Ah, thank you for answering those questions, manners!
And the relevance is that you have now demonstrated that this is indeed a Men’s Rights movement in which those with existing (sex) class privilege are using that class privilege and power and economic advantage to exert a new form of dominance over the class they have always traditionally dominated.
If this were not about making sure men/males have even more rights over even more areas of the public world than they already do (and one of the huge reasons women’s spaces are SO important is that the vast, vast majority of public space is “owned” by men and frequently unsafe for or hostile to women: the ubiquity of sexual harassment makes that clear) then the whole bloody thing would never have got off the ground in the first place!
If it were really about the rights and safety of a vulnerable, marginalised minority, they wouldn’t have this power, they wouldn’t have this much of a voice, they wouldn’t have this influence with which to make governments, corporations, state institutions, the media, places of education, sporting bodies etc etc etc roll over and do their bidding in the blink of an eye.
Your naïveté in believing this is all just because we’re better at being progressive this days is sweet but shocking, cupcake. Look what’s happening to women all over the world including right here.
Look at the paltry figures on rape and sexual abuse convictions, the absolute trashing of women’s reputations and lives that happens in high profile rape cases, the double standards that still pervade every aspect of our lives, the number of women in relationships with abusive men, the number of men who walk away from their children without a second thought leaving the women to bear the entire financial and emotional burden of raising their children, the porn and prostitution industry... the list goes on and on and on.
Yes, there has been some progress. But nowhere near the level you seem to think it’s at, and nowhere near enough to make the trajectory of genuinely disadvantaged groups as smooth as the TRAs’ has been. The reason that this movement is sweeping all before it is because it is the privileged and powerful demanding concessions of the disadvantaged and relatively powerless.
Civil rights, my arse.
You’ve been had.