Why is it some men get all offended if a woman they don't know is wary around them?

[patrice]

309. No one is required to prove anything to another person about that other person's

worth beyond their basic human rights.

A person can choose to do that sort of thing, prove social value to others, but that choice IS your own right so it is based upon respect for your own basic human rights.

If I were in a situation like the one you describe, my sense of my human right to respect would include whether *I* am the one who chooses to engage in any talk of how I might or I might not be "... staying out of trouble." There is no answer to such a question that works for my respect for myself. Both, TTE, "Yes" or "No" violate my self-governance, which is the source of the dignity that is an important part of my identity.

The question he asked you was more manipulative than it was purely social. Manipulation can be a full-blown clinical personality disorder. It's too bad that so many people, male or female, have become soooooooooooo dependent upon external reinforcers for their own self-worth that they either no longer recognize what they require of others to prove to themselves or no longer care.