Douchebaggery had an evolutionary purpose?

[justalurkr]

There is actually a chapter in A Brief History of Vice about the evolutionary purposes served by "overconfidence" and "trash talking," or toxic masculinity writ large.

The first causes us to attempt things otherwise precluded by rational risk assessment. The second, done in person, gives overconfident young people a theoretically non-violent outlet for their egos.

Okay, it made more sense while I was listening to it.