Whilst I don't deny having developed a nice case of female hysteria, my first doctor missed it completely and diagnosed me with the much more manly "burnout".By having a "women's" disease, men are being viewed with the same contempt. As far as many doctors are concerned, you may as well have sprouted ovaries and developed a nice case of female hysteria.
In 1968 twice as many men as women were diagnosed with peptic ulcers. A nice manly thing to have, proof of how hard you worked, with all the cares of the world on your shoulders, living on a diet of whiskey, coffee and tobacco. 45 years later, since finding out that H Pylori is the culprit, the diagnosis rate for men and women is now 50:50.
Maybe once the science has overtaken the BPS crap we will have a diagnosis rate of 50:50 for ME. Men might not be diagnosed with ME as much as women at the moment, but the reasons for that may well be social, political, due to diagnosis bias based on sexist assumptions, different diagnostic criteria used etc etc. So much is unknown about ME that at the moment there aren't many things we can be sure about.
But one thing I do know is that men have the right to have ME just as much as women, and by being diagnosed with ME I consider myself ahead of my time and at the forefront of this struggle for justice and equality.