As I already pointed out to you, mistreatment of girls and women is not "ancient history."
66% of rapes happen to girls who are younger than 17 - usually by somebody they know.
85% of girls start getting sexually harassed before they are 17 - often as young as 9 or 10.
Anti-female rhetoric is all around you - amongst your peers, in the media, in popular music. You don't have to have first hand knowledge of the power dynamics of corporations to be able to have awareness that a lot of male bonding takes place around denigrating and objectifying girls/women.
We live in a culture where this is so commonplace and so tacitly accepted as "just how things are" that it's almost invisible to anyone not specifically paying attention. That's all I'm asking you to do is to pay greater attention - because then the answer to your question about why it seems like women don't like men much becomes readily apparent. I'm glad that you told your friend his "joke" wasn't funny - but he didn't get the idea to say that because he's a phsycopath - he got it from somewhere in mainstream masculine culture that this is how to talk about women.
My son is autistic, which means he has zero buy-in to cultural norms and beliefs about what it means to be a guy. He is just himself, and I see that with many of his peers as well - what it looks like when young men are not indoctrinated into artificial (and often harmful) metrics of masculinity - because Man Box norms don't just harm women (and children), they also hurt men.
Artificially suppressing any normal human emotions other than anger doesn't make guys tough or "logical." It makes them repressed and driven by those emotions from behind the scenes out of their subconscious. It also leads to higher levels of depression, substance abuse, and suicide in men - because we humans are a highly social species and demanding that males artificially truncate that in favor of being stoic, dominant (everyone is your competition) and hiding all vulnerability is physically and psychologically harmful. It's associated with a wide range of illnesses and physical symptoms that harm men.
My son cries when he's upset. Like a normal human being who hasn't been taught his whole life to suppress that. As already pointed out, that's the way men behave in some other cultures today and how men used to behave prior to the Industrial Revolution. It has nothing to do with intrinsic maleness and everything to do with how you've been taught to be your entire life by the world around you.
I'm not (necessarily) trying to change you or to tell you how and who you should be, but all of this speaks to your question about why it seems like so many women aren't that crazy about guys as a demographic. In addition, I think it's important to point out that most mainstream psychology/ sociology organizations now recognize these sorts of Man Box norms as being extremely detrimental to boys and men.
You seem like a smart guy with a good head on his shoulders even though you are still quite young. Continuing to grow your awareness of what takes place in our culture just below the surface of how it all seems can only benefit you in the long run. I encourage you to keep gathering data and acting on that as makes sense to you.
