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In reply to the discussion: My dumbest question ever... how do people shtup these days? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)See posts #81 and #87, with both of which I fully concur.
The chorus attacking Manny is apparently demanding an "explanation" for his statement that self-confidence in a woman is a bad thing. The reason there is no explanation that will satisfy his critics is that, back here in the real world, Manny made no such statement. He said that some women are hubristic while most of them are normal. Equating hubris with self-confidence was added by his critics so that they'd have something to be outraged about.
If you believe that no woman anywhere in the world is hubristic, go ahead and make that case. For my part, I believe that women run the gamut from neurotic levels of insecurity, through appropriate self-confidence, and on all the way to hubris and arrogance. Sort of like men do.