Female 'Purity' Is Bullshit

mafribe13y ago· 4 in thread

What a sexist text: the author (L. West) complains that (some) men have ideas about female sexuality that (some) women disapprove of, yet she keeps pushing ideas about male sexuality that (some) men disapprove of. Wasn't the phrase "double standard" invented for such phenomena?

zimbatm13y ago

The main point is still valid, female 'purity' IS bullshit.

smegel13y ago

No! Double standards are when two different standards are applied to the same entity selectively to suit someones interests. For example, a fetus is not a human being so long as it is being aborted by the mother, but magically transforms into one when it is "killed" by a drunk driver.

What you are referring to is called bias/discrimination.

mr_eel13y ago

Don't be obtuse. It's pretty clear what type of men she's talking about from the get go. If the article is guilty of anything it's generalising somewhat, but that's a minor concern.

Otherwise, it's on point. Notions of female purity are a load of horseshit.

mafribe13y ago

You are confusing two things: (1) whether notions of purity, body image etc are "horseshit" and (2) whether she is guilty of double standards or not. She clearly is guilty of double standards because she denies men to express their own opinions about what they value in a woman, while at the same time she feels entitled to bloviate about what she values in men (e.g. not being interested in virginity).

In this context it is irrelevant whether "[I] know the men she is talking about" or not.

skrebbel13y ago· 2 in thread

straw man.

georgemcbay13y ago

straw person.

mr_eel13y ago

sigh

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

omonra13y ago

Why is this garbage here?

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