This is what happens when you let women run civilization. Women, in general, do NOT have universal understanding of what is real and what is not. Women orient them selves relative to the social group context they find them selves in and you can get them to do and say anything. This is how prostitution works, which is merely the most extreme example. You can get women to sacrifice their children with enough social pressure. Everyone thought letting women run civilization would be a great idea. Now we find out the real cost of that. Having said that, our men have done dick all in the last 120 years to earn the right and actually take control over our civilizations, so there is that.