Image of Egyptian army men stripping, kicking veiled female protester creates social media buzz

[JoeyT]

23. It's mostly because it's men that are in a position to be violent.

I know plenty of women that, if they were in the right position, would be just as violent as the men. All are well to the right of center (of course they are) and regularly cheer this sort of thing on.

I'd say the main problem is that men are the dominant gender in all the societies you mentioned. The dominant anything is generally perfectly happy to use violence in an attempt to keep that dominance and any other real or perceived dominance at all costs. In a more equal society, men would be less conditioned to believe they can get away with violence against people that are either unable to, or not allowed to(either legally or through social pressure or both), defend themselves. At the risk of attracting a swarm of outraged MRAs, I'm going to go ahead and use the phrase "rape culture".

It's not a control issue. Pepper spray cop for example was perfectly in control. He just thought anyone that challenged him or his ideas should be punished, especially if the targets weren't allowed to fight back. It was deliberate and malicious, and so was this, which makes it far worse.