In response to an interesting email I got after I posted here earlier....

[tillikum]

I'd like to offer an observation.

A male display of aggression is NOT actual aggression. Likewise, how a female dresses (another display) neither is or isn't indicative of her actual promiscuity.

There is a wide difference. I remember a story like 3 months ago about a female Marine I think starting a fight and hitting a guy first. When he hit back she was paralyzed. Very sad.

The difference is that you need to understand male behavior before try and ape it. Men rarely actually fight. Men who can actually do damage hardly ever do. They give each other a wide birth because the costs are too high. The only men that ACTUALLY fight are usually fighting over a girl because they themselves are pretty low value. As men we intrinsically know this I think, but we allow a small minority of the interested define our behaviors AND our intentions.

Food for thought.

[JayhawkSD]

1. Interesting point

I was 6'3" and 235# in high school, starting linebacker on a division champion team. I got in zero fights, but always assumed it was because no one was ever willing to take me on. Thinking back, though, I never had any inclination to fight.

My father was a big guy too, and in addition to teaching me that hitting a female was something that a "man" would never do under any circumstances, he said that a man's size and strength must never be used to his own advantage, but only in defense of others. He was very serious about that and taught his sons by example.