There are a few popular sayings about this, but I like the line from Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007), where Denzel Washington's character Frank Lucas explains, "The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room."
And to really drive the point home, we can take a look at a thread on Reddit, asking men to share the most pathetic or ridiculous things another guy has done in an attempt to assert dominance over them. Their stories prove that "alpha" energy rarely lands the way machos hope.
