How often do you size up other men, crowds and rooms?

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1. Never, I’m 6’4” and 245 pounds of solid muscle mass. But everyone else tries to size me up.

2. At least 5 days a week. It’s the nature of my job.

3. It’s permanent. I can’t turn it off.

4. No need, I have no ego

5. rooms and crowds always, other men never

6. I think i always do it. Occupational hazard. Although most of the people i size up are children between the ages of 1 day-17 years and 364 days old. So i size everyone up now, doesn’t matter who they are

7. i usually try to never do it but the only times i do it is when someone actually gets under my skin on a day2day level.

   i honestly never cared if someone was better or worse in every aspect than me. usually if someone is struggling with something i try my best to help it and if someone is better then me i try to see what theyre doing in order to improve if im interested.

   i find it very tiring when i have to size up people and would rather avoid it altogether.

8. I don’t.

9. Never, I don’t care about any men like that.

   I do look at crowds to see if I want to deal with wading through them and/or waiting due to how busy the crowd says it is and that will affect my purpose.

10. Due to past experiences I tend to do it subconsciously, not even realizing I’m doing it until I notice “something”

11. I have social anxiety, so to answer your question

    Yes.

12. I try not to.

13. I do ocular patdowns all the time bro.

14. Only when I’m awake. Haven’t been able to shake the habbit after 8 years in, even 14 years later. Anytime I’m anywhere around people i notice peoples body language, spot and note possible/likely threats, i note routes of ingress and egress. I note cover and/or concealment and it irks me to no end to remain static. And i develop a plan to kill everyone i meet.

    Its automatic and happens without effort or even much concious thought.

15. Not only I never do it, the thought has never occurred to me. I’m a little disturbed to find out so many men do this.

16. Usually after I’ve played “smash or pass” on all the women, a general sense of “are the any guys big enough that they look like a physical threat” is next, though I can’t say that I look at a guy and have the thought of “can I win a fight against this guy?” unless he looks like he’s the type to do the same to me (if he looks like he’s ever used the phrase “I’m an alpha”).

17. you really shouldn’t have to

    assess the room always, but i’ve learned to “size up” w/in the first few seconds. i don’t even have to met them, it’s all body language

18. I work security. I do it for anybody.

19. Always but I’m looking for potential violent offenders and for exits.

20. All men all rooms every time. Its literally subconscious and instantaneous.

21. Men and women, almost all the time. If I want to relax while I get groceries I leave my glasses in the car.

22. How do you mean … as in try to guess if there is a dangerous situation or something? Probably less than I should.

23. All the time.

    It’s just something you do when you have kids. There’s creepers out there and I’m always on the lookout.

24. all the time. situational awareness is how you avoid trouble

25. Social anxiety and self paranoia, i size up any man i see who looks like a sense of alpha. Not with the intention to fight but with the intention of needing to defend.

26. The moment that smelly smell hits your nostrils. The smelly smell of a certain smell that only smells smelly for the purpose of being that smelly smell.

    Testosterone.

27. All the time man, in my head I’m like, “Yo is this guy bigger than me?” “Yo I bet I could take this guy, ggrrrrrr!” “Yo is he lookin at me? Yo I could totally take this guy right now!”