My wife cites stories like this as examples of “toxic masculinity”. A male who was no relation to the child, put himself in harm’s way to save the child. While I’m sure the mother would have been willing to do same, it was the man who acted decisively and got the job done.
My wife admires men who do that sort of thing.
Your first and last sentences are exact opposites. It threw me off at first, then I understood the context given.
Your wife is a wise person who thinks for herself.
Thanks be to God for that man who saved the child.
Author Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) once spoke at the Naval Academy to graduates. He told of a woman crossing a picnic area and getting her foot stuck tightly in a track conjunction. Her husband and a total stranger tried to free her but couldn’t. Then a train was approaching from around a curve. Neither jumped out of the way, trying to save her to the last second as the train killed all three.
Heinlein:
„The husband’s behavior was heroic … but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him.
And that’s all we’ll ever know about him.
This is how a man dies.
This is how a man … lives!“
PHEW! For a second there I thought I was gonna have to rip into you about your wife using the phrase “toxic masculinity “. Thank you for the last sentence 😆
I admire your wife.
This happened in Portland a clone of Seattle or visa versa. Remember there are very few males under the age of 40 in this area that has “toxic masculinity”, that has been taken care of by the administration/groomers in the public elementary schools with their psychotropic drugs and their war declaration against boys.
Listen to the audio link that succeeds this paragraph, let your wife listen too, about this sad issue concerning the feminization of boys and how it’s manifested here behind the blue curtain in the Pacific Northwest.
https://mynorthwest.com/3724879/seattle-rider-gives-up-mass-transit-homeless-man-feel-less-safe/
and so do I. My husband would have done that in a flash.
My wife admires men who do that sort of thing.
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