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.