Here’s a great take on the Matthew Johns saga:
Men are capable of reasoning and judgement, and indeed are expected to exercise it at all times in our society. We’re not primal, ungovernable, raging beasts. Nobody ever says “you can’t expect men to drive competently when they’re so aggressive”; “you can’t expect men not to swear at police officers when drunk”; “you can’t expect men to not rob convenience stores when they don’t have any money”; “you can’t expect men not to engage in unwanted homosexual sexual advances when drunk”, etc. ad nauseam. It’s so obviously selective and self-serving to say this and ignore the fact that we as a society do sanction men for other forms of inappropriate behaviour, even when they’re young, even when they’re drunk, even when they’re “hot-blooded” etc. etc. Men are perfectly capable of adhering to social expectations, especiallywhen, for example, they have the incentive of being feted as model “gentleman” rugby league players. The problem is not some issue inherent to the biology or the psychology of the individual male.
