Hey, you know what?

You're right.

This study focuses pretty much entirely on forced marriage as a punishment for men/boys who fail to live up to hypermasculine standards.

I misread it.

... It is nearly midnight, and I lost my glasses years ago now.

Doing this whole convo on a cheap phone I bought at a gas station years ago now, many states away.

Homelessness is not fun.

Either way, yep, my bad, I did not represent this study accurately, apologies.

Maybe tomorrow I'll try to find a study that actually attempts to even document the male propensity to... act physically, and violently, on behalf of someone they care about, as compared to women...

But frankly, I am both baffled by how difficult it is to find like, statistically valid, large sample studies on this, as well as being baffled by your incredulity to the validity of this concept.

I... guess maybe a lookup of man on man v man on women v women on women assault and battery and murder statistics... if they all actually include some kind of 'why did this occur' in the records... could verify or falsify this... but it seems like I would literally have to do such a meta analysis myself.

That... or it is midnight and I am too tired to figure out how to search for such a study properly.

Either way, the... entire ingrained, toxic masculinity/patriarchy paradigm... men being both socially expected to, and being generally physically more naturally predisopsed to do acts of physical violence, often to uphold the honor of, of avenge an insult to a friend or lover...

This concept is so widely ingrained in nearly all cultures, through nearly all history... and is easily visible if one ever just... goes to a moderately busy bar or other social event with a good mix of men and women...

That I am incredulous at your incredulity of this being a phenomenon that happens, that a guy will insult another guy's girlfriend, and this will cause a fight between the two men.

I understand your desire for actual empirical numbers to work with, but I do no comprehend how you can doubt that... this is a common thing that happens quite often, it is a huge part of patriarchy and toxic masculinity itseld.

Anyway... I'm off to bed now.