# Stupid Social Justice Warrior Bullshit O' the Day. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 17, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443 "2017-03-17T22:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 60
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1181 "2017-06-09T17:21:05Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > (I’m just curious: If you were walking down a dark road at night, and a woman coming toward you chose to cross the street herself, would it bug you?) Nope. But this is all hypothetical to me–aside from my college years, I’ve always lived in a rather rural area, no sidewalks, no street lighting, narrowish roads. When you walk, you walk on the road itself, when a car comes by you step out onto the grass of someone else’s property (if you are lucky) or into weeds (if you aren’t.) So not only would you be crazy if you were walking down those roads at night, you’d be utterly shocked to run across another human of either sex doing the same thing. As far as I can recall, I have never once in my life been alone on a sidewalk (in the rare instance I’m in a place with sidewalks) at night with someone else approaching. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1182 "2017-06-09T17:31:42Z")
Actually, **manson** , the difference as you’ve described it makes a lot of sense to me. I think most people are unnerved by someone walking directly behind them. I could see it bugging me even if that person was my husband. [QUOTE=Darren Garrisson] But this is all hypothetical to me–aside from my college years, I’ve always lived in a rather rural area, no sidewalks, no street lighting, narrowish roads. When you walk, you walk on the road itself, when a car comes by you step out onto the grass of someone else’s property (if you are lucky) or into weeds (if you aren’t.) So not only would you be crazy if you were walking down those roads at night, you’d be utterly shocked to run across another human of either sex doing the same thing. As far as I can recall, I have never once in my life been alone on a sidewalk (in the rare instance I’m in a place with sidewalks) at night with someone else approaching. [/QUOTE] Ah, I grew up in just the same sort of place. Which honestly, as a kid who was harassed by strange men a lot (especially between the ages of say, 11 and 13) those were the freakiest places to run into a stranger. But it wasn’t usually someone on the street, it was someone following in a car or something. We also lived maybe a mile down the road from a lake, with a bar, so there were a lot of random guys too drunk to realize we were tweens. I think if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of this sort of unwelcome attention, you learn pretty early on how to spot it. It’s not like ‘‘It could be anyone!’’ It’s like… you just know. Their body language, how they look at you, it’s all very predictable. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1183 "2017-06-09T17:35:16Z")
> [@Squallous](#): > > Sorry to interrupt this fascinating discussion of how every single individual member of roughly half the world’s population MUST be presumed dangerous to the other half, but since this is an omnibus thread… > > I have a chocolate lab mix. He tries to be a Good Boy and usually succeeds but he’s also dumb as a rock and occasionally doesn’t. I sometimes refer to him as “dingo” to jokingly acknowledge that while sometimes he’s a gracious, well-trained house pet, at other times he behaves like a wild animal. > > We were in the vet last weekend, checking out / paying, chatting with the employee at the desk, I called him dingo, another client nearby immediately said “That’s racist.” “Huh?” I replied. Not entirely verbatim, but her response was “’Dingo’ is short for ‘mandingo’ which is a derogatory word used to describe people of color specifically of African descent and the same as ‘nigger’ and since he’s brown you’re calling him a nigger.” She explicitly equated ‘dingo’ = ‘mandingo’ = ‘nigger’. > > Yes, I went right the fuck off on the fuck stupid social justice warrior. White, female, 20-something, small white dog (Westie?), smug and condescending. It eventually came to light that she didn’t know what a dingo is or why I would use that word to refer to my dog. But she was smugly assured that the only people who would use that word to describe a brown dog are racists. > > She was the perfect example of the SJW crowd who: (1) sees \_\_\_\_-ism where there really isn’t any \_\_\_\_\_-ism; (2) is ignorant about the topic for which they claim to be advocating; (3) is mostly interested in earning SJW points by calling out something even though they don’t understand what it is they’re calling out. Fucking stupid idiot. You seem fun. ---
**Author:** ![Squallous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Squallous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squallous)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1184 "2017-06-09T17:39:44Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You seem fun. Why? Because I object to being called a racist when I’m not? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1185 "2017-06-09T17:42:12Z")
As a general aside, it’s kind of shitty when you feel like your only line of defense against strange men harassing you is ‘‘I’m twelve.’’ I haven’t had a lot of experiences like that since I grew up, but I have found that in the rare event it does happen, even ‘‘I’m married’’ isn’t enough to get them to leave you alone. They take it as some kind of personal challenge. Next time, I should go back to ‘‘I’m twelve,’’ and see how it goes over. