Unless you're talking about wearing a tapout shirt, no one can see your skill while you're talking to strangers at the pub. They see your tangible, physical appearance.

Yes safety is definitely taken for granted by many many people. I certainly was one many years ago.

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Ok but how many bullets are you dodging in your every day intersexual relationships? Are we talking about the Sexual Marketplace, women and being a regular testosterone driven man (the subject of The RedPill) or are we talking about the the Korengal Valley, Baghdad, or Nairobi?

While I won't deny that being a decent fighter is a fantastic life skill and that many of the points here are GREAR advice and good to learn from there's one problem that all these "fighter" posts seem to have. In the SMP, size matters, a lot. You can be that baddest little manlet on the mat but when you're a 5'7" 150 pound man women are not noticing you. I doesn't matter if you...[More]

Why were you going to ban the OP?

Right? Hope op wrapped it.