One of the issues that gets brought up in the men's rights movement is the disproportionate number of men at the bottom of society. Men make up most of the destitute, the homeless, the incarcerated, and the hungry. Men are overwhelmingly the ones who suffer in society, and very little help is given to them when they need it.

In turn, this is also the reason men are more successful. It is not because society or the patriarchy helps put them there. It is because men see what happens to them at the bottom of society, so they struggle and fight to make it somewhere else in life. It is because of their fear and terror of becoming another statistic that drives them to succeed. And they often do so against a society that puts artificial hurdles in front of them, often in the name of "equality".

California just passed a law requiring every company to have at least one woman on the board of directors. Their intentions are fine, but they are still misguided. All this will do is harm men who have to fight even harder to escape from the grips of destitution that plagues them when they fail to succeed. This is a problem that women don't face in life. They do not need extra help. And the fact that there are fewer women CEOs is itself a reflection of the inherent comfort and privilege that most women enjoy in life. Women don't have to fight and struggle the way men do because they are often the indirect beneficiaries of this struggle. Why be a CEO when you can marry one instead? Why work extra hard to advance your career when you can collect child support and welfare? These are options that men don't have in life, and that is why you find more men fighting and struggling to make it to the top.

California wants there to be more women on the board of directors of public companies. The way I see it, there are two ways you can do this.

  1. Remove the social safety nets that disproportionately benefit women.

  2. Provide extra help and support for men who struggle in society.

Hopefully most people realize that the second option is preferable to the first.

Simply mandating that companies put more women into these positions won't help anything. You have to address the underlying structural problems that create this imbalances. And to do this, you have to start at the bottom.

To help women, you have to first help men.