They don't go off in a corner and sulk because their male vanity has been wounded!
It had all been a question of "size" and male vanity.
I will have no more of your silly shouting and wounded male vanity.
His male vanity wouldn't permit him to look scared.
"You certainly did when you pampered his male vanity so outrageously."
The work also lampoons male vanity and chauvinism in the military.
Susan knew that he accepted the story without question; it was part of the male vanity.
He would have pushed himself anyway, driven by male vanity, by pride.
Watches occupy a singular role in the pantheon of male vanity.
There are hints in that duet of a wry commentary on male vanity.