Today, I had the unique pleasure of listening to two young men have a conversation. It was then, that I realized that some men view conversations as hierarchical. One person wins and another loses. One person's on top and the others on the bottom. Do men realize they're doing this? Do they feel they've won anything at the conversation's end?
Later, one of the more annoying one continued to correct me, he even went so far as to tell me my opinion was wrong! Asking me for my opinion and essentially telling me my opinion was wrong. Jerk.
The worst part of it is knowing that he thinks he's a good, nice person. I don't want to tell him that he's not because I don't know him all too well but I don't like the fact that he obviously is attempting to compensate for something by trying to put himself above everyone in conversations. I guess it doesn't matter because they are just conversations and at the end of the day I don't have to spend any recreational time with him but it's still super annoying. I guess I'll have to find a way to look past it. The summer's flying by so I won't have to see him much more after this.

On the other hand extremely insecure people that show that insecurity are also annoying to me. I absolutely hate listening, to girls in particular, complain about how much they hate their bodies compared to celebrities. Or girls that are in terrible relationships because they think they don't deserve better. I understand that not everyone is secure in every moment of the day but there is a happy medium between crippling insecurity and extreme arrogance.

I believe if you're smart then you don't have to put that on display to show your 'value'.
Have you ever had to work with someone (a man) who had a terribly large ego? How did you deal? Ever have the courage to point out his character flaws? Did you ever look at them the same after realizing their flaw? Do you have friends that are super insecure? How do you make them feel better about themselves? Comment please!