I think its the handed down inequality thats the problem, not the authority of men but the inequality of women - I Actually think that men are far more threatened by having to hold up this masculine persona than women are - holding up the feminine persona - When I was a plasterer I sometimes worked on big schemes and the men would either play dirty tricks on me and /or completely isolate me it never entered their head to co-operate, (apart from the builders co-operative I was part of where we all respected each other equally) Its as if they have to keep proving over and over that they are better than - I am not talking about every man but it seems we as a society put a big weight on men to be 'real' MEN!- I have heard so many men calling each other a wuss or softie but why - as far as I can see ,cut us we all bleed, and some of us can cry too.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but we could get along just fine with only half of the male population. Just a thought, gentlemen.

it's too many humans

You could look at it the other way too. Either way it's wrong, but to blame men is wrong too. Not all men, or people for that matter, are sadistic or just plain fucked up. I'm the US about 60% of all reported domestic violence is men against women. Most men don't report domestic abuse.

"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression."--S. Hawking

It is an ugly and ongoing legacy. It is an improvement I think that it is finally out in the open and not a forbidden subject. Abuse of all sorts has been normative in the past, basically without recrimination at all. Behaviors were once just the behavior and not considered or called out as abuse. It is not our consciousness that is the tragedy it is that we have been so unconscious for so long. We see it now. Its horrible, Its everywhere. It is better that we see.

power corrupts; absolute power absolutely corrupts.

That is a very difficult question to answer. Perhaps we are just continuing to evolve out of the basic animal instincts to dominate and there being alfa-male mentality.

I think authority is a major poison. ANyone can be an abuser