short for Big Dick Energy (from Vox): the complete security of not needing other people’
s benchmarks — wealth, intelligence,
beauty, or a BD — to know
one’s own worth.
Any suspicion of tryhard vibes kills BDE, as does the kind of cockiness that speaks of insecurity: the true BDE-haver is respectful to those around them, but with swagger. Someone with BDE
will never text an unsolicited dick pic, because it would simply never occur to them.