I think the simplest most elegant answer is that in-group bias simply doesn't work the same way for sex vs race. Almost all races have strong in-group bias. Women have strong in-group bias. Men do not. Men are more prone to liking women then men. So when women want to throw men as a group under the bus, almost every man is happy to oblige, thinking that he himself is one of the rare good ones, and that the fact that he's respecting a woman throwing men under the bus just proves how good he is.
This in turn likely comes out of the fact that men were evolutionarily in conflict with other men for resources but entirely dependent on women for reproduction. The men who had strong psychological reasons to love cherish and value women and therefore protect them and feed them, instead of hoarding their own resources for themselves, were the ones who reproduced more.
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I think the simplest most elegant answer is that in-group bias simply doesn't work the same way for sex vs race. Almost all races have strong in-group bias. Women have strong in-group bias. Men do not. Men are more prone to liking women then men. So when women want to throw men as a group under the bus, almost every man is happy to oblige, thinking that he himself is one of the rare good ones, and that the fact that he's respecting a woman throwing men under the bus just proves how good he is.
This in turn likely comes out of the fact that men were evolutionarily in conflict with other men for resources but entirely dependent on women for reproduction. The men who had strong psychological reasons to love cherish and value women and therefore protect them and feed them, instead of hoarding their own resources for themselves, were the ones who reproduced more.
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