Unfortunately, even those who should know better fall for this gynocentric crap that masculinity is naturally about protecting women. Example:

https://x.com/i/status/2073061078637101500

No, masculinity is NOT about protecting women and no such instinct exists in men. Masculinity is about men getting together and doing stuff, whether that is hunting animals, warring with other male groups or gang raping women. In some native American and African tribes, men were getting together and gang raped women as punishment for transgressions. Does that sound like protecting women to you? Do you think when the Greeks went to war for Helen that it was about Helen herself?

Men show interest in protecting the women of their tribe, but that is because of male honor, not because men are naturally protective towards women. If another man comes and rapes your sister, he offends your honor and masculinity. At this point you were supposed to rape his own sister in retaliation. This is why traditionally, rape was seen as an offense against the male guardian of the woman, not against the woman herself.

As Yukio Mishima points out, it's only thanks to Christianity that women came to be seen as people. It's Christian western chivalry that gave birth to the idea that women are people. And don't get me wrong, of course women are people and worthy of protection, but the point is THAT FROM THE MALE POINT OF VIEW they aren't.

Masculinity is defined entirely by other men, not by women. Anyone who says masculinity is about protecting women is espousing gynocentric feminism.

Lets see what Yukio Mishima had to say:

https://wiki.chadnet.org/discourse-on-misogyny

"The meaningless vestiges of the chivalric spirit earn frowns from Japanese travelers everywhere in the West, but that such tendencies are spreading in Japan as well spurs on the sincerity of my patriotic concern for Japan's future3. Even I open doors for women, allow them to enter cars first, and lend them an arm when crossing the street as a compromise with the world, but inside I am telling them to eat shit. In general, even going by average life expectancy, women necessarily live longer than men, and it is strange that short-lived human beings must take care of long-lived human beings.

Montherlant4 mocked and insulted women, and this young nobleman was surely full of indignation at the chivalric spirit. However, since he did not attempt a revolt against the Christian spirit, which formed the womb of the chivalric spirit, his novels are exceedingly tepid, and they are comical for a Japanese to read. My misogyny surely has deep roots in anti-Christianity. Thus, I view Christianity as the most harmful thing that modern Japan has adopted from Western civilization.

The corruption of morals has also occurred from the side of women. A morality that reduces men's ability for work and binds men to a sexual existence was proposed from the side of women, and countries like America have sustained frightful harm thanks to women. Evil humanisms are always womanly. That morality particular to men, the morality of Rome, was distorted by Christianity into a universal human morality. The corruption of morality began at that time. The neutralization of morality began. Such things as monogamy are mythical sophistries that ignore the distinction of sex of morality. Women fixate on that. They fixate from a human perspective. That women were given this foothold caused the morals of men to collapse. Men lost the integrity of the Romans and learned to lie. Men learned that lying from women. Christian morality fundamentally contains hypocrisy. That is because the moral aim, the concocted universal humanity, lie in the equality of men before God. Contrary to this, in the pagan world of antiquity, to be human was to be a man. Men had moral responsibilities following the enhancement of manly virtue. This is because it is the function of men to comprehend the structure of the world, lend a hand to its construction, and will its domination. As a result of men having been caused to lose this pride, men have permitted themselves to abandon their position as specialists in morality, women have been allowed to complain about and interfere in morality, and finally, I think that this has invited the moral collapse of today. Speaking from one side, men have escaped moral responsibility thanks to the advancement of women."