This was hard to read. I know the author meant well, but I have a lot of bones to pick with this. The shortened version of my gripes is this: Don't teach your daughter to excuse casual misogyny and seek "honorable" men, for whatever definition of that you might have (there seems to be a latent message of "don't be a slut" in here too, which is also a big problem). Women shouldn't have to put up with men who see dating as a bloodsport and women as "prey", and men who conceptualize their relationship with women like this are so profoundly complicit with misogyny that I don't see how compassion would do any good. The author uses colorful analogies as stand-ins for things that are very cold and dark, and I don't see how this is anything more than victim blaming.

I'd rather read the letter from a father to his son. At least this person realizes that socializing men is part of the problem here.