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1186 "2017-06-09T17:53:39Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > No, I am objecting to the opinion that if I don’t cross the street, then I have no empathy. As if NOT crossing the street makes me a bad person or something. And I ask again, would you say the same thing to a black person who didn’t cross the street? What would you say to a woman who held her purse tighter when walking towards a black person? If the black person thought that was racist (which it is), would you say he had no empathy for the woman’s feelings? Doubtful. Hard to say, I don’t know that I’ve ever actually had this come up. When I am walking the street, I am almost always walking with my dog. And I do cross the street if I am coming up on someone that I do not know, or is not giving me encouragement that they want to meet my dog. Why, because there are some people out there that are afraid of dogs, and so, if through an insignificant effort on my part, I can make the world a slightly less anxious place, then I see no reason not to do so. It does depend on context. If you are walking down a deserted dark city street at night, and coming up on a woman that is moving slower than you, then yeah, you should recognize that coming up behind her may cuase her a greater level of discomfort than your crossing the street would cause you. If it is a busy well lit street, then it would be a bit odd for you to do so, and shed be a bit odd to be concerned about you passing. You equate having empathy with being a good person, and a lack with being a bad person, and that is not really relevant. There are plenty of people out there that are entirely oblivious as to the perception that they create in their actions in other people, and yet, they are good people in and of themselves. From your posting, I have observed that you are not high on empathy, as it has to be constantly explained to you that other people may feel differently about something than you do, and you often times still don’t really get it, but I don’t consider you a bad person due to that, just being low on empathy. Your attempts at making this a thing about race are not unnoticed, but are ignored, as they have nothing to do with this. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1187 "2017-06-09T18:07:26Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You equate having empathy with being a good person, and a lack with being a bad person I’ll go out on a limb and say that is how most people define empathy. I very much took your saying “displays a lack of empathy” to mean “is a bad person.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1188 "2017-06-09T18:14:01Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > When I am walking the street, I am almost always walking with my dog. And I do cross the street if I am coming up on someone that I do not know, or is not giving me encouragement that they want to meet my dog I wish all dog owners did that. > [@](#): > > You equate having empathy with being a good person, and a lack with being a bad person, and that is not really relevant Sorry, but I don’t do that at all. Others here may though. I’ve been perfectly clear I think about my lack of empathy and I don’t consider myself a bad person. Empathy is not required to do the right thing. > [@](#): > > From your posting, I have observed that you are not high on empathy, as it has to be constantly explained to you that other people may feel differently about something than you do, and you often times still don’t really get it, but I don’t consider you a bad person due to that, just being low on empathy This is also not true. I can understand that people feel differently. Most of the discussions I take part in are within the scope of WHY they feel that way and why they don’t feel that way about other things. Mostly as a way to see hypocrisy, and the rest because I’m bored at work. > [@](#): > > Your attempts at making this a thing about race are not unnoticed, but are ignored, as they have nothing to do with this. For this particular issue? A woman treating individual men differently because of their sex? It absolutely is similar to people treating individuals differently because of their skin color. Your lack of understanding seems deliberate because the two viewpoints of “Men should not be trusted” being a reasonable stance for women to take and “Black people should not be trusted” not being a reasonable stance cannot be reconciled so you continue to ramble on about my personal empathy issue. To be even more direct - I’m a man. If a woman is afraid of me simply because I’m a man, then she is sexist. And I am pretty sure being sexist is an incorrect viewpoint to take in today’s society. Therefore a woman who does that is wrong. And anyone who defends that behavior or enables it is sexist as well. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1189 "2017-06-09T18:15:51Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I see what you are saying here. But to me, there is a difference between: > > “I cross the street when a lone woman is approaching because I have empathy” > > and > > “I cross the street when a lone woman is approaching so she won’t get frightened” > > sort of like: > > “I don’t eat McDonalds because I care about my body” > > and > > “I don’t eat McDonalds because it’s really not that healthy” > > of course, typing this out, it’s hard for me to describe WHY they are different, but still seems different to me somehow. > > And also, to be fair, I actually avoid walking directly behind women when I am walking into work, because I’ve seen some of them look back at me, and one even mentioned to me that she didn’t like someone directly behind her. I wouldn’t cross the street or whatever to avoid a woman though. The expectation that I should is what gets me. