within the last, say, century, it’s far more acceptable for women to

• be alone
• be alone without being painted as a computer-nerd-loser while also having little positive societal reinforcers of your worth (women are too important to go to war (from a large scale sort of biology way), society pigeonholes them into the cozy jobs (cooking, knitting, domestic chores, etc) (i realize childbirth is bad which is why i didn’t list it), the body positivity movement, more variety in fashion, the ability to go out and achieve OR be a housewife and either is viewed as basically fine by anyone normal now, etc)

• furthermore jerking off is viewed as (generally, recently, by anyone normal now) sexy for ladies and gross for men