"We liken these men to gladiators and warriors."

(Scientific American, January 6, 2023)

Gladiators can cry too.

Steve, watched the players' tears when the Bill's Damar Hamlin collapsed on the grid.

Saw the tears in young men's eyes when their under-18 hockey teams lost their chance at the Gold in the recent World Junior Championships.

Of course, some non-egalitarian feminists would mock this example of toxic masculinity.

On the contrary, it showed that men are fully human: they embody both a dark and a light side.

The travesty in the gender wars is that men still account for 95% of all workplace fatalities.

Men still put themselves at great risk for death and injury and lower life expectancy, and not just for themselves but also for their families.

The problem of non-egalitarian feminism using men as catalytic lightning rods as the vilified others is that such machinations creep downward to infect children...you know, boys.

And tell enough boys and young men that they don't matter, then they will most assuredly enact that inculcation and as you suggest, people like Andrew Tate will reel them in.

Perhaps the authors that said it best are two feminist writers, Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson, in their last of four academically sound books dealing with Misandry: 'Replacing Misandry'.

"This new approach sets the stage for understanding a profound and growing problem that our society must face: the increasing inability of boys and men to create or sustain a healthy collective identity. "

"The authors define this as an identity that is distinctive, necessary, and therefore publicly valued. "

"Without a healthy and positive identity, two current trends will continue: giving up (dropping out of school, society, or even life itself) and attacking a society that has no room for men specifically as men, believing that even a negative identity, acted out in antisocial ways, is better than none at all."

And I could shed tears over our failure to take heed of their words, words written in 2015 no less.

Thanks for writing another good one.