Some years ago, I was teaching a class on the Sociology of Gender. I decided to surprise my students with a topic that they knew all too well, but rarely — at that time — made it into the college classroom. We were discussing the fallacy of claims that gendered behavior is biological (since gender is a social construct and its requisite behaviors change considerably by time and place). I gave students a reading asserting that certain “toxic” male behaviors were simply innate. That these attributes were so tied to the Y-chromy that it was impossible to disentangle the DNA from the dick moves. I asked my students to respond to a prompt about it in class in small groups:

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