The Australian men are said to have a saying: Treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen.
Women often appear to want an aggressive, dominant, male.
Hmmmm....
I was having a bar stool chat with an Italian stallion once and he rattled off a list of countries where women he had met on vacation in Malta had invited him to visit them. His best line about women was: “it does not pay to be nice.” I had to LOL at that.
Women will literally step on a pleasant librarian guy type to get to an edgy bad boy type.