Except it kinda does?
Like I know not every single Star Wars fan is a terrible, ugly, unloveable misogynists but ever since Daisy Ridley was shown to be one of the main characters of the new trilogy, people lost their minds. A group of MRAs tried to get The Force Awakens to fail because not only was there a woman in SW but also because a black man (John Boyega) was also a lead. Daisy Ridley also left her social media accounts due to harassment and people still want to claim that feminism ruined Star Wars. Yeah, not everyone is like this but these people have loud voices and try to drown out others.
Fandoms are extremely unwelcoming to women and with stuff like SW, it's worse because certain fans think it only belongs to men. Again, not every male fan is like this but there are enough of them and they are dangerous. Yeah, they just drove two female actresses off their social media accounts but imagine what they can do in real life. The issue is trying to just ignore them. By ignoring them, they're being told they're right and that what they're doing works. They need to be confronted. And I'm saying this as someone who has been active in the SW fandom. Yes, I well aware of how toxic fandoms can be but I love SW and fan-created content. I've seen how a certain sect of fans talk about certain characters and they just ooze sexism. So yeah, Kelly's harassment has everything to do with the backlash against women in Star Wars as well as the Star Wars fandom.