Hey Pandas, Tell Me A Situation Where You Stood Up To Someone Or For Someone (Closed)

I'm not gonna talk about me but my two youngest. This is the day I became a proud mama. At the time my kids were in about 5th or 6th grade. I was enrolling them at a new school. While we were waiting for paperwork to process another mother came in with her very shy very quiet son and it was obvious he was special needs. He cowered in a corner as some kids going to their next class snickered and pointed. My kids looked up, my daughter jumped up and told the other kids to stop and my son went to the boy and introduced himself and started talking. My daughter joined them and they sandwiched this kid in the middle. Within a couple minutes all the kids were laughing and having a good time. The mom had tears in her eyes and they were all friends the rest of the year.

For my brother many times. But one time I got into a bad altercation with a man..
My brother is mentally challenged, but you don't see anything on the outside. He has the mind of an 8yo kid though he's 40. Once he was playing outside with my daughter and her friends. They had him run after them to catch them. Which he did many times. I sometimes had to call him inside, because I saw he was tired but didn't want to tell the girls he didn't want to run anymore.
Some guy came by and said '' that is not normal, a grown man playing with little girls!!"
I told him that the parents of the kids knew my brother was playing with their kids. Since he did that all the time.
The man said we were all stupid that we allowed this.
I got angry and told the guy to mind his own business. And that i didn't need to explain anything to him. But since he was so eager to put his nose in my business, I told him my brother is mentally 8. But someone who's that ignorant as he was wouldn't understand this anyway.
Then I took my crying brother inside to calm him down.

My dear partner was hospitalized with a collapsed lung three times. Twice at the same hospital with an awful, cold and mean doctor. The 2nd time there I pulled him aside and said though I know it is not easy to be a doctor and were thankful for hospitals- he is a good human in there in an incredible amount of pain - not a sack of potatoes! He was much kinder after that!

Some kids were locking another kid outside the school by not opening the door and standing inside and taunting him. The doors can be opened from the inside but not the outside. I was inside and saw this happen for a few minutes and then I walked over, opened the door and went back to sitting alone on a bench.

When sitting on the deck of a bar, my husband and I noticed a dark-skinned man looking at the entrance but not coming in. We live in a very racist area of NY. I greeted him and asked what was going on. He said he lived nearby but was hesitant to enter. I told him that he was safe with us and so he went in, got a beer, bumped into a couple of people he knew and sat at a table near us. The porch filled up with other patrons.

One loud mouthed drunk started to rant about n*gg*rs. You could have heard a pin drop... every table fell silent. The man hung his head in embarrassment.

Having experienced bullying, and hating racism, I loudly came to his defense. I said "You will apologize to him immediately!" She replied "mind your business". I said "THIS is MY business. Apologize now!" This exchange went back and forth for a while. She said something to imply she was going to kick my ass. I said "If I get up out of this chair, I WILL beat the snot out of you in front of all these people. And no one here will pull me off of you. You WILL apologize NOW."

She uttered a sarcastic apology. I said "THAT is not good enough. He deserves a REAL apology!" Reluctantly, her next apology was more sincere.

Everyone slowly went back to their beers. The man was still painfully embarrassed. He sat for a bit, said goodbye to his friends, stopped at my table to say thank you and left. We never saw him again.

This is just one of the many times I've had to take a strong stand against the ugliness of racism in my community. May we all work together to create better days.

I stood up to our class bully who was the new kid in our class in fifth grade. He challenged me to a fight, and I accepted. I whooped him, and he stopped being an a-hole.

In 9th grade a kid was taunting me and throwing stuff at me. At first I didn't think too much about it but when the kid said something very rude about my life it pushed me over the edge. I turned around and stood in the kids face. He ended up pushing me and I stood my ground and fought back. I ended up slamming him into the ground and beating the s**t out of him. I heard later that he had a broken nose and also some broken teeth. It's a decision I don't regret.

My brother was getting hit on by my mother. I finally told her to pick on someone her own size.

Some girls were frustrated with a guy in P.E. because he did what they told him to (they were making up stupid reasons to be mad at him) and he sat out on the side because he said no one needed him to do anything apparently, and then they got mad at him for not hitting the ball when he was sitting out and i couldn't take it anymore and started yelling at them and cussing them out for being idiots and being so rude to him. I got sent out of the class but it was worth it, the guy came up to me later and said thanks.

Oh, and I stood up for absent people, where others gossiped about them or talked behind their back. I just said that if they really think they are what they think they are, they should tell them directly, or otherwise, it's pointless to complain. Or I just said that I don't like the way they talk about certain people behind their back.

I whipped a bully with a stick. He doesn’t bother me no more but if he does he’s gonna get a licking

My son’s daycare had a rule that you put on those little hospital booties over your feet/shoes before you went into their class room. We always had 2 women who’d go in barefoot to get/drop their kids. The staff asked them once to use the booties and these women basically told them off. After about the 3rd time, I asked them, in the class, why they refused to wear the booties. They said they didn’t have to. I pointed out that there were signs all over saying that was not true. I told them that they are putting all the children at risk with their nasty bare feet. No one knows where their feet have been, if they have pets at home and are transferring pet hair to daycare, etc. Some kids can be allergic. I asked them what they would do if I came in with athletes foot and their son crawled around where I walked. One mom said thats gross, but she’s going to do what she wants. They wore sandals and didn’t see the big deal in no booties. I told her it was the protect the kids from stuff we bring in on our shoes. She said f-off and left. The next day the 2 moms came in together before work. I came in behind them. Soon as they slipped off their shoes and went in barefoot again, I grabbed their shoes, took them to the manager and filed a complaint. They have cameras all over, so they could see what happened. I went back to the class, told the moms where they could find their shoes and that I’d continue this until they would follow the rules and wear the booties. I heard later that because this was an ongoing issue and a complaint was finally made, by non-staff, they removed the kids and told them to use a diff daycare. Too bad these moms didn’t even care about their own kids.

