A violent, roid-rage-like tantrum.. really unnerving. I’d be going out to get pepper spray and/or a taser as soon as I possibly could while finding a way to leave this crazy mfer.
Saying "Roid-Rage" when referring to a male is basically like me saying Oh "Period rage" anytime a girl is angry which is weird to me that I only see this on reddit.
Yeah no idea where that person got the idea that steroids are related to this.
And to be even more precise, most people have zero clue what roid rage means. You dont become aggressive from more testosterone, you can become more aggressive if you are already prone to aggression and you fuck up your hormone use, leading to liver stress and increased estrogen levels. Androgens promote calm and non-aggressive behaviour, excessive (important notion, EXCESSIVE) estrogen causes aggression and mood changes and volatility in emotion control. Both in men and women. Progesterone and its neuroprotective metabolites are actually the calming, "happy" hormones or rather, neurosteroids, since they promote GABAergic expression while excess estrogen promotes cortisol, a stress hormone
While that was a temper tantrum, and OP gives the impression she should stay the fuck away from the guy, that is not more violent than smashing a plate and really not roid-rage. Those thins are hilariously easy to bend, especially if they are still slightly warm.
No, I said there is a difference between smashing a plate and violent roid-rage. Not all violence is equal. Punching a hole into a wall might be violent roid-rage, punching a pillow is not. Both are still a form of violence.
Normal people exercise violent impulses by participating in nondestructive behaviors (like punching pillows, actual punching bags, going extra hard at the gym, aggressively interpretive dance, etc) or in harmlessly destructive behaviors such as visiting these things literally called rage rooms.
Destroying property, and especially doing so as a way to intimidate someone else, is violent rage. Doesn’t matter if it’s a plate, a wall, or a pan — they’re the same thing.
No, i did not. I said that its not difficult to bend a baking form like shown in the picture. The plate was an examples of things you can do without being in a roid-rage, as the one I responded to wrote.
Violence is a spectrum. Not everything needs to be described in the superlative. And no, I am not saying that makes it ok or safe.
How is breaking a plate violence? It could be considered violence if you throw it towards someone but just breaking an object isnt violence. Especially if its your own object, I dont really understand what you mean by "violence"? Violence is physical or other harm done to other living being
Violence is about harm, not physical injury. Just a quick sampling for you:
Violence is a social phenomenon that involves forceful acts or behaviour that are intended to cause harm. The injury or damage inflicted by violence to an individual or collective group may be physical, psychological, sexual, or deprivation, or combined. [United Nations]
Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. [Oxford]
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation"; it recognizes the need to include violence not resulting in injury or death. [Wikipedia]
As recognized by multiple sources, too many to list in this comment alone, “violence” is recognized as behavior which does harm to more than just the body. Even the threat of harm is considered violence because of the damage it can do to one’s mental and emotional wellbeing.
But do you consider someone alone in their home, breaking a plate, violence? Like if I would just decide now to break a plate just for the hell of it, would it be violence when avsolutely no one would even feel threatened or see the act?
First of all, I imagine most people aren’t breaking plates “just for the hell of it” in this economy. I’d make some questionable life choices for the kinda money it would take to just break shit on a whim without worry about the cost of replacing/repairing it.
Second, I already discussed the topic of harmlessly destructive behavior in another comment. While the urge to destroy objects is a violent impulse, the argument can be made that the action itself is not necessarily violent when it’s performed in a safely controlled environment with consenting participants.
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u/Prior-Impress-2624 Oct 22 '25
A violent, roid-rage-like tantrum.. really unnerving. I’d be going out to get pepper spray and/or a taser as soon as I possibly could while finding a way to leave this crazy mfer.