What would you do??? | Arthritis Information

I don't know how many of you have been watching on ABC the show What would you do??  It is where they have actors play out a situation, in public, like kids attacking a homeless person, doing damage to a car, a shopkeeper insulting a young muslim girl,etc.. They have been interesting to watch to see how we the people react to things that are not right.  Tonight was a real upseting one.  They had an overwieght actress sitting on a bench and she was being accosted by 3 teenage girls who are calling her a pig, fatty, whale,so many ugly names, hardly anyone came to her defence, they watched and but kept on walking.  One woman who did intervene was from England and she literally broke down and cried when trying to explain how it pained her to see these kids attack this innocent woman because she was different then them.  Another woman stepped in too, and tried to get the girls to go away.  Even the girls, who were accosting the overweight woman in the experiment broke down and cried when the  English Woman was trying to explain how the words were just so hurtful to hear and the girls said as they were saying the hateful words they were shocked that they could even do it and how much easier it came to saying them when they kept on going with the name calling during the experiment.  Then the news team changed the 3 girls to 3 boys and they started the name calling, several people did step in, one was even going to beat up the boys for their viciousness, until the news team stop him.    They say that this experiment had the smallest number of people who intervened on the behalf of the victim, the overweight woman.  Just before they packed up to go a older woman came up to the actress and told her not to listen to those mean kids and told her she was beautiful, the actress broke down and cried beacause of those  words of kindness from this complete stranger.  Have we become so insensitive, to how we treat others??   That if they don't fit the perfect mold then they are nothing but garbage to the general public.  I am sorry that this is so lng but this experiment really got to me and made me wonder why we allow things like this to happen.  Why are not more people speaking up when our fellow man is being treated like garbage and not with respect? Has the race of man become so shallow??  What do  you think???? meme2008-03-25 20:39:36I saw that too, Meme, and it actually made me tear up.  It was a very disturbing comment on our society.Karen it was a good thing my hubby wasn't home I was crying like a fool over it!!! Why have I never heard of this show? What rock have I been under? When does it come on??? Katie it has been on Tuesday night on ABC at 10pm It is called Primetime What would you do??  Some of the experiements are so so but they have had a few that are quite the eye opener.  One where there was alot of reaction was where they shopkeeper refsed to serve the muslim girl, both actors.   There was alot of outrage as to how the woman was treated, but then there were also alot of people who just ignored the situation .  The shows have been interesting. meme2008-03-25 21:12:03Oh. Well that explains it! I'm usually watching all the recorded stuff on the DVR before it gets deleted, or I'm heading to bed.

Why is it on so late!..........oh wait, I have a DVR! YAY! Hi Meme, I haven't seen the show but yes I would tear up too, I also get teary if I see people on here being treated cruelly, it is no unnecessary in this world, I am sure it feels much nicer to pay compliments than to insult someone.  This board is pretty good though, if someone is receiving  a hard time, usually there are enough people on heer sticking up for the person being mistreated.  Regards Janie. ^ Girls are just horrible bullies sometimes, aren't they. I am appalled at what I hear girls snigger to each other when they think no one is listening, and even when they know someone is listening. This program reminds me of that Michael Moore show where he put a man lying on the ground on a busy street in 3 different countries. In England and Canada, someone came to their help with minutes, but in Times Square, people just walked by them. It is easier not to get involved, but at the same time it is inhuman not to. I've seen people walk by an elderly gentleman having an epileptic fit on the street in my home town, so America Jr, aka Australia is perhaps just as bad._popupControl(); You always hear that children are cruel, but it's been my observation that we don't get much better when we become adults.  I didn't see the show but I can just picture it.  How sad.  It says so much about our society in general and none of it's good.  I blame the media for most of the mess we've become.  I saw this show as well.  I guess what made me think, was why was it more women would come to help the woman than men?  Even when they had the guys teasing/calling names, still there seemed to be more women coming to help this woman.  Even though these women that came to help could have put themselves in danger, they still tried to help this woman.  What's going on with the men that not many stopped to help?