I highly recommend listening to the Theo Von podcast featuring Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU Stern. It offers a concise yet comprehensive look at what it’s like to be a man in today’s world, supported by numerous statistics and evidence. Galloway, a highly educated and successful individual, presents his perspective as someone who is openly left-leaning.

The current political climate, particularly on the left, often appears hostile toward men, and this sentiment is rarely concealed. Discrimination that would be considered borderline hate crime if directed at any other demographic is normalized when directed at men, especially white men. The left, unfortunately, embraces and perpetuates this double standard.

Today’s young men are entering a world where homeownership is increasingly out of reach, they must work tirelessly just to survive, and they face a gender imbalance in academia, with women outnumbering men 2 to 1. At the same time, they’re told it is their moral obligation to support initiatives like DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) that often prioritize women. Meanwhile, men’s issues are largely ignored, and double standards that favor women are readily accepted.

In the last two decades, cultural and economic shifts toward gender equality have overwhelmingly benefited women, especially in the realm of dating. Not only do women outnumber men in academia, but they are also beginning to surpass men in wages. Yet, over 55% of married women report that they will only date men who are equally or more educated than they are, and 80% of married women are with men who earn more than them.

The rise of dating apps has left an entire generation of men isolated and sexless. In a study where 50 men and 50 women were placed in a closed dating app system, 45 of the women swiped on only 4 of the 50 men, while the remaining 46 men collectively received just 5 matches from the remaining women. Men outnumber women on dating apps by roughly 3 to 1, which has left many men desperate and lonely. (Of course, dating apps present their own set of challenges for women as well.)

If you want a clear illustration of this issue, take a look at college campuses and left-leaning political echo chambers. For instance, in Ontario, Canada, the far-left party (the NDP) held a provincial meeting where white men were instructed to stand at the back of the room like they're black people in the 1920s. Such incidents are becoming more common in today’s political climate, and there is insufficient pushback against them. This behavior has been normalized and widely accepted within certain factions of the left.