Doing what men do

I was rather intrigued to hear Jackie Weaver in her recent interview on Australian Story (here) talk about her numerous serious relationships with men.
In the course of that she says "I suppose I do what men do when it comes to relationships. I take what I want!"
I think it's quite a perceptive remark.

In the way of double standards we have often characterised women who have multiple relationships as being somehow morally suspect.

At the same time we tend to assume that when it comes to men that (while it may not be entirely kosher) it is more or less pardonable because that's what men do.

Weaver, however, doesn't come over as predatory in the way that a man in her position might