What are these so-called male-bashing cartoons, films, etc.? Are any of the Marvel or DC series male-bashing, for example? Avatar? James Bond? Video games like Fortnite?

You are begging the question.[1] The question wasn't "what is the cause?" but rather "what is the solution?" which you fail to answer, as in: how can we prevent "the media" from pushing faux moral intellectualism? Note, I'm not addressing the question of whether that's the true cause or not. But, assuming it is -- what can be done about it? Is calling out "the media" on HN enough?

[1] in the older sense of the phrase; nowadays most people use it differently, but it originally meant ~"answering without really answering".

Perhaps the problem is that all secular thinking is bad, and teaching young men and women to blindly follow is always a bad idea, even with good role models. If you don't learn to think for yourself and contextualize what you see/hear, you've got pretty bad odds at being a good adult.

And that's just a problem on both sides of the aisle. It will probably continue to dominate modern politics, until improving democracy becomes more profitable than making people argue passionately.

So, many [citation needed] tags to add here. Multiple per sentence. None of this is supported by any evidence whatsoever. None of this holds up to a cursory examination of modern society. Literally none of this is based on anything. But it feeds your anger. It feeds your persecution complex. It makes you feel morally justified to be an asshole. It's their fault I voted for Trump. It's their fault I listen to Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. It's their fault I sexually harass women. It's their fault I hate Jews. It's their fault I'm a fascist neo-Nazi. It's their fault I send death threats to the parents of school-shooting victims. Any action is justified, because of them. Evidence not necessary, because it just feels so good.