The reason for this is that in many circumstances, male social value is determined disproportionately by the approval&#x2F;disapproval of women. So when a woman turns a man down in this way, she not only rejects him for sex, but also reduces his social value.<p>Any &quot;fix&quot; for this will drastically reduce women&#x27;s social power.<p>It&#x27;s far from clear that women in general want this to happen. One complaint I&#x27;ve heard from a number of women about tech environments directly relates to this; a social butterfly who organizes parties and hackathons has lower status than the fat neckbeard who fixed all the performance problems.<p>In fact, activists regularly moan about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modelviewculture.com&#x2F;pieces&#x2F;acknowledging-non-coding-contributions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modelviewculture.com&#x2F;pieces&#x2F;acknowledging-non-coding...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modelviewculture.com&#x2F;pieces&#x2F;how-tech-devalues-social-media-workers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modelviewculture.com&#x2F;pieces&#x2F;how-tech-devalues-social...</a>