Can someone explain to me the need to be represented?

I'm not sure if it differs based on area but I face discrimination in STEM by being a white male. I have a very, very, very similar resume and background as my female friend, and she was accepted to every single PhD program she applied to. Even the ivy league schools - CalTech, Stanford, Cornell, etc.
I was rejected from everything. We applied to the same programs.

Don't get me wrong - she absolutely deserved those acceptances, but I think I did too. I don't know where the disparity is other than what my sex is. Grades? I was better. Research? Literally the same. GRE scores? Mine were better. Recommendation letters? We both had very good professors we've worked closely with. Personal statement is the only thing I don't know about. All I know is I spent months on mine and it was very well written so I hardly doubt that was the reason 10 different schools chose to accept her and reject me.

Unfortunately this type of discrimination is okay in our culture because white males have had it good for so long, and other groups haven't. So I have to suffer the cost of previous generations of hate and discrimination. I don't think it's fair but it's not going to change so I suck it up and deal with it. I just have to work harder.

That's why I had to qualify it with a statement to begin with; affirmative action is a peach in many things, but particularly academia. The entire upper echelon of the system is completely infested with SJWs, and it will remain that way because they have the power to only promote those who are either like them or will be in their debt and as such not speak out against their idiocy. Getting a college degree is still the biggest regret of my entire life, and I have many regrets, I have more regrets than I have every other emotion put together. Furthering your education means absolutely nothing if you aren't also capable of sitting on the plantain of the person directly above you in order to get further in life/career/whatever, unless you are incredibly lucky or incredibly talented or both. Also, having a degree makes you overqualified for a mcjob (though I wouldn't have gotten that anyway, I have agoraphobia at this point so a service job would be a terrible fit if I even cared enough to look for one), and having a degree means nothing if you don't also have experience which you can't get without working when you are younger which you can't get because you are GETTING A FUCKING DEGREE.