I have been noticing a lot of misleading, twisted and false information about our history, especially our scriptures and mythological stories. People can go to any extent to make the common man believe it’s true.
This nonsense of “Ravan was nice to Mata Sita” has become so normalized that people don’t even care about the actual fact.
Ravan did not refrain from touching Mata Sita out of “kindness.”
He was under a curse (given by Nalakuvara, son of Kubera) that if he ever touched a woman without her consent, his heads would explode into pieces.
Apart from this, he was also afraid of Mata Sita’s pativrata dharm, which had immense spiritual power.
So, it was fear of curse and Dharma, not any “niceness,” that restrained Ravan.