They always do this stuff and then deny they did it. You’d think they would be proud of it and just say, “Too bad if you don’t like it.” They don’t have confidence in their ideas.
“They don’t have confidence in their ideas.“
Exactly! They revel in the pose of the rebel but they wimper like babies when there’s blowback. BLOWBACK is the thing the rebel disdains and which infuses his act with courage and romance.