Sexual Double Standards On The Way Out?

[Minor Axis]

We know what Rush thinks...

If you've been out of the dating scene for a decade or two, great article in Atlantic Magazine: Boys on the Side about the college hook-up culture. This article is adult reading...

It promotes the idea that the hookup culture (casual sex) is empowering women and represents minimization of the sexist double standard. I would tend to agree. Aggressive career women don't want to be hindered by romantic entanglements and are insisting on their right to enjoy casual sex just like men have been doing since the beginning of time.

Single young women in their sexual prime—that is, their 20s and early 30s, the same age as the women at the business-*school party—are for the first time in history more success*ful, on average, than the single young men around them. They are more likely to have a college degree and, in aggregate, they make more money. What makes this remarkable development possible is not just the pill or legal abortion but the whole new landscape of sexual freedom—the ability to delay marriage and have temporary relationships that don’t derail education or career. To put it crudely, feminist progress right now largely depends on the existence of the hookup culture. And to a surprising degree, it is women—not men—who are perpetuating the culture, especially in school, cannily manipulating it to make space for their success, always keeping their own ends in mind. For college girls these days, an overly serious suitor fills the same role an accidental pregnancy did in the 19th century: a danger to be avoided at all costs, lest it get in the way of a promising future.

My question, what do you think is better, women up on a pedestal protecting their "virtue" or true sexual equality? Please explain your reasoning for either choice. I agree that the sexual double standard holds women back in today's professional work place.

 

[The Man]

We know what Rush thinks...

If you've been out of the dating scene for a decade or two, great article in Atlantic Magazine: Boys on the Side about the college hook-up culture. This article is adult reading...

It promotes the idea that the hookup culture (casual sex) is empowering women and represents minimization of the sexist double standard. I would tend to agree. Aggressive career women don't want to be hindered by romantic entanglements and are insisting on their right to enjoy casual sex just like men have been doing since the beginning of time.



My question, what do you think is better, women up on a pedestal protecting their "virtue" or true sexual equality? Please explain your reasoning for either choice. I agree that the sexual double standard holds women back in today's professional work place.

It promotes the idea that the hookup culture (casual sex) is empowering women and represents minimization of the sexist double standard

How does casual sex empower a woman...and wtf is represents minimization of the sexist double standards.

Aggressive career women don't want to be hindered by romantic entanglements and are insisting on their right to enjoy casual sex just like men have been doing since the beginning of time.

Has nothing to do with an aggressive career woman in regard to casual sex...To imply casual sex empowers them is a far reach..with that logic trailer park whores would not longer be in the trailer park would they.

I agree that the sexual double standard holds women back in today's professional work place

How the fuck does a woman having casual sex hold her back?...you have already stated it empowers her..Geez dude

Stop reading garbage form liberal sources.

 

[Minor Axis]

How the fuck does a woman having casual sex hold her back?...you have already stated it empowers her..Geez dude

Stop reading garbage form liberal sources.

You are awarded an "F" in reading comprehension...

 

[robdawg1]

In terms of sexual equality, where they aren't looked down for it , and even championed for their sexual conquest...i.e. men, I think that we haven't come quite that far. Even with their success and education you will still hear the labels "slut" and "whore" thrown at them.

 

[robdawg1]

BTW my position on the matter is to each their own, always has been....Women enjoy sex as much as men, so if they are safe with their casual relations let them have fun...

 

[Jackass master]

BTW my position on the matter is to each their own, always has been....Women enjoy sex as much as men, so if they are safe with their casual relations let them have fun...

Oh. heck yes!

 

[Kakapo Dundee]

We're still several generations away from sexual equality. There's a multitude of derogatory words still in everyday use for women who use their libido as indiscriminately as men, yet I can't think of any that encapsulate the same venom and contempt when directed at promiscuous males.

Presumably, this debate is confined to the white Christian American perspective? Anyone with experience of other cultures will quickly point out that millions of women across the globe are treated as little better than cattle.

 

[robdawg1]

Presumably, this debate is confined to the white Christian American perspective? Anyone with experience of other cultures will quickly point out that millions of women across the globe are treated as little better than cattle.

I would assume that it is this perspective with maybe a bit of western european thrown in as well...it is the more "women's lib" countries that one would be speaking of.

 

[Minor Axis]

We're still several generations away from sexual equality. There's a multitude of derogatory words still in everyday use for women who use their libido as indiscriminately as men, yet I can't think of any that encapsulate the same venom and contempt when directed at promiscuous males.

Presumably, this debate is confined to the white Christian American perspective? Anyone with experience of other cultures will quickly point out that millions of women across the globe are treated as little better than cattle.

Yes, it is written based on what is currently happening in U.S. culture in colleges among those seeking higher education. This is not to imply this is the only place it is happening and I agree with you.

 

[fuel1316]

live & let live

 

[porterjack]

live & let live

Goldfinger!!!!

 

[MsPoppy]

We're still several generations away from sexual equality. There's a multitude of derogatory words still in everyday use for women who use their libido as indiscriminately as men, yet I can't think of any that encapsulate the same venom and contempt when directed at promiscuous males.

This does not only pertain to woman actively exploring sexuality. Everyday use of derogatory terms for woman can be aimed at the girl or woman waiting for a bus to go to work, driving her car, walking out of a supermarket, etc., etc. They don't have to be exuding any qualities associated with sexual prowess. They can even be quite elderly, and the quagmire of said remarks comes their way. And not just from men.