Hello everyone! This blog has been a desolate wasteland of activity recently, so I thought it was time for some guest post action! Um, yeah, so I was in my politics tutorial today and we were discussing "sexuality and modernity". One of things that came up was why there existed a double standard in the labelling of men and women who had a number of sexual partners. I.e. a woman who has a lot of partners is labelled a "slut" or a "whore" or "loose" and yet no such negative terms for men exist (to the best of my knowledge), only positive labels like "player". I thought it was an interesting question (you may have thought about it before), and wanted to pose it to y'all.
My thoughts were that it has to do with the gender roles we have constructed for men and women - it is traditionally a man's role in society to initiate things, and a woman's to waylay his advances. It's a woman's place to say no. If a woman is not conforming to that role of protecting her body from advances, and instead has sex with abandon, society labels her a deviant and the men she sleeps with popular people or something. But yeah, I didn't get very far. Why do you think such a discrepancy in labels exists?
Friday, October 9, 2009
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