There has been an extension of sexism over the past few decades, where ever increasing swaths of people find it socially acceptable to treat a large cohort of the population as a uniform evil to be mitigated.

And it is not limited to a few loud voices in extremist online communities. You will find it percolating onto real-life policies as well.

We have gotten to the point where trying to address problems that primarily affect certain cohorts has become taboo because it clashes with the commonly-accepted narrative that they are a privileged group, regardless of what any data shows.