Adult men are convinced and sincere in their perception of adult women in particular as objects. This perception of women transcends categories of sexual orientation, political philosophy, nationality, class, race, and so forth. The boy has a choice. The boy chooses to become a man because it is better to be a man than a woman. Becoming a man requires that the boy learn to be indifferent to the fate of women.
Indifference requires that the boy learn to experience women as objects.
The poet, the mystic, the prophet, the so-called sensitive man of any stripe, will still hear the wind whisper and the trees cry. But to him, women will be mute. He will have learned to be deaf to the sounds, sighs, whispers, screams of women in order to ally himself with other men in the hope that they will not treat him as a child, that is, as one who belongs with the women. A boy, or his mother, is threatened, hit, or molested. A boy experiences male force as its victim or as a witness.