Ok, I'm going to speak on this "guy is a pimp, girl is a slut" thing. The reason I feel its a double standard is because guys actually have to put in ground work to get some. For the ladies, I don't think yall understand how easy it is for you to get laid. For us, its almost like a hunt. We have to work real hard at it, some more than others. Just like hunting, you are not going to get everything you go for. So when you do finally nab one, its feel like you conquered something. Now another reason its a double standard is because of the ladies themselves. When guys tell their friends they had sex with a lot of girls, they'd get congratulated. But with girls, they will wait till she leaves and start talking behind her back like, "Oh Stacy is such a w****. Banging all those dudes makes her very slutty." So if thats how ladies are going to treat it, guys are going to look at it the same way.
Is this the way we look at it because of society? Why can't we just do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. It will just make things so much easier for everybody, except for the increase of STD's maybe..
I don't see the attraction in interlocking your most private, sensitive body parts with someone you don't even know very well. I would think it would feel very awkward and weird. Not to mention you don't know where they've been. It's amusing that people will be so clean and won't even eat something that's been dropped on the floor, but will meet up with someone at a party or club and exchange cooties with them that same night.
The reason society looks at it this way is because men have been conquerors throughout the ages in every part of the world. At least 99 per cent of the time. And so it is the law of the land for women to worship the men. Look at all the conquerors back then, all of them had multiple wives. And this line of thinking was passed down to the common people too. This is why societies favor men having multiple sex partners but not women, because men created societies. It's kind of like men these days "inherit" the fortune passed from men back then to have the right to have multiple partners.
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Why is it that if a girl sleeps with a lot of guys she's called a slut, but if a man does the same thing he's called a homosexual?
rhadamanthus, Think about it. Even in U.S., a country that embraces equality for both sexes, did not give women the right to vote until only a few decades ago. If you can't vote, how the hell are you seen equal? And this is the U.S. we're talking. This country was also created by the Founding Fathers, not Mothers. And these Founding Fathers created the laws of the land and formed the backbones of our societies. So the same goes for all the other countries founded by men, especially by those men with high ego who thought women as inferior to begin with. Think about other countries like those in the Middle East and Asia. Women over there had to (or maybe still do today in some countries), worship their husbands, fathers, etc. Worship doesn't only mean to pray to a god or gods.
I'm not sure its quite that simple and the idea that men are always the hunter while women are the hunted isn't necessarily the case. At the same time thanks to things like "Sex in the City" I think attitudes even among women have changed somewhat regarding having multiple partners. As I said earlier I think a lot of these problems are do to that we treat sex very dysfunctionally in our society.
"Homo" means the same. That's why two guys having sex are called "homos" because they have the same instruments.
I'm going to agree with you on a historical basis that for the most part the most successful cultures have been patriarchial since the aspects that made those societies successful, warfare, exploration, and exploitation, have tended to be things men are better at than women. I don't think though that history is necessarily destiny or that the culture is fixed.
I was not arguing that women were (and still are) consistently abused, undervalued, and discriminated thanks to our violently patriarchal society, culture, and religions du jour. However, stating that men "created society" is not only disengenuous, it's patriarchal redaction! Frankly, it comes off as a blatantly absurd and false "excuse". I don't want to pollute this thread with D&D material so I'll refrain from anymore commentary. I don't want to risk the wrath of fatty fat b*stard, fearless defender of hangout-worthiness.
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1) For those of you who've had sex relatively early in life (let's just say before you turned 18 or got married, whichever), how would you feel if your kids took the same course that you did (but not necessarily experiencing the same consequences)? 2) I've read several posts that encouraged others not to give in to or be dictated by societal pressures (or something to that effect) and having sex when "you're ready." How would someone know if he/she was ready for sex? I'm curious about your responses.
