I love the implication that men do well when civilization breaks down, as if we were somehow immune to hunger, disease and violence.

Yea ... so in short, men lean psychopathic and women lean reasonable (stereotypically speaking, with however much divergence being potentially slight).

In the west, I'd suspect, beyond your comments, there's a tendency for men to feel like they have to pretend to be "tough", and often that translates into what the whole "toxic masculinity" thing is all about ... just shitty and dumb behaviours to the point that caring about something important can "make you look like a wimp".

I like a line Bill Burr threw at Joe Rogan when talking about vaccines etc, where Rogan said something stupidly "hyper-macho" and Burr straight way just yelled something to the effect of "Ok, let's all just drag our knuckles along the floor like we're apes now".

Jfc I'm a man but never imagined this. I'd be lying if I didn't think I'd find a way just because failure to protect my family is not an option, but I feel chest tightness when I imagine this becoming any sort of reality, because I recognize the reality of that scenario.

But I can totally imagine people with not enough sense to go beyond the fantasy story they've created for themselves. Like right wing welfare recipients, they are masochistic victims of their own making.

"think" being the key word.

There's a lot of generalization going on here.

As a man I have to say this has not been my experience growing up at all. I can not relate to anything you just said. Maybe your small circle lacked proper role models?

Can't fuck it, kill it, or eat it, so I guess it's harder to make some men care

Environmental activism? People even die for it like proper heroes!

Every year, more than 100 environmental activists are murdered throughout the world.

Although, to be fair, about half of them seem to be women.

Oh yes we have.