“To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.”
Thanks, dude.
A Civil War Within Humankind
All across the globe, women indignant over this treatment began organizing protests. Although the majority of these protests were non-violent and non-magical, they still assembled large numbers of weapons-grade women together, and so were more often than not suppressed by the mobilization of armed forces. While the protests went on, a male-only congress was held to discuss "The Problem of Future Female Relations". There, it was decided that, for the safety of all men, the sexes must be completely segregated.
(This decision was still a rational one. The oppression and atrocities perpetrated by men upon women had rebounded in the form of riots and states of civil war frequently breaking out all over the world.)