| Jaicee said: Thank you everyone for your thoughts! There have been lots of smart points made. The main takeaway for me so far, as four different people have raised this in various ways, is that the real root of this issue is the general expectation that men should have a partner at all times, while a woman who is too sexually active, by contrast, will tend to be stigmatized for it. That makes a lot of sense and rings true to me. I think the main thing here is that we need to challenge those expectations. |
When discussing the sexes the challenge I see these days is to convey that we're in this together and gains are not zero sum in nature. Feminism was about, and should be, promoting equality and seeing areas where our male counterparts are suffering. We've had a long history of struggle through discrimination, we should seek to be better than the model of the past.
If we're fighting, we will all fail. If we cooperate, we can make society better for everyone.
