I'll preface this by saying my best friend is a straight man. But are you guys okay?

When an animal in he wild is standing at its tallest, baring its teeth and ready to attack, that's not a stance of predatory cunning. It's fear and survival instinct, nothing more.

When two men found each other millennia ago, partnership and cooperation were born. The very minute a third made it onto the scene, rivalries, alliances and power struggles became inevitable. Because man is a physically stronger species, he became physically dominant. Physical dominance can lead to control on all levels.

Fast forward a few centuries and we have societies wherein men, still encoded with the instinctive fear from his hominid ancestors, is every day standing on his hind legs shouting at his loudest volume, all to show intimidation through abject fear. 10,000 years ago we did it with hierarchical roles; we still do that, but we also lace subjugation though our laws, our policies and procedures, our storytelling, our division of duties. And men have done this so well, so thoroughly and for so long that they can get the very women affected by this positioning to defend it.

And of course, like any respectable ne'er do well, they find it easier to blame others for what they know is bad behavior than to do an searching inventory resulting in shared power and opportunity.

When we stop worshipping everything that least makes a man a real man, maybe it'll be easier to legislate sanely, keep the disenfranchised from extremist organizations and create sound and egalitarian legislation. Until then, there's no reason men can't live by the same codes of decent conduct and executive thinking skills as women.