This behavioural pattern has come up a couple of times in conversation, and I'm pretty sure I'm right, so I guess I'll put it here so I can stop pointing it out in conversations.

Scenario: a man with whom you are involved tells you that he finds another woman attractive.

The response most women seem to choose: shut out the man, e.g. by taking a shower and storming off to bed leaving him to sleep on the couch, or becoming (and this is a direct quote) "bitchy" toward him and berating him for being insensitive.