Saturday, March 3, 2012

The same old double standard

Let a guy have sex with multiple partners over a period of time, and - unless he's Tiger Woods - he will be praised and envied by other men.

Let a woman have sex with multiple partners over a period of time, and she's just a slut.

Thus has it always been...thus it probably always will be.

For myself, I would hardly like to see a child of mine (not that I have any kids nor want any) behave in such a way. They're both sluts, if there is roantic component and it's just about having sex....

But if there is no possibility of the woman involved getting pregnant or getting a sexually transmitted disease...does it really matter what she does in her private life?

Well, when other people have to pay for it.... In this case, insurance companies being made to cover the costs of a woman's birth control - where do they get the funds to cover that except by charging higher premiums to us all - so it is "we the people" who are paying for women's birth control when surely that's something that is their responsbility.

On the other hand, it keeps coming down to money. $3,000 a year squeezed out in taxes from various people for birth control, vs $300,000 a year squeezed out in taxes for welfare, programs to help welfare recipients deal with lack of self-esteem, programs to help people who go to jail turn their lives around when they get out of jail, ya da ya da. The $3,000 a year - for however many women it might be - certainly sounds much more attractive and sustainable than $300,000 a year....

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