Honestly, I tend to think it has less to do with actual men and more to do with back against societal narratives, advertising and religious propaganda, etc that we're constantly being bombarded with as women.
Like, right now there's a distinct pushback against the idea that a woman's sole purpose is to have children and become mothers.
Right now, you've got a legislative push to restore laws of coverture coming from the christian nationalists, starting with the overturn of Roe, or the Dobbs decision.
You've got prominent men like Elon Musk stating publicly that women who don't have children are selfish because there aren't enough babies being born and it's a threat to society. A clear fabrication.
Anytime something happens, single mothers inevitably get blamed like that guy who blamed single Black mothers for the beating death of Tyre Nichols.
And so forth and so on ad nauseum infinitum.
They might be hearing the rhetoric from men, men's groups, pastors at church, and campaigns, or even their own mothers sometimes....
But I think the push back is directed at society and culture at large rather than "men". It tracks back to the fact that women's bodies and lives are considered public commodities. He push back is women reclaiming ownership of themselves and their lives, whether it's said to an individual man in some way, the more ambiguous "men", society at large, or just dumped into the ether at random.
To be fair, its not like men aren't also being heavily propagandized by societal messaging, ad campaigns, religions, etc too. It's not like men aren't being damaged by all this messaging too, they most definitely are. It would be nice to see more push back from them, but unfortunately it seems the loudest amongst them have absorbed the propaganda rather than rebuffed it. For them, it's not about ownership of thr body or stripping of autonomy, it's about thibking their value is only ever extrinsic. Their value as a human being only ever matches what they can build or produce or acquire, so they're constantly trying to validate their own existence, often in unhealthy, damaging, or violent ways. Ultimately, it makes them unloveable and hard to live with, when they go too far down that ideological path.
Wish I could hear more of them stubbornly declaring thei Mr independence from that valuation system before I die. I'd really like to see a wholesale fucking revolt from it. Their healthy, steadfast, and loving (not domination) presence in our lives as women is missed.
But you can only lead the horse to water. You can't make him drink.
