<p>Yes, I would say that in the Western world, at the well-educated upper eschelons, for the first time in the history of civilization, men are getting a rougher deal. Schools, workplaces, and fields of endeavor are being transformed in ways such that traits more typical of women than men (it doesn’t have to be much of a difference, 60-40 for example would have a massive societal impact) are more valuable now. Men still rule everything and women’s interests and ambitions are still thwarted nearly everywhere else, and I’m not saying this isn’t long overdue in some way or is unfair, but in a world where machines vastly outperform people at physical and mathematical labor, the most successful companies (such as my own) are taking feminine approaches to sales and administration (by which I mean making the customer feel collaborated with rather than impressed or protected, and making decisions about human resources based on soft values like personal growth, team spirit, and constant communication rather than hierarchy and measurable effectiveness), and old prejudices and expectations for gender are not taken as seriously, I think men are having, and boys forseeing, much harder paths to fulfilling lives than women and girls. </p>
<p>The nail in boys’ coffins, I think, is that it has become so cheap and easy to immersively simulate what tends to fulfill them- power, effectiveness, victory, sex appeal, etc. with video games and, ahem, other media, while what tends to fulfill girls- contact, beauty, subtle competition, romance, etc., though media is creeping in (through facebook &c), cannot yet be simulated satisfactorily enough that you can just shut yourself in and ignore the real world.</p>