Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "Male inequality, explained by an expert | Richard Reeves" video.

Meanwhile fully female staffed institutions never get any criticism for exclusion.
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Plus we don't have enough data if this is purely because boys aren't as developed yet or if it is due to social circumstances. If boys are held back due to less opportunities and motivation or even teachers that discriminate against boys. I skipped several classes when I was younger and the idea of redshirting boys sounds counterproductive to me, in might even favour girls more as boys would be less socialised earlier.
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Vocational education is seen as "a lower form of education", in my country it is already a thing and often intelligent boys are funneled to it if they have "behaviour issues" (which are possibly overdiagnosed). I knew a boy who was sent to the lowest school in the Netherlands despite being intellectually gifted, his mother moved to another province so he could get better education and he now has a P.hd. He's the exception, most don't reach their potential because the system simply doesn't care about boys. Nobody in society is more miserable than people working jobs that they feel are "too simple" for them, I know several intelligent men who just chose to live off welfare rather than do jobs where people less intelligent than them look down on them. Vocational education doesn't help boys if the system will stereotype.
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There is an entire movement that has been calling this discrimination out for decades, almost all of the early prominent figures of this movement were active in the Feminist movement until the 1970's (though some prominent female members never were, for example one who created a shelter for abused men in the U.K.), unfortunately this movement has been so dæmonised that even writing their name out on YouTube is not allowed.
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I've been inside of a movement that had said since day 1 that progress isn't a 0 sum game. But every time someone even names this movement we are dæmonised with the worst names thinkable for daring to have empathy to men and boys.
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Still a lot of talking down, bad solutions like redshirting, focusing on lower skilled (vocational) education for boys, and not acknowledging the causes of fatherlessness (which is often caused by laws that benefit divorced mothers so much that it incentivises against marriage). I know several women who divorced because of increased financial support from the government. These programmes start with good intentions (helping single mothers), but end up creating more single mothers because being a married mother doesn't pay as well. Plus there are many subsidies for working single mothers that working married mothers don't receive, even if the husband is unemployed. Without addressing the broken system you'll never fix the problem.
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Psychologists have been advocating against this for decades, mostly because it is seen as "sexist against women" to label it as such. Society is actively fighting against any progress and nobody is speaking up against it.
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07:25 This argument is essentially saying "Boys and men are stupid and need vocational training", with how vocational training is perceived in society these jobs are seen as low status.
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@No-ky3kb If a patriarchy had ever existed the plight of men and boys would have never been something so heavily attacked whenever brought up. Gender rôles don't exclusively oppress women but painting gender rôles as "a product of men against women" also shows that you do not understand that men are also oppressed by gender rôles, but while society today doesn't enforce any gender rôles upon women it most certainly does against men, institutionally even (divorced men are still expected to be breadwinners for their children and in some countries are jailed for failing to pay). Men are also viewed as "less caring" and "not better with kids" due to gender rôles which excludes men from caretaker fields. Blaming something on an imaginary patriarchy is literally how we got into this issue in the first place. Very few early Feminists even believed in a patriarchy but once the idea took hold it became kind of "blasphemous" to even consider other reasons for the world as it is.
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10:30 This is partially also because more women apply to become psychologists while the male number hasn't changed as drastically. Percentages don't always tell the full story.
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It is not messaging from mothers alone, the moment a boy can consume media he is faced with ridicule and pure misandry. If any other group faced this level of discrimination we'd notice it but because it happens to males nobody cares because of various reasons.
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