If men are not supposed to tell women how women must behave, what right do women have to demand that men cater to their interest? Who are they to tel… - Jack Donovan

Masculinity is about being a man within a group of men. Above all things, masculinity is about what men want from each other.

Blood-brotherhood is one recurring cultural solution to the problem of recognizing powerful emotional bonds between men that avoids effeminizing comparisons to romantic courtship and affirms the masculinity of the men involved.

Our complex society relies on proxy violence to the extent that many average people in the private sector can wander through life without really having to understand or think deeply about violence, because we are removed from it. We can afford to perceive it at a distant, abstract problem solved through high-minded strategy and social programming. When violence comes a knocking, we simply make a call, and the police come to "stop" the violence.