The thing about this that caught my attention is that it’s so completely wrong. That’s not at all why a guy will back down when a woman says she has a boyfriend. Not at all.
To put it bluntly, I don’t give a fuck about some other dude I don’t know.
The concept is so alien to me that I honestly thought that this whole premise of men respecting other men’s “turf” was so clearly misguided that it must be a fairly isolated perception. Maybe advocated among women who want to elevate the the hypothetical situation into a more political context.