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’ll go out on a limb and say that is how most people define empathy. I very much took your saying “displays a lack of empathy” to mean “is a bad person.” It seems as though you are treating “empathy” as something that it is not. It is simply the ability to understand how someone else may feel about something. Manson’s phrases are similar, take this “I cross the street when a lone woman is approaching because I have empathy”, now scratch out “have empathy”, and replace with “understand that a woman, walking on her own on a dark street at night, may find my entering into her presence to be very uncomfortable.” It does not make you a good or a bad person, and while you may be defining empathy as something equated only with good people, that’s not actually how it is defined by most people. Your taking “displays a lack of empathy” to mean “is a bad person” is entirely your choice to interpret it that way. But if you choose to interpret it that way, then you will not actually understand what it is when people talk about empathy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1190 "2017-06-09T18:32:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Your taking “displays a lack of empathy” to mean “is a bad person” is entirely your choice to interpret it that way. But if you choose to interpret it that way, then you will not actually understand what it is when people talk about empathy. Another term for someone who has no empathy is a sociopath. And as for “not actually understanding what it is when people talk about empathy”, well, I say with all sincerity that there is something that you can do with a cactus. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1191 "2017-06-09T18:40:57Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I wish all dog owners did that. I will not disagree, but I will ask why? What makes you feel that dog owners should go out of their way to make you more comfortable? > [@](#): > > Sorry, but I don’t do that at all. Others here may though. I’ve been perfectly clear I think about my lack of empathy and I don’t consider myself a bad person. Empathy is not required to do the right thing. You said “if I don’t cross the street, then I have no empathy. As if NOT crossing the street makes me a bad person”, which is why I said that you equate empathy with goodness. I am not sure how to parse that statement without taking it that you equate the two, but I am sure I just missed something. I agree that empathy is not required to do the right thing, and in too high a dose, it may actually cause someone to do the wrong thing. The “SJW’s” who make me roll my eyes are one. More empathy than sense. They aren’t bad people either, just usually naive about the world. > [@](#): > > This is also not true. I can understand that people feel differently. Most of the discussions I take part in are within the scope of WHY they feel that way and why they don’t feel that way about other things. Mostly as a way to see hypocrisy, and the rest because I’m bored at work. Well, lemme tell you, if you set off on a quest to find hypocrisy, you will find something that you consider to be hypocrisy. You can always find two situations that are somewhat similar, in that you think that people should react the same way, but are different enough that people actually react in a different way, and call that hypocrisy. Even easier when you have a group to look at, where if one’s actions are contradictory to another’s actions, that’s hypocrisy as well. It’s an odd hobby, but an easy one, to be sure. > [@](#): > > For this particular issue? A woman treating individual men differently because of their sex? It absolutely is similar to people treating individuals differently because of their skin color. Your lack of understanding seems deliberate because the two viewpoints of “Men should not be trusted” being a reasonable stance for women to take and “Black people should not be trusted” not being a reasonable stance cannot be reconciled so you continue to ramble on about my personal empathy issue. Well, I found the reason that you are having issues. You say “Men should not be trusted” as if that is the message you should get. That is not the message that is being said by pretty much anyone (some silly folk in the corner of a blog somewhere may disagree). So, if that is the message that you are hearing, then I can understand your confusion. Let me clear it up, no one is saying that men cannot be trusted. They may be saying that people cannot be trusted, in general, and men are people, and men are also people that are larger and stronger than women in such a way that if they chose to, they could very easily abuse them in any physical way they desired. The reason for the anxiety is more about the disparity in strength in an interaction than questioning the morals of men in general. > [@](#): > > To be even more direct - I’m a man. If a woman is afraid of me simply because I’m a man, then she is sexist. And I am pretty sure being sexist is an incorrect viewpoint to take in today’s society. Therefore a woman who does that is wrong. And anyone who defends that behavior or enables it is sexist as well. Women are not afraid of you because you are a man. Women are pragmatically concerned about you because you are significantly stronger and larger than they are. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1192 "2017-06-09T18:42:22Z")
