The modern view about men, especially among the far-leftist feminist social justice warriors (and especially in certain countries like the United States), doesn't paint a pretty picture. All kinds of claims are made about men, and men are always depicted as the violent oppressors and women (and "minorities") as their victims, and having a much easier life than women.
Like all religious cults, cult members never research and verify the claims made by the cult (especially those about "the enemy"). They just assume those claims to be true, and repeat them blindly.
On very rare occasions, however, this pattern is broken, and someone dares to actually research and test the veracity and accuracy of all those claims.
For example, one Cassie Jaye decided somewhere around 2015-2016 to research and make a documentary about so-called "men's rights activists". She said that she isn't herself some kind of hard-core man-hating feminist, but apparently she did have some preconceived expectations about what the MRA men would be like and what they would tell her, and her original intent was for the documentary to be an exposure: To really show the ugliness of the misogynist woman-hating movement, what they believe and what the members are like.
No doubt she was expecting to find really heinous rhetoric disparaging, insulting and belittling women, and all kinds of laughable claims about women and feminists.
She was completely surprised when what she found was nothing like that. They were just regular men, and their complaints about how society discriminates against men actually made sense. She didn't encounter misogyny, hatred of women, insults and slurs thrown at women. She found empathetic vulnerable men telling their stories about how society had failed them and was discriminating against them, just for being men and no other reason, and how they have absolutely no recourse.
Since Jaye wanted to create the documentary regardless of what she found, needless to say, the tone of the documentary changed quite a lot. And she named it "The Red Pill".
Even earlier than that one Norah Vincent made a similar experiment, and later wrote a book about it. In this case she didn't interview men, but instead "infiltrated" them. She already looks relatively masculine, and with the help of makeup artists she made herself look quite credible as a man.
She started this project to try to prove the allegations that men have it easier in society, and to "infiltrate" the private sessions between men in order to "secretly" hear what men actually talk about when no women are around. She was expecting her life to become a breeze as a man, not having to worry about anything, her being the beneficiary of societal favoritism. She would also get on the "inside" and see and hear what men talk about themselves, and how they view women, and was expecting some boisterous frat-party style constant misogynist trash-talking, and for men to be pretty much grown-up frat boys. She would also get a perspective on women from the other side.
She did not expect at all what she found. She was surprised that when men were among themselves, eg. bowling or something, they weren't constantly trash-talking and disparaging women, and in fact they often had very intelligent reasonable and even empathetic conversations. Her life as a man did not become any easier than before, but in fact the contrary. And she was getting a completely new perspective on the average woman.
Perhaps the most telling thing about this experiment is that she says that she essentially had to cut it short because she was getting depressed and she was starting to hate women more and more as the weeks passed, and the more interactions she had with women. That's right, the longer she lived the life of a man, the more genuinely misogynist she, a woman, was becoming. She had to cut the experiment short for sake of her own sanity.
She was not expecting the life of a man to be that miserable. Needless to say, it changed her perspective on men in modern society quite a lot.
It's rather curious that when feminists actually research and test their own claims, quite often what they find surprises them.
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