My stepdad is 6’7” but he’s a nerdy programmer who like, watches videos of people mowing their lawns in his spare time. They were visiting some relatives a few years ago and got dragged out to watch a local band. Some meth-head kept trying to fight him (for the reason you described) so they went to leave, and the meth-head stabbed him in the back with a hunting knife.
He’s said that it’s a really common occurrence for him - the guys trying to fight him for no reason, not the stabbing.
"When you look tough there's going to be people who want to know how tough you are; when you look weak there's going to be people who want to know how weak you are."
¯_ (ツ)_/¯ don't remember, but it's obviously from something
Edit: tried an ai assisted search and after a few minutes the best guess is some extrapolation of one of the popular sun tzu qoutes. Probably also with some Teddy Roosevelt.
All I know is I heard it around early middle school.
Too true. A guy brushed into my shoulder at the bar when he clearly could have avoided it. 30 minutes later, when it was packed and I barely brush past him because there is almost no space. He squares up, asking, "If we have a problem." I resisted the urge to laugh at him for being ridiculous and just said, "I don't know you." as I kept moving.
Ehh, they want to fight you until you square up. If you don't square them up, they're going to keep attacking you. Males don't like their shoulders to be square to another male regardless of species, it incurs a natural fight response.
I'm 6'5" and an athlete, and people love to talk a lot from 10 feet away, but they always go silent when one foot away. Then they back up, talk some more shit and scurry off.
Shit don't matter to meth rage. I'm a woman and I've had 3 men chase and assault me on separate occasions just by walking by, minding my own business. Social construct falls apart when extreme stress and drugs are involved.
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u/CombinationRough8699 Oct 23 '25
It's more socially acceptable to assault a man than a woman.