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My local cultural spaces have such unkind words for “men trying to project too much confidence” that it’s made me afraid to try any part of it, because I’d have to fake it for a while first, and that act itself would make me some kind of monster, apparently.
I mean, it makes sense, a lot of folks have been hurt by people acting like an overconfident jackass. I’ve over-learned from expressions of disdain for that behavior around me, though, and over-suppressed a pattern well below healthy levels
