If you have never been to war, aren’t a minority (especially Black), or just unlucky, you have probably never encountered immediate physical danger and violence in America. With all its problems, this is stll an amazingly safe place to live. It is a generally peaceful bubble in a generally violent world. This makes violence an abstraction to most Americans, while it is a concrete reality in most of the world, where women, children, the weak and the old are commonly prey.

My point about men/women is just based on biology. Men’s bodies evolved differently than womens’. Men are bigger and stronger than women. There will always be meaningless exceptions, but this is still a fact. The strong are always an implied threat to the weak, even if they they don’t choose to use their strength. This ripples through history and culture in a multitude of ways. Mostly bad, if sometimes necessary.