Answer: Remarkably similar to a Dark Triad individual.

I am not referring to the masculinity of pie-in-the-sky, paragon of virtue and goodness and sunshine fantasies.

No, I speak of masculinity in terms of nature as defined by the effects of testosterone, the quintessential androgen.

Let's take a look at the some of the effects of testosterone on behavior:

  • Competitiveness/Agression, the will to dominate

  • Low anxiety, high confidence

  • Impulsiveness

Taken to the extreme, these behaviors become:

  • Machiavellianism (social domination)

  • Narcissism (overconfidence)

  • Psychopathy (inability to control impulse)

Unsurprisingly, these extremely masculine behaviors are also extremely attractive to women because they signify a dominant male.

Masculinity attracts femininity. The dynamics of attraction become way less labyrinthine when you avoid species-level snowflake syndrome and think of humans as merely another social ape.