CPR

[Jamiek80]

Interested in opinions it seems women are less likely to be given CPR as men fear accusations of sexual assault. I'm a little skeptical as it was in the Mail but I remember from my first aid training about warnings of law suits. I'm sure this won't go well but will the current climate of sexual harassment have a negative effect long term?

Your agenda is showing, Jamie

Where have you and your mates come to visit us from ?

AnyFucker what's my agenda and who are my mates?

I was referring to previous poster who claimed anyone who had doubts about CPR was the same as someone shocked by sexual assault events in Hollywood

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Just incase it was me putting what I meant across completely wrong..that was not what I was saying at all

For some reason, a hell of a lot of men were up in arms about the whole 'sex scandal' thing. Thinking that women they spoke to or winked at 20 years back might suddenly start accusing them of assault and get them fired. Which was a ridiculous leap and infact made men that came out with bollocks like that sound incredibly guilty.

Same with men who think this way. That a woman is going to accuse him of sexual assault for trying to save her life.

Just seems, a ridiculous way to think.

Also to be quite honest, even if there was an absolute epidemic of, lets say, men accusing totally innocent women of sexually assaulting them when said women were trying to save their lives by doing CPR, I cannot imagine I would think of THAT when a man drops to the ground infront of me. To immediately think 'if this 0.00000000001% probability event happens I could maybe be labelled a wrong un, lets just walk away just incase' rather than 'fuck, he is going to die, lets help' would make me an utter fuckwit.

Your post 21:33:48 does not make any sense at all to me either. Sorry sir.

If men say they are being reasonable by letting someone die because of their fear of accusation, then men can never again claim women are being unreasonable wanting sex segregated spaces.

If a man is really concerned re the child all he has to do is keep his distance and call the police. How hard is that??

And if he sees a woman in (possibly) cardiac arrest, he can keep his distance and call an ambulance. How hard is that?

Bela, that's an interesting story - no doubt told by a squaddie trying to big himself up. The truth of the matter is that as a trained first aider, he would actually have been subject to legal proceedings if he hadn't stopped and given first aid to a woman in need. It's the law in Germany that if you are a trained first aider you have to stop at the scene of an accident.
I would actually prefer that in the UK. That would prevent the nonsense.
That said, I have no doubt that there have been many more British soldiers found with their hands up women's skirts in Germany than have been providing first aid, so depending on the area it was probably an easy mistake to make...

If men say they are being reasonable by letting someone die because of their fear of accusation, then men can never again claim women are being unreasonable wanting sex segregated spaces.

This.

And no, a "good man" wouldn't let an injured person die because they were thinking about themselves. If they do, they're not a good man.

'And if he sees a woman in (possibly) cardiac arrest, he can keep his distance and call an ambulance. How hard is that?'

I'd imagine to most non-monsters standing there and watching a person die would be pretty hard. But if they at least stay back and call and ambulance at least they're doing something. They're still a horrific waste of space but hey ho, a lot of men are, so they have plenty of people to complain to about how hard things are for them.

If men say they are being reasonable by letting someone die because of their fear of accusation, then men can never again claim women are being unreasonable wanting sex segregated spaces.

Absolutely!