I was already a reader by this point, but reading The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978) when I was in third grade... was so good. Turtle Wexler was the greatest girl hero because I, too, was an angry little girl with a long braid. And it was a good mystery.

Wow. I clicked over to the MRA wiki from the "myth" reference in the male privilege article, and found a massive page, with 154 sources. The male privilege page ends above the fold and has ten sources.

I find it funny they justify such a lengthy and richly-sourced explanation of the defense of men's rights when they…

In the study that concluded rival male infanticide preceded monogamy, only primate species were analyzed, btw.

Why wouldn't a behavior that arises as a result of social dynamics be a "social construct" regardless of the species? Non-human animals form complex social groups.

And I'm saying I don't think that was the purpose of the line as it was written. Maybe you don't talk that way in your day-to-day, but plenty of people do.

"When someone makes you come as hard as I do, you should be smiling when I walk into a room," seems like a perfectly ordinary thing to say, particularly if you're long-term level comfortable with them. Cutting to the chase with mild levity. Nothing trying to be "edgy" about that writing.