It just seems like men have more to lose if they go first, because they have more to gain from the present arrangement, if you see what I mean. 
Of course, they could refuse to be the meal ticket and still stick to the stereotype and keep their privilege in other ways -- and when you read things like the eharmony boards, it's pretty clear that that's just what a lot of them would like to do.
The superficial elements of women's liberation have always appealed to a lot of men -- free sex, i.e. both "free of charge" since they don't have to pay for dinner, and "free from social constraints", since women will no longer hold out until the respectable point in time or impose expectations on the sex.
On the appearance element of it, that's the other ongoing battle at places like eharmony: why won't men date fat chicks? why won't women date short dudes?
And on it goes. How about a fat chick who pays her own way, a short dude who opens doors ... It doesn't matter, if you're a fat chick or a short dude, the other sex doesn't want you, apparently. I always try to keep my forays into the real world short.
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