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

When I was 9, this bully in my class started picking on a girl with cerebral palsy. She spent about half of her time at school in a wheelchair. He pushed her and called her names.
Now I wasn’t the biggest kid. I was basically a lanky nerd at the time. He was one of the biggest kids in my year, but i still beat him up thoroughly.
I got sent to the principals office and the called my dad to come get me. The principal was real angry and chewed me out good. My dad just sat there silently.
When we were walking to the car my dad leaned over and told me he was very proud of me and asked if i wanted to go get some ice cream.

I flipped out on two bullies. one I hit with a brick, the other a bat. it was bad. court bad.

My grandmother had both dementia and Alzheimer's. She wanted to go to Subway, so we went. Most people quickly catch on that something is not quite right with my grandmother. This sandwich b*tch tried to treat my grandmother like cr*p and I let her have it. We were the only 2 patrons in the restaurant at the time and she had absolutely no patience. Then she had started to talk/treat my grandmother like she was a 3 year old. Not cool. On the other hand, there was this pizza joint my grandmother liked and the waitress, no matter how busy was so awesome. She had the patience of a saint and I always tipped her about 45 to 50%. After my grandmother died I stopped in for a slice to go and she asked about her. When I told her she had passed she actually got tears in her eyes. Such a great person!

At one of the first garage sales I attended in a new town, I saw a native woman spit after a discussion about the change she received. I suggested that it was still very early, and perhaps the till could be counted, which got her $5 back.

One night walking home from a bar, saw a young lady arguing with a man who had just snatched her phone. He was calling her a s**t and threatening to send sexual images to her family on her phone just because she decided not to sleep with him. So, I approached them and tried to talk him out of being a shitheel, he promptly kicked my ass out into the street while she took her phone back and jumped into a car full of friends that she had already called to come get her.
Turns out she never needed my help in the first place and I got beat up for nothing. But srsly; f**k that guy.

A kid (we’ll call him John) asked to play with this other kid (let’s call him Harry) and his friends, who were all playing a board game. Harry laughs and says no, go away, so John walks away sort of sadly, and jumps up to touch one of the artworks hanging from the ceiling. He misses, and Harry turns to his friends and calls out “He can’t even touch the artwork” and starts laughing. John’s a friend of mine so I stand up angrily and say “Hey, leave him alone”. But Harry simply laughs and mocks me instead, saying in a stupid voice “leave him alone” and “what are you gonna do about it”. I didn’t get Harry to be nice, but then I went up to John and we hung out together. I don’t know. I didn’t feel very great afterwards.

When I saw a bi girl getting harassed by two boys, I went up and punched them both in the face 😃

I'm a very even tempered person. But sometimes I can be pushed too far. My husband had been in a serious accident and they were putting him on a gurney to transport him to the hospital. It was a distressing thing to see. I rushed to the hospital not knowing how bad his condition was. I pulled up to the ER entrance and was trying to get the attention of the valets to park my car. They were just standing there talking to each other, and ignoring me. One girl was extremely rude to me, brushing me off. Keep in mind that I didn't know if my husband was dead or alive. I just chewed her out good and she was speechless. Apparently, she had never had anyone stand up to her about her attitude. Fortunately, my husband was not badly injured. He did have to go to physical therapy for about a year.

A while back I was a waitress at a seedy bar. One night this guy comes in thinking he was the hottest sh*t around surrounded by a gaggle of girls. That loser puked all over the god dam floor because he couldn't hold his liquor. When i called the back staff to come out and do a cleaning that POS had the audacity to grab the mop out of our handi-capped cleaners hands and started making sounds mimicking him right in his face. I walked over and grabbed the mop from his hands and yelled at him to go pay his bill and get the hell out. He ran off but one of the girls had his credit card and gave me an amazing tip

Back when I first started working retail, I worked for a large retailer (give me a W ... 😉). One of the Assistant Managers was a newly divorced douchebag who garnered a reputation for harassing young female employees, to the point where they were scared to work alone in their departments. I went to my Assistant Manager, and made a complaint. He supported my complaint but could do nothing because his wife had been hit on by that same douchebag at a social gathering. He directed me to go to a female assitant manager. So I did. The next day I was called to the manager's office, where a collection of Assistant Managers ( including the female one I had complained to) and the store Manager yelled at me for half an hour about minding my own business. After that, I put in a request for a transfer to the overnight crew. Lo and behold the douchebag ended up on that shift. I decided, after 4 years, it was time to move on and found a job as a management trainee with a smaller retailer. I heard through the grapevine that he started dating one of the employees on his shift, got caught and was only transferred, not fired.
After I became a manager, I made sure my employees felt heard, felt safe and were never treated as badly as I had been.

