You mean; like a world where men would be send to war and just very few women? or a world where most homeless people are straight males? Or a world where women get custody of the child on the majority of the divorces? Oh wait, that is this world; I guess you will have to pick your bias of what oppression actually means.

It is important to mention the context of situation in France. France ranks 57th in the world for women's equality, behind much of Eastern Europe, as well as Mongolia [1]. They are really a little behind...

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25...

Now watch all the HN men start to defend themselves, completely missing the message.

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Preemptive: I know what's coming next. Don't even bother asking me what the message is. Doesn't matter what I say, it'll spiral into a mess of disagreements and pointless debate. Here's a hint though... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204058 . Open your hearts and tone down the logic-machine for just a moment. Allow yourself to feel.

Wow these comments are completely missing the point. Any mention of feminism or claims that women are oppressed are met with "but guys have it worse!!!!". Check out everydaysexism.com if you want an idea of what women ACTUALLY go through. It's very easy to think you know what everyone experiences, but if you're male you _cannot_ know what it is like to be female, simply because people will treat you differently based on your sex... as illustrated by this film.

What's the point with this film? That just because the genders have been reversed, my sympathies would actually fall differently? Is this really still an issue? This seems like a student project from the late 80s. If there is an opposite to "poignant" or "relevant", this is it.

Living in France now...they would have made the same movie with a small (let's say 1m50) openly gay and dressing sexy guy, eventually brown skin, and they could have kept almost exactly the same script, there would be no need to inverse genders, and it would be a kind of pseudo documentary instead of some half baked commentary on a complex subject.

It might be tangential, but that's an odd choice of title for the film given that females are actually the majority in France (as well as in, say, the United States).

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Women have the State completely on their side. They are more or less married to the State. Think about it, if the government collapsed today, it would be the Law of the Jungle out there again. In sitcoms and commercials, women are totally put-together and have the big picture. Men are portrayed as buffoons and losers.