“Men in their late 30s are at the height of their SMV. Society should not try to “shame” them into squandering that (earned) power.”
Agreed—but more importantly men in their late 30s need to exercise using their middle finger—when any authority figure tries to tell them what they “should” do.
That is part of what power is.
I learned at an early age - as a schoolboy, actually - to discount what "Society" told me about a lot of things. "Social politics" and the "soft tyranny" of "but we've got to help the less-fortunate" topped the list.
But when it came to "romantic" relationships, concepts of chivalry, deference to female fickleness and whimsicality, etc., it took a long time for me to become "red-pilled."
The final realization was that the female psyche (not the "sexual drive" so much as the manipulativeness of women, their base materialism, their need for social validation, one-upmanship amongst women, their horror at the thought of going against group-think) is every bit as crass as some of the worse aspects of male sexuality.
In the crassest terms: A. The male of the species wants to rut - once that has been accomplished, and there is the prospect of it being regularly fulfilled in the future, men will sit contentedly at the campfire, belch, and scratch their navels. Civilization - incl. war, competition, technological progress, etc. - comes to a standstill.
B. But the female drive is insatiable. And it accomplishes its goals mostly by denying men A. - while dangling the prospect if certain conditions are fulfilled.
Regards,