If someone I know is aggressive and alpha male type. He is nice and helpful to me but treated me like I am just a "cute little girl". I just want to stand my ground and show him that I am as capable as he is. What are good ways to show him that? I just feel like he is proving to his ego that he is nice but that he doesn't respect me. Should I become aggressive too? Play along with his thought of me (he doesn't think female are capable in his field)? How to assert my self and be confident in front of him? He is intimidating and belittling.