What the actual fuck are you talking about

I feel you, man. I think of that too, especially about the 9/11 hijackers and their box cutters. Why the fuck wouldn't everyone on that plane bum rush them and save the day Worthing a minute? We are no longer thinking in survival mode because we have become domesticated and docile. We see cops and fire fighters as our only heroes so we don't act and wait for those specific people to do it for us. Not always the case but we could do much better at helping each other, for sure.

Where are the heroes? I agree. OP is right. Have we been that disempowered by feminism and shame that we are no longer able to be proud of being capable to lead and inspire.

Where are the powerful men in our world who I'm supposed to look up to? Been here 30 years and not found one yet.

I tire of false heroes. Assange, Obama, Bradley Manning.

I worry that to be a hero you must have no fear of death. Every man who actually stands out is assassinated. Strange that women leaders are never assisinated though. Weird world.

Lennon. Malcolm X. Martin Luther. JFK. Jesus. All before my time. If there are real men out there. Where the fuck are you?

I'm gonna try and be a hero. No one else seems to be.

(Dwayne Johnson could be sooo much more than an actor. Men like him need to move into humanitarian efforts. Real role models.Good humans. Attenbrough too. )

disempowered by feminism

It's only 25 past 2 and that's the funniest thing I'll read all day. Thanks!

Did you mean hero's as in gender neutral? Otherwise you should have said heroines as well

The language you use is important. Just because you were lazy in framing you hypothesis. Thank you for responding to one sentence.

I read it all, very amusing.

It's less funny when you realize that's a real person with this view of the world.

This made me spit out my coffee. Thank you, covfefe.

This made me spit out my coffee covfefe. Thank you, coffee.

FTFY! 😁

I wish I had enough money to give you gold, dude.

A shared laugh is worth more than gold in reddits pocket! Cheers!

What the everloving hell are you talking about.

In a vacuum it's easy to say "well, six of us can charge him at once and probably take him down", but the reality is that 4-5 of those people are going to die at minimum if they charge someone with a high powered weapon, and people are by their nature reluctant to risk their own life. It's why active shooter training usually revolves around securing your space and hiding. The killings in these events almost always are concentrated around hallways and the cafeteria, spaces that are wide open, can't be secured, and where people tend to cluster.

Meanwhile, at least two teachers/coaches are being credited for shielding students before they were killed.

I've taken active shooter training. I survey every classroom I teach in to find the best way to secure the doors in case of an active shooter event. A friend of mine was on faculty in the English department (where the most casualties happened) at VT during that shooting. She hid under her desk with a locked office door. The shooter tried to get into multiple classrooms/offices, but failed, thankfully, likely keeping the body count down. Once the shooting happened people in other rooms had time to react (oh, and the teacher in the first room was credited for trying to stop the shooter too).

Again, it's damn hard to ask people to charge unarmed at a gunman when they have a better chance to survive by hiding.

And it's not like we haven't seen people intervene. There's a damn major motion picture coming out about the Americans who stopped at attack on a french train. The Texas church shooter was stopped by a neighbor.

I oppose arming teachers (mostly because I've taught future teachers, and most of them can't be trusted with weaponry), but I'm all for using the money saved by decriminalizing weed to put multiple armed security offers at every school (but Republicans, who oppose gun control, also oppose school funding).

Good thing you read everything they said, or even read enough to formulate a decent response.

I chose not to answer your question. Active Shooter training is Run, Hide, Fight.

It’s a panic. If he was able to blend in to get out, you can’t believe anyone’s visual statements. I don’t believe the media and I also don’t believe most eye witness accounts.

Heroes are a myth, or rather, the idea that some people can be heroes and others can't be is the myth. If everyone sits around waiting for the hero to show up, the hero will never arrive.

Well I thought school shootings in the states were so common that they train students amd teachers in evacuation/self defence procedures. For real though, its totally stupid to hide from the shooter in a fucking cupboard. This isnt a bank robbery, the shooter is there to kill so you either fight back or die.

It all started with Zero-Tolerance policies. You get bullied, you fight back, you get suspended. At this point we have been conditioned that if you stand up, speak out or fight back then you are in the wrong. Courage has been subdued.