In all seriousness, a marker of all the major and several minor white male antagonists in OFMD is a faith in their infallibility and inability to admit they're wrong, coupled with increasing rage when they're told no or have events go against them.
Nigel is convinced that Stede is weak and stupid, and even insists that his memories of Stede as a child supersede Stede's own.
Izzy is convinced that he's indispensable, a pinnacle of white masculinity, strength, and ability, and when events do not fit his personal narrative, he lies about them. Whenever he is told no, he ignores it.
Jack rewrites his personal narrative multiple times with himself centralized as the victim. When Stede suggests that he may know Ed better than Jack, Jack refuses to accept this and escalates his behavior in retaliation. When Ed himself protests that he's changed, Jack laughs in his face. Jack being the only one with the right to define Ed is fundamental to his own sense of self.
Chauncey throws a fit, claims that the world has turned upside down, and then gets raging drunk when events go against him - the rule of law that he is claiming to obey is supposed to work for him, and he has a breakdown when it works against him.
Ricky rewrites the narrative of his mutilation as an attack by pirates - something in which he has no culpability - and then later declares himself the greatest pirate because he's bested other pirates.
All of the white male antagonists obey codes and rules as long as these codes and rules are working for them, then declare the rules null if they allow others to win instead. They rewrite narratives in which they are in the right, avoiding responsibility and undermining the possibility that they're wrong. They are incapable of growth because they do not see themselves as people who should grow. If they fail, it is because the rest of the world is unfairly against them and it has to be put right; if they succeed, it is because they naturally gifted and this is part of the natural order.
And much of the blame for their personal failings are placed on Ed and Stede - an exceptional brown man and a femme one. The anger and blame directed at them is because of their audacity at being exceptional, fortunate, loved, or supported.
OFMD accurately depicts the failings of white male patriarchy, and the whining and escalation of violence that goes along with it.
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