There's a lot of brutal enforcement of dominance in chimp societies too. I wouldn't really look to them for strategies on how to run a successful society.

Anyway, the fundamental question is: are we going to structure things as basically-decent-but-somewhat-flawed people vs. manipulative assholes, or are we going to structure things as women vs men?

When we do the latter, we naturally get Tates as champions for the most belligerent wing of Team Man.