This makes a lot of sense. It also helps explain the initial charm and charisma of so many male sociopaths and narcissists to women: it’s that attitude of confidence that can trigger so many of those subconscious mechanisms of attraction you talk about.
As someone else explained in a few posts further up, it’s a very delicate balance that women find attractive, consciously:
“ Women want a man who is in control but not controlling.
who is affectionate but not needy…”, etc…
The problem is, though, that those powerful underlying, subconscious mechanisms of attraction, unfortunately, are not very sophisticated in making those subtle but important distinctions, and often end up misreading rudeness as assertiveness, or recklessness as courage, or coldness as rugged individualism, etc… only to find out too late what they are really stuck with is some cold narcissist/psychopath.