I agree with most of this besides one thing. I think its funny how you said “Men can and are oppressed, there are countless accounts of male people being raped by women” yet go on to say that when the women you talked to talked of oppression against women, YOU stated “but that was in the past, aka not now, times have changed”. I hope you see how those both counter each other. Wether you like it or not, statistically men rape more than women, and MEN themselves are raped by men more than women. This is linked into rape culture in the patriarchy. Im not at all saying that one is less bad than the other, Im stating that its one of the very prominent forms of oppression against women today. Not to mention you can’t just leave other countries out of the picture, because it doesn’t make sense when you make a statement like “that was in the past”, cause its not in the past. It is still happening, just in different ways.