How to gain respect without having to go Hulk?

[The LadyKiller]

I'll keep this one short. Over the past month, HBs I usually get along with (either through work, social circle or crossing paths with throughout the week), have been displaying signs of disrespect. Whether it's sticking their noses up whenever I say hi, ignoring me or only giving 1-2 word answers, or trying to straight up defy me, all the signs are there. This has been the case with some guys too, but it's primarily with women.

One day, when I left my office area for a brief meeting, the HB sitting next to me put my jacket and bag to the side and told her friend it was ok to take my spot. When I came back and saw my station taken, the HB didn't apologize, and I let her have it right there in the office. Her friend immediately booked it out of sight. However, since that incident, HB has been respectful towards me.

I'm typically calm and collected, but acts of disrespect bring out a different me. I don't think there's a way to figure out why the HBs' attitudes have changed for the worst, but is there anything I can do to establish respect without having to go Hulk on people? I get mad so rarely that I think the offending party is shocked into cooperating when I lash out, but it's not something I enjoy doing.

 

[AttackFormation]

Fix your posture, get a toned body and get a sharp look, learn to say no and either speak up or fix it yourself without excusing yourself when someone does something like in your example, take up space with your body language and with your voice when you talk, aim to smile/laugh/talk too little instead of too much, and revise the way you talk so it incites more respect (just search youtube for that, and all the other stuff too).

Should fix you up.

Here's a couple of quick demonstrations. Who's gonna get more respect? the guy in the suit in this first link, or the kid in this second?

 

[wifehunter]

Walk away.

 

[devilkingx2]

don't bother to deal with people who don't/won't respect you

 

[Infern0]

Respect yourself first.

 

[The LadyKiller]

I have a good build and walk confidently, so I'm not someone who can be pushed around in a literal sense. I like to have fun and joke around, but if it's going to cause a lack of respect for whatever reason, perhaps you guys are right and I need to appear more serious. I'd prefer to be perceived as less fun than less respected.

I have been less social with these women over the past week, but so far the reactions have been more of the same. I haven't attempted to initiate any conversation with the women who are disrespectful towards me. However, I feel awkward completely cutting off communication with people I run into somewhat regularly. But maybe it's for the better.

 

[Chamber36]

Cvnts gonna cvnt bro. Nobody gives a damn.

I realised it as well last night. Nowadays with all the feminism they might come from an environment where they walk all over the dudes. Don't allow it. Learn to recognise the bad signals as soon as they appear. Nip that **** in the bud. Bitches are more territorial than you might think. Narc the bitches before they narc you. Or at least narc them more than they narc you once they narc you at all.