Date rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence charges on the uncorroborated say-so of a woman. Inequities in divorce and child-support issues. When a man tries to say on an on-line bulletin board that the scales have tipped too far, he's often met with a barrage of hostile and insulting attacks. It struck me that any group with new-found power and influence is reluctant to give up even one shred of that power, or share that power, unless wrested from them. Tyranny of power can rule for only so long.
Political correctness is one of the major tools for maintaining that power.
But the real reason for Political Correctness is to thwart any challenges to that new-found power. So if they want to call people liars, mean and cruel, oppressive, controlling, insensitive, or whatever, it is only speaking out against the oppression that has happened for hundreds or thousands of years. To make people walk on eggshells. So men speaking out for fairness and equality are represented as a Backlash, a bunch of Neanderthal right-wing extremists. Time after time, as men have talked about date-rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence or divorce and support issues, a number of techniques have been used to stop the discussion.