u/Possible-Scratch-205

when I was studying alevel psychology, i studied a concept known as bystander effect which is a phenomenon that means individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim if other people are present, the cause of this was explained as diffusion of responsibility, like if there are 3 people present and 1 of them requires help, the 2 left would assume the other would offer help, and ultimately none of them do.

There was a study done on this too, which is a very interesting study btw, its called Piliavin et al (1969). In the study, they conducted a natural experiment trying to see if people in a crowded train would intervene if they saw someone collapsing. The results were shocking but what stuck by me was how people felt about it, the women said they would have helped but they were scared for themselves, or perhaps the collapsed man looked too strong for them to able to help him properly.

Ab I have seen so many clips on social media where you notice an incident happening around you and nobody takes initiative to help the victim. Like we see so many clips of a woman getting harrassed and there is a crowd around her that is busy in either recording the incident or just pretending it isn’t happening.

So, as a woman, I understand the amount of risks we would have to consider in order to intervene in such an incident, like if a girl was being abused or harassed i would fear the same would be done to me if i intervene, so my chances of interference would be less. (this has not happened to me yet, so i am not really sure how i would react in such a situation)

BUT MY QUESTION IS
Why are men so reluctant to help such victims, when most of the times, they can easily overpower the culprit and teach them a few lessons. Why have we as a society made it so normal to be a bystander when such incidents happen?

this came to mind because i just saw a clip of a woman get slapped in public and nobody intervened.

just finished watching project hail mary and i am honestly so 🤨🤨🤨🤨.
there was so much i want an explanation for, like what was so special about grace that NASA came to recruit the guy when they had 300+ other biologists on call, and even he was not willing to go to space they forced him?? like what happened to consent?
yea the world was ending but you could’ve chosen from a thousand other people. phir wtf was rocky about? why couldn’t they have created a cuter alien or chalo one with a face atleast? how did both of the spaceships connect apas mein? when they went to get the predator, the temperature got so hot that the ship started sending out warnings but grace was just hanging out the ship in his costume?? usko kuch kyun nahi hoya?? and chalo after the accident happened, how did grace end up in a bed with bandages??? who treated him?? rocky was literally burning and smoking, how did he survive that??

phir sabse bari bat why would grace choose not to go back to earth and live with a rock?? talk about emotional attachment 😭😭
maybe j am reading to much into this 🙏