With an intro like that, I just had to read, despite it looking way off my usual subject, at first. Very well written, you are obviously a wordsmith, thanks for the read.
Does it strike you at all that there might be more than a distinct flavour of gender warfare in the politics? Male aggressors are always painted as the worst kind of evil, regardless of what passive-aggressive events might have led to the aggression, actual, preemptive physical aggression is distinctly male, and always, always “wrong”.