Frat boy syndrome and the bullies who want wealth and power | Letters

Beware frat boy syndrome, says Bill Myers, and toxic childishness, says Kit Jackson, while Clarinda Cuppage warns of the trauma caused by sexual abuse

Jonathan Freedland (The insidious force in global politics? Toxic masculinity, 29 September) is right in his account of the dangers of worldwide masculine entitlement.

What we saw in Brett Kavanaugh’s performance on Capitol Hill was that and more. It was a display of frat boy syndrome: the right of rich, privately educated males who club together in fraternity houses on US campuses to bully anyone who gets in the way of their collective, self-righteous, self-admiring pursuit of wealth or power. And that includes other men, not least most of Trump’s supporters. These bands of brothers endow elite universities with huge donations that perpetuate the dominance of their class.

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