Given my earlier post on the subject and its reception, I decided to make a more serious albeit short and quick read one with sources to articles and the studies within (and some I really can't or won't provide sources, and will explain why in the respective category).
This is not the final version I want for this post, the idea is for users here to help me expand it further.
If you can provide better sources than I can (or I have cited a shady source), please do tell me and I'll edit them in (or out) as I intend to expand this post over time to make it as thorough as possible anyways.
The point of this post is to find answers as to why in spite of men having it empirically worse in our society (this applies to western society), society itself tends to stick to the belief that it's not the case and that women have it much worse themselves, and any objection to that can only mean you hate women.
The point of this post is not an attack on women.
Teachers give higher marks to girls
Boys get penalized a lot more than girls for the same behavioral problems
Women fare better than men in all levels of education. This not only seems to be the case in virtually all western nations, but on a majority of nations worldwide. This is statistical fact, and not something to be debated. Yet we "need more women in STEM".
Women have it much better when talking about overall health, (ecompasing biology and violence for example). Off hand, it's far more dangerous to be a man, as you're more likely to be a victim of violence, but you're also more likely to be homeless, more likely to be a danger to yourself, more likely to die on the job, will retire later than women despite living less than them, more likely to die in wars, etc. Worst of all, all of these problems will be dealth with poorly, or worst case scenario, completely ignored or even denied (like being almost half the victims of domestic violence)
Personally I find health to be the worst example of gender disparity in society, given how many areas it includes, and how many double standards, neglect or overal hypocrisy can be found on these subjects.
Government and social resources, and (consumer) spending [1] [2]
Pretty self explanatory I feel. The fact alone of pumping millions of dollars into women's health, women's education, stopping violence against women just to name a few actions is a HUGE political and social gain despite them being better off already says it all.
Justice system
Men receive longer sentences than women for the same crimes
Women are twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted
The gender gap is SIX times as large as the racial gap in the United States
Divorce courts in general
Duluth model
In the UK, men can't be legally raped by women
Gender empathy
Women have an in-group bias that favors women, men have an out-group bias that favors women
"Women are wonderful" effect
Can we honestly argue against women receiving far more empathy from society than men? The old "reversing the genders" is one of the ways to easily reinforce this. Domestic violence and pedophilia just to name two big examples of this. Male disposability in general.
Very strong point as I find this to be behind society's obsession to convince women they're worse off and why it's so valuable to help them.
One thing I want to point out, if you happen to be an r/AskReddit regular, you may notice that on posts about bad things happening to people, men seem to regularly go out of their way to mention that women have it worse, either in that particular scenario, or in general.
Rights
Not much to say here, in places were abortion exists, women quite literally have more rights than men. Not only that, but they have methods and resources to help them renounce motherhood at every stage of it (Safe Haven laws). Men usually have "man up", or jail (no way to sever link of fatherhood, forced to provide child support, no matter the context, like reproductive coercion, being proven as not being the father, or even if they have been raped).
Women can vote without signing up for the Selective Service.
They have the right to genital integrity (FGM is illegal, MGM is not).
On the other hand, a common feminist point is to fight for women's rights they either don't have or are afraid of losing, while mantaining that men already have "all" their rights.
It's apparent that while men have it worse in just about every major metric in our society, we still get told it's the other way and usually shamed badly for even daring to question the narrative.
I hope that this post can help initiate dialogue with feminists or people on the fence.
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