What I mean to say is that if a man wishes to make his way in the world, he is as like to turn to magic to do it as he is to turn to needlepoint.

( Defying authority isn't a woman's pastime -

that's the point. And when they are too afraid to try, for fear of so many deaths gone before them, it stays that way. )

Men defy one another all the time. I am sure that is just the same, here.