She's such a slut (by anon)

A man sees a man and woman walking intimately down the street. He says with a disgusted look, "That's the third guy I've seen that girl with in the past month. What a sleaze." Ironically, the same man who speaks these words of contempt for the multi-partnered woman, has had at least 3 different partners in the past few weeks himself, yet he thinks nothing of it.

Let's get one thing straight - this has sexual inequality written all over it. The man who has multiple sexual partners in a short amount of time is significantly more moral, praise worthy, and just than a woman who is believed to do the same. The irony HERE is that (based on what I’ve heard), in many cases, the woman has emotional interest, while the man does not (i.e., she wants a relationship, he wants sex). The ironic part - emotional interest is a cause more worthy of the act of sex (IMHO), and thus, it is counter-intuitive that the man is practically congratulated while the woman is condemned, even though she has not acted purely out of the desire for physical pleasure, but rather out of some kind of loving feeling as well.

Now I know this kind of thing might not profusely occur between men and women, but it does happen. And for any woman, one man is enough to harm her psychologically this way, and there’s always men who will collectively high five the guy who scores the most and outcast the woman who "scores" just as much. The truth is, men “get some”, while women lose some. Sexual privilege only goes one way, and it's no wonder there are inequalities between men and women. We see the effects of this problem in the media (commercials, magazine ads, etc.), as women are told that they must be sexually attractive, and are only valuable in so far as they are considered sexual objects. It's because we have this messed up way of viewing sex – that men get it, and women provide it. This is why, for example, we don’t see men portrayed sexually as much in ads – sex was never meant to be “for” women, thus showing men as sexual objects for women, is rather unthinkable in a male dominated society (luckily, we seemed to have progressed a little in this aspect).

So although a woman is a free and single individual who chooses to behave similarly to a man, she is more likely to become the outcast and a devalued person, and she’s more likely to acquire a bad reputation, or be considered immoral and un-datable. Furthermore, she may find it difficult to have meaningful relationships, retain confidence, and be comfortable with who she is. So while she loses respect, gets thought of as a "slut" or whatever, and is mocked and jeered at by her fellow peers, a man who interacts with his counterpart in a similar fashion as she, gets away unscathed (and is even praised) for what he does.

Of course, I'm generalizing here, and I know there are situations in which people are open, accepting, and non-judgmental, and I know there are situations in which people condemn men just as much as women for "promiscuity" or whatever, but the fact still stands – men and women, in general, experience different social consequences for the same behavior, and the reason is sexual inequality. It’s about time we get rid these social consequences for everyone, or at least impose them on everyone, whichever one we can work out the easiest (I’d assume the former - OR, I suppose we could all just choose to ignore society and the psychological harm it inflicts on people. Yeah that might work better.).