Men are not one class
A male president gives no presidential power to a homeless man. A male billionaire does not turn a worker into a co-owner of capital.
Rights are counted. Duties are hidden.
Feminist analysis looks at the top: ministers, billionaires, and generals. Look at the base of the pyramid. Who mines, builds, drives, fights fires, serves, fills prisons, dies at work, and dies younger?
Most men do not control elite power. They pay for it with work, health, and risk.
Downward inequality is hidden
Men dominate workplace deaths, prisons, homelessness, homicide victims, and suicides. These are politically inconvenient sex gaps.
Protection is called equality
A law protecting women alone is called progress. A duty imposed on men alone is called natural.
Count power by its mechanism
Section titled “Count power by its mechanism”A man at the top does not share power with all men. Power comes from ownership, law, office, connections, and the right to coerce. Sex may open or close access to these resources, but it does not hand them to every member of a sex.
Separate the people who make decisions from those who pay for them. Include conscription, dangerous work, prison sentences, family duties, and life expectancy. Otherwise the count is built to erase male costs.
End the double standard
Section titled “End the double standard”A gap favoring men is declared systemic. A gap favoring women is explained by care, tradition, choice, or biology. Apply one standard in both directions.
Judge the position of a sex across a whole life, not by a few chairs at the top. Count rights with duties and privilege with the risk demanded in return.