[Luvian]

I don't think this is a phenomenon that affect only women, and I don't think it's just politically correctness, it's broader than that.

It really seem to me about control and people being scared; of getting hurt either physically or emotionally, or more and more these days of other people's opinions of them. I see this current case as more about people being afraid of human contact than of bullying. OMG! people touch each others while playing tag, that's not proper in our society! Kindly run alone and keep a reasonable distance from anyone else, least they get uncomfortable.

It seem to me the ideal society these days is a society where everyone wear the same bland clothing, only say pre-approved things, of going to work at your appointed job, eating alone, then going back home in your suburban home. People are afraid of uncontrolled environments. Everything has to be controlled, standardized, pre-approved, and with as little meaningful human contact as possible as we haven't found a good way to control that yet.

That's what political correctness is about, controlling human interaction. It's not proper to touch people, it's not proper to do or say certain things. It's not proper to dress in certain ways. Control, norms.