Yes. It plays directly into the "men dominant, to be held responsible, and strong"; "women subjugated, lacking agency, and weak" This trope feeds into sexism against both men an women. It explains both old school misogyny and "woke" stuff like women (only) being "raped" when both were drunk and neither was capable of consent, men's legitimate issues being laughed at rather than gaining sympathy, etc. Feminists should recognize it for what it actually is, rather than attacking one manifestation of it while embracing the other.
Its been going for a long while now. And not just rhetoric but actual laws being put into place too. Over a decade ago a law was put into place here in Ontario that I had to deal with last year at my work. The is called the "Pay Equity Act" and it requires that Female work be paid AT LEAST AS MUCH as male. They could have easily said "equal" or "roughly equal", but they apparently went out of their way not to care about male work being underpaid.
I don't know that the particular law is all that great. But, it's a proven fact that our male dominated society has been heavily weighted against women since ... forever. Pay equity is only one of the issues. In the US, an equal rights amendment has failed for MANY decades as it is strongly assaulted by right wing politicians. That's really amazing, since the rights in the equal rights amendment are present in other locations in the constitution, but like with voting and other stuff, it always seems to take redundant and specifically targeted laws to actually cause movement toward equality. Maybe education will help over time, as our undergraduate student bodies are moving toward women - at ~60% to ~40% at present. And, this is at a time when the new and good paying economic sectors are shifting toward requiring more education.
Not just assaulted by right wing politicians. Assualted by many so-called "feminists"as well (who apparently aren't egalitarian). Same happened up here in Canada. It was discussed around the time the law I pointed out above went into force. We see similar outcries against treating men fairly in family courts. Yes, society still often discriminates against women, both intentionally and not, but new actual laws explicitly and intentionally discriminate against men now. "Moving towards women" is an understatement. It is majority women now and has been for a while. I attended law school over 20 years ago here in Ontario, and the students in that school at that time were about 1:1 male to female. It has moved towards women more and more since. What I find curious, is that if I look at my classmates from back then, about half the women stopped practicing law and went on to do something else. Many stopped working altogether. So the pool of lawyers from my year are mostly male now. I expect that to happen to some extent with the current cohort graduating today. It's a strong female majority now graduating, but maybe it will even out in 20 years?
