Men reacting to cases like the Cornell 7 by talking loudly about how they want to kill or brutalize rapists has always felt the same to me as fathers going “I would die for my family” and then not even doing the dishes. Like this performative fantasizing about glorious violence that they will most likely never be called to act on is such an easy ego boost for men who want to hold themselves separate from “bad men” without actually having to put in effort to improve the material conditions of the women in their lives, and ultimately it has nothing to do with whether rapists “deserve” to die/suffer for their actions because none of these men are actually going out and killing/brutalizing rapists. Because that would require them to do something about rapists, you know? And they won’t even do the dishes.