MGibster
Legend
I think it's very misleading, even a little bit silly to see it as a case of "weak/strong". A DM who rarely/never compromises may well be doing so because he's a pig-headed idiot who is afraid of "looking weak" (I definitely met this guy as a teenager), for example, not because he's actually strong/confident as a DM, just stubborn and a unable to accept it when he's wrong (I would say anyone who never played with a DM like that is lucky - weirdly often the same people are fine as players). Equally a DM who compromises frequently, may seem to some casual observer with macho ideas to be "weak", but in actuality well may well be just extremely good at improvising and doing "Yes and...", and well end actually convincing the players that a lot of stuff is "their own ideas" when it's actually the DM.
I wasn't really thinking of strong/weak in terms of macho. And whenever I hear macho I immediately think of the most heterosexual video filmed for the most manly heterosexual song ever.