It's similar to advocating for Corporation rights. It's a grossly over-represented, already thriving group, so advocating for _even more_ disparity between that group and other much less fortunate/under-represented groups is seen as contentious. It's all relative to the actual status quo.
yes men are over-represented at the top, but they are also over-represented at the bottom. Men make up most of the homeless, drug-addicts, prison population, successful suicides, soldiers who die, etc.
Right but you can also chalk those areas you mention up to something wrong with masculinity in our culture / toxic masculinity. For the prison population this conditions men to commit more crimes and conditions courts to be more likely to convict them. Men commit more suicide because toxic masculinity puts pressure on them to be a provider/breadwinner and when they fail they can't take the pressure. More men are societally encouraged to become soldiers, and then feel the need to "be a man" and put themselves in danger, so more die. Homeless and drug addicts -- there is increased mental illness in men, why? (more pressure to succeed and provide and compete for females, pressure creates psychological problems), drug addicts = escapism from failure to meet society's requirements. All of this stuff comes from a toxic masculinity embedded in our culture, and it can be fixed slowly over time by breaking down gender-based stereotypes and expectations.
Point being, toxic masculinity is super harmful to men, in addition to being harmful to women.
