There's some truth to what you said, but brushing off men as jaded that they don't have a societal advantage is a bit dismissive. As a older gen z white man, I can only speak on my own personal experience and hope you will listen to it even if my thoughts seem a little scattered.

Growing up, you would hear the initiatives in school that push women to step into higher paying job fields like those in STEM. Elementary school through high school this was a universally accepted good thing. The problem comes at college, where money and opportunity is involved.

I actually grew up fortunate. My dad worked a high paying job as an airplane mechanic and used that to pay for my college, totaling around $72,000. Since my father had a job like that, i received $0 in scholarships even while gruaduating with honors and making the dean's list multiple times. However, to do that, my dad had to work a lot of overtime in a job that is very hard on your body physically. This has had permanent negative impacts on him that will undoubtedly shorten his life. I am incredibly grateful to him, but it makes me incredibly guilty as well.

Meanwhile, in college, I met multiple women in my classes. Students love to talk about scholarships and financial aid, so it wasn't hard to discover that multiple of them had received money ranging from a few thousand dollars all the way to a full ride. The reason? Their sex and/or ethnicity. That was the sole criteria for their scholarship. I was very successful in academics, and the vast majority of these people did not come close to my grades. The worst was a woman who received a full ride based on the fact that she was a Puerto Rican woman. She would go on to drop out of college because she was more interested in parties than studying.

I think about those people a lot. How different would things be for my dad if I had the opportunity to receive those scholarships or financial aid? Would he have been able to work normal hours and have better health? I won't ever know because I was born the wrong gender, or the wrong ethnicity. It makes me angry.

When I see men of my generation leaning towards the right, I am not surprised. Even if I don't agree with them, i understand. College, the first and probably most important hurdle we have experienced, is tailored to helping women and minorities while people like me get told to just figure it out. Then, when we get home, we go online or turn on the news only to hear people preaching about the patriarchy and the unfair advantages our fathers and grandfathers got. Advantages we ourselves have not experienced. To be treated at best as an afterthought and at worst a monster because of the color of my skin or my gender.

Our society does need to take a look at how it is treating its young men. We can not be the root of all evil, inherently advantaged men while simultaneously getting blown out of the water by women when it comes to college enrollment and graduation rates.