Women: do you ever feel belittled when men ignore you and behave as if your husband or boyfriend speaks and acts for you?

No I dont. Its not possible for ignorant people to belittle someone. They only make themselve look silly, and show they have an agenda.

Edit; So an ignorant car salesman speaking to your man, and ignoring you, wouldn't belittle you?

Can you not uinderstand the answer? They just lost a commision to make a point. What did I lose? Nothing. I dont care what idiots think. They can stress as much as they like. Its irrelevant.

Hecks yes, especially when filming things within the heavy metal community-my SO has little interest in the tech involved (cameras, software, etc), and I do. He is the on-camera talent. He will get all of the questions from passers-by even if I am literally standing right behind the camera with headphones on my ears. I'm just a showpiece at that point to some (a chick with a big camera, but she doesn't know what she's doing 'cos she's a chick!)

Any guy who does what you described is just begging to fight with someone. There is no other reason.

First of all, the example you gave in your original question is actually the opposite of the example you gave in your update. I'll explain both.

Your original example: "Women: do you ever feel belittled when men ignore you and behave as if your husband or boyfriend speaks and acts for you?"

No. I find it amusing and slightly adorable. I take it as a sign that they can tell my husband is their superior and one heck of an alpha male. They don't want to do anything toward me that may set him off and cause him to stomp them into a greasy spot on the carpet.

I see it as a sign that other men can tell I picked my mate well and that he is a very effective protector for me and our kids. They don't want to take a chance of saying or doing something disrespectful to me that my husband may take offense to.

The example in your update: "Such as when a man initiates a physical altercation with your significant other because of something you did or said, instead of dealing with you directly?"

I've never actually experienced a situation where a man started a fight with my husband over something I did. Like I said before, when a guy purposely addresses the male about something that pertains to the female, it's usually because they are afraid of that male and want to avoid a fight with him...so if a guy starts a fight with a woman's husband and claims it's about the woman, it's a sign that he thinks the woman's husband is a wimp and has no respect or fear of him. It's a sign of disrespect toward the man, not the woman. If anything, it's a sign that he may fear the woman more than the man.

My husband is one scary SOB. No one starts fights with him, whether it's about me or anything else. It's very common for men to address him, instead of me, even when the conversation is with me, but that is because they respect him as my protector and don't want to over step. I do not feel belittled by this. I feel proud of the man I chose.

If a man actually did start a fight with my husband because of something I did, it would be a sign that the other man has underestimated my husband and I would take a few steps back as to avoid getting any of that other man's spattered blood on my clothing.

No, I would think he makes himself this way by being so vindictive as to not leave us alone to have a good time, b/c he would rather spoil that with some excuse, when there really isn't one for it, to have the attention, and it not be given towards one another as planned.

WHatever.