I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.
I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick
The hero the world needs
I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:
He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket.
“If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.”
And his message to the attacker:
“He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.”
“I won’t forget his face BECAUSE IT IS IMPRINTED IN THE SOLE OF MY SHOE.”
One of my favourite Lister moments is in “Entangled” where Rimmer is doing everything in his power to keep the naked woman in front of them naked for as long as possible and Lister just takes off his coat and hands it to her.
(It’s still a bizarrely sexist episode, really, but I like that bit.)
I haven’t seen the episode in question (I haven’t watched any of the recent serieses) but this rings true to both their characterisation as I remember it. For all his failings and his sex-obsessed nature, he really likes women. Once you get past his defences he’s actually a bit of a hopeless romantic.
The thing is Lister would absolutely love to see that woman naked – and won’t hesitate to tell her so – but it’s only fun if she’s naked because she wants to be, not cause she has to be.
