Guys are having to walk on eggshells around women
You don't need us anymore, so we avoid you because if we say something that's wrong or taken the wrong way or our compliments come across as somehow patriarchal it makes you angry.
We're so confused, We don't know what we're supposed to do to make you happy, so what do we do? Stand-offish vibes. We decide not to interact with you at all. That way we can't get anything wrong.
When you say "You didn't talk to me, even look at me or even notice that I exist" our response is "Yep, how are you going to blame me for that? We're strangers, I don't owe you anything." You see ladies, of course we're going to standoff when everything we do makes you angry at us.
Compliments = bad, holding the door open = bad, being nice = bad, not agreeing with you and having a different opinion on something that doesn't bow down to the wokeness = bad. So we end up walking on egg shells because you're crazy. We don't know how to interact with you anymore. Are we supposed to ask "Honey, is it okay if I say this? Honey? Honey, can I say this?". That's what you're driving some men to do, making them sound weak and effiminate and you hate them even for that. But the guy that stands up for himself is like "This is what I think and if you don't like it, tough."
It seems that anything we say or do can set you ladies off and the goal posts are constantly moving.
Its like someone who walks into a bar and asks for a glass of liquid ice and the bartender asks "Do you mean a glass of water?" and she says "No, liquid ice, and I need it very cold". The bartender then asks "Okay, so you want very cold water?" to which she replies "No stupid, listen to what I'm saying! Ice! Do you have ice?". The bartender says "Yes I have ice" and she says "Okay, get me a glass of that okay, except I want it in liquid form." The bartender would be like "What? Huh?". So that's where we are with the dating scene and women are like "but I don't understand why men don't understand us and don't try anymore." Well how are we supposed to try if we can't compliment you, can't open the door for you and somehow we're supposed to figure out how to ask you out?
If we're not 100% completely and totally what you're looking for, your reaction is "eewww, get away from me" or "you're pestering me" or "you're bothering me". So why should we walk through a mile of razor blades to get to a bowl of rice? You're not frightning us off, we're just trying to save our sanity.