Reconciling the Badass with the Gentleman

These past few days, I've been contemplating a different way of explaining being both badass and being a gentleman. And if I'm not mistaken, I may have reached a bit of an aha moment. This revelation was actually inspired by two Bruce Lee quotes. The result is a hopefully useful explanation of how the badass concept can coexist harmoniously with the gentleman concept, despite the fact that the two can oftentimes ran directly counter to one another.

When Bruce Lee decided to go Super-Saiyan...

If you're like me, you remember some of the Bruce Lee classics, like "Enter the Dragon" where his sculpted body looks like every muscle fiber was developed solely for the purpose of optimizing ass kicking. He wasn't always built that way. There was a turning point, which his wife, Linda Lee Cadwell, pinpoints as the crucial moment when Bruce decided to go Super-Saiyan.