What is a badass? Is it a specific person, a look, a hairstyle, clothes... no, it varies person by person. It’s character, the way you compose yourself but more importantly it’s how that person deals with whatever disability or impairment they have. It’s confidence in your disability/impairment. The person you picture when you think of the word badass has dealt with some sort of disadvantage either throughout or at some point in their life. You aren’t born a badass, nobody is, it’s built, and cannot be bought, that’s why it’s so attractive. The way you perceive and deal With that impairment it what either makes or breaks that “badass” character you desperately want to be. You weren’t born to be a certain way or assume some sort of position; sure you have a few distinct traits that make you who you are, but life is about experience and how you use that experience to better equip yourself. Imagine you walk into a massive room where you expect to hear some sort of presentation. The person that walks out to give that speech has a stutter, and he prefaces with some kind of light-hearted joke about it, the audience sees that confidence and he continues to give a great speech. The average person might only realize, “that man has a stutter, and he gave a great speech, even I, a fluent speaker would be hesitant to stand up there in front of hundreds of people and give a speech, they would say he has confidence.” You or me on the other hand, as a stutterer, would pay close attention during the speech, noticing every technique to overcome a block or stutter, watching how that person is able to execute that speech. We would then think to ourselves “that man is a confident, unscathed badass.” Being a manly man, or for lack of a better word being an Alpha male, is nothing short of possible. As I’m sure you know, Joe Biden is the soon the be president in the USA; the most powerful position one could have. Joes an inspiration, an equally a badass.