No, you're thinking WAY too literally. Social norms are created and upheld in just exactly this way - and those norms contribute to a culture where rape is common, and often not even recognized as rape by some men because it's so much the way they have been messaged to behave toward and think of women.
You know so little about this stuff that you don't even begin to know what you don't know.
“This is not to say that young women and other groups of young people always bond in respectful ways. But to prevent violence against women, we need to specifically look at male bonding over the disrespect of women and girls — because the evidence tells us that this is a key driver of violence against women.”
According to The Man Box, Promundo’s study of young men ages 18 to 30 in the US, UK, and Mexico, harmful ideas around masculinity are linked to a higher likelihood of perpetrating violence. The study found that men who identify more strongly with stereotypical notions of masculinity — or who are in the “Man Box” — are up to six times more likely to report having perpetrated sexual harassment, and up to seven times more likely to have used physical violence. The associations between harmful masculine norms and violence are so strong, that if we got rid of the Man Box all together, we could reduce sexual violence in the US by at least 69 percent annually.
