While I understand what you're saying, I do believe that there is a LOT of MALE bashing out there. (Not necessarily straight white male bashing, but just plain male bashing).
We see it in the media all the time. How many movies have you seen where some guy gets kicked in the nuts and it's portrayed as funny, or better yet, gets shot in the groin, or has his dick cut off and it's ok.
Now imagine the reaction to a movie where a woman was to get her vulva shot, or cut off. Do you think that would be funny? Doubt it.
Also, men are portrayed as stupid dufuses time after time on TV and their wives are portrayed as wise and intelligent. That's ok. Now imagine the outrage if it were the other way round.
Lastly, I point out what seems to be happening in education. There are more and more social programs aimed at helping girls succeed in school and indeed many would argue that our current education system is built around how young females learn and not how young males learn. If you look at the numbers in university now, fully two thirds of the university population in Canada is now female.
Young males are floundering and failing and falling by the wayside and our government considers it OK.
If the numbers were reversed, they would have a Royal Commission looking into it, but because it's male (not necessarily straight, or white by the way, just male), it's ok.
It's not ok.
Now I don't know why young males are floundering. I really don't. Maybe it's video games, maybe there is something in the water, maybe it's how we're raising them - controlling their every action. Dunno.
But something is happening.
In our society, it's not ok to bash any minority segment, but it is OK to bash men.
What movies have you seen where a guy gets his dick cut off and it's ok? I missed that one.
What about movies where something is referred to as "being gay"? Or where women are treated like sex objects? Or where black guys with big gold grills are dealing drugs? You can't point to the treatment of men in movies as evidence that men are being "slighted" by society. They're fiction. They're often designed to tell a story or portray a point, often using stereotypes, like white jocks picking on the scrawny gay nerd, or black guys dealing drugs, or women being psycho because of the mysterious mood swings once a month. You can't point to them as proof men are being slighted because EVERY group is slighted in movies. It just depends on which movie you watch.
You say men are portrayed as dufuses and women are portrayed as intelligent, but let's review that shall we. Aside from a small handful of movies or TV shows (Frozen, Hunger Games, etc), women are damsels needing to be saved by their white nights, are have secondary roles. Who is always the hero in Transformers? A guy. Who is always the boss in the CSI shows? Guys. Who runs the multi-million dollar corporations in pretty much every movie? Men. On one hand you could argue that's just being realistic... but isn't that part of the problem? Women don't have these roles very often in real life. I don't think we need to run and cry about the odd dick joke when we horde all the money making power and the security in society. Not to mention how often are women portrayed as nothing more than sex objects? Look at some of the latest popular films: Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle... We've got Spiderman, Superman, Iron Man, Captain America... Where's Wonder Woman? Spider Woman (yes, that's a real thing)? How about Black Cat? Even The Dark Knight's foray into Catwoman didn't have her a particularly strong woman. What about Black Widow for that matter... Sure, she kicks ass... but she's a master of subterfuge. Lying, being deceiptful, those are the traits they gave the female hero. Is it thin? Absolutely. But no more thin than complaining about a nut shot in a comedy. You can find the odd show where men are portrayed as kind of goofy and saved by their women, but you can also go back to the 60's and 70's and find that same thing. How often did Darrin need his witch wife to sort out his problems? Jeanie sure squared away the Air Force on more than one occasion. Men have been portrayed as goofy on occasion before, this isn't groundbreaking evidence of an anti-male conspiracy.
As for the programs aimed at young women... the point is that young men don't need help. Head down to York or UofT and sit in on a few classes. Visit a 3rd year engineering class and tell me how many women you see. Stop by the computer science lab and try to tell me it's not a sausage fest. Young men aren't falling by the wayside, they're continuing to excel. Same reason why there are other minority programs. See how many non-white, non-asian faces you see in that engineering class while you're there. Women outnumber men 2 to 1 in SOCIAL sciences, the liberal arts like education and psychology. But men outnumber women 5 to 1 in technology related fields. Who makes more money, someone with a degree in post-modernist american art, or chemical engineering? Yes, overall, women account for about 58% of students, but given that 52% of the population are women, that's not so far off. You also fail to consider tradeschool, which is predominantly men and more than makes up for that gap. There's also the reality that women need a better education than men to get the same job and the same pay (not everywhere, but there is no denying that white males still make more money and receive more promotions and jobs than non-white males). There aren't many women working as roughnecks in northern Alberta with a grade 7 education pulling in 6-figure salaries. No, men are not being left behind, they just have more options and you see that playing out.
Is there SOME male bashing going on? Sure. But there's bashing of everyone going on at some level. If you honestly think that men are being singled out more than any other group, you need to give your head a shake. They absolutely aren't. Not even a little. And even if they were, would you rather have to deal with a shot or two in the media or be relegated to making less money for the same work, being deprived of access to certain rights and services and suffering prejudice and abuse out and about in life? You've got it good, you've got it easy, stop complaining.
You say it's OK to bash men but not OK to bash anyone else... Except everyone else does get bashed. Just because it's not OK doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Likewise, the fact that SOME male bashing goes on doesn't mean it's ok either. But you've invented a world where men are being held down. Well, it doesn't reflect reality. To this day, the gender inequality in Canada for rate of pay is about 20%. The means by virtue of simply having a penis, you can expect to earn 15-20% more than a female. What's worse? That gap was shrinking for awhile, but has started to grow again. Men are getting BETTER pay than women, even in this world you think you live in where "young men are being left behind" and where you think they are being treated so much worse because they're the only group it's ok to treat poorly.