Please. McDonald's lost MILLIONS of dollars in that hot-coffee lawsuit, but they're still serving the stuff, and out of drive-thru windows no less. Pharmaceutical companies have lawsuits all the time, and they still keep manufacturing the stuff.

What it boils down to is effectively controlling a large segment of the population. I'm not sure it's even a male-female thing - it's just a good way to try to get an iron grip on the choices of the majority population, cloaked in the guise of compassion and "decency." Plus, study any aristocratic society: The small upper class requires a massive poor, poorly educated lower class to work their factories, buy their products, and shit out their soldiers.