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It’s called fighting words, and you are right. And interaction like this challenges or spits on a man’s pride. And you can certainly expect to be pinched for that.

Like, this is something you would say, expecting to provoke a fight. It would be seen as an act of aggression equal to hitting a man or attempting to strike a man.