[Helianthus16]

You missed the point. You're comfortable enough with your equal status to openly deflate their status, _because_ you both know it doesn't mean anything. Fair trade/permission giving: later they can tease you and lower your status.

Then real dicks use that sort of friendship to only lower the status of their friends, which is why we call them dicks.

[afterburner]

Nah, I didn't miss the point, I got it square on. I just wanted to make the point about equality, which the post I replied to doesn't: "comfortable enough with the status dynamics of your relationship" doesn't necessarily indicate equality.