Why Aren't Men Fighting Back? - The Sexual Assault of Men and Boys

[YinYang]

So, there is no excuse for why these women didn’t seek redress at the time of these alleged assaults.

You must be unfamiliar with some of the disturbing information that came to light in these high profile cases. Let's look at Weinstein:

Harvey Weinstein’s army of spies

In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature.

Men that wield this kind of power, will stop at nothing to silence their victims.

I understand the need for balance, but I think the pretext for which to create this balance is problematic to me.

No Dante, you are mistaken, you are not looking at "a pretext to create balance", you are looking at the result of immense progress having already been made in the restoration of balance.