I think this is another issue where opinions are getting polarised (who'dve thunk it).
I've jumped in on several occasions when seeing things that aren't right...
- a guy threatening his "girlfriend" on the canal basin bridge and threatening to throw her off (as usual it ended up with her taking the boyfriends side and trying to bottle me)
- a road rage incident on Cov ring road with a guy smashing hell out of a woman through a car window.
- also jumped in on a similarly horrific incident on a Birmingham train when a drugged up guy carrying a can of petrol was giving out a lot of terrible racist and threatening behaviour to another passenger.
On all occasions i was more pissed off that in very busy situations, absolutely nobody else got involved. I don't want a knife, gun, can of petrol etc pulled out on me, but sometimes you just have to stand up.
I don't think crossing the road for women is a good idea at all... its another thing that will be done by some people, and those who don't it will be another thing to throw at them and cause division.
On a slightly unrelated note i feel the same about the entire issue of racism and various other discrimination in football..... it's great taking a knee for the cameras in the premier league... but are any of those players speaking out against the upcoming Qatar World Cup... when it comes to the crunch, how many of them will turn up and play in a tournament that was bought by bribery, and has a lot of explaining to do in terms of human rights in relation to how many sections of society are treated, not to mention the "slave labour" involved in their construction industry (including the venues which hold the matches)?
Platitudes are great in theory, but don't really solve anything.
I suppose that makes me "part of the problem" in some people's eyes.