Women and Philosophy: Double Standards

I am extremely off my game today and I apologize in advance—it has been a long and strenuous week. Today I am doing a short post on double standards. Oh, how I hate double standards. Let’s start with the most obvious: sex.

It seems that as long as forever, it is not only no surprise when a man sleeps around but it is also expected and usually encouraged. At the same time however, women are meant to “guard their flower” How do people expect this to work? If all the men are meant to be having sex with as many women as they can while simultaneously, women are supposed to save it for the right one or just for love or just for the one they marry. This is like the statistic about drivers I’m sure most have you have heard esp. if you have been in a statistics class: 80%\of all drivers report that they are better than the average driver—you see how this doesn’t work. Even when safe sex is involved, the stigmas and stereotypes are still there. If someone finds a condom in a guy’s wallet he is just being responsible and prepared, however, if someone find birth control in a girl’s purse, she is a slut. Even worse is when the religion gets involved. In both Christianity and Islam, it is widely considered a sin to have sex before marriage. However, if a guy does it he is just being a guy “boys will be boys”—it is still a sin, society just doesn’t care. If a girl has done it though, parents throw a huge fit. Even worse still in Islamic culture, if a girl has sex before marriage she is used goods and no lager fit to be anyone’s wife. Even if she was raped or she rode horses when she was, young it is still her fault and she is cast out. WTF?!\Logic? None to be seen. As i said it is still a sin for a guy to do it but there is no physical evidence of it afterwards so no one is the wiser, except the girl that he “ruined”. This explains why there is great popularity with one of the latest plastic surgeries: hymen reattachment.

There are many other double standards that affect women but what about the few that affect men? These problems are still technically about women and I was thinking on these today. The first is that whenever there is a couple fighting, usually the guy is always blamed even if the girl is the abusive one in the relationship, which does happen, if people get involved in the argument they usually side with the girl. Another one that people fairly think about is if a guy is watching children play, the first place a lot of people’s minds go is that he is a child-molester. However, a child is equally likely to be stolen by a woman. Woman who are infertile or lost a child may, in the right mind-set, steal someone else’s child and raise them as their own—but no o e ever thinks about that when a woman is watching children somewhere.