I’m not convinced men abused their power before so I doubt it — people act like the 50s and back when women couldn’t vote were the dark ages for women and that women were so oppressed, but I disagree with that assessment because women were always cared for and valued by men.
Without some kind of fairness/regulation in place to help men, women become hugely giga advantaged and the 80%+ men are left as wage slaves with no family and no sex (for the lurkers that don’t buy this, please educate yourself and go over the studies/citations present on the blackpill science article of incels.wiki — normies really have no idea how things are...).
Before when men had more power we weren’t losing jobs to diversity hires and most men could get sex and have a family. Meanwhile women were taken cared for and straight up given a very easy road (don’t have to wage slave/they can be stay at home parents — waaaay easier than industry 9-to-5 that requires degree). Nobody ever talks about how back them men did not have the ability to NOT wage slave and men still can’t typically be the stay at home parent — we don’t get nor have ever been able to take that easier road.
Relevant is that today men are actively persecuted and unfairly rated more harshly in schools/Uni/at work as per the studies outlined here:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kbxzlo/teachers_mark_girls_higher_for_identical_work_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Also note the comments farther down cited by the OP where if you look at men today women in their 20s are actually out earning them.