It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
“The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.”
“There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.”