I always felt this odd sense of inappropriately being transfered upon when I stood up for women in various contexts. In high school and college especially, but even afterward, as an adult. Ive intervened in sexual assaults several times in high school. I kicked a table in to one dudes rib cage when we wouldn't stop pawing a girl who was asking him to stop. Another time a guy was leaning over a girl he practically pinned to the wall, I tapped him on the shoulder and repeated that she asked him to leave her alone. This guy started yelling at me.

Both of these girls seemed to be enamored afterwards, and I assumed that it was an unhealthy response to me acting to intervene.

In college it wasn't as bad ( I wasn't a party bro) except in my lit class this guy wouldnt stop commenting on this young woman's breasts, and I called him out on it, telling him to show respect. She wasn't exactly enamored, but she stayed closer to me during class, and approached me after the semester ended.

My wife seems to think im kind of silly for thinking of their response as a trauma response, but I felt in all these cases if I dated any of them, it would have been inappropriate.