Double Standards, Men vs. Women Options

[rOckThISshYt]

As I'm sure everyone knows, there are many double standards when it comes to men and women. The most obvious and known one is:

Girl sleeps around=slut/smut/whore/hoe/hoebag (AND SO MUCH MORE! )
Guy sleeps around=pimp/player/playa/stud/"true" man/etc...

Now, that's just cruel. I don't even think men should sleep around. But there are many more double standards than that, too. I mean, there are some unfair ones when it comes to men, too.

Girls can hit guys all they want but a guy can never hit a girl. Not only is it not be fair for them to defend themselves (which it should be), it implies taht woman are infirior, less capable, and weaker. Honestly, a lot of them time we are. But that's just natural because men have hormones that make them build muscle much easier than us chicas. Now, I'm not saying that if we go full force at men they should pound this sh!t out of us. But I do think they should be aloud to maybe slap us back. Not hard. But it's only fair. (Not in a relationship, though, because it's known that the woman have more power. )


I was just wondering what you thought of these double standards. Also, if you can think of any more, post them. And we can reply our thoughts about those, too. Just... er.... yeah. reply.

[antix10_kos]

Nobody respects themselves anymore, guy or girl.

Some girls dress to expose themselves, wear tons of makeup and galavant around town dressed like a two cent hooker from a rap video and then come home and complain that guys oogle them and that girls call them names like "slut", "hoe", "bitch", "whore", and so on. If you put yourself out there like that, flaunting something you don't have or aren't strong enough to own up to, it just shows weakness of character. Why should anyone (esp. guys) respect you if parade around advertising your goods (or supposed goods in some cases)?

When open yourself up to the public, by showing skin and wearing make-up to look older than you are, you'd better be ready for other people's reactions.

Guys don't get called things like "slut", etc. because you don't see guys parading around in miniskirts and too much eyeliner, deperately trying to attract girls. Guys just stand there or make some conversation. If the word "slut" pops up, guys think either a) that girl is nasty, b) that girl is easy, or c) stay away from her. If they're attracted to a slut, it's because of the first two reasons (sex-related) and if they're not, it's because they're a decent human being.

Society is not as full of double standards as you'd like to think. More women than men are attending college, getting masters degrees and women are catching up in the Ph.D arena as well (almost equal I think). More women are executives than 20 years ago, women have the opportunity to play professional sports (albeit underappreciated), enter the military, fight in wars, become astronauts, and do tons of other things that just weren't open to women 20 or even 10 years ago.

Just because the girls are stuck inside playing kickball while the guys run laps and do 100 knuckle-ups, doesn't mean that you are weaker. It just means that the school has taken the needs of most girls into consideration. Most girls don't want to risk breaking a nail, getting dirty or sweating their haristyle out before the day's over. So unless your PE class is at the end of the day, most girls wouldn't want to risk all the sweat and dirt of a "real" workout.

American society is getting to be more positive place for women, or so I think. Yes, it could be better...but overall, I think women are doing well...