I’ve read that it’s an anti-man wokefest

I think you missed the symbolism. All of the women are of power, action and wisdom. All of the men are stupid, evil, weak or in support or domestic roles.

Not explicitly saying it is not deniability.

Yeah but on the other hand you've gotta consider his heroic feats in the very beginning of the movie. As far as him being comic relief you could also chalk that up to the Disney cheese factor which has plagued these movies since the Marvel acquisition. TBH I didn't see anyone do anything special in this movie. They all seemed pretty nerfed and succeeded only when the plot allowed them to.

He was a failure at almost every point. He said himself:"I am just the muscle, your mother is the brain". He was even not good at his prison escape, has to be saved by black widow.

If that is not emasculated then I think you are taking the word more literally.

Shhh, you're ruining their narrative ;)

Women who were being mind controlled by a man. They were painted in a sympathetic light as victims from the get go. We see Yelena killing a woman before being freed from her mind control and lamenting what she has done. We see a Widow literally say "I don't want to do this" before killing herself. Could it have been made any more obvious? Yet you still missed this?
We are supposed to think Taskmaster is a man. As soon as she is revealed as a woman, we immediately understand that she is a victim.
The only female character who was shown to be even morally ambiguous was Melina, who clearly redeemed herself by the end.

The one character that was portrayed as purely evil, without even so much of a hint of an explanation as to what made him who he was, other than being an insecure narcissist who was trying to impress Natasha....or something....that was a man.

This must have been glaringly obvious to anyone watching the movie. So your comment seems deliberately dishonest.

I should add that this was a clear story telling decision that made the movie more boring and was likely motivated by feminist politics. The director stated that in the first version of the script Yelena was much more adversarial to Natasha, but she wanted to show that women help each other....or something along those lines.

It's very likely that the decision to make the Black Widows mind controlled drones instead of free agents who had been corrupted by their indoctrination was a similar kind of decision. And HOW it hurt the movie.

Natasha herself was never mind controlled, the whole thing was that she was trying to find redemption for the terrible things she had done. We understood that in some ways she had little choice as she was taken when she was as young as 6 (this was revealed in the Bruce Banner scene in the Avengers). At some point she made the decision to break free and go down a different path. This was what made her interesting. The fact that Bucky was mind controlled as the Winter Soldier makes that character a lot less interesting than he could have been. It was always straining the credulity of the Civil War plot that he would be blamed by Tony for his parent's death, but that was kind of relying on Tony's hot headed selfish personality.

But now we have a bunch of Widows who are basically portrayed as being completely innocent victims with no agency. Imagine if Natasha and Yelena had been on opposite sides, not because of mind control, but because Yelena had not yet been redeemed? Imagine if she actually had to fight againt Widows who were acting of their own free will? Nope, instead Yelena and Natasha fight for no compelling reason before making up. We get some boring Mcguffin mind anti-mind control gas that wraps up the story in a nice boring bow.

In the scene the Punisher is sometimes using objects as weapons, and sometimes just punching. None of this makes the scene even remotely within the realm of plausible possibility. One guy against 8 men using any kind of hand held weapon gets overpowered and killed in about 3 seconds. In every scenario.

Tony Stark is supposed to be able to single handedly build weapons more powerful than an entire advanced alien civilization. This doesn't strike you as odd.

Hawkeye defeats people with guns using a bow an arrow. That could happen.

Woman beats up a man who is a bit stronger than her. ABSURD.