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Fighting and Masculinity

A good post with a lot of insight, but long-winded.  I'd put it this way: Blah-blah-blah if you look like a target, people are going to shoot at you. I was once walking down a street with a woman.  There were two guys standing in a door way, heckling people who walked by on the sidewalk.  They had comments to the people in front of us.  We walked by, and they weren't interested in saying anything. I have many stories like this. Indeed, living a sometimes-rough part of city, I've come to the sad realization that people who want to be victimized ("Come at me, bro") are the ones least likely to get victimized.  I would love for a group of thugs to come at me, because if it's 2-on-1, I can beat them down as badly as I'd like without fear of going to jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).