here is a mind experiment (you are traveling in another dimension... a dimension of the mind...):
you are in a crowded cafe somewhere in the USA during cafe business hours. you become aware that there is a taliban army approaching, and that it will arrive at the cafe in about 30 minutes. maybe someone sent you a video of the imminent invation at the city’s border which you just received by cell phone. however, this information only becomes known to you and no one else in the cafe.
naturally (naturally?) you immediately stand up and announce to everyone in the cafe that according to your reliable source, the taliban will be there in 30 minutes. and here is the proof (on a cell phone, which somehow you could and do display on the cafe tv monitor screens in this hypothetical scenario).
at the end of the video, more women in the cafe than not will just look at you, give you a moment’s worth of a blank stare, and then either go back to their coffee or decry you as unworthy of anyone’s attention.
according to my conjecture, the reason is that such women have evolved over time to accept any immediate or imminent show of force or power, regardless of its (lack of) legitimacy or its (lack of) mercy.
if your cafe happens to be in berkeley, the women will scream at you and maybe even become violent towards you (knowing that you, having identified yourself as calm and rational, most probably will remain calm and rational, while the imminently arriving taliban army will demand subservience at the points of weapons and injure or kill anyone who dares not to comply).
(aside: could even the TV series ST:Voyager be made today? iirc it featured the seven of nine character, who could resist the seemingly irresistible power of the borg even though she was a woman... implicitly, a celebration of the triumph of reason and intellect in a group setting over brute force and emotion).
I’m thinking of several women in my life. They’d be opening their pocketbooks and taking out their pistols.
Submitted for yor approval: You are in a crowded cafe somewhere in the USA during cafe business hours. you become aware that there is a Taliban army approaching, and that it will arrive at the cafe in about 30 minutes.
Your “test” is flawed at least for me and my circle. My wife and I and many of our friends would just leave the cafe with our loved ones. As opposed to getting caught up in the ensuing panic. Human panic is an immediate and very dangerous threat to my security.
Sorry, but that is my world forced on me by the hard lessons of life.