I’m not even going to throw my hat in the ring on this one since Hawaiian Libertarian’s article over at The Spearhead covers the topic brilliantly. You can (and most definitely should) read the entire article by clicking here.
Here are a few excerpts from the article as well as a couple of my favorite reader comments:
What men bring to the table and what women bring to the table in what we now refer to as the institution of Marriage 1.0, were two different assets to be exchanged for the mutual benefit of the children created by their union.
Men’s primary marital asset was their resources and ability to labor to acquire more resources, to support the family.
Women’s primary martial asset was their guarantee to their husbands that children born of their union where his. Women with an openly promiscuous past are viewed as less desirable marriage material because of the greater chances of cuckoldry and infidelity, regardless of her ability to be a provider.
There cannot be this so-called sexual double-standard, because men’s contribution to the nuclear family unit was his capacity to be a provider, not his sexual purity.
A woman could find a willing virgin who has no provider capacity to marry her…but her own hypergamous instincts would cause her to view him as less than adequate in terms of marriage material…
…the real double-standard that actually exists today, is the entire family court/divorce industry that enforces a system for which women have the right to withdraw their reproductive capacity and their nurturing and care giving – but men are not allowed to withdraw their provider role.
READER COMMENT: …my view on the so called “sexual double standard” is that it’s largely of women’s making. They’re the one’s who line up to sleep with the male versions of “sluts and whores”. They’re the one’s who have made those guys the envy of other men.
READER COMMENT: Women used to be the “gatekeepers” of sex. Now the floodgates are open!
READER COMMENT: … you young chaps need to understand that women have a very different life trajectory than men. Hard to see it when you are 20. They peak and decline quite rapidly while a man has a slow and long curve. Marriage 1.0 protected women from this phenomena.
READER COMMENT: …women are saying it is hypocritical (and so by extension unnacceptable and wrong) for a person (man) to desire in a mate any attribute that they themselves do not possess.
Filed under Proverbs Tagged with feminism, alpha male, rationalization hamster, double standard, sluts, studs
As iron sharpeneth iron, so one man sharpeneth another. Proverbs 27:17
September 2, 2010 by Solomon II
It’s not hypocritical to desire something you don’t have.
When you don’t have the quality it’s hypocritical to view others who don’t have the quality as less than you. Hypocritical because they’re on the same level as you if they are less for not possessing it so are you but they are not less than you.
It’s not the act it’s the behavior that is hypocritical.
Ex:
okay for a man to desire a woman with a lower number than him.
hypocritical for a man to have sex with a woman and see her as less for sleeping with him but not himself for sleeping with her.
okay for a fat guy/girl to want a fit girl/guy
hypocritical for him/her to call the fit girl/guy shallow for rejecting him/her due to being fat because the fat guy/girl was doing the same. the fat guy/girl should realize if they think fat people are unattractive others may too.
women are saying it is hypocritical (and so by extension unnacceptable and wrong) for a person (man) to desire in a mate any attribute that they themselves do not possess.
For the same reason women find a male virgin with no job undesirable, a man finds a female slut with a job undesirable