Eureka13 wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
It's you in particular that I don't often agree with:lol, I find your ideas regarding relationships too idealistic, unreal and sometimes contradicting.
As for your question, the term "Womanizer" is often used as degartory, maybe you women should slut-shame men more often to balance things
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LOL! I'm actually totally okay with my allegedly idealistic, unreal, and contradicting ideas, since they seemed to have worked reasonably well in practice.
I don't believe in slut-shaming, I'm just curious as to whether (and to what extent) the old double-standard still exists.
Oh boy, I would have to go so politically incorrect about that. Oh well, I except some would tell me this is a sexist post.
You should understand and accept that
cultural evolution is not totally a separate entity from our biological evolution as humans, this latter comes first, biological evolution is one of the elements that have shaped our cultures, everything about humans has a biological root, even religions.
Also, there's an opposite double-standard exist for virgin guys or for guys who have lack of past relationship experience and partners or even lack of attractive female companionship. This is relevant in the copycat mating phenomena in women for example:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt261393.html
The reason why this double standard of "slut and stud" existed across the cultures and times, is due to a biological root in this double standard:
A man in order to be successfully promiscuous, has to be very attractive and impressive to a larger pool of women, otherwise the wannabe-player would just masturbate alone over pics of different women.
Him being attractive and impressive means his genes are valuable, the more he spreads it the better, his genetic contribution is an asset for humanity's pool of genes.
A side note: Speed dating studies indicate that the majority of women would only see again a minority of men (while most men wanted a second date with most women) - on okcupid it shows that 80% of women rate only 20% of men as more attractive than average. That doesn't mean that most women would marry only a minority of men, our monogamous culture makes this impossible (and there's a biological root for the success of monogamy, but that's a different story). But when it comes to
casual sex, first impressions are very important and the man should be in this minority group in order to have it a lot, this one of the reasons why the stud-praising still exists.
On the other hand, basically any woman can have a lot of casual sex as long she's being willing and not being very selective, she doesn't have to be the crème de la crème in any way, there are many studies and surveys that prove a large portion of men are willing to have sex with a random woman.
Women can't spread their genes in the same degree of men, so a promiscuous female is more likely to be impregnated by a lowly male, contributing into spreading more bad genes in the human genetic pool.
And oh Eureka, as you probably already know, it's not only men who do slut-shaming and stud-praising, a lot of women exhibit this same double standard too.
Tarantella and starvingartist will pop up in 3...2....