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I wouldn't call it misandry. The traditional advantages that a man has enjoyed over the centuries are gradually losing in importance, yet a complementary decreasing of expectations has yet to happen. This might be creating the imbalance you are mentioning. It's not a "hate of men" but a bad transition, two pendulums out of sync if you want. Don't get me wrong, this is still bad but in a different way, and the clearer we have it the better can we react and hopefully fix it - not by reverting to "traditional" misogyny but by reaching some golden middle point whatever that is.

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> The traditional advantages that a man has enjoyed over the centuries are gradually losing in importance

Like the privilege of dying in wars, working in coal mines, and working the trades that kill your back by the time you're 45 (50 if you're lucky).

Amazing. Do you honestly believe you're starting a good faith discussion when opening with this?

Some men enjoyed more privilege in the past, which was absolutely more than balanced out by the vast majority of men getting the shit end of the stick. Now it's just slightly less pronounced, because the whore world is high on exploiting hydrocarbons.

Schools are openly discriminating in favor of the female majority, while having no programs to promote the success of the male minority. Schools are less equal than when Title IX was enacted.

That’s misandry.

And it’s been happening for longer than I’ve been alive… as a middle aged man with a bald spot.

To say nothing of family court, criminal court, etc.

Can you expand on the family court claims? From what I've heard, fathers who ask for custody are slightly favored over mothers in family court. Women only end up with custody so much more often because very few fathers ask for custody (and custody is usually not given to the unwilling).

Unfortunately most of the papers I can find are locked behind paywall (ex. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.174-1617.1...)

I think that we're getting away from the original discussion of NEETism by making this into a gender debate mostly in a western lens, even though we are talking about a global phenomenon.

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