The truth is that both men and women have suffered terribly throughout history: women have long been denied a lot of the freedoms and decision making powers that men have historically always had, while on the flipside, the most egregious forms of suffering (violence, murder, warfare, etc), were—and still are—overwhelmingly felt most acutely by men and boys.
One advantage which I think that women have generally always had over men, though, is that they've usually been much better at sticking up for their own sex. I've often noticed that women will look out for one another and extend each other emotional support in a way that men usually don't, and as a man, I've often thought that we could learn a lot from that.
I know that it's highly passé to invoke the concept of "toxic masculinity", but in a lot of ways, I think there's actually a lot of truth to the idea that traditional notions of masculinity have been highly limiting to the wellbeing of men and boys. Men's rights activists are quick to point out that men are the main casualties of war, the main victims of violent crime, and the main sufferers of dangerous work-related injuries, but rarely if ever do they acknowledge the fact that the main perpetrators of this suffering and exploitation are men themselves. I don't think the same can be said for the suffering women face, most of the time.
