Given how crap a rider I am, I'm never going to look tough, even if I rivet spikes down the back of my armour, dress in lots of black and scowl permanently. That being the case, having triple clamps isin't going to make me look tougher, it's going to make me look like more of a try hard, overage tool.
That said, they feel plusher to ride on and the slackening off on the head angle and the extra travel up front makes me feel like I'm less likely to go over the bars when I utterly gumby up whatever timid thing it is I'm attempting to do.
Of course, I've already proven to myself that if I'm enough of a talentless gumby I'm more than capable of going over the bars, even with triple clamps, it just requires a little more effort or stupidity on my part.
I feel safer and more comfortable on the bike, therefore I ride better and the rake out in the head angle suits dh more. (not that I'd classify myself as a DH rider)
For the record, I don't think cam-o believes in hardtails... silly painful things!