TDS seems to have a lot common with "penis envy."
Earlier in American history, women who said that they wanted (or attempted to) to vote, attend a college or university, play sports, run for pubic office, etc were told that they suffered from "penis envy," a psychiatric disorder.
So the women [and the issues themselves] who said or attempted to do these things were instantly pathologized, dismissed, delegitimated, and the issues [should women be allowed to do these things] were not discussed.
This was done to enforce the patriarchal domination of women. A very biased assumption (that women are not mentally, physically, intellectually, emotionally able to do these things, and that Nature has configured women so as not to be able to do these things) got promoted to the status of a "truth" - in the minds of believers at least.