I think the traditional counterpart of the "womanizer" is the "maneater", isn't it? (not to be interpreted literally...)

A woman is a man blessed with the ability to bring forth a child. This made women very sacred beings in most traditional cultures, and is one reason why men were seen as more expendable, and were exposed to greater physical risk in hunting and in war (women are certainly capable of both activities).

From there, people have gone to the crassness of modern society where a woman is seen as less valuable because her period may cause her to miss a couple of days of work a month...or other such lines of materialistic reasoning.

This is the decline of the sacred into the mundane, and it doesn't speak well for modern society.

In other areas, though, there have been significant improvements in the lot of women too, so it's not all bad by any means.

- LH