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because women generally cannot admit that they are ruled by hormones and instinct in the same way that men are, only the hormones and instincts are different. Every strongly felt and widely shared reaction to men that lots of women have has to be defended as occupying some sort of moral high ground. Another example is the refusal of many if not most women to concede the voluminously documented fact that many if not most women are sexually repulsed by men significantly shorter than themselves. Repulsed by the shortness, period, the short guy always has to be complicit in the problem, somehow, according to most women.