"You might be a laugh, but you have a vibe where other people aren’t going to share their innermost personal stuff. They get a feeling that you’re not able to give it back."
Or, you know, rip the piss out of them for sharing anything that matters.
Anyone else find this piece curiously unreflective? There appears to be only one way in which men can interact with other men, drunken banter. It's a never-ending episode of Men Behaving Badly. And the answer, it turns out, is _not_ to try and go beyond what amounts to a juvenile way of interacting with people, but... be better at organising activities where that "belligerent way of occupying space" can happen?