I meant that men have a tendency to turn on women in various ways once any of various conditions destabilize the hierarchy, up to and including mass rape during war I'm an effort to reestablish stability through acts of domination.

I grant you, like most things involving human behavior, wartime mass rape are multifacited. But there's a through line there.

War is certainly destabilizing. Conditions are often rough. Uncertainty and Fear is at a high. You come across a village or town and you rout the defense.

Typically women are non combatants. They may even feel like they've been liberated. And yet war time mass rapes and other violations of women happen in every war. And, often in the aftermath of war.

As for the rest of your comment, well that's sort of the question feminism and other humanist movements is answering, isn't it?

Is this violence a maladaption or a bug that can be redesigned using our human propensity for imitation and our plastic brains or is a foundational design feature?

Depending on that answer, where do we go from here?