@ThatVeryQuinn
I always assessed the situation as less of a 'pedestal' and more of a 'irrelevant and harmless' thing
like how women who slept in the same bed couldn't POSSIBLY have been having sex, Victorian-era thinking went
after all they didn't WANT to have sex (except the deviants) in that mindset
nobody should be on a pedestal, but a lot of times this stuff, IMO, stems from the cultural assumption women are less capable of hurting others
when really they are just as capable of it