I (20m) am 6’5" tall. One of my female friends who’s 5’5" told me that my height makes my belly particularly vulnerable in case if I get attacked with a pocket knife, for example. Why is it so?

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Honestly, if someone pulls a knife you’re fucked anyway. I like to say that the best sport for self defence is track running. Less risk of being injured, and no risk of dealing with legal consequences of injuring someone.

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      6 months ago

      But seriously this does actually explain why. A taller person’s stomach is closer to a shorter person’s shoulder-level, making it easier to stab.

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    6 months ago

    Is this a novelty account or something, what’s with the fixation on your belly? You’ve been milking this subject for 2 months.

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        6 months ago

        A month ago he was asking people in the comments if his height makes his belly more vulnerable to attacks. Definitely this post is disingenuous, even if we can’t figure out the motive.

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      6 months ago

      Not seen the other posts, but maybe the question has not been answered or the answer they are looking for hasn’t been said

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        So he was wondering in two other posts about belly wounds from swords and asked if being tall made him more vulnerable. And then by coincidence a coworker told him that being tall made him vulnerable to being stabbed in the belly by a pocket knife? And he didn’t know what she meant by that but had asked others the same question a month earlier?

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    6 months ago

    I’m guessing she meant that it’s a larger target so it would be easier to hit vs. trying to stab a smaller person

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      6 months ago

      Well, it’s shoulder height to her.

      With her perspective it’s like a big punching bag just hanging there.

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      6 months ago

      Are internal organs proportionally larger on tall people, or are the the same size as those in short people but with more empty space around them? If it’s the latter, then being tall would probably give you a better chance of surviving a single random stab to your stomach area right?

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    6 months ago

    I would ask the person making the claim to explain why they think so.

    Who knows why she thinks this?

    Asking here is begging the question.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    6 months ago

    Unless you have disproportionately small arms, I don’t know why she would think that. It’s not like my arms are disproportionately shorter to the rest of my tall-ass body. They fall around the same place as a short guy’s would and I can block as well as anyone else at my level in the martial arts classes I’ve taken.

    Also you seem oddly fixated on belly related attacks and wounds. Are you in danger of being stabbed or thinking of stabbing someone else?

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think its so but if I was to work assuming the hypothesis was correct the only thing I could point to is a bigger person is a bigger taget which would apply to all targets of the body.