All throughout grade school and college we're taught men are malevolent, abusers, liars, manipulators, and rapists.

We're taught that men have male privilege, which gives them a disproportionate advantage in essentially every area of life, while women are subjugated against and are disadvantaged. We're taught that much of men's success comes not from their aptitude, ability, talent, or overall competency, but largely due to systemic bias against women.

So, my theory is that many women (and even a significant proportion of men) with this conditioning that has spanned the first 20+ years (with those also including the most formidable and ideologically malleable years) have trouble digesting the idea that men possibly could be disadvantaged when they're basically fed the narrative that all men live as kings. Now when you combine that with the likelihood that the only men truly visible to women are the highest status men (many of which are practically a modern day equivalent of a king), they internalize this and project this as the representation of the entire male population.

In terms of an analogy, think of two people and assume both have less than two months of living expenses in savings.

Now, which of the following would you rather be?

Person A: They currently have a job that pays the bills. However, they're not completely content with the job. Though the job is pretty good relative to the average job; person A feels they can always do better. Person A also has a lot of recruiters reaching out to them on LinkedIn, but many of these roles are only as good or slightly better than the current role — so they figure they are better off not bothering with the hassle of interviewing.

Person B: Person B is struggling. They've been unemployed for months and is on their last financial life lines. They've worked tirelessly to become more employable, but their lack of job history and experience combined with a very competitive job market (along with a lack of ability to invest in a way to get more credentials) makes it very hard to do so.

I think everyone can recognize person A and person B both have problems. However, the magnitude of the problem for person B far exceeds person A's in my opinion, and I feel any reasonable person could come to that conclusion.

However, society is telling us that person B is the privileged and the entitled, while person A is oppressed, and despite doing fairly well, should be doing much, much better.