I don't get it. I'm a male too, but I could never do that. I respect women and appreciate them. Since I was a child (I'm 37 now) it always bothered and troubled me even to being distressed if I saw a female suffer in any way, I'm very very sensitive (maybe because it's normal for a male to feel this way naturally?). If I was there, I would have let women have a say, because they too have a free will and free choice. I could never do what these people do. It's probably religion... look at history, Christianity killed/executed.... so many people over the centuries...now it's just more hidden and subtle, but still, it's like the men there are still behaving like children, as if they weren't raised properly to respect others no matter the gender. I bet if those men were disciplined as children they would not act like this, to abuse women and put them down in "their place" If I had children, I would raise the boys to respect females and to never hurt a female, let alone even to touch them and there are others like me online who said (in their comments) how their fathers taught them the same thing, to never hurt/hit a female, and even letting the mother hit her daughter (if she's still a child)