THorne: “This is a cultural force that causes them to be ultra competitive and results in violence against men by men.”

Culture is not an airborne virus or a gaseous medium. It’s us, that is, you and I and our neighbors. The things that you are talking about are not cultural forces; the process is neither impersonal nor anonymous. What you’re describing is men bullying other men to toe the party line.

That’s too bad — no one should be bullied, least of all into acts that are both immoral and dangerous. But it ought to be obvious what men get out of maintaining a culture of male violence. And I might be more sympathetic to my fellow men’s complaints of being victimized by expectations of masculinity that they would rather reject, if I saw any evidence that they were doing a damn thing to challenge or undermine that culture of male violence or those norms of masculinity, rather than just complaining about it as a strategic response to radical feminist arguments.