There was an incident at my local convenience store here a bit ago. It's in a bad neighborhood and sometimes there is only 1 (younger) girl working the register late at night. The kind of store where 5-10 meth addicts while openly deal drugs outside of around the 1AM mark. Why the police don't bust that up I'm unsure.
Anyway the night of the incident there were 2 young girls working. The story I got was a tall black patron was angered that they wouldn't break a large bill in front of several other male patrons. The angry black fella proceeded to hit (balled fist) and rough the girls up a bunch. (I know one of them probably gave the dude attitude but I'm sure homeboy didn't need to hit em). Nobody was seriously injured as I hear but the second the attack broke out all the male patrons left the store.
I of course get this story through the grapevine through guys in my hood. Every single one of them without fail accused the leaving men of being bitch made and "I would have done X" and "that wouldn't have happened with me there".
Now it took me the walk home after hearing the final rendition of the story from the store clerk to really think about what I would do. I am sure all the people saying what they would have done are just posturing trying to seem like a masculine protector of women. I know they're not about shit and wouldn't have done shit. But in the end I figured if I was carrying my CCW and that happened I would have stepped in, I'm pretty comfortable and train weekly with it, have strong spatial awareness and have no qualms about pulling the trigger in defense of my life. And I really don't want to see innocent 20 something girls hurt for doing their jobs.
But my other thought was if I wasn't packing I would have probably just left. I'm not getting into a potentially fatal fist fight (not trained in MMA, just some early years of boxing, I go to the ground I'm getting smashed). My reasoning was I don't owe these girls anything, they aren't my people. And all it takes is an unfortunate combination of blow for someone to die in a fist fight/ground and pound. So yeah I would've left.
Anyway this thread reminded me of that because I don't think men are necessarily "turned off" of white knighting because all the men expressed they would have done it "had they been there". I think men are just pussies nowadays. They lack the ability not the will.