There can and should be criticism where criticism is due, even against a whole gender if it's justified. However, claims like "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", or hashtags like "menaretrash" and "killalmen" would be seldom classed as good faith criticism. When a teacher forces the boys in the class to stand up in a line, and apologise for the supposed wrongdoings of their gender, when we suggest that the inherent need for rough and tumble play and competitiveness is "toxic masculinity", when certain views are not allowed to be criticized on the campuses and people lose their livelihood for doing so, when there is a constant claim of patriarchy and male privilege, despite the fact that the "equality of the sexes" is achieved across the modern world, we should suspect that something is well off in our society. If the only message is that men are not needed, broken, bad, worthless, men will check out. Take a good look at the media (from Hollywood trough the famous talk shows to Twitter hashtags) and tell me that it's not true that for every one appreciative sentiment, there are ten sentiments, something like the ones above.

I know it's not so popular to say that men have built the world domesticated and basically maintaining it, but it's still stand true, to the extent where men became obsolete on the individual level. The only reason why women do not personally "need" a man is because even if they are single, most of their problems will be solved, and most often by men. The only reason why women can spend their youth, chasing their carreer is because they do not have to stay around the home with 5 - 10 kids from which 5 will probably die.

We only need to wheel out the bin, only own a microwave, and buy the ready to eat meal packs, don't have to take half a day with the laundry, nor walk miles to the closest source of drinking water, nor have to throw out the blackwater trough the window and risk plagues.. Electricity is available with a touch of a finger, and if something goes wrong with the plumbing or the wiers, help is only a phone call away. When people show up for the repair, one can guess their sex with a very high accuracy. Wild animals and neighboring tribes do not really bother us any more. I could go one about forever, but i think you get the picture.

Don't get me wrong, in no way, shape or form do i suggest that women are "second class citizens" and there was/is no contribution on their part whatsoever. None of the achievements above would have been possible without women covering men's asses at the support line. But this doesn't change the fact that 99% of those achievements were in fact carried out by men, nor that men are in the front line, when it comes to maintaining society, even though nothing holds back a woman today to hop on to the garbage truck, learn plumbing, sign a contract to an oil rig, operate heavy machinery or in the name of equality, fight for mandatory service in the military.

Women do not "need" men, because men are there to take care of society regardless of the increasing hostility against them, at least for now. The only question is, for how long, and will those women who think "men are trash" be able to carry on without all the conformities that our modern society provides?

I am not angry at women. I am trying to point out that men are not bad, and men do have achievements to be proud of, nor do i think that men deserve special treatment or even a pet on the shoulder. What men definitely do not deserve is to be treated with hostility. I also think that these kind of sentiments are harmful to the decent majority of women, who may not need a man, but wish to be with one regardless, as if the tendency continues at the current pace, there will be not enough decent men available.