On the second floor of the Bruce there was a mostly empty meeting hall, robin’s-egg-blue walls beneath a low-paneled ceiling, three brass seagulls next to an unused bar, and, at the back, selling swag, the women of the men’s rights movement. Not girlfriends or wives. They were the Honey Badgers, their name taken from a viral YouTube video of the actual creature, a ferocious, skunk-backed African weasel, shrugging off first a swarm of bees then the bite of a cobra in the pursuit of its prey. “Honey badger don’t give a shit,” says the voiceover. Such is the slogan of the Honey Badgers, who do
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