Tom Brady Rule:

If you’re “hot” guy and over 6 feet tall, women want your attention. Sexual advances and flirting are hot, fun, and validating.

If you’re not a hot guy, you’re a creepy almost rapist and disgusting https://t.co/Lw0ajMHmoE

— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) December 1, 2019

Yep! People pretend this isn’t true, but it is.

I’ll never be over six feet tall, but about getting fitter (and I knew this would happen), I’ve noticed a huge difference in how both men and women treat me after having gone from schlubby and fairly weak to definitely looking fit and strong. And it’s a huge difference. Men are more respectful and women pay far more attention to me.

Deny it all you want, but it is what it is.

People really don’t update their mental images of you very quickly. Was thinking about this related to an incident that happened after I’d been in the army a few years. I’d become literally three times as physically strong as when I joined up and looked totally different, but my pre-existing friends and acquaintances were the least likely to pick up on this.

Went over to a friend’s house in North Florida and his dad was working on his dump truck. His father was a professional dump truck driver. There was some part of the tail gate of the truck on the ground. It happened to be in front of me, and his dad mentioned that it needed to be moved, but said that he and my friend would do it because I couldn’t lift it.

At that time, I could deadlift 400+ pounds. I was far stronger than they both were, likely put together, though I had not been in high school at all 3+ years before.

Without a word, I picked up the tailgate part and moved it 20 feet without even a strain. It wasn’t even that heavy to me — probably weighed about 120 pounds.

The look on both of their faces was something you wish you had a camera for. Even after that, I’m not sure their image of me really got updated. Humans are strange.