Good to hear you grew a set, it's always the case he or she who has the strongest reality WINS.
Look at the Western world around you. Women have the stronger reality socially now by DEFAULT. It's in the t.v. programs, the magazines, and especially engrained into the physiological relationships of you and millions of other men.
It's EASY for women to believe they have this power and value that’s why they start testing by rediculous moaning, nagging and drama.
All they have to do is adapt to the popular social program and they will leverage this power.
Women who adapt to the socio-cultural programs and influence of beauty or 'sexploitation' (the women we're conditioned to desire and drool over) have the social value.
This isn't about acting. There are women that will run you over like a metaphorical Mack truck. Society reinforces the strength of their reality and their beliefs in it everyday (add in the countless desperate men they could have which further reinforces it).
What we're talking about at the peak of this behavior are independent women (inner alpha's) and socially valued women (social alpha's like strippers, club bratz, etc.).
We're talking about power itself. Who has the stronger reality..who has more power.
The behavior is very real and until YOU as the man come along with (an independent) a STRONGER reality than the one that they believe in and live in at behavioral levels daily of knowing that millions of men want them - the same pattern will continue...