How Men React to a Drunk Girl in Public Is Pretty Depressing

[joeybee12]

Hot on the heels of the viral “Catcalling” video in which a young woman walked around New York City, the way people do, and men said all manners of things to her, the way men do, there’s now another social experiment sparking a similar conversation about how vulnerable women are treated in public. “Drunk Girl in Public” features a girl pretending to be drunk on the streets of Hollywood trying to find her way home and instead, finding that a bunch of men want to take her to their place.

In some cases she goes up to a guy to ask for help, but most of them seem to be able to sense her helplessness from a mile away and by the time they say “hello” to her, the whole thing is so creepy and cringeworthy that you start to consider whether or not you truly ever need to leave your house again. The girl asks them how to get to the nearest bus, and the men offer to take her to their own homes where they plan to ply her with more beer. The worst part is how transparent these men are in their skeevy aggressiveness and how immediately they seem to be able to drop whatever they were doing the rest of the day because they now have a helpless drunk woman standing in front of them.

While this video may or may not be staged the truth is it doesn’t really matter. As probably most women can attest to, when you see a title along the lines of “woman pretends to be drunk on the street asking for help: you’ll never believe what happened next,” most would actually know what happens next — and maybe some of them even lived it. As more of these “experiments” come to light, one has to ask: What is the point? Women already know what happens when you walk down the street in the daytime or what happens when you’re alone at night; it all seems so obvious! But then you get to the comments section and realize that there is a world of people out there who still believe that women’s bodies belong to anyone but themselves, and anything that happens to them, they need to be held responsible for it.

https://www.yahoo.com/style/hot-on-the-heels-of-the-viral-catcalling-102374663558.html

[Warpy]

1. Younger men have never listened to us, preferring to listen to their mates for opinions on women

I guess the poor things think "girl cooties" are contagious or something.

Rubbing their noses in the videos work until the more enterprising start to nitpick them, i.e. "no white guys" in the catcalling video.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. You expose yourself to danger if you're wandering around intoxicated.

Everybody isn't nice people.

I got mugged once when I was stupid drunk. Live and learn.

[NickB79]

3. Why do I always feel like I'm in the minority?!?!

I can remember a friend and myself in a similar situation walking a drunk girl back to her dorm room one night. I never thought about taking advantage of her, and as far as I know neither did my friend. As we were walking, I remember a car driving by and a guy yelling out the window "Take her home, boys! Woohoo!", clearly approving of the idea of us having sex with her in that state.

I swear to God, my fellow men sicken me more and more frequently with this type of behavior.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Thank you for being a good guy.

I was lucky in that there were some good guys in my life who took me home to my own place when I was drunk and took care of me, unmolested. However there were a few who took advantage.

I will always think fondly of those who didn't take advantage. They are the real men to me. The others were just dirtballs whose memories I spit upon.

[mythology]

4. Indeed

Personally I try to stay away from overly drunk people, male or female, as it's unlikely to end well.

[FrodosPet]

8. Just say NO!!! to D.F.I.s

Drunken Feckin' Idiots.

There is rarely anything positive to gain. They are frequently obnoxious, combative, and a physical danger to everyone around them.

I am not a prohibitionist, I enjoy a cold ale or two now and then. But anything more than 2 or 3 drinks in a day, or drinking more than 2 or 3 times in a single month, is a big problem that needs to be addressed.

[99Forever]

5. ..

[mercuryblues]

6. on cue

*Some* men seem to think that because they got mugged once, it is somehow equal to what a woman goes through when she goes out in public.

Newsflash: women get mugged. They get harassed and they get raped.

Those men in the video were ready to pounce on what they believed was an intoxicated woman. They could not believe their good fortune. A really drunk compliant woman to take home to their waterbed. The looks on their faces when she said "I feel better now" is very telling.