So you aren't really bloviating or bombastic?

Oh no, I really am. I play to my strengths.

With "my competitors" in the class it was frustrating. We seemed to be playing a zero-sum game with no Pareto-optimal moves, I couldn't steer them ethically toward other women I myself found to be less of a match maturity wise, value-wise, or responsibility-wise, and I couldn't sabotage them because to build a relationship on such a dishonorable victory invited the possibility of denying her the best companion