When it comes to personal safety? Hell yeah. When you’re facing an opponent who is several inches taller, half again as heavy, and twice as strong, there’s no such thing as fighting dirty.
Alternate Verbose Response: Look son, you can’t win here. If I kick your ass, you look like a pussy in front of your friends. If you kick my ass, a lot men are going to come running to kick you ass for doing it. Then you’ll go to jail, where you can tell them that the reason you’re there is for beating up a woman. I’m sure that will go over well and there’s no chance at all some guy will kick your ass again for it, if he doesn’t decide to do something else with your ass. If you know what I mean.
I used a variant with a large young man when I worked in Security.
I kick your ass, you got beat up by an old man in front of your friends. You kick my ass, congratulations, you beat up an old man and you’re going to jail. Sounds like a good plan.
Yeah, but what about the butt-rape? Didn’t you mention how he would get his ass reamed by all the noble badasses in jail who would take umbrage with his beating an old man?
You left out the most compelling part of your little fantasy.
Punk, honey, if you’d rather just try to beat up anyone that threatens you, go for it. Some of us have found that a well placed story works much better.