Here is a short history of the oppression of masculine gendered men:

1. In the original society men's primary sexual bonds were with other men, while sex with women was limited to procreation, was irregular and a significant fraction of masculine male population did not participate in it.

2. Men and women lived separately, and the male society was divided into 'masculine gendered' and 'feminine gendered'. Both masculine gendered and feminine gendered males could have sex with men, women or third gender. However relationships between man and woman was seen as feminine while that between man and man was seen as masculine.

3. Competitions and tests of manhood that involved test of physical masculinity were important part of getting an entry into the men's group and a matter of pride for masculine gendered men. However, femininity was valued too, as a separate group.

4. At some point in history, as humans decided to settle into far off, isolated areas, into civilizations, suddenly they required a much larger and steady flow of population. It was since then that male-female sex started being valued more. (no evidence for this). The problem was that men cared for their sexual bonds with other men a lot, and unless this was broken, they could not be forced to mate with women for increased reproduction. (indirect evidences exist). It was then that several new concepts were introduced into the society. Prominent being the institution of marriage. --- something that is still a pain in the neck for men. Men were given extreme powers and rewards for accepting the marriage institution, and severe punishment for rejecting it.

5. Not much later, 'reproduction' was cleverly included in the test for masculinity for entrance into the men's group. Although sex with women was not directly given powers in the beginning, 'reproduction' gradually empowered male-female sex upon which masculinity came to be hinged.

6. This created a new power group amongst men which soon became the vested interest group, which in the modern world became the forces of heterosexualisation. The vested interest group also included women who had the power to grant the man his manhood.

7. Around the same time femininity in men started to be denigrated too, for more or less the same purposes. (Because some feminine gendered men didn't care for reproduction and the 'masculinity' pressure did not work on them!)

8. Sexual bonds with men continued to be cherished till the times of the ancient Greeks.

9. The vested interest group kept trying to consolidate its powers by trying to wipe out male-male bonds from the society, but had limited success till the ancient Greeks. Then in the first century religion became extremely organized and strong, and the vested interests soon controlled it. It was then that they struck the first real blow to the male-male sexuality. They abused religion and pronounced male-male sex as against the order of nature. This really weakened the masculine gendered men who from then onwards went underground.

10. However, the forces of heterosexualisation did not succeed completely because:
a. There were lots of injunctions on male-female sex, which was only allowed in marriage. This curbed their powers a lot.
b. The male spaces were still strong, and male-male sex and bonds survived quietly, unspoken, uncelebrated and unacknowledged, in that strong male space. This space was much more stronger in non-Christian societies than in Christian societies. It was the strongest in Islamic societies.

11. The forces of heterosexualisation also wanted to isolate behind-the-scene male-male sex from this masculine male space into the 'third gender' space, but it could not succeed only because the male spaces were strong.

12. Then came industrialization, the value of masculinity subsidized substantially, and the forces of heterosexualisation got an opportunity to reorganize the society as village societies were fast becoming urban centres.

13. Science became extremely powerful --- the new religion of the modern world, and people started worshipping it like god, believing everything that was said in the name of science. The forces of heterosexualisation quickly took control of it and abused it to give it some important tools to consolidate their powers. One was “Darwinism”. The other was “Sexual orientation”. Both are fundamentally unnatural concepts.

14. Thus armed with economic and technological power brought about by science and industrialization the forces of heterosexualisation started to fanatically destroy the male spaces and to heterosexualise the entire society. These heterosexual spaces were artificially configured to have zero tolerance for same-sex activities. With male spaces gone, the forces of heterosexualisation for the first time succeeded in isolating male-male sexual need into the 'third gender' homosexual space. Science gave them what even the power of god (religion) could not.
 

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