&gt;When prejudice in my favor decreases, it feels a lot like prejudice against me increases, so I can get why he feels that way. But I don&#x27;t think that personal experience justifies a broad claim of increasing prejudice.<p>You are leaving out the possibility that real prejudice is decreasing, but that prejudice against males is increasing, just not as much as prejudice against females is decreasing.  Not appearance, actual prejudice.<p>The reason for the slight of hand is that being open about the possibility of prejudice against males increasing tends to get a number of quite negative reactions, from the common (and I&#x27;m paraphrasing here) &#x27;you have too much privilege to be able to comment on the matter&#x27; to the far less tolerated (at least here) insults.<p>As for increasing prejudice against males, there is far more evidence than just personal experience that there is real increases, not just perceived.  From the negative effects of lacking male role models in grade school (it doesn&#x27;t matter why this happens, as it does and thus it creates a negative effect by society impacting young boys) to issues such as biased definitions being used in government reports to cover up or down play male victims of crimes.