Want to know what BDE means? We have the answers

Confused by all this talk of BDE on the internet as of late? Don’t worry, we’re here to explain exactly what it means.

BDE is something that not all of us possess. Those who do have a power over the world that those without it long to have. Recently, The Cut put out an article outlining their beliefs of what BDE is and who they thought had it vs. who didn’t.

Obviously, this brought on an internet-wide argument of who actually has BDE and who was left to suffer from MDE (M for Mediocre) and LDE (L for Little). Now, there’s a pretty simple way to explain the phenomenon.

BDE isn’t so much confidence, but really a self-assurance. It is also wrong to assume BDE has anything to do with anatomy or size. As Vice so aptly put it, BDE “does not care for your pathetic gender binary and will not pander to it.” Case in point: Rihanna.

The lesser energies follow a similar path downwards. MDE is a very low-key, less showy but not a pathetic persona by any means. LDE is pretty pathetic though; consider those with LDE to exude whatever is going on with Johnny Depp now and forevermore.

Here are some of the internet’s picks for the BDE club.

Now for someone like me, I have made a list of those actors I love and their energy levels. Despite the insistence by my friends that my favorite, Sebastian Stan, doesn’t have BDE, he is going to be my example of the sly BDE members of the world. Considering the way he kisses (specifically as TJ Hammond in Political Animals), Stan has a level of BDE that differs in comparison to those other BDEs listed.

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You can make your case for who you think has BDE (or not) in the comments.