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For fifty years, the only people it was legal to discriminate against were straight, white males, and discrimination against them was required by law.

It will take generations to undue the damage, if it is even allowed.

And it’s still true of ubiquitous television advertising.
The bumbling oaf, the fool, the butt of jokes is the white male. Saved by a heroic and intelligent woman or black person who tells the right insurance, the best vacation package, the superior over the counter item and so on.

Seems harmless but that is part of the brainwashing that truly influences people growing up. Why marry a bumbling fool? What value is a dad who is a jerk? Why hire a man?

While there’s no exact number, estimates suggest an average person encounters thousands of ads daily, leading to millions in a lifetime, with some sources citing over 2 million TV commercials alone for adults over a lifetime, but this varies greatly by media habits, with digital ads adding significantly to the total.

Approximately 4,000 to 10,000 ads a day for the average
person.
From goadfuel.com
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How women are trained to view men. Subaru ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK3bHPB6CPU

When I was on the academic job market in the 1980s there was already open discrimination against men. I'm in a specialty where there are virtually no blacks so race wasn't an issue. I don't know how many times I was personally passed over so they could hire a woman--only know of one case for sure (for a one-year post-doc). But I witnessed blatant cases where the male applicants were all passed over in order to hire a woman, even if less qualified.

I was lucky and finally got a tenure-track job, but I think few women applied for it because the institution wasn't good enough for them to be a faculty member at.