking about.

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Anonymous #1 13w

Like it is is worth pointing out if you know CPR and decide to find somebody else the time you take to do that means the incapacitated person is probably going to have brain damage or die. The math with this decision is ofc different for a POC but I really don’t have sympathy for somebody who doesn’t render aid and the reason they give is just “I’m a man.”

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Anonymous #1 13w

there was a guy in my schools yikyak posting abt how he refused to help a passed out drunk girl he found outside the dorms bc he didnt want ppl to see “him a man next to a passed out drunk girl and ppl think hes a rapist”😐😐

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Anonymous #3 13w

My ex thought it was better that he just take me home because i was puking and literally went unconscious drunk (forgot i took meds and decided to drink for Halloween, stupid 19 year old things) because he was worried that the EMT's on scene would think he's a creep if he took me to them (there was an ambulance on standby at this party) because he was 23 at the time. They told him I would have possibly died from his decision.

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Anonymous OP 13w

Then the whole time he kept asking if he was going to be in trouble and not once asked if I was ok to the point where one of the guys whispered to me that he wasn't a good bf 😭

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Anonymous OP 13w

I get the concern however being so willing to let someone die or sustain serious harm to protect your image is wild to me

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I need you to read what I said again and look up intersectionality because you clearly don’t understand what I said.

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Anonymous #1 13w

Like I actually didn’t even downvote your initial comment because I think there’s truth to it. My point though it’s that that’s not a fear that comes from being a man. It’s one that comes from being *a man of color,* and is therefore not actually a rebuttal to my point about misogyny and men as a whole class coming up with reasons not to help women or feeling persecuted *for being men *

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