Open Question: Are you sick of some feminists double standard towards male sexuality?

RSSreader · #1 20th-October-2008

Open Question: Are you sick of some feminists double standard towards male sexuality?

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It seems to me that a rather sickening double standard persists amongst some feminists on sexual responsibility. The Feminist movement has rightly campaigned against domestic violence and marital rape, yet in first wave feminism, and still for some people today, the argument seems to go like this: "Men are predatory, aggressive, cannot control themselves. Women are weak, vulnerable, precious and must be protected". In other words a shrinking violet kind of argument that flies completely in the face of pretty much every other campaign for equality in the workplace, the wage gap, military service and so forth. This isn't the attitude of the entire feminist movement by any means, but it does seem that significant numbers of self-identified feminists have a real problem accepting that along with sexual equality comes sexual responsibility. An acceptance that women enjoy, initiate and desire sex. That healthy progress is a society where both boys and girls initiate, and a move away from the rather toxic tease and deny tactics of conventional courtship. That in fact the power games that get played out between men and women over (particularly) sex is inherently very unhealthy and that women are just as responsible for them as men. And that manipulative behavior towards men who are both young and vulnerable can be extremely damaging to the man and dangerous to the woman. Are you sick of some feminists double standard towards male sexuality?

**Percy** · #2 20th-October-2008

I think that the question focusses too much on Feminists. Women in general have a double-standard which is taken up and emphasised by feminism.

The differential aspects of femininity and masculinity are not mentioned in the question, and these are relevant factors which have a bearing on the behaviours which derive. The major issues between men and woman regarding such matters as responsibility, initiation, sexual behaviours, tone, practice and power all stem from exaggeration of female and male drives (by both) regarding sex and their different biological causes, largely of a brain design and corporeal response mechanisms. Body and mind have more strength than ideology.

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