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Indeeed, I feel there's a defense mechanism in there about the implicit menace in someone doing something beyond your own ability.

Unycicling is easy to put down, but take the message above about running barefoot.

Seeing someone doing something unusual like that, something that people "just don't understand" leads to uncertainty. "Why I don't do that?", "Why I can't do that?"

And since as men we're culturally primed to rubuff such doubts, the response is ridicule: "Because he looks silly, and I'm smarter than him", "Bet he'll get scared if I stomp", etc.

People are so insecure sometimes