Infidelity

[Martina]

Originally Posted by Dylan

I said there's a double standard. NO ONE says the same thing about the men who are cheated on (i.e. "OMG, he's sooooo hot, I would treat him right, he's brilliant and has a million things going for him...blah blah blah). No, the same things aren't said. And again, it goes back to sexism, because women are just delicate little flowers who need to be taken care of and "treated right" and all that other systematic sexist bullshit.
Dylan

Double standard? What kind of double standard is that? A double standard means some rules are applied more strictly to one group than another. If that is so, then, yes, there is a double standard where infidelity is concerned. And it is women who suffer as a result of it.

Thousands of women are beaten up and killed every year because of accusations of infidelity. Some men are too. That's the double standard. i cannot believe you repeated that. i cannot believe you would say it in a public forum where most of the participants are women. How hostile do you intend to be?

Who gives a crap what people say when others have relationship issues? Most people with an average IQ wouldn't say ANY of those things you quoted, yet you use their blathering as an excuse to say men have a harder time in our culture than women do where this issue is concerned? i don't think so. Take a body count.

i am sure there are some issues in our culture where women benefit from a double standard. This is NOT ONE of them. To say so -- and to keep saying it -- is appalling. It's hostile. It's misogynistic. WTF?