In many countries, particularly the United States, Canada and certain other countries, men in general, and white men most prominently, are being genuinely discriminated against in most levels of society, and there's pretty much nothing they can do about it.
Men are being actively discriminated against in higher education admissions. White and Asian men in particular are the most discriminated (with the admission threshold being the highest for them than for any other group of people).
Men, particularly white men, are being very actively and egregiously discriminated against in hiring, especially in the United States and some other countries. For example a recent statistic that examined the hiring practices of the top 500 companies in the United states showed that only 6% of new hires during the last several years were white, and an even lower percentage were white men. This even though over 80% of the population of the country is white.
And it's not only that. Statistics show that men in general have a much harder time finding a job than women. A man can send literally hundreds of job applications to that many companies and have them all rejected outright, no matter how qualified the man may be for those jobs.
And the situation isn't much better within the companies. In many companies, especially the biggest ones, a woman's word is taken a thousand times more seriously than a man's. If a female worker accuses a male worker of inappropriate behavior, in most of these companies the man will be fired on the spot, no questions asked, nothing. In most cases the man isn't even allowed to defend himself or present his case. If the complaint is in the other direction, it will be generally ignored and dismissed, and even if the few cases where something is done, it will just be a warning or a slap on the wrist. Also, guess how much harder it is for a male worker to get promotions and salary raises than female workers. And if there are any layoffs because of financial troubles, guess which kind of worker will be fired first. In many of these companies, particularly the biggest ones, men are being very commonly and actively discriminated against in all sorts of ways.
The justice system in many countries, very much including the United States, is heavily rigged against men, regularly giving men harsher sentences for the exact same crimes than women. This is a very known and acknowledged phenomenon in the judicial system of the country. (There was quite a famous "freudian slip" made by a judge some years ago where he said that the crime of some woman was so unusually heinous and despicable that he decided on the verdict as if she were a man, quite clearly, although probably unintentionally, revealing his own deeply ingrained bias to give harsher sentences to men than to women, how he judges them differently.)
There are myriads and myriads of organizations that have been created to somehow help or support women, for example with scholarships or other types of services. There exists pretty much no such organizations for men. Women can always find some organization that will help them because they are women (and who will not help men), while men do not have any men-only equivalents. If you are a man who is, for example, financially struggling with your academic studies, you will not find any organization that will help you, other than perhaps some organizations that help everybody regardless of their sex. Women, other other hand, have myriads of options.
And that's not the worst of it: If someone were to create such an organization to help men in particular, in a similar way as such organizations exist to help women, that organization would face relentless attacks, perhaps even escalating to physical ones.
Many, many countries have special laws that favor women in particular, eg. providing them with extra protections, while no equivalent laws exist for men. Only the general laws that apply to everybody are applied to men. In many countries women have special laws that provide them special privileges that men are not provided.
The discrimination against men is not just at the systemic level, but also at the societal level.
As the perfect example, people have done social experiments to see how other people will react to a situation, based on the sex of the actors: In one situation a man is yelling extremely loudly and angrily at a woman (the entire thing being staged for the experiment, of course), even physically pushing her. The woman is meek and apologetic. In a different situation the sexes are reversed.
Unsurprisingly, when it's a man being aggressive towards a women, passersby show extreme concern and condemnation, and many intervene. However, when it's a woman being aggressive towards a man, passersby are seen laughing and sneering.
Our society as a whole is extremely protective of women, while men and their struggles are generally dismissed. This is the main reason why there's a very common misconception that it's more dangerous for a woman to walk alone down a street at night than for a man, even though actual statistics show the exact opposite, and by quite a large margin. (The reason why the misconception exists is bias: We as a society tend to pay attention to and remember the cases where women are being attacked, while dismissing, ignoring and forgetting the cases where men are being attacked.)
More fundamentally, and particularly in this day and age, even highlighting this problem is itself heavily opposed, criticized, dismissed, mocked and ridiculed. When it's not being dismissed as just a stupid and false conspiracy theory, even when the facts are accepted it's being by far and large outright embraced, often with a sense of glee, mockery, entitlement and hatred. The general attitude in this day and age in particular is that "men deserve it". Only and solely for being men, and no other reason, completely regardless of individual traits, personalities, opinions, attitudes, history and life experience.
Even in the minority of cases where someone does take it more seriously, it's still overall given much less attention than to all the (often exaggerated) problems that women are facing. There's a lot of nodding and agreement... but by the end of the day not much is done about it, and back to supporting women we go.
There's nothing that men can do about this. The system is completely rigged against them, and the majority of society is rigged against them, and even many men have been convinced and are prejudiced against their own sex, and have been brainwashed into believing that it either isn't true or that they actually deserve it. In other words, genuine bona fide internalized misandry.
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