It doesn't have to be a wave, it only has to be one person, him.
It isn't about mistrusting women, it is about mistrusting everybody. He could just as easily be accused by a man. But the way you automatically assume this is a blanket distrust of women again proves there is some validity to his position.
You are grasping at straws very hard here, buddy. Cavill expressedly said it was about women:
"There's something wonderful about a man chasing a woman," Cavill said. "There's a traditional approach to that, which is nice. I think a woman should be wooed and chased, but maybe I'm old-fashioned for thinking that. It's very difficult to do that if there are certain rules in place."
Cavill continued by saying there's a risk about #MeToo leading men to believe, "Well, I don't want to go up and talk to her, because I'm going to be called a rapist or something."
"So you're like, 'Forget it, I'm going to call an ex-girlfriend instead, and then just go back to a relationship, which never really worked,'" Cavill continued. "But it's way safer than casting myself into the fires of hell because I'm someone in the public eye, and if I go and flirt with someone, then who knows what's going to happen?"
Cavill said that men "really can't pursue someone" in the era of #MeToo era after they have been told "no." "But then there's the, 'Oh why'd you give up?'" he said. "And it's like, 'Well, because I didn't want to go to jail?'"
Source: https://www.indiewire.com/2018/07/henry-cavill-metoo-interview-men-rapist-women-1201983359/
Now that you mentioned I read the other quote and... ew.