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>the person with more power or the person with less power.

Or more accurately, the hardtalking pushy one full of bravado and the sensitive one that communicates in implications and minute expressions. If you're full enough of bravado, everyone you meet will be comparatively sensitive irrespective of gender. If you're sensitive enough everyone you meet will seem bossy. Just look at those Meyers-Briggs subreddits for the, uhh, I forget which ones correspond to this, but they're full of people complaining about how virtually everyone they meet is trying to steamroll them.



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