This hasn’t been my experience. 95% of the enthusiastic enforcers of social justice stuff I know are women (or women who claim to be she/theys). Lots of women live to keep others in line and ostracize people who fall outside of their version of normal or correct. “Cancel culture” for lack of a better term is just the new, socially acceptable version of the sort of female social aggression that used to manifest as mean girls picking on someone for not wearing Abercrombie or gossipy church ladies.
I came across
this article not long ago and it kinda helped me understand why I’ve found this behaviour so viscerally abhorrent since the days when it was confined to Tumblr, as someone who was the class girl-bullying punching bag as a kid. It reminds me of that.
(Tying it back to the Rowling discussion, it’s interesting that a lot of the female villains in Harry Potter - Umbridge, Mrs Dursley, the girls who bully Hermione - are that kind of villain, who try to ruin others’ lives for stepping out of line. And that I’ve now seen people claiming this portrayal is sexist.)