Ridiculous male bravado and its appeal on women

[MissKairi]

Maybe this is just me but just listened to a guy talking at the top of his voice about how tough and hard he is and how he's going to knock out his boss to a bunch of female cleaners.
These ladies seem positively enchanted by his story of anger and aggression and all I can think is "man just shut up, bragging about going to knock someone out is pathetic) but still they look on dreamy eyed.

[Elis]

Yeah can't stand that myself. Or when men feel they need to always be in competition with each other; even with their friends.

Chances are those women were just playing along to avoid confrontation. Most women are not impressed with that sort of thing and are definitely smart enough to know bs when they see it.

[AnneK]

I also have no use for macho talk.

[Dan]

The women I frequented with in my life would not have approved of that kind of bull>-bleeped-<.

In fact, none would have been dazzled by male bravado of any kind.

[Kylo]

What's most funny about that is that it's often massively insecure or even cowardly people who engage in that kind of behavior. A truly 'tough' person won't routinely brag about how tough they are - they don't need to. If they were actually going to lamp their boss they'd just do it. Since that's not especially smart, they also probably wouldn't.

It's the inferior types who do this to try to get attention and try to intimidate their way into some kind of "alpha" position. And I guess the not-so-smart types who fall for it. But they'd better hope they are as tough as they say they are if they get called out on it by someone who actually is tough, lol.

[Averyel]

Like all positive attributes, bragging sounds much better coming from another's mouth.

[Bobbie LeAnn]

What's most funny about that is that it's often massively insecure or even cowardly people who engage in that kind of behavior. A truly 'tough' person won't routinely brag about how tough they are - they don't need to. If they were actually going to lamp their boss they'd just do it. Since that's not especially smart, they also probably wouldn't.

It's the inferior types who do this to try to get attention and try to intimidate their way into some kind of "alpha" position. And I guess the not-so-smart types who fall for it. But they'd better hope they are as tough as they say they are if they get called out on it by someone who actually is tough, lol.

You are absolutely right. True tough guys don't brag.

[Julia1996]

Yeah I hate that silly crap. My brothers friends do that. They start talking about how much weight they can lift and how strong they are and then one of them always starts tripping down memory lane talking about how they busted someone in the face for having a big mouth or for looking at them funny. Then one of them will start with " oh you should have seen what I did to this one guy once, blah,blah,blah" . They tell me this like it's something to be proud of. All that kind of talk does is reinforce my belief that they are muscle headed baboons. Thankfully my brother doesn't do that. He just makes faces and rolls his eyes while they say all that stuff.  Actually I would be more afraid of my brother than any of his friends if I was a guy. I've seen my brother fight and he can get totally brutal and viscous.

[Kylo]

Exactly. Sometimes people are all bark and very little bite. The ones who actually have a bite won't be barking like puppies.

If you want to recognize a real man with experience, who will likely go further than any meathead out there, he is easy to spot. He won't be bragging his butt off, he'll know all about his own weaknesses and strengths, and as such will not be haunted by any slightly feminine qualities he might have. He might even appear graceful, for all that, in his own way, because he's at ease with himself most of the time. He will probably employ actual bravado when necessary - meaning actual bravery, not false bravery - but he won't be doing it to desperately impress. Such a guy is not desperate for anything.

[Angela Drakken]

Pretty much ALL of my male friends bar 3 fall into this category.

The most infamous of all is a gent named 'Brandon.' Brandon has a reputation for showing up to a party notoriously late, and making up stories about how he'd just been held up in a fight with not one but like 20 people, and somehow turned out on top of the situation, without even ripped clothes or a bloodies face/knuckles.

Brandon's beaten up everyone from women abusers, to muggers, to entire gangs and police officers and still made it to every single party to share.

Raise your glass to the Brandon's of the world. >.>

For visualizations sake, Brandon is now a balding ginger who works a dead end minimum wage job, and shows his friends nudes of porn stars with the watermarks removed, claiming they're his conquests.

A positive for Brandon however, is I wouldn't have met my current partner if he hadn't been creeping her out and I came to the rescue shouldering him out of the conversation. ^.^

Sadly some women DO fall for this nonsense. Something about the whole alpha male provider crap.