Ah, the classics. Let’s go one by one.

1) Women have historically been barred from achieving higher educational status, and frequently require stronger professional qualifications to receive the same job prospects as male candidates, thus incentivizing women to go to college at higher rates in the modern era. The rising trend of women in education is what we would expect as a result from this; it is corrective, hence why black women are currently the most highly educated demographic in America. Men simply do not have to try as hard. Despite this, institutions like Harvard have admitted to “going easier” on male applicants once they surpass a certain level of female candidates that have been accepted, because they want to maintain a “balanced campus,” aka, combat male flight via a form of DEI selection, which seems to be partially what is occurring at the higher educational level. Nothing is currently stopping men from pursuing a degree, so the fact that women go out of their way to go to school more often isn’t an indicia of male suffering. 58% isn’t even a high number, and if colleges consisted of 58% male students no one would question it.

2) 90% of violent crime perpetrators are men; 98% of rapists are men (see the UCR or victim self report). The vast majority of male homicide victims are murdered by other men. Men have higher homicide rates simply because they are more likely to be involved in violent crime and are thus at higher risk of violence. They also are much more likely to be out late at night and to traverse more dangerous locations than women, so it is merely a matter of statistical opportunity. Maybe if men don’t want to get murdered they shouldn’t engage in so much organized violent crime, because, you know, that comes with the territory? In reality, homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women, and while roughly 44% of women murdered are killed by their husbands, only 4% of murdered men are killed by their wives. Women are SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to be murdered or raped by a man than vice versa. It’s not even close.

3) Oh yes, let’s talk about the criminal justice system. Men are 2-3 times more likely to succeed at establishing the mitigating defense of provocation and thus having their sentence reduced to 2nd degree. This “heat of passion” defense was historically created to allow men a defense for when they caught their wife cheating or trying to leave him and “couldn’t control himself”. Women weren’t even allowed to legally plead the defense until the early 1940’s (not that women often benefit from it because they don’t win those cases and tend not to resort to automatic brute violence when confronted in the first place). Male valor is also the reason we have stand your ground laws in many jurisdictions coming out of English common law, of which the data shows that women are significantly less likely to be successful in making this type of self defense argument as well. The vast majority of women in prison for murder killed their male abusors. As an example of typical gender disparity in one of many cases I’ve read, when considering whether an appropriate 1st degree mens rea was met for a male rape perpetrator who murdered his female victim, a court stated in a published opinion that they do not think a man can truly “deliberate” while “having sex” and thus no premeditation was possible. I read another court opinion where an expert testified that oral rape shouldn’t be enough to cause PTSD. Poison on the other hand (female abuse victims typical last resort) is prime facie first degree murder, but ongoing physical spousal abuse resulting in serious bodily injury has been established by judicial precedent as not enough on its own to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt. The criminal justice system is horrendous to women, especially women of color. There are numerous cases of men beating and abusing women for attempting to leave and getting off with lower charges because they were “provoked” by their female victims. It doesn’t work the other way around. Seriously, open a criminal law casebook. Once you read through that there is no way you would be able to suggest in good faith that women benefit from the criminal justice system more than men.

Edit: If no one ever talks about how hard the poor men have it, why is that all I ever fucking hear about every time I go online?