Borrowed authority
Kathryn Joyce sent me this article from Alternet as an exercise in laughing at the Internet Tough Guys who tend to go apeshit whenever anyone questions the toxic masculinity that holds their allegiance, and believe me, the comments on it went from hilarious to just sickening. Because we're talking about the myth of "man as caveman" (which tends to pair of neatly with the illogical myth that women are somehow more civilized, as if one half of the species could evolve without the other half)---which is used to defend everything from rape to male cheating (as if female cheating doesn't exist) to, and I suspect this is most important to myth proponents, making your wife feel bad for daring to be older than 16---the internet hooligans went bananas. I think this Nice Guy® whining is my favorite: