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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is correct.

Society in the US,  particularly among the college-educated, has turned toxic for boys.

Men have a lower rate of participation in the workforce.

Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and autism.

Males are more likely than females to drop out of high school, and the ones who do go on to college are less likely than their female peers to graduate.

They are barraged with constant and conflicting messages about what it means to be a man, and the consequences of failing to live up to other people's ideas about modern masculinity can be severe.

And all of this is difficult to talk about because the simultaneous cultural crescendo of misogyny and the war on women's rights (particularly on social media) is so intense, it has created a zero sum game expectation around our basic humanity.

It has become a no-win scenario to grow up male in America now.[/quote]

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Yes, there was/is a patriarchy but it’s not like the youngest generation of boys are being advantaged by it. But society is trending towards misandry. It’s not even something that people keep on the down-low. There’s a lot of open vitriol aimed at males. Older generations might deserve it, but they’re not the ones being affected by it.

I do see a lot of flame baiting in this thread, and am not trying to add to it but I see a lot of blatant double standards by many feminists. “Equal” means “equal”, it doesn’t mean “give us equal standing and prestige amongst the things dominated/run by males… but also let us keep the perks females have always had”. [/quote]

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