To ask if another man has ever stepped in when you were being harassed?

Mum? 😂

This is why I would endure a thousand rail strikes for the sake of keeping guards on trains.

A man once stepped in to rescue my son from me.

I had caught him walking down the street smoking, when he was 14. I was very upset, told him off, and took his cigarettes out of his pocket (he started saying he was 'holding them for a friend'). A guy stepped in and asked my son if he was being harassed and felt unsafe. My son was 6'2" and rugby player, and was looking sheepish. It was ridiculous.

No, but then I'm very fat and ugly, so I don't know if that's connected some way. I have had women step in to help me though.

Yes, a dad with his son of about 12 once intervened when a guy hassled me on a train.

One time on a different train a lady barged over and yelled at a bloke she saw touch my leg. She was brilliant, proper boxed his ears. I was only about 18, i guess she was maybe in her 40s

My daughter (who's just started uni) was being fairly heavily hit on by a pushy guy in the union bar, and his mate told him to back off and leave her alone. A small thing but she appreciated it.

This is basically how my mum and dad met, married for coming up to 40 years 🥰

No man has ever stepped in. Now as a mid 40’s woman I’ve stepped in lots of times. often quietly with grim men harassing young girls and women. I’m over this be nice shit, the men back
away when they realise a woman is watching them. It’s shameful, many men are shameless.

When I was 15 I was attacked and publicly sexually assaulted in the street by a group of lads probably a fair bit older than me. There was one lad who walked by, noticed what was happening and stuck up for me (he was alone, and there were over a dozen of them, so must have been fucking scary for him too, god knows if they were carrying knives or what) and tried to help me get them off and show me where to run away to, but I was too scared to move, petrified in every sense of the word and just kept trying to curl up to protect myself. He scooped me up and carried me to safety and called the police for me because I was too weak to get myself up. I've never forgotten him.

Killjoy alert: it’s great that women on this thread have been helped away from unsafe situations, but it’s so bloody depressing that most of the make saviours thought the best thing to do was pretend they were ‘his woman’ instead of telling the men to fuck off.

It was a joke.

Don't be so silly.

Not really. One a friend who was drunk was shouting and threatening me and a bloke ran across the road and intervened, which was nice but I was ok.

I've waded in a few times. I was on a bus and overheard a girl being harassed by about five boys. Saying really awful sexual things to her. So I had a massive go at them, called them a load of bullies and asked if she wanted to sit with me.

Sorry about your experience, OP.

No never been helped by a man.

Helped by women more than once.

Actually, never. A woman intervened once.

I always, always intervene quite strongly when I see a woman being harassed by a man, or shouted at by her partner. In every case there have been men sat around doing nothing about it, and so I also make the point to them that they should be ashamed.

Not for me, but I was waiting at a bus stop with my friends once (two women, two men) and we witnessed a girl getting sexually harassed at the stop. My male friend stepped in to confront the harasser. The harasser was incredibly aggressive and not loud and in the face of my male friend – it was very unpleasant. Then another very loud-mouthed, confident girl also at the bus stop absolutely tore his guy a new hole and he went to sit elsewhere.

And sex trafficker, and pimp, and woman beater.

I think Greta said it best with "small dick energy".

My husband has had to do this too many times. He's an absolute softie who gets bullied by our kitten and the closest hes ever got to a fight is onstage in oaklahoma am dram but hes big and broad, taller than most. Never confrontational but just standing near by makes the other guy back off.

I will agree with others that its often women who come to the rescue. I once had to ram a guy with my empty pram (baby had been dropped off) and another time a friend yelled at a taxi driver to stop, opened the door, sprinted out and reappeared 15 secs later with another girl and yelled drive. She'd spotted someone being attacked and acted. I love women.

I know i just wanted to say something funny ill go find a different thread.

I was being verbally abused by a school run dad - alcoholic bully I used to be friendly with - when another much bigger man stepped between and told him to leave me alone. I was a bit miffed as was handling it but still grateful.

On a bus my dd was being eyed up then talked at by a bloke. She was uncomfortable and tried to move away. Another man stepped in and kept an eye, told him to back off, annoying man got off the bus at next stop. Dd said she was fine..

Years ago, when I was about 17, an older male friend walked me to my bus stop and was waiting until the bus left. Shortly after getting on, two boys from my school, who were on the bus, started calling me unpleasant names. My friend got on the bus and grabbed both of them by their coats and removed them from the bus. He held them until the bus left. It was the last bus home. Those lads never bothered me again.

I've seen a guy (manual worker in high Vis) step in to help a woman bring cornered and leaned over and smooched at by a stoned and/or drunk guy on a train.

Incidentally, I've also seen a woman step in to pull out a drunk guy being pushed around and about to be battered by a group of guys at a festival.
She sort of swooped and walked away with them and told them off for being bastards & bullies.

You do see how the only reason men should step in is because men are acting like pigs, right? Even if it's like for like (and it's not), it's 50% horribly arseholes 50% decent men.

No never. Been harassed several times and no one has ever said a single word.

I didn’t know at the time but a guy once head butted another guy for harassing me. I was out with friends at a 70s themed club, I was wearing massive 70s platforms on top of being a little tipsy. The club was in an old warehouse with random slopes and steps all over the place. Between the platforms and flooring I appeared more drunk than I was and banged into the guy who started abusing me calling me all sorts and pushing me. My friend and I managed to back away and head into the ladies. When we came out the guy had gone.

it was about a week later my friends were talking about meeting up with the group of guys we’d originally gone to the club with, these were friends of friends. Anyway I rolled my eyes when they mentioned one guy, for some reason I’d taken a dislike to him and to my shame was rude to him for absolutely no reason. Anyway it turned out he’d witnessed the whole scene at the club, apparently the abusive guy was making a bee line to follow me and my friend to the ladies. The acquaintance I’d been rude to stepped in, things got heated and it ended him with the headbutt.

I couldn’t apologise enough the next time I saw him.