Chris Pratt Reveals All Dads Fantasize About Saving the Day as a Make-Believe Navy SEAL

[crispycreamy]

Chris Pratt says 'every dad secretly fantasizes' about what they'd do if someone messed with their kids: 'Where's the duct tape and how deep is the trunk?' https://t.co/u3zf1qW61k
- Insider (@thisisinsider) June 12, 2023
Pratt plays a Navy SEAL bent on cold-blooded revenge for his family's murder in his new movie "The Terminal List." He claims he

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[poordat]

So many men fantasize about this and then pretend toxic masculinity isn't real. None of the dudes who dream about this have ever been threatened in their lives, honestly, which is why they think they know how they'd react in crisis.

Imagining what you'd do if your family was dead isn't healthy, Chris. That's family annihilation shit.

[ostsiberia]

Any situation I've been in where a man coming to rescue would have helped, none has ever stepped up. Women have, never men. Not saying men would never risk themselves to help, but the lot of them think they'll turn into Batman and save the day when nearly all of them would freeze or avoid helping.

Edit: I remember one military bro (of course) upon hearing that a man had been sexually harassing women at a party, said "IF I HAD BEEN THERE I WOULD HAVE BEAT THE SHIT OF OUT HIM!" When in fact, he HAD been there that night and did nothing like all the other men.

[poordat]

God forbid they do end up in a terrible situation and they don't act the way they thought they would. That can crumble your whole sense of self. We see it happen to women who are assaulted all the time - they thought they'd do "the right thing" and excoriate themselves when they don't.

[edit] I started my comment before your edit but YES. So many men don't even see the real dangers because they're only looking for things that would get them called a hero on the front page. In the abstract they think they'd stop a man slapping a woman on the ass, but they look the other way if a man is "just" pushing drinks on them or saying inappropriately sexual things or following them around, because those aren't as obvious to them. Or are even things they agree with, things that they do themselves, because they don't see them as dangers at all.

[blazingeternity]

This so much. I did see men spring into action in emergencies, but it's definitely skewed because there are exorbitantly more men than women who brag about what they would do in this-and-that situation without ever having been in a situation shocking enough to turn on fight-or-flight-mode, while most women (of my generation) unfortunately have & are therefore better prepared mentally.

[aleksie]

Yeah, men can't be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to women.

One instance where a man did right by me, the same man also thought I should forgive the perpetrator. And the kick in the ass? The perpetrator, who is this man's friend, has done similar egregious things that he was well-aware of (and another he witnessed and stopped). While I'm glad the incident was mostly stopped with me, I'm also angry that the man could've stopped things by simply not bringing around the perpetrator.

[poisonapple73]

yeah at that point he's not stopping him, he's an enabler/babysitter. ☹️ I'm very sorry that happened to you.

[ahkna]

I will never stop thinking about that social experiment video from a few months ago where a man was really obviously putting drugs in a woman's drink when she went to the washroom. Over and over again men just watched and did nothing. A woman knocked the drink over casually, like an accident.

All those men had the opportunity to step up and they did nothing.

[mindcrown]

link?

[ahkna]

This is a clip of a longer video

Women that protect other women>>>

Video credit: @popreset_ pic.twitter.com/K5RrLDgqde
- Document Women (@DocumentWomen) May 6, 2023

[mindcrown]

here's the original video

[milkradio]

exactlyyyy

[halevy]

In my 33 years alive, I have ever only known one man who jumped another man for assaulting his girlfriend. My friend's now husband years ago was out with her and they saw a couple arguing. The guy yanked his girlfriend's hair and told her to get in the car and she said no. He threw her down on the sidewalk. Apparently my friend panicked and said she was gonna call the police and was trying to find her phone, but when she looked up her husband had already charged over and jumped the dude and began pounding on him, telling him not to lay a hand on his girlfriend.

ONE man. That's it. Maybe others exist out there, but they're unicorns like my friend's husband.

[mindcrown]

ime, most men are total cowards and amoral agents in other people's lives
not even the women they're closest to (their WIVES, mothers, nieces, cousins, etc)
i have seen men make comments 'sticking up' for their bros though, that happens quite often

[anna_drenxavier]

There's this local crime watch Facebook I follow, and so many dudes are like this. "I always have my gun on me and I will go beast mode if anyone messes with my family!!!!" They are thirsting for such a scenario. They also always have big dirty beards.

[mana_runigha]

I always hear toxic men talk about how women want a man to provide and protect them and I’m like, protect from who?