Castration threats in the movie.

As anti social as those people were, indeed, why did they think that any attempt to deviate from plans etc should result in removing a man's balls, isn't that a little too cruel etc, or are men frequently SO viewed as the disposable beings and their sex organs held in such contempt that, well, it is how it is?

Not that I even REMOTELY entertain any OPPOSITE ideas, but what if it was NOT a man in question etc, I mean, I can SOMEWHAT understand behind the threats and desires to remove a man's penis even if he didn't use it to violate anyone (yes you know what I mean, but I don't want to go into details and besides, this movie is NOT even ABOUT THAT so let's move on OK) and whatnot, but isn't that a bit too cruel AND perverse, mind you?

Like, at one point, Norton/Pitt's character and his gang threatened to castrate that man in the toilets, next point, the POLICE officers in a POLICE station threatened and were about to (!!!) do the same to Norton's character for interfering with Project Mayhem, isn't that a bit TOO much, damn it?

But more importantly, and IN THOSE SCENARIOS in particular in the movie, why do those men find the idea of castrating a man like that ACCEPTABLE and not especially disgusting, perverse, over the top cruel etc, I mean, this is WORSE than, as the movie's theme fits into it, just BEATING THEM UP, right?

Its a confusing world with elements of unexpected cruelty we are living in sometimes I tell thee.