Mine is having a similar sort of experience, SirVix - I don't think it's easy for students to be able to talk freely about reality-based views in Oxford, which I find really odd.
My daughter's explanation is that there are mainly lots of kids who have worked really hard to get to Oxford and who are actually just interested in their own academic subject. They may be quite brilliant at, say, Biochemistry but otherwise they are not necessarily particularly deep thinkers on anything outside their immediate subject area.
A number have very little in the way of common sense or life experience - many are still very privileged - and because their focus has been, to date, almost entirely on what they can do with their brains and not bodies they are not maybe as aware of sexism as they could be.
There are many quirky kids with some pretty black & white thinking about gender, lots of international students who are paying hand over fist for the privilege of being there and do not want to rock the boat, an academic body that leaves them to get on with it and just a tiny number of vocal Activists - but it is the latter whose voices are amplified. Her college's JCR is one of the 5 that is against the Stock visit. She was unaware of that until I told her. I could hear her eyes rolling over the phone...
After her oldest sibling went down the ROGD rabbit hole, she was vociferously GC, attending WPUK meetings, challenging school about policies etc
At this point, 5 years on, and as a really incisive thinker, I think she is just exhausted by what she describes as 'the mind numbing stupidity and illogicality' of the opposing arguments to even bother engaging in debate.
Mainly the topic does not come up - Oxford students now appear to be more obsessively getting on with work, trying to achieve that 1st/2.1 rather than chatting into the night on an eclectic range of subjects as they were back in my day! - but the social pressure now (particularly on young women) to beee kiiiind is there too.