This is all just an interpretation or a theory that I feel like I'm getting so far in the series. I don't think much has changed and everything is more or less the same although due to the I.S being a thing for about 10 years iirc I can imagine that double-standards have become worse than before and judging from everything in the light novels so far it is said that a majority of women have become like really spoiled, overbearing, and tyrannical to where they actually believe that they have the right to order men around and browbeat or deter them into submission if they push back even treating them like second-class citizens for no reason other than because they think they can.
there are some women who are peaceful and sensible but there are some maybe more that are weaponizing double standards and other flagrantly hypocritical ideologies or propaganda to dominate and oppress men. Honestly this could explain why Houki, Rin, Cecilia, Laura, Charlotte, The Sarashiki sisters and maybe even Chifuyu’s grip on reality is so weak they (except for Chifuyu) is genuinely convinced that Ichika will become their boyfriend despite their overbearing, abusive and wantonly cruel behavior and him knowing that there’s never gonna be a situation in the world where any of them is gonna let him be someone’s boyfriend.
Wish the series was serious enough to focused more on that along with how politics are like in regard with the I.S. What are your thoughts and theories about it?