[Drake]

I just watched a one sided catfight video wherein the victim was having a "freeze response" (doing nothing to defend herself) when she was attacked, sexually assaulted and brutally beaten by another girl. The video is a little cheesy, and obviously staged, but I still found it to be pretty hot to watch (link below).

The "fight or flight response" is now called the "fight, flight or freeze response". Stress experts around the world are adding the word freeze to the name in deference to the fact that instead of fighting or fleeing, sometimes we tend to freeze (like a deer in the headlights) in traumatic situations.

For human beings, the freeze response can occur when we're terrified and feel like there is no chance for our survival or no chance for escape. It happens in car accidents, to rape victims and to people who are robbed at gunpoint. Sometimes they pass out, freeze or mentally remove themselves from their bodies, and don't feel the pain of the attack, and sometimes have no (explicit) memory of it afterwards.

Freeze Response Article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201405/neuroscientists-discover-the-roots-fear-evoked-freezing

More than half of rape victims experience the "freeze response" and make no effort to escape or fight off their attackers.

Freeze Response in Rape Victims Article:

http://www.fosters.com/article/20160327/news/160329538

My High School girl friend, who had been battered by her mother to the point that the state took custody of her, had a freeze response when her mother tried to kidnap her. She grabbed her and tossed her into the car like a rag doll. Fortunately I was there to stop her, and my GF was just sort of in a state of shock, as if she was in a trance, limp and with a blank stare on her face. As I learned more about the beatings her mother used to subject her to, it seems she also had a "freeze response" any time her mother abused her.

Another example, is one of my friend's wife. She was at a store counter when an armed robbery took place. She made no effort to escape (like maybe run out the back door or something) and reported being "paralyzed with fear" and unable to move. She just stood there silently, hoping for a positive outcome.

Soooo..... QUESTION...

Are there any people here who have witnessed or experienced the freeze response in a real life catfight?

I'm curious why we don't see this in more catfight videos.

FREEZE Response Catfight Video:

https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5b5e0a91421fe

[JennyDoll]

i might have had this experience too by being too intmidated to defend myself

[DottiD]

Interesting but honestly coming from having faced another woman in real time I have seen and felt “fight or flight” however according to psychologists this actually only lasts under a minute, the ignition of these 2 events are the sister to fear and anger, which as we know either will pump your Adrenalin and guide your choice, the twist comes when your anger tells you you yourself are so mad you may go to far so you back off and your fear is so in doubt what may happen to you , you go temporarily insane and could tear a person apart, the key to it all is the Adrenalin not the emotion itself , anger can make a person rage, scared , cry, or feel nothing ehich really is the worse of all cause your feeling shuts off and your mind will put on blinders and you become a machine in essence, while fear you avoid it and mentally deal with the fall out of self destruction or the fear turns on the defense mode instead of attack mode, which in hind sight is the moments of pondering your course of action that second to 10 seconds is the actual freeze or frozen state, obviously individuals who suffer from the frontal lobes not developed or under devolved or damaged have no feeling of choice they just snap and don’t stop till safe

[JennyDoll]

Interesting but honestly coming from having faced another woman in real time I have seen and felt “fight or flight” however according to psychologists this actually only lasts under a minute, the ignition of these 2 events are the sister to fear and anger, which as we know either will pump your Adrenalin and guide your choice, the twist comes when your anger tells you you yourself are so mad you may go to far so you back off and your fear is so in doubt what may happen to you , you go temporarily insane and could tear a person apart, the key to it all is the Adrenalin not the emotion itself , anger can make a person rage, scared , cry, or feel nothing ehich really is the worse of all cause your feeling shuts off and your mind will put on blinders and you become a machine in essence, while fear you avoid it and mentally deal with the fall out of self destruction or the fear turns on the defense mode instead of attack mode, which in hind sight is the moments of pondering your course of action that second to 10 seconds is the actual freeze or frozen state, obviously individuals who suffer from the frontal lobes not developed or under devolved or damaged have no feeling of choice they just snap and don’t stop till safe

uhmmm...... what?

[tommyfighter]

In high school, I saw a fight between two girls, both were hotties. You could see the fear in the smaller's girl eyes after taking the first slap to her face. It did not go well from there. She was taken to the floor where her face got punched a few times until she was crying and begging the other girl to quit. The other girl then stood and kicked her in the belly two times, then walked away while the smaller girl curled into a ball. The smaller girl never got a single punch in during the fight.

And from a male perspective, it happened to me once. Just moments into a fight I realized I was way over-matched; it did not go well from after that.