If this means I have to take fencing lessons, I'm opposed

Honor Culture Is Back. We Eradicated It for a Reason.

One of the great successes of the movement against dueling and honor culture was to remove speech from the terrain of violence. Words — even vicious, insulting ones — could be exchanged without either party feeling it necessary to respond violently to keep face. But now words are said to be violence themselves, which supposedly makes it justifiable to meet them with violence.