Crying and whimpering _is_ a variety of struggling and trying to escape - it's an attempt to use the social role that women have been assigned to make the captor feel sorry for the victim and at least make their conditions better, if not give up and release them entirely.
For obvious reasons that's much less likely to work for men, because society has taught people that men crying and whimpering is weakness, whereas women crying and whimpering is a reasonable expression of their vulnerability and suffering.
I suspect, like everything else on TV, it's massively exaggerated from real behaviour - but there is a sensible reason for women to cry and whimper more as victims - it's more likely to be a useful strategy to improve their situation than it would be for men, in the current social climate.
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Date: 2015-01-12 11:18 am (UTC)From:For obvious reasons that's much less likely to work for men, because society has taught people that men crying and whimpering is weakness, whereas women crying and whimpering is a reasonable expression of their vulnerability and suffering.
I suspect, like everything else on TV, it's massively exaggerated from real behaviour - but there is a sensible reason for women to cry and whimper more as victims - it's more likely to be a useful strategy to improve their situation than it would be for men, in the current social climate.