For example, someone might want to draw attention to possible statistical differences between women and men, in their respective attitudes towards (say) the choice between liberty vs state intervention. You choose to reject any and all articles containing speculations of this kind. Fair enough, it’s your magazine.
But what if everyone who owns/controls/edits magazines takes the same approach, and deviation from this approach is demonised, in a sort of intellectual-mob effect? The position of some women, in some respects, would perhaps go on being improved. But not of all women. There are likely to be at least a few who want to say things that deviate from this orthodoxy.
One thing that would almost certainly deteriorate is the quality of culture. Suppression and repression are the enemies of cultural progress. Culture is likely to stagnate into something prosaic and predictable.
Women have become dominant in some sectors, and this has caused changes within those sectors. You can choose to like those changes, or to dislike them. But to suppress discussion of them – in order to block the suggestion that the changes might not be 100% positive from all points of view – is bound to reduce the quality of cultural content, academic debate, free speech, and so on.
Culture is nowadays readily sacrificed on the altar of ideological correctness. This is an approach that has received a big boost from Marxist ideology, and the fact that it's now the preferred narrative among humanities professors.
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from Quora.com:
Why is contemporary American literature so boring?
Answer: Political correctness. The social pressure on major American publishing houses in the late 20th century required them to replace good male editors with mediocre female editors (in many cases).
Very quickly female editors comprised over 80% of all editors. This meant, naturally, that most books accepted for publication were by, for and about women.
This was good for profits, too, as 80% of all books in America are purchased by – and now written by – women.
Virtually no one will admit that women and men have different virtues and viewpoints about some things. So, books can no longer write about bull fighting, war, individual courage, cowardice under fire, existential crises, intellectual/moral dilemmas, or other male subjects.
Women’s literature is basically about relationships. This has effectively emasculated American literature, which was once the bravest, most literary, most insightful, boldest, most true, most subtle, and most masculine in the world.