If you’re getting attacked in the shower a lot, maybe start taking baths? Or stay out of motels?
This part seems plausible to me, as some (though not all) shower curtain rods are pretty solidly installed.
Frankly, that’s the precise description of the (in)famous shower murder scene in “Psycho”, and that has become such a cliché that maybe we think that is has become a frequent meme in thrillers, but I don’t remember ever having seen a similar scene in another movie. I’m sure there are such scenes (I haven’t seen all movies ever made), but in these cases the directors would have just ripped off Hitchcock.
And some shower curtain rings are really cheap - my parents had cheap plastic ones that absolutely would have come apart while leaving the rod in place.
Wasn’t the shower curtain pulled down in Seven Pounds at the end? (The Will Smith movie.) I want to avoid spoilers!
Yes, many shower curtain rods are just held to the walls by pressure, but others are actually screwed into the wall and are fairly solid. It really depends on the particular shower as to whether the dying victim would be able to pull the rod down or not.
It happened to Billy Butcher on The Boys a couple of weeks ago when his illness led to a woozy spell while he showered. Remember, I said the subject was in distress, but didn’t specify that it was from an attack.
My own experience has been that ALL of them are held in place by pressure. I guess I still have some upward mobility to strive for.
Preach it! Most of mine would come off if I closed the curtain too fast!
In my experience, many, if not most, shower curtain rods in hotel rooms are physically screwed to the wall.
I’d say yes. A couple of channels I watch on YouTube do statue pranks - the person is done up as a statue in a public area and moves when someone interacts with them. Enough of them scream at even a mild movement that I would expect a strong reaction from stumbling upon a body, unless they’d been in an episode of Law & Order.
I’m waiting for someone dressed in Vantablack to stand unseen against a Vantablack background, and then emerge into view. 
The scout car sees the stop sign, and radios back. That’s what the scout car is for. And the lead bikes in the ‘police convoy’ peel off and block intersections and construction works, they aren’t going to let some crane or truck or crowd move out on the road legitimately requiring a stop sign.
Big cash deliveries have scout cars too. The armored truck doesn’t even turn up until the scouts have secured the destination. (Didn’t always use to be that way.)
Kids scream hysterically when having tantrums, so perhaps there was a time when it was socially expected for women as well? The word would suggest that. I can’t think of any other explanation.
In real life, people let out a yelp, and if really frighted, continue with the whimpering ‘prey animal’ thing like other mammals. The one thing you can say about people hysterically screaming in real life: they aren’t actually frightened.
I dunno about that. Once I was out smoking in my carport and a car stopped in the middle of the street, then made a right hand turn and streaked across my neighbor’s front yard, coming to a stop a few feet from their house, stuck in the mud. At that point the lady driving the vehicle began shrieking hysterically, and the passenger jumped out and ran off down the hill.
Apparently what happened was that she was giving a ride to someone she knew, and they had a psychotic episode or something and started beating on her while she was driving down the road. She completely panicked and ended up driving across my neighbor’s yard and started screaming when she got stuck. She seemed genuinely terrified.
But she was throwing a tantrum to make him go away. I take the evidence that women still do scream, but I’d still argue that the movie representation is false.
The last time I encountered a skunk, the noise I made was not particularly loud, but the pitch was a lot higher than a heterosexual male cares to admit.
I was not in fear for my life, but I was definitely afraid for other things.
The few times I rode “shotgun” on armored cars (there was a strike by the car drivers, etc) a bank employee and a guard were ahead in just a regular car. Mind you some of the time we just delivered the cash in rental trucks (due to the strike), one time we were hauling $5000 worth of quarters (arcade games etc were big back then). Funny- three armed guards and a bank employee for 20000 quarters. That was the only time they told us what we were guarding, as the mentioned they werent expecting any issues with that shipment.
And drop what they are carrying? Not to my knowledge, but it was only twice.
People loudly yelling NO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. NO I’M DREAMING ALL OF THIS in the middle of a highly stressful situation.
Last lines spoken in the horror film “Phantasm II”:
Hero: “We’re gonna wake up, it’s a dream.
It’s only a dream.”
Monster: “No, it’s not.”
Pet peeve of mine- people who call them “tension rods”. They are in COMPRESSION dammit.
I have had some shower curtain rods that the flange is screwed to the wall. You could probably pull the curtains down without pulling the rod with it.
I’m not an expert on the topic but… I pretty strongly suspect that different people react in different ways. It would take a fair bit of convincing evidence and testimony to convince me that no one EVER screams-in-a-stereotypically-hysterical-fashion.