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Seattle U incident proves the wussification of our young men is complete

BY Dori Monson  on March 7, 2013 @ 12:33 pm (Updated: 2:51 pm - 3/7/13 )


Dori writes...

I was incredulous as I watched the video (above) of a crazy man disrupting a class at Seattle University yesterday.

The man walked in to the basement classroom in the law-school center. He was wearing a trench-coat and eating an ice cream cone. There were about 50 students in the class.

First of all, having watched the video, I'm not convinced that the man was that much of a threat - he's a mentally ill guy who ran into their classroom. But obviously, from all the quotes I've seen, the students feared he was dangerous.

The man was rambling incoherently and attempted to flip over desks and other furniture.

From the Seattle Times:

Several students said his behavior was so unsettling that they thought he was going to pull a gun or become violent. They also said they were disappointed at the slow response from campus public-safety officers.

"It was horrifying," said another student who asked not to be named. "I thought we were going to be that next school in the news about school shootings."

She, too, said she thought the university's public-safety response was too slow.

Wait a second....

If there were 50 students in that class, presumably, about 25 of them were young men. I watched the video of the incident and was shocked to see that none of the men tried to take control of the situation themselves. They pulled out their cell phones so they could record the crazy man...and while many students have expressed the fear they were about to be shot, the men...DID NOTHING.

The teacher hit the panic button...

Some students tried to call 911 - but phone reception was spotty in the basement classroom...

Other students recorded video...

The men... did...nothing.

A couple guys could have taken this scary man down. Three or four easily could have subdued him until police arrived. Instead, in our completely wussified society, these so-called "men" would rather be potential victims than to take control of the situation.

I'm sure these "men" were afraid of a lawsuit. They were afraid of being accused of racism. Our society has taught kids to be wussies. We kick young kids out of school for eating a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun. We suspend first graders for talking about the Nerf Gun they bought over the weekend. The wussification of our kids begins at a very young age.

The extension of all this nonsense is what unfolded at Seattle U yesterday.

The students said they were upset about the slow response and believed the school should have instituted a lockdown and sent out a campus-wide warning.

They say they plan to meet to discuss the incident, and may draft a formal complaint to the school.

Ooooooohhhhhh. A "formal complaint". What a bold action. Are the women in that classroom going to file a formal complaint against all the wussie-boys sitting around them? Of course not.

'Tis nobler to be a target and a victim and a complaint-filer than to take control of a situation yourself.

Dori Monson, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dori Monson is host of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays Noon-3) and the pre-game and post-game host for the Seattle Seahawks Radio Network. There are three words that Dori thinks best describe him - competitive, competitive and competitive.
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  • Brahma wrote...
    Wussified society
    March 7, 2013 12:16 pm
    This is all easy for you to say Dori, especially when you weren't in the class. It's easy to act all big and bad when you're not in the situation. My personal take is that you're a hypocrite and wouldn't have done anything either. I do however agree that our society, namely Seattle, is wussified. What if someone did do something and was shot? Would then be calling him an idiot for getting involved? What if the guy pulled a gun after he was tackled and while the intervening person was wrestling the gun away from him another student gets shot? How would you explain that Dori? What if the guy had a knife and stabbed the intervening student? What if the guy was hurt by a student and the school was sued by the intruder? Laugh, but this is the reality we live in. We live in a world where someone can break the law and then file a lawsuit because they got hurt while being stupid. You can't seem to understand that because nobody was hurt, including the intruder, the correct approach was taken.
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  • ElenaT wrote...
    i'm starting law school there
    March 7, 2013 12:28 pm
    this summer, so i was scared i was going to read about people actually being wussies. i'm sure people were poised and ready to take the man down if imminent danger became a concern. since he wasn't doing anything violent, it wouldn't make sense to escalate the situation by confronting him.
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  • hankd wrote...
    Yes, I have worked with emotionally troubled youth
    March 8, 2013 8:05 am
    and the standard response to the fellow I see in this video is to de-escalate the situation, to keep things calm. Physically intervening, even with a skinny-looking guy like this, could have caused several students to have been injured. Skinny, crazy guys can be very dangerously strong. And, there is nothing inherently better, braver, or more heroic about physically intervening...that is just Dori's view. Dori, you may have behaved in the same, sane, ready to act way as those in the classroom.
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  • rkris1 wrote...
    big talk from behind your mic
    March 7, 2013 12:48 pm
    if you had been there, nothing more would have been done, either.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Rkris 1
    March 7, 2013 2:05 pm
    You just proved you're a wuss....
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  • rkris1 wrote...
    you just proved
    March 7, 2013 3:59 pm
    nothing. well-played, sir. well-played.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    they were probably thinking of what happened to George Zimmerman
    March 7, 2013 12:50 pm
    The nut looked too much like Obama's imaginary son.
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  • otherpointofview wrote...
    crazy people
    March 7, 2013 1:08 pm
    Although i do agree which what you say, i'm not sure if I would have done something prior to him actually threatening my life or others around me. If and only then, would i step in. it's just the way the society operates now. everyone has to look out for their own first. you tackle this guy and he gets hurt, you could be going to jail or sued. on the other hand, students felt so scared and they felt that the response time wasn't fast enough.. this is a gun free zone after all and the only thing these people could do was sit and wait like sheep. if something tragic went down, and he had a knife, i'd want a gun. if he and a gun, i'd want a bigger gun. we should have the right to defend ourselves in any situation.
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  • ohyea53 wrote...
    A quick elbow shimmy to the chops
    March 7, 2013 1:36 pm
    and night night nurse. End of story.
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  • ohyea53 wrote...
    To the "men" in the class room
    March 7, 2013 1:40 pm
    Do you also sit down to pee?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    They are allowed to stand up
    March 7, 2013 1:56 pm
    when the dykkes give them permission.
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  • mynorthwester wrote...
    yea dori
    March 7, 2013 2:11 pm
    Go ahead and puff up your chest a bit more you're a disgrace to this city
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  • HeyBabaloo wrote...
    wussy maybe, prudent certainly
    March 7, 2013 2:17 pm
    My first reaction was similar. But upon reflection, unless someone is getting hurt, why step up and maybe offer yourself up for a chair to the chops. I wonder how many students were interviewed, and thought it was no big deal, and chose to ignore him as the relatively harmless crazy guy he was. The media, whose job is to inflame, not inform, would then select those soundbites that make this story something that it is not. Which is newsworthy.... If the situation were different, and no one prevented violence to a fellow student, then I would have to agree, the "Lets Roll" type of hero was not in the room.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    The Truth is Dori
    March 7, 2013 2:37 pm
    Most people do freeze when presented with a dangerous situation. Studies prove this, from people in this situation, to Soldiers on the battlefield... in the case of our soldiers it takes training to get past the "freezing" complex. It's why we drill and why we target practice and why we scream "KILL!!!" when we practice with Bayonets, it's conditioning, because oddly enough despite all of the media sensation around violence, it does in fact take a lot for a human being to become violent, and as we've learned over time, once someone is violent and acts violently on more and more occasions, they are more likely to jump over that edge without freezing. You can chalk it up to wussification, and that's probably true, but i know from experience, your average person doesn't get into physical confrontations all that often in their lives, and most people's natural reaction is to freeze.
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  • awbitf wrote...
    OW! My brain!
    March 7, 2013 2:52 pm
    "I'm not convinced that the man was that much of a threat"

    "I... shocked to see that none of the men tried to take control of the situation"

    By your own admission, what situation was there to take control of?

    GOSH DARN YOU WUSSIES, even though there really wasn't anything going on.

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