Do men with beautiful or perfect faces seem to get punched in the face more often?

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I think this has been the case for a handful of friends / acquaintances in the past, though one in particular did used to behave in an attention seeking way, which can't have helped.

I have lived in various places around the UK. I'd really love to know where you live. Is it Chipping Norton perchance? :D :p


Well- I think in certain sectors of the UK or other urban settings, if you happen to be a very good looking guy- you just might be the kind of guy who acts like the world owes him something for being so pretty... y'know, kinda like the way drop dead gorgeous women act all stuck up?

And in a room full of inebriated fellows who just can't get away with that kind of behavior- you just might get punched in your pretty face.

But the real question is why drop dead gorgeous women AREN'T getting punched in the face, too?
I mean... they sure as hell deserve it sometimes every bit as much as the pretty boys.


As for me- I have managed to get to a pretty advanced age without anyone ever punching me in the face ( well- not since 7th grade anyways ) So I don't know whether to ascribe that to the US being a lot less punch prone.... or to the depressing idea that maybe I'm just too ugly to be worth punching.
 
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Ya you did misunderstand it. Ok basically in the show a character acted like an ass and was booted out or disliked by the others character. Smurf was on I. The 80s so it's before my time im sure others here know more about the show than I do.

So as I said and Oxnard kind of said the same thing, if a good looking guy is betting punched regularly it is most likely because they are a bad person as in bad personality, a douche/a fuckboy/an asshole basically a person that instigates people reacting negatives towards them. Understand now?

It seems like the guy Swoon describes was getting punched in the face because he put his face out there with no restraints. It's a social flaw, but it seems like it was intentional. He must have figured that the benefits was worth being punched in the face every now and again. I think it's a stretch to conclude that he must be a bad person.

When I was in my teens, a punch to the gut or the face wasn't an uncommon thing at all. I would say that most of those could have been avoided quite easily, but it was all about subculture and industrial and noise music and queers and queens and social misfits and always being in opposition and refusing to answer to assholes. Nowadays I'd much rather walk away and let people have their little ego-trips than having to take the trip to the emergency room. But back then, we took pride in not backing down just because some idiot told us to do so (we didn't fight back, though, and never attacked anyone. we were just a bunch of sissies after all and we didn't want to get killed). I'm pretty sure we thought we were making some kind of difference and that we thought ourselves to be better people because of it.

If you go to a bar with three friends and one looks like start 80's Rozz Williams, one looks like start 80's Nivek Ogre and one looks like freakin' Adam Ant, all you have to do is choose the wrong bar (and there are plenty). At some point a group of bigoted hicks will come over and say: "Hey, fags, we need a table. Get the hell out."

At that point, you can do one of three things:

1. Say "whatever, have your table", and leave the bar = 50% chance of getting punched in the face.
2. Say "nah, why don't you and your bigoted friends find another table to soil with your dirty asses". = 100% chance of getting punched in the face.
3. Spit in his face and tell him to fuck off. = 100% chance of getting punched in the face, 50% chance of having your skull severely fractured.

If I encounter that stuff nowadays, there's a part of me that still wants to pick option number two, but a much larger part of me that just wants to avoid the hassle. Of course, now that I don't quite look like a punk from the 80's anymore, my beautiful face hasn't seen a fist up close in years.

But still, I wouldn't think any less of anyone who goes with option number 2. Not a bad person where I come from.
 
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I wasn't specifically talking about swoons friend but a general situation where a good looking person is getting dealt with for being a narcissistic asshole rather than because of their looks. Because in my experience I've never been randomly punched or attacked for being good looking. And have not seen it happen to any person just for being good looking.

Closest thing to it that I've seen would be how some girls would get in high school when another was looking particularly good or had something the other wanted but that never broke down into physical violence more just snide comments. Among guys that type of thing never really happened.
It seems like the guy Swoon describes was getting punched in the face because he put his face out there with no restraints. It's a social flaw, but it seems like it was intentional. He must have figured that the benefits was worth being punched in the face every now and again. I think it's a stretch to conclude that he must be a bad person.

When I was in my teens, a punch to the gut or the face wasn't an uncommon thing at all. I would say that most of those could have been avoided quite easily, but it was all about subculture and industrial and noise music and queers and queens and social misfits and always being in opposition and refusing to answer to assholes. Nowadays I'd much rather walk away and let people have their little ego-trips than having to take the trip to the emergency room. But back then, we took pride in not backing down just because some idiot told us to do so (we didn't fight back, though, and never attacked anyone. we were just a bunch of sissies after all and we didn't want to get killed). I'm pretty sure we thought we were making some kind of difference and that we thought ourselves to be better people because of it.

