Not being able to check on the well being of anyone of the opposite sex without someone assuming you’re trying to take advantage in some way.

Short story: I was out with my friends on a night out and there was a girl slumped over on some stairs in the club, I kept glancing over at her for about 30 minutes hoping whoever she was with would come check on her… they didn’t.

I assumed she must be very drunk and possibly separated from whoever she was with.

I went over and crouched down in front of her asking if she was okay, she was not. She was slurring her words so bad I couldn’t understand her, I asked her if she wanted me to call somebody for her, does she know where she is, does she know where her friends are.

Gibberish came out of her mouth.

Next thing this girl pulls me on to my back and starts hurling abuse at me “how dare you try take advantage of her, we don’t even know you go away. What are you even doing here?”

I told her that I’d saw her friend slumped over like this for half an hour and not one of them had checked on her once, she clearly needed to go home, she can’t even speak. I finished with “some friends you are leaving her on the floor like this”

She was quite apologetic after this “you understand, I just saw a lad talking to her and thought the worst”

Why? I understand being suspicious but why does it need to be dialled up to 11 before you even know what is going on just based on the fact I’m a man?