When I was in grade school, I used to take a bus to go hone, and every day these two boys would pull back their eyes around me and my brother, and would say things such as "Ooh teach me karate" or "Don't you have any rice to share with us?" My mom told me just to ignore them but one time I just got so mad I used a front kick on his friend when we got off the bus and said, "First of all, we learn taekwondo. Second of all, 닥쳐!" My mom was so mad, my gosh. But my dad.... well, he laughed, and then my mom slapped his head.

I was driving with my friend and her seventeen-year-old (nerdy, and very shy) daughter. We come to a stoplight. A bunch of guys from her school pulled up next to us - an SUV, so it held a lot of people. One of the boys mooned her - you could see everything. She was humiliated, and started crying.
I rolled down my window, and the passenger did the same thing. I said, "Tell your friend it looks just like a real one, only smaller."
He told the other guys, and they all (except one!) started shrieking with laughter. The driver was laughing so hard he didn't even go when the light turned green.

Once when I was 8-years-old, I wanted to play on the swings because my summer camp was at the playground that day. The only seat was next to a boy, who let's just say didn't really have the best reputation. He told me I couldn't sit next to him because I'm a girl. I didn't want to let him win, so I sat down anyway! To this day, I'm still proud of that ^^

When I was in My Dental Hygiene Program, we only had 14 students for the two years. We all got very close. One of the older women was failing in labs, the actual working IN a mouth part! None of the teachers took her on. I asked them to, as well, but no one stepped up. It seemed they wanted her to fail. I took her on after class for a full quarter and she graduated and passed her boards first time. (The smartest person who everyone favored had to take her boards twice!)

I was driving home from Miami, FL to Denver, CO for Christmas. I stopped at a Burger King in Atlanta, Georgia. There was a girl behind the counter, obviously new, and this huge, racist, country boy kept dropping the 'n' word and bitching about how slow she was. I mean he was just going on and on... Welp! I'd had enough. So I tapped him on the shoulder - him 6'4" and easily 300 lbs, me 5'6" and maybe 120 lbs - it was quite a reach up there. And I just cut loose... Completely went off... He was huge, pissed off, and stupid, but he didn't attack me - which is good cause he could have killed me in a second - instead he, and his three almost as big, and equally as nasty friends left the line and the restaurant. The girl at the cash register said thanks, and so did a few other people. I guess it's hard to stand up to someone being a racist jerk when it's all you're used to, but I hate that. Always have... And I will always stand up, speak up, and get in the way.

My friend roasted someone bullying her and the guy tried to punch her and i pulled her out of the way

I was being harassed and bullied when I was in 7th and 8th grade. This kid called me a stalker and made my life hell. Once, in 8th grade, he took it too far and I lost my already brewing emotional control. I shoved him against the locker, in a position he couldn't escape, and shouted "Stop calling me a stalker! What did I do to you? Go bother somebody else!" Of course, I regretted it instantly and wrote him a 3-page apology letter.

In another story, this guy having a really, really bad day, ran into my car at a stop light. back story - my 3 week old infant was in the car, guy was a little on the tipsy side, and happened to be Latinx. He was drunk enough not to realize what had happened, and there was a lot of traffic (still stopped at the light), so I got out of my car, got his keys from him, got him out of his car =, and called the police. Now, more back story - guy had just lost his job, and had a kid in the hospital and was having an epic bad day and of course, it just got worse. When the police showed up, one of whom was a regular at the restaurant I worked at, they asked what happened and I told them. They started questioning the guy, and one of them, not the one I knew, started trying to provoke him. Finally, it worked! The guy said, "F**k!" and the cop slammed him face first into the trunk of my car. Well, guy had been totally cooperative, completely polite, and told me his story and I had a lot of sympathy. No one was hurt - I mean the car was totalled, but me and my kid, and the guy were not hurt, so no biggie. It's just a car - I can get another car... But this cop went way too far - so I stepped between him and the guy. Cop gets pissed at me - Don't you want this asshole to pay?!? I said, well, he's gonna lose his license, have to do therapy, UA's and pay a shitton in fines - that's enough. No one was hurt. Cop tells me I have to come testify... * months later in court, I testify I tell the story, asking for lenience for the guy as it was his first offence, explain about his really bad day, and then explain about the cop. Judge asked if the cop was in the court room and I pointed right at him. "Yes, your honor. That officer right there slammed this poor guys face into my car. Guy was completely compliant and cop is an asshole if you'll pardon my language. If he can't do his job without being violent, perhaps he shouldn't be a cop." Cop lost his s**t and had to be escorted from the room. Guy got off easy and sent me a check for the damage to my car with a thankyou/apology note.