If you go to a bar with three friends and one looks like start 80's Rozz Williams, one looks like start 80's Nivek Ogre and one looks like freakin' Adam Ant, all you have to do is choose the wrong bar (and there are plenty). At some point a group of bigoted hicks will come over and say: "Hey, fags, we need a table. Get the hell out."

At that point, you can do one of three things:

1. Say "whatever, have your table", and leave the bar = 50% chance of getting punched in the face.
2. Say "nah, why don't you and your bigoted friends find another table to soil with your dirty asses". = 100% chance of getting punched in the face.
3. Spit in his face and tell him to fuck off. = 100% chance of getting punched in the face, 50% chance of having your skull severely fractured.

If I encounter that stuff nowadays, there's a part of me that still wants to pick option number two, but a much larger part of me that just wants to avoid the hassle. Of course, now that I don't quite look like a punk from the 80's anymore, my beautiful face hasn't seen a fist up close in years.

But still, I wouldn't think any less of anyone who goes with option number 2. Not a bad person where I come from.
 

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That whole Smurfs business has stuck with me the entire day. @Hatt_101, is it in any way possible to persuade you to use this as your avatar from now on:

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It seems like the guy Swoon describes was getting punched in the face because he put his face out there with no restraints. It's a social flaw, but it seems like it was intentional. He must have figured that the benefits was worth being punched in the face every now and again. I think it's a stretch to conclude that he must be a bad person.

When I was in my teens, a punch to the gut or the face wasn't an uncommon thing at all. I would say that most of those could have been avoided quite easily, but it was all about subculture and industrial and noise music and queers and queens and social misfits and always being in opposition and refusing to answer to assholes. Nowadays I'd much rather walk away and let people have their little ego-trips than having to take the trip to the emergency room. But back then, we took pride in not backing down just because some idiot told us to do so (we didn't fight back, though, and never attacked anyone. we were just a bunch of sissies after all and we didn't want to get killed). I'm pretty sure we thought we were making some kind of difference and that we thought ourselves to be better people because of it.

If you go to a bar with three friends and one looks like start 80's Rozz Williams, one looks like start 80's Nivek Ogre and one looks like freakin' Adam Ant, all you have to do is choose the wrong bar (and there are plenty). At some point a group of bigoted hicks will come over and say: "Hey, fags, we need a table. Get the hell out."

At that point, you can do one of three things:

1. Say "whatever, have your table", and leave the bar = 50% chance of getting punched in the face.
2. Say "nah, why don't you and your bigoted friends find another table to soil with your dirty asses". = 100% chance of getting punched in the face.
3. Spit in his face and tell him to fuck off. = 100% chance of getting punched in the face, 50% chance of having your skull severely fractured.

If I encounter that stuff nowadays, there's a part of me that still wants to pick option number two, but a much larger part of me that just wants to avoid the hassle. Of course, now that I don't quite look like a punk from the 80's anymore, my beautiful face hasn't seen a fist up close in years.

But still, I wouldn't think any less of anyone who goes with option number 2. Not a bad person where I come from.

Pretty sure you and hatt agree on this to a certain point. Difference being that hatt was speaking in general terms while you bring up the point of the ideology of masculinity being a trigger an possibly leading into homophobia. Just like hatt i've never seen a guy get punched for being good looking but i have seen violence against guys because of masculinity and/or homophobia. For the most part though that last bit has been going out the window in favor of political stuff which is great bu i've never seen it happen just because someone looked good. And yeah i totes get the smurf thing.

Cause while guys don't get violent that often or i haven't seen it that often there is still something there.
 
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I guess we Americans are too civilized; we mostly don't go around punching each other.

True. We tend to resolve our differences by way of firearms rather than fisticuffs .

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure I ever saw a guy get punched in the face. Why is that, I wonder. I've been plenty drunk, in plenty of bars with plenty of other drunks, and I don't recall ever seeing a fight of any kind. Once. One fight. There were lots of punches thrown in a scrum but I didn't see any shots to the face.

Years and years of drinking, from happy hour to closing time. In highbrow joints and neighborhood dives. College bars and blue collar bars. And saw one fight the whole time. It wasn't even in a bar. It was in the middle of a street celebration after the Penguins won their second Stanley Cup.

Geez. Think of all that money I spent and got to see only that one fight.