Thursday, February 15, 2007
You Can Probably Beat Me Up
That's a variation of what every man I meet eventually says to me, since I've been practicing martial arts for so long. (I suppose this could have been a Valentine's Day post.) Sometimes it's in the form of a question, "Could you beat me up?" To which I either reply, "only if I have to," or "only if you want me to," depending on the questioner. Women never ask, from which I deduce that men never really leave the schoolyard, forever mentally classifying the other kids into "I can beat him up/he can beat me up" categories.
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Ouch, just by mentioning the above you kicked all of our collective male behinds! 8^)
But do guys really classify each other that way, or is it my martial arts practice that brings up the question?
It is a guy thing but it operates at a more-or-less subconscious level, buried deep in all of that evolutionary psychology and dominance behavior.
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