There is a voice in my head that says,
“You gotta stick up for yourself.
How can you not do anything?
Beat them up!
You gotta fight back.”
“If he swears at you, you must swear back.
If he hits you, you must hit him back.”
As a man you don’t have a choice.
One time my father was fighting with the doorman,
When I didn’t interfere, my mom kept repeated:
“I raised no men!”
It’s my choice and I don’t want to engage.