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.