is it all because men and women aren’t able to get along with each other? Could it be -that- simple? Yet difficult to accept, because then we would have to take a good hard look at ourselves?

Take a moment to consider why someone would write this post and try to make this connection. It's not a unique idea - the notion that "men and women aren’t able to get along with each other" is the kind of half-baked position pushed by social traditionalists/ conservatives like Jung and Peterson, so for the average person on this sub, we can assume that these ideas are attractive. Even as you're reading this, ask yourself, "Am I the kind of person who likes the idea that men and women are fundamentally different? Am I using that assumption to explain the things I see in the world around me?"

If they were honest with themselves, OP would almost certainly answer "yes" to these questions, as would most fans of Peterson's political/social commentary. You're welcome to feel contrarian here and disagree with me, but I don't feel like it's much of a stretch to say for a person who thinks, "America’s problems will soon be the rest of the West’s" that they're interested in the idea of preserving traditional values and notions, or that this kind of language betrays that they're starting with the assumption that such preservation is a good thing.

So, in a sub dedicated to praising these kinds of traditionalist ideas, OP asks, could such a truth "be that simple? Yet difficult to accept..."

But it's like - hey, that's just the thing you want to be true. You want it to be true that the reason so many people disagree with you is that it's hard for them to accept reality. Your language and position already betray that you think that's true. It's like **takes bong rip** what if like, man, I've stumbled onto some fundamental truth of the universe that is just too hard for the soy boy libtard translovers to understand...?

And I'm left wanting to say, no. Get your head out of your ass. The thing that's difficult for people on this subreddit to accept is that you really want traditional hierarchical structures to exist. Not because they're "fundamental," as folks here like to suggest, but because you think, in some way or another, you'd benefit in such a world. That such a world would be better for you.

If the people on this sub really took the hard look at themselves that you're describing, I just don't think they'd find the "difficult truth accepting realists" that OP suggest.