Yes, I know, we shouldn’t have to do a damn thing. Our men and boys shouldn’t have to prove that they’re worthy of being treated with the same regard that other folk take for granted. But the stakes are too high to quibble over what should be the case while ignoring what is the case: Our men often have fatal encounters in a culture that thinks they are not human, thinks they are undeserving of respect and finds them guilty of a menace that can only be erased once they’re dead.