In support of the rage of man

[bennyboy]

I'm not sure what can be done about it. 

But if society demonises aggressive male behaviour then eventually men will evolve to be less aggressive and society can function better.

Evolution doesn't work like that.  Unless you're talking about eugenics, the species will have to survive at some point without a Costco to buy discount doilies at.  At some point, we're going to interact with animals, with hostile others, and so on.

You're also making a very big mistake in assuming that aggressive men have an evolutionary disadvantage, right here and right now.  I very much doubt that. It seems to me that the pacifist types are likely to be much less successful on the breeding front than red-blooded alpha males, and for obvious reasons.

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@bennyboy

Sometimes men are dickheads and should be treated accordingly. No good comes from infantilizing adults of any gender.

Yep, and sometimes children are little shits, and women are psycho bitches from hell.  We're chimps with better technology.

But pretending chimps choose to act like chimps just to be dickheads is unrealistic and unfair to chimps.

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Currently aggression is encouraged throughout the Anglophone world.

In every popular movie, the hero is the one who makes the most effective use of violence. 

If physical violence isn't possible, verbal aggression is considered a useful substitute. Those who speak against this are told to shut up and take it.

A good example is that we'll pay the most brutal black men we can find to line up in a football game and smash their skulls into each other's abdomens for our vicarious entertainment. . . and then act shocked and outraged when they do something brutal when they have conflicts in their daily lives. And it's not just men who enjoy it-- there's a fascination among the females of our species with brutes. I'd imagine it's something about knowing that if the shit hits the fan, you have a moderately well-trained gorilla to rampage on your behalf.

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Therapy and medication.

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Yep, works great for misbehaving children, and cures homosexuality with outstanding success. . . because medication is the best cure for whatever you decide is wrong with someone else. You forgot to mention frontal lobotomy and castration, by the way.