Maybe I'm preaching to the choir here, Sup Forums, but something caught my eye today and I couldn't wrestle it from my mind.
I was driving home and saw a woman, mid 20's, stuck in a parking lot and freaking out by the side of her parked car with an obvious flat tire. She was on the phone, was clearly in contact with help. There were also two other vehicles that turned in to help, both driven by adult men who probably saw it as an opportunity to talk to the woman and maybe at some point lend a hand. So, I didn't bother to stop and kept driving.
But hear me out, because this is what irked me.
As I drove by, like those men who stopped to actually help her, I just assumed she had no clue how to fix her flat. I mean, she was an attractive young woman, and a girl like her just typically isn't raised being taught how to do these things, at least in the US.
A few months ago, however, something similar happened to me, a man about the same age as this woman. I lost control of my car and went into a nosedive off the edge of the highway, wrecking completely, taking out of a telephone pole, and stumbling out of the wreckage with a busted leg and bleeding profusely. And you know what? Not one person stopped. It took walking down the highway to a nearby house before somebody was nice enough to realize what was going on and lend me their phone. My own was destroyed in the wreck.
Thinking back, this has happened almost my entire life as a man. I get a flat -- nobody stops. I'm lost in the city -- nobody stops and typically nobody wants to offer help. I try to talk my way out of tickets or down on a price, and it never goes anywhere.
Make your comments about "but user, maybe you're just an ugly loser autist," but think about all of the times that you've been presented, as a male, with this same double standard.
Of course I know basic shit about finding my way around places of fixing my car, but that's not the point.
