aka, selective infantilsm, but even worse than that. Infants can't make choices, therefore infants cannot be held responsible for what they do but instead must be kept from self-harm, monitored closely at all times. Ditto toddlers and adolescents, to increasingly lesser degrees.
But intellectually normal women, and even sub-normal ones, can make choices, yet are held selectively irresponsible for the consequences in certain situations. It's treating them like they're part-time retards; that they couldn't possibly have known better when the possible consequence is obvious to anyone, including themselves. I'm still really, really baffled by this phenomenon but I think I'm going to check out on it for good this time.