Was at a known LGBQT club with my best friend and her GF. Got a bit late and out on the street there was this group of three young men harassing a dude for coming out of said club. Right after the first punch my friend and me immediately went in.

Have to say that we aren't very intimitating by looks (I'm not a muscular man and she has average height) , and of course they tried to attack us as well - We walked away with bruises, they needed an ambulance.

My friend is going toxic relationship with also my another friend and i speak up my opinion why she letting him do that to her. But i never tell to break him up i just tell her my opinion now they both unfriend me and we never talk again

when people call me she / her my best friends always correct them :)

In my high school sophomore biology class, there was a new girl that was exceptionally shy that sat a couple of rows behind me. There were 3 football players that were total assholes and I knew they picked on her, but I could never catch them at it. One day our teacher left the room for a long time to run some copies and one of the three guys went over to that girl and started pulling up his shirt and rubbing his nipples in front of her while the others threw their pocket change at her. She just kept her head down but I could see she was crying, so I went back and sat on her desk in front of her. The guy rubbing his nipples laughed and started to do some kind of stupid walk up to me, and I backhanded him, HARD. I lived on a farm and baled a lot of hay, so I wasn't f##king around. He held his face while tears ran down his pathetic cheeks. One of the money throwers asked, "Are you gonna let her get away with that?" He didn't say a word and went back to his seat. I then announced to them, "She's MINE. F##k with her and you f##k with me." and went back to my seat. No one said anything when the teacher finally came back. I kept an eye out for her the rest of the year. After that, she changed schools again. She never said anything to me, but that's okay.

When I was little neighborhood bully started hit my bro. I defended bro.

Two students in my class, one was gay and proud of it. This other student started ragging on him about being gay and to stay away from him. Me: "Because he is gay it doesn't mean that he wants you its not about what you are its about personality and it looks like your personality sucks!" He shut up after that.

At one point, I had a non-binary friend, let's call them L. So they talked to me, and said someone in our group chat called them a bitch. So I opened a private chat and I, well, I went batshit crazy. I yelled at him, berated him, honestly said some awful things. I don't regret anything though.

Recently at a super hipster rural craft brewery where entitled brewer had put hammocks out that had always worried me. They were just timber buried in the ground, diagonally outwards from the hung hammocks, not particularly thick. No cement, not treated wood.

After about a year of worrying every time my kid went on them, I was at an event organised by a close friend. The wood (rotten from damp soil and termites) snapped, and somebody else’s kid ended up in ER getting a head wound stitched up. Both hammocks collapsed that day with children on them.

Mister Hipster Barista leaned out of his car at me and asked angrily who he should speak to about all his stuff that had gotten broken that day.

I lost it. “There’s a kid in the hospital because of your shoddy workmanship.”

“They were hardwood!”

“Buried not far enough in damp soil.”

“But they were swinging way harder than they should have been!”

“If it broke with a kid swinging on it, it would have broken with a drunk adult even sitting in it. I think you might find yourself getting sued for providing equipment that’s not fit for purpose.”

“Let them try.”

Just got to explain - small town - having enemies is inconvenient, especially when you run a small business yourself and they are a customer.

But nope. You don’t endanger kids then blame the kids for being kids. I think he did get “told” by authorities - lucky for him the kid’s family put it down to normal misadventure not negligence.

Irdk. I have rlly bad memory. But I think that it’s when somebody knocked down my lunch+recess buddy’ s lunch and yogurt

Some guys at work put a pizza box with a few slices left in the trash to bait another coworker into eating “garbage.” This guy is a little strange, but the one of the nicest people I work with. When they came over to get me in on the show, I walked over and pulled out the box and ate the slices myself while staring at them. I told them to never try to be so demeaning to another person in front of me again. The were visibly shook, and a few guys came over and apologized to me later in the day. I don’t even stand up for myself that often, but to do that to someone that is so nice... not on my watch.