The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism

June 7, 2014

The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism

by Maria Popova

A tragicomic day in the life of a man who struggles for equality in a mirror-image society dominated by women.

“Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers,” NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam wrote in his extraordinary exploration of society’s hidden biases, “[and] those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.”

Watch this amazing video below. Warning: for mature audiences only. French with English subtitles.

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