I'm getting in early so I can win 'Transphobe of the year 2023'
Joking aside, we've seen in the past decades, although I'd argue a century at least, how women's roles have changed in WESTERN society. The result, increased depression and stress rates, lower birth rates, more people maiming themselves to 'turn into a woman' and truly evil amounts of abortions each year.
And part of the problem is shifting the concept of femininity, if you ask the feminists you seem to get a response of being a man-whore (acting with behaviours associated with men along with free to sleep around with no attachments), the left say it can be applied to anyone that identifies as female (which is why they try to shift goal posts to include men with femininity) and the right at least focuses on being a competent mother first.
We can all see how this has translated in our media, we went from supporting wives and girlfriends caring for the kids while helping their man overcoming their enemies to women being invincible warriors and all men are dumb so why be tied down to one.
I think a lot of this push to change what femininity means comes from a fundamental aspect of it, it has an element of submission to it. Not in a full 'Handmaid's tale' that feminists like to jerk off to, but there seems to an element of willingly placing yourself behind a man and supporting him in life, something that is consitently mocked and belittled in western media and social media now.
It's one aspect of why western media is dying because of what they portray isn't femininity but men in female skinsuits. I'll stop it here so it doesn't become an essay but I do think the rejection of femininity is one aspect of our current societal collapse.
So their fall came thanks to automation? As that has affected men's role too since a lot of the careers that required men, even war, is being automated.
It goes into the deeper question of what is humanity's role as more tasks are handled by machines.
Not really. Their fall came from being lazy, greedy (and several other adjectives I can't say or DoM will ban me again) trash who counted on a monopoly of the pointless tasks they do keeping them from being replaced or thrown out.
So when the only thing they brought to the table was usurped by machines with a one-time fee, that don't complain and don't leave you, they were completely blindsided and started playing every dirty trick in the book to try and hold onto their wealth, until eventually they created the system that props them up today, built off mass brainwashing and dehumanization.
TL;DR : Hubris and a massive superiority complex.