This is definitely an area with a fairly large gap between the reactions that men and women get. One thing that’s useful to keep in mind though is that men who

This is definitely an area with a fairly large gap between the reactions that men and women get. One thing that’s useful to keep in mind though is that men who talk like this probably do also receive negative feedback. Negative feedback is not the end of the story, and in my experience one of the most useful skills a person can develop is to acknowledge negative feedback and then consciously decide how and whether to integrate it into behavior change. Some behaviors can be both correct and make people uncomfortable. Of course this mechanic is also “gendered” in the sense that women would probably be less inclined to dismiss said feedback due to a lifetime of being raised as people pleasers (obviously not all women/cultures/etc), but this may be a place where it makes sense to undo some of that training and say, “if what I say is correct and useful, their discomfort with my speaking up is a problem for them to deal with.”