Posted this on a couple of other subs and feel it fits here as well. Systemic... this is a word misandrists love throwing around whenever we bring up struggles and inequalities men also face. Whenever we bring up issues affecting men/boys, misandrists love throwing this word around and saying things like "Men aren't systemically affected like women are by this or that." Systemic as in something written into law or government policy. You want to talk about systemic, how about the fact men still have to register for conscription and face legal consequences for not doing so? Schools and courts being very misandrist? The lack of abuse shelters that recognize male victims of domestic abuse and violence? Male genital mutilation still being legal in much of the world? Due process often being disregarded for men potentially falsely accused? The vast majority of the homeless being male? Among other examples.

I'm not saying women don't face legal difficulties and hurdles either, both men and women have certain challenges to overcome. But claiming men aren't systemically affected is definitely wrong when there's much evidence men are in fact systemically disadvantaged in some regards. Not just in regards to laws and such, but also societally, especially failing to recognize them as being victims of violence, abuse, rape, etc. (especially when it's by women, still something of a taboo and suppressed subject). I hate it. I'm mostly very liberal with my views and it's a no-brainer to equally stand up for both men and women alike and right any wrongs affecting them, and for many years things affecting men have go unrectified. Unfortunately this sort of thing is exactly what's turned so many males away from the left in recent years, failing to recognize inequalities affecting men and boys to enforce the "women most affected" narrative and needlessly making things into a competition between the two. The system is broken and both are affected in their own ways by it, it shouldn't be a contest as to who has it worse.