Who is going about their day thinking they can beat an Olympic contender at anything??
E: aside from other Olympic contenders, I guess
The bottom 20% of men in this survey.
I wonder what the extent of “beat” in a fight means in the context of this survey. It’s gotta be something along the lines of “get injured and don’t want to continue” vs “to the death”, right? Like surely 40% of Americans don’t think that if they had to take on a goose they’d end up dead.
Depends how hench the goose was
Okay, okay, those people were crazy
I once managed to fight three large feral dogs without a weapon. Didn’t kill them, but I ran them off and wasn’t bleeding.
But one goose kicked my ass because I just couldn’t do anything to it that mattered. Ever try to punch a goose? They DNGAF. There are zero fucks in their tiny heads to give. You try to punch them and they just flap harder. Try to grab their necks, they just flap harder and you miss. If I could have ever gotten ahold of it, yeah, it would have been dead, but it’s all just a flurry of feathers and beak in your face, moving constantly.
Dogs? That’s easy. Stay mobile, use your reach for kicks, go after eyes and noses. Even feral dogs will quit after a little pain, assuming they don’t have the numbers to just take you down via coordinated attacks. A single dog though? Nah, at worst you get an arm chewed up while you use the other to attack. If they’re biting, they’re close enough and steady enough to hurt.
Male belief in superiority basically. A significant minority think that they personally can beat the top women in any given sport.
It’s generally illegal to beat anybody. But just because someone plays table tennis is not a reason to beat them people! I didn’t click on the pay wall article.
this article isn’t pay walled. the whole community is ‘gift articles’ from NYT subscribers
What a picture choice
Photo editors get to have fun sometimes.
I absolutely can, just not at table tennis.
