Same situation. I remember back in Middle school (8th grade) a girl wanted to fight me because I called her fat. I knew if I was going to beat her up, it would look bad on me as a man so I decided not to. She was all up in my face, triggered and was yelling at me, I just kept walking.Back when I was a teenager in secondary school a random girl came up to me and challenged me to a fight, I refused to fight her. I thought to myself if I fought her and won, what would I gain? Or if I fought her and lost, it would be utterly humiliating on my part. I told her I'm not going to fight a girl and she apparently insulted me when I didn't show up after school. Still, I think she kind of respected me for not fighting her as a guy. She was probably scared about fighting a boy.