Males Displaying Dominance and Masculinity

Vinaka Cafe is full of males attempting to glorify their dominance and emphasize their masculinity by publicly displaying their intellectualism. I came to this conclusion quickly after watching what some of the guys were doing and then spending just a couple minutes with a group of them. They were constantly trying to one-up each other by knowing more about a given subject. One male would often interject with words which were not included in my own vocabulary. His elitist circumlocution included words such as nefarious and others that I cannot remember as a result of my lack of understanding. Another male spoke of creating a list of his top ten albums of the year. Among them were various obscure artists including Handsome Furs and Mount Eerie. A third male was just reading Allen Ginseberg's Howl, underlining and marking phrases. I asked him if it was for an assignment and he replied "Well, not particularly. I assigned it to myself." Having personally read Howl for pleasure I can say that this was an obvious attempt to display intellectualism as there is nothing to annotate without specificity of assignment. Watching all of this, I was reminded of John Smith and how his knowledge of the world and its technology had impressed Pocahontas. John Smith had shown his dominance and masculinity by displaying his intelligence which resulted in Pocahontas' intrigue.