Sexism towards women has always been very widespread and extremely limiting throughout history. Tides have turned and this has now begun to involve men as well, though we're only just beginning to see it.
Women are expected to date up, men are expected to date down unless he wants to be seen as a 'sexist prick'. A man is expected to be taller, smarter, more athletic, and earn more than his female companion. There's also a gender-specific ageism at play (preference for older men, and younger women).
Violence? Yea, that's fine towards men. Towards women? Nah, not allowed, people would call it "sexist" 90% of what I watch, could be a program, or even a movie, there is some form of sexism towards men, a man gets kicked in the nuts, audience laugh, What if it happened to a woman? Probably wouldn't even be allowed on t.v.. In movies, you see a woman beat the crap out of a bunch of men and the audience loves it.
‘She’s so badass!’
The other way round? Again, probably wouldn't be allowed to air on any sort of medium.
Men are, in general, stronger than women (cheers evolution). So when a woman hits a guy it's usually greeted with ‘wow, she has the guts and the strength to do that’. Does that mean it's perfectly okay to smack or hurt your man in any way? Essentially making a human punching-bag out of him because you 'couldn't really hurt him anyway'?
A young boy raped by a woman can be forced to pay child support to his rapist if she gets pregnant.
If a woman cheats then it’s usually going to be greeted with excuses as to how she was drunk/sad/feeling neglected. With the blame often shifted onto the guy for her slipping onto another fella's dick. That he didn't treat her 'well enough' or some variant of that. But when a man does it, all hell breaks loose. He's basically put in social isolation, blacklisted by the entire social circle for lacking self-control.
Upon asking a man who's been coerced, intimidated, or physically forced into sex with a woman whether or not he's been raped, he's pretty likely to say no. Once researchers figured out that only if you rephrase the question and ask whether or not he has been "made to penetrate" another person, they're more likely to respond in the affirmative.
If a woman is in a relationship that feels to be abusive in any way, beit sexually or emotionally, there are women’s shelters set up specifically for that reason. To provide shelter, a way to get away for women in such situations. Perhaps some counselling/therapeutic services until the victims feel strong enough to rejoin the real world. Men who feel that they are being abused? Those sorts of claims will generally be disregarded as them just being ‘not manly’ enough; made to be the bitch-boy of their girlfriend, treat her like an ‘independent, real woman’ yet getting the bill at every restaurant among others things.
Light forms of male subservience are labelled as chivalrous and gentlemanly and widely expected (imagine seeing women open doors and pull out chairs for men). Female subservience in terms of washing the dishes, cooking dinner for her family and tending the house once in a while? Oppressive, overly conservative.
&My own personal favourite, being the gym-rat that I am:
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