I don't believe the worst of male misogynistic behavior will be much changed by anticipating a mid-life epiphany among adult males. It flies in the face of their conditioning. Their behavior is largely entrenched as boys by interactions and observations in their families, their churches, their schools, in sports, on the job, and in the military. Boys are taught to suppress emotions like empathy and sensitivity to others. They are encouraged to be forceful, direct and physically threatening. Gender bias is obvious from a boy's earliest remembrances and through adolescence. We tell them to be brave, don't cry, defend yourself forcefully, act like a man (not a girlie-boy) and pursue women with annoying persistence.

That is our social norm. And neither adult men nor women or the institutions they support are doing much to make the boy a compassionate and considerate man. Good guys aren't born. They are guided always and held to higher standards by all persons of influence.

I know a lot of good guys. They exist. I've met a number of really shitty boys and men.

Mamas (and daddies) don't let your babies grow up to be assholes. If you aren't the solution then you are the problem.