They thrust out their chests, ruffle their plummage, and generally try to appear more impressive than they really are. On nature shows, this is comic. It has been discovered that display behavior is much more common among humans than had been previously believed. This behavior, the chronic answering of questions regardless of actual knowledge, is known as Male Answer Syndrome.
Some men seem to regard life as a talk show on which they are the star guest.
Sometimes this expansiveness is appealing. Men have the courage and inventiveness to try to explain the inexplicable. She had found that eating ice cream made her teeth hurt and asked her father whether Eskimos had the same problem. They have rubber teeth. Pauline repeated this information in a geography lesson and found herself the laughing stock of the class.