And since the guys, who are all serious fellows reporting on serious issues, decided that the icky woman stuff was not serious to them, they felt comfortable ignoring it as a niche issue, not something that needed to be addressed as a substantive concern that would upend 50-year-old political allegiances.
Their bodies were not being torn asunder for political gain, after all.
Women would just deal with it as a changed circumstance & life would go on.