I wonder if it could be related to the traditional roles where "the woman" is a guardian of her sexuality, which "the man" covets. He has to act, and shape hims

I wonder if it could be related to the traditional roles where "the woman" is a guardian of her sexuality, which "the man" covets. He has to act, and shape himself into something She likes, or She will pick someone else. Could this lead to old-school society attaching more importance to what young women desire? If some imbalance like that did exist, it would go something like this: In such a world, if half of young men were suddenly really into dungeons and dragons, the young women would simply dismiss them and turn to the other young men, who picked the "correct" interests (american football, being a musician, etc). Young women would not overwhelmingly start dressing like elves and wearing bows. Society, not seeing any side-effects, would then be happy to silently look down on those young men's interests. On the other hand, if in that imaginary world, half of young women were suddenly really into baby seal hunting, young men would start clubbing baby seals like there's no tomorrow - to be able to compete for their attention. In that case, society seeing a shortage of baby seals would have to do something about it. As a result, society, to maintain control, would try to guard young women's interests jealously - for example by loudly deriding / shaming those who's interests stray from the acceptable. --- Or the article could be off the mark, for example what if we different gender groups simply have different communication styles, and media adapts to it? --- I guess the question raised here is: Do women's desires affect men's actions more than the reverse?