I used to equate ‘‘having empathy’’ with ‘‘being a good person’’ but **monstro** changed my mind. She reports herself as having very low empathy, but she is a good person. I have a shit ton of empathy and I don’t think it’s the panacea everyone seems to think. It can actually get in the way of solving problems in many cases, as you can overidentify with their situation so much that you become utterly useless to them. It’s the reason I can’t be an on-call volunteer at work to respond in the aftermath of a sexual assault, even though I would like to do that. And, as K9 points out, some people are just rendered idiots by their feelings. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1193 "2017-06-09T18:45:04Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Another term for someone who has no empathy is a sociopath. And as for “not actually understanding what it is when people talk about empathy”, well, I say with all sincerity that there is something that you can do with a cactus. No, someone who has no _conscience_ is a sociopath. Empathy is what lets you understand how others are feeling. Many sociopaths are very empathetic, and very good at understanding people and what makes them tick. A conscience is what makes you feel bad after hurting someone. If you choose to use the words interchangeably, that is your choice, but it does not help with communication if you use them differently than others, then insist that that is how they are to be used. thanks for the cactus though, I was thinking about starting a rock garden. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1194 "2017-06-09T18:50:21Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Let me clear it up, no one is saying that men cannot be trusted. They may be saying that people cannot be trusted, in general, and men are people, and men are also people that are larger and stronger than women in such a way that if they chose to, they could very easily abuse them in any physical way they desired. Which is why children should be afraid of adults? I think ‘‘stranger danger’’ is way overblown in general. But then, when I was seven years old I got lost and allowed a strange man to load my bike into his trunk and drive me to school. He did drive me to school as promised. He turned out to be the husband of one of the teachers there. **Sr. Weasel** says I’m more trusting than is prudent. I think he has a poor capacity for risk assessment. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1195 "2017-06-09T18:50:56Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I will not disagree, but I will ask why? What makes you feel that dog owners should go out of their way to make you more comfortable? That’s just it. I DON’T feel that they should go out of their way to make me more comfortable. I just wish they would because I hate dogs. > [@](#): > > Women are not afraid of you because you are a man. > > Women are pragmatically concerned about you because you are significantly stronger and larger than they are. I doubt that woman are that afraid of other women who are significantly stronger and larger than they are. Nor would you even remotely consider that a stronger and larger woman should cross the street to avoid scaring a woman. I will further go on to say, if you cross a street to avoid scaring a woman, would you cross the street to avoid scaring a smaller, weaker looking guy? I doubt it. I’m thinking there is a term for someone who treats women and men different. I’ll try to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1196 "2017-06-09T18:55:14Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > No, someone who has no _conscience_ is a sociopath. > > Empathy is what lets you understand how others are feeling. Many sociopaths are very empathetic, and very good at understanding people and what makes them tick. Strictly speaking, sociopaths can analyze how other people are feeling, but they don’t _feel_ what other people are feeling. Ergo, they lack empathy. If someone else is in pain, they do not feel that pain. This is why they have no conscience. They actually know the difference between right and wrong (all humans appear to have an innate moral compass, even sociopaths) they just don’t _care_ when they violate their moral compass because they don’t feel the other person’s pain. There is a big difference between having lower than average empathy and having none whatsoever. (Oooh, but it might be environmentally determined whether a sociopath becomes a functioning member of society or not… Can’t remember the guy who did the brain studies and found his own brain scan revealed the structure of a sociopath.) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1197 "2017-06-09T18:59:05Z")
Here it is. [Dr. James Fallon.](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/dexter-in-real-life-psychologist-discovers-hes-really-a-psychopath/news-story/01ab8914474d526da88d889c09f54767) He later found out that violent sociopathology ran in his family. I love science. ---
**Author:** ![Squallous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Squallous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squallous)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1198 "2017-06-09T19:05:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Women are not afraid of you because you are a man. > > Women are pragmatically concerned about you because you are significantly stronger and larger than they are. For this to be true women would also need to be equally pragmatically concerned about OTHER WOMEN who are significantly stronger and larger than they are. Are they? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1199 "2017-06-09T19:24:40Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I consider myself mostly liberal but I would never have considered crossing the street to avoid contact with a woman before reading this thread. I am a large man (6’ and a skootch, 210 lbs) but I do not believe I present a threatening demeanor. I don’t either. I walk where I walk and it wouldn’t occur to me that others might find me threatening, as there is no threat in me. I suspect stories like the two women looking back repeatedly and running are related to my advice above - they kept looking back and the person was always looking at them, so they got out of there. Human nature, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/1200 "2017-06-09T19:26:39Z")
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