Women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men: Study

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Women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men: Study
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I live in a very strict and conservative country and once a young girl passed out in front of everyone. Her sister was panicking screaming at her to try to breath. I'm usually a savior vigilante type of guy whenever and wherever the situation but sadly at that time I was wearing shorts. So my immediate reaction was to nope out and pretend I didn't see anything. They had to bring another woman who was working close by to do CPR and resuscitate her. The girl then survived obviously. I later had feelings of guilt that I did not step in to help, but in the same time I could've been jailed for touching her and worse get beaten by everyone there. what an awful dilemma ...

Just take the shorts off before helping

Was it illegal there to touch a woman while wearing shorts?

I believe it's more the fear of looking informal or unprofessional. Without more formal clothes, he was afraid of looking like a random chancer copping a feel instead of someone trying to save a life. Pretty silly in retrospect but definitely a possible fear in the moment.

I don't know why but my brain went the direction of "it's harder to hide a random boner in shorts" but don't ask me why my brain is fucked that way.

It's not you. Saying 'wearing shorts' is why you didn't give CPR is fucking stupid.

He said he could have been jailed or beaten for touching her. The shorts probably just made the situation worse.

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