Don’t
lie. We all have double standards -- of sorts. We are all, in effect, our own
worst hypocrites. This week, however, I have given the blog a theme, and that
theme is sexuality. Today, as part of that theme, I am going to tackle double
standards.
No
doubt, you’ve all seen this photo floating around the internet in your travels.
Make
a mental note of it, because we are going to come back to that later.
This
last Saturday, I went to the movies with what was dubbed the “Whore Caravan” -- by one of my
fellow moviegoer’s significant others. Our goal was to take in a feast for the
eyes (among other things). Yes, I too joined the fest of horney middle-aged
women who went to go see the likes of Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and
Joe Maganiello take it all off in the below-the-waist strip-tacular film, “Magic Mike.”
And
based on what you see here, ladies, can you really blame us?
I’m
not going to dissect the plot. In fact, I don’t care about the plot. I didn’t pay $8 to
watch people talk, cavort or work out relationship issues. In fact, had the
flick been 110 minutes of the above-mentioned sexually charged grinding, smooth moving and men with the
bodies of Adonis shaking some rather raunchy groove things, I would have been
perfectly content. But alas, there was a plot. And yes, the plot sucked. I
still don’t care.
Aside
from learning to have never-ending gratitude for the men involved in making this film, and developing a need to pen
Steven Soderbergh a hand written, perfume scented thank you note on pink stationary
engraved with gold calligraphy every day for the rest of my life, going to this
movie taught me one thing:
MEN HAVE THE WORST DOUBLE STANDARDS EVER
MEN HAVE THE WORST DOUBLE STANDARDS EVER
It’s
perfectly okay for men to go and ogle women. Even more than that, it’s
perfectly okay for “bros” to go scouting, hunting and have wing men so that
they can land their “prey”. Yet, if women do the same thing? We’re whores.
We’re just horney old women ogling strangers.
To
you “men”, all I have to say is, “So what?”
And
I say "so what" because you are all the same men who are posting the photo kvetching
about “fake” women with plastic boobs and Botox wanting a real man on your
Facebook (like it’s a bad thing), while you are jerking it to the Playmate of
the week. -- Double standard much?
Fellas: Just
because you aren’t comfortable with our sexuality, doesn’t mean that we aren’t.
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