This case (link to the video below) is extremely revealing and important because it shows by creating a real-life comparison, how normalized the dehumanization of men and the infringement of their human dignity have become.

This nice woman who took classes to become a therapist, is describing everything that a typical male college student and many schoolboys, as well as men in workplaces, would be forced to listen to and agree with as a matter of routine, with one small difference - the word "men" was replaced with the word "white" causing the statements to apply to her. Her response and the response of the public is what should make us pause: she immediately started a debate, she filed a lawsuit against the college, she started a go-fund-me project to pay for the legal actions, she received support from the public this way, she was interviewed, and her case was covered by the media extensively it seems.

Now pause to consider what statements and messages made in class, have caused all this. Observe that these are the very same sentences, possibly word-for-word, made in colleges, schools and many work environments about men, with one word switched - "men" with "white" - making them about this woman as well which hurt her (those same statements might have been made about men in other classes of that same college).

Almost no man and boy reacts in university, school or work when hearing - and being required to agree with - the same hate speech with the very same phrases where "men" and "boys" are the target. This woman's actions and the public response create a contrast, to the male silence, that shouts out loud how deeply normalized is the dehumanization of men and how systematic the infringement of their human dignity has become. They were so deeply dehumanized and from such an early stage that they are not regarding stripping their human dignity from them as something being taken away. Most of them are so accustomed to being expected to sit and listen to hate speech against them and to repeat it that they don't even think of starting a debate and taking to court and then telling the public about this, as this woman did.

It takes being a woman to feel human enough to deserve an apology and compensation when hearing and receiving the same dehumanization men undergo daily, because in the west, at least in very wide social environments, women are the only ones society grants human dignity and even the only ones society assigns humanity to, which is why a woman was so surprised by this heart-of-darkness reality that she took legal actions while millions of men and boys living under this institutionalized cruelty remain quiet. Men heard it in this class, but did not feel entitled for an apology and compensation - their human dignity was stripped from them long before that, and their new sub-human status has been normalized, they have been broken to make them accept that, and this woman's response - the response of an intact human being - shows by comparison, to what a degree.

Men. Boys. Wake up. You are human. Never remain silent. Always speak up. At all cost - speak up. Like that woman has. You are as human as she is. You have the same rights and the same innate human dignity. You should have the same expectations of society as she has. You should expect this from society - to see you as a human being, against whom it is forbidden to direct institutionalized hate and demonizing preaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlG1WxfG74