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I can see how rigid and restrictive gender role can impact the rate of depressions in a demographic, especially when societal pressure and expectancy has a amplify effect. The existence of a trophy title, generally given only to people who are born very rich, give very poor comfort to the rest of that demographic.
For all the good every male president we’ve ever had has been in those departments.
We don’t currently or adequately cater to woman’s needs and it shows. It only follows that men are even more underserved.
A man can be disadvantaged. And there are some areas of life where, as you say, men are put at a disadvantage due to the actions of other men. This is not because "Men are second class citizens", it is a systemic issue of gendered preference that disadvantages men and women but has traditionally been a system set up to benefit men.
There are injustices in the world that are unique to men, and deserving of correction and justice. That is not in question. What is in question is looking at the state of the world and saying "You know who really has it tough? Men."
For the rest of the argument I understand it, but don’t agree, for two reasons. First is that there’s enough man-only targeted demands and judgements, all well known. Second reason is that the world has supercharged the terms “man”, “manly”, etc so much, that discriminatory statements with these may sound absolutely natural to some.
There’s absolutely a majority of cases of people who get all the downsides but can’t entertain the upsides of “being a man”, for not behaving “like a man”, despite being one (as in, being born this way and not having a strong dispreference to this biological fact alone).
Men have it though and that makes them men who have it easy — I’m curious if you see a problem in this statement.
You are effectively saying that because men are more likely to be president, CEO, Nobel Prize winner, etc, we should tell the men who are more likely to be homeless, murdered, etc, that they deserve it, and they should shut the fuck up.
Modern use of second class citizens is generally ridiculous, but words do change meaning over time.
When the women around you treat you as a potential child molester and are vary about your every move simply because of your gender, you don't think that counts as being a second class citizen in those environments? Of course it does! In child care men are absolutely discriminated against and treated as lesser or evil, as just the stand in for the real parent: the mother.