Why do men make an extra effort to not look at (or make eye contact) with me in public?

I see a variant of this question frequently on Reddit and other places, and the answer is: this is what women have told men they want! So that’s what good men do. Sometimes it’s even contractually stipulated:

Meanwhile, the bad men don’t give a crap so those are the only ones women will have any interactions with. Women have accidentally but in a very real way created a terrible equilibrium where they’ve guaranteed they will only have negative interactions with men. Good work!

Same, same:

Meanwhile women can and do get away with all manner of creepy-ass shit like recording guys in the gym hoping they will glance at her for a picosecond. Makes no sense.