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ResidentSadist -> RE: Bit Controversial - Consensual Male Supremacy? (3/19/2015 7:21:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GoddessManko
RS I tend to find people fascinating in general. I feel like I learn more from people than books. However I am engaging if I go out typically but the entire time I'm reading people. Not just physically but their reactions, gestures, line of questions, responses etc.
I understand that. I am the same way, beside my measuring up the physical supremacy aspects, I read people by their body language, the cut of their clothes etc.
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ORIGINAL: satanscharmer
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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist
Having spent most my teens on the East Side of Detroit, I picked up some awareness habits. I am not always the biggest and strongest guy in the room, so I size up the room. So when I walk into a place, I size up who is physically superior, who the biggest threats are if a brawl broke out. It's not even on a conscious level, it's an automatic survival reflex.
Do girls do that, look to see who is physically superior in a crowd?
Yes, sort of.
One thing I was taught, especially while in the actual city of Detroit, is to be careful with eye contact. As in, avoid it as much as possible to avoid any glances being construed as a lingering stare - an invitation for a fight. If you have great peripheral vision like I do, not much of a problem. I have gotten into the habit of scanning a room for potential threats without making it much too obvious. Eyes forward, chin up, chest out, secretly scanning and observing my surroundings. So, it may not look like I'm doing it, but I am. I'm never looking for just size (that doesn't always matter). I'm looking at the whole picture. Where I'm located now there's not much need to size a room up, but it's become habit. My eye contact restrictions are kept for times I feel like there may be a potential threat. Like you stated, it is a learned awareness.
I feel situational awareness is definitely a learned skill and it became an ingrained habit for me. Even in the middle of suburbia when leaving the house I know if their are shadows in the bushes or silhouettes along the roof lines. Those skills helped me survive more foul situations than any forum reader would believe.
And those ingrained skills read into my BDSM perspectives by helping me size up people individually or read the tone of a crowd. Not quite the gender specific superiority as the OP topic but I can tell who the bulls are and who would be the bitches if they all went to prison.
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