"The manosphere has built a rhetoric that demonizes stepping in to stop an assault or defending a survivor as ultimate violations of the “bro code,” which risks instant exile from masculine society. This effectively converts peer pressure into complicity, teaching young men to prioritize loyalty to the male circle over basic morality and advocacy."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/23/the-cornell-7-and-the-machinery-of-male-impunity/
This is nothing new.
This is modern, civilized man.
This is elite man.
And we wonder why we face collapse?
Gerry McGovern
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