>>149473426 (OP)
Probably, yeah. At least on the fanbase side of things.
The attempts by the 'SJWs' at the time to basically make comics fully political caused an inverse reaction and made many male nerds more homophobic and sexist than they were before. I mean if making characters randomly gay, and race-swapping every new character wasn't such a big trope, when it would happen, it wouldn't be so negatively received.
However on the industry-side, there probably was a really significant and issue-causing amount of sexism and homophobia.
I mean back in the 2000s I remember every comic with a woman in it would stop at nothing to sexualize her. And I like cheesecake, but there's a time and place, and it was literally every damn panel.
Also the writers back then also made Wonder Woman some misandrist bitch, presumably because they didn't like women and that's how they envisioned a strong woman internally. Those going away was a good change.
Unfortunately ideologically-possessed retards don't know when to stop.