There is definitely a level of true within this thread. To some degree, sublime, what you're saying is true. But that doesnt mean that it is intentional or even upfront in the woman's mind. Because what drives men is totally different than what drives women - and not just "because women are stupid attention whores all of them" but a lot of it is simply the difference in biological make-up (hormones, etc).
Um, men and women are different. Always have been - always will be. If you feel like you're getting schooled, pimped, played, screwed over, used, confused by, manipulated by a member of the opposite sex, it's very easy to just make generallizations about the entire gender to make yourself feel better, isn't it? Hence all the man-bashers and women-haters in the world.