Double Standards

A discussion on my morning radio show got me thinking about this today. Adult women are allowed to make sexually suggestive comments about young (teenage) boys, but when grown men admit to finding a teenage girl sexually attractive, they're labeled as perverts.

I have to admit that this is something I'd never really given much thought to before. I work with a bunch of women ranging in age from 25 to 40, and we do it all the time, and no one raises an eyebrow, but - heaven forbid - if one of my male co-workers ever made a comment like, "If I was ten years younger I'd show her a thing or two," and directed it toward, say, our 19-year-old college intern, I guarantee you from that moment on he'd be considered the office creep.

On the flip side, my husband has told me many times that during his teenage years, the ultimate fantasy for him and his friends was to hook up with an older woman, but I can tell you from the female perspective that young women/teenage girls don't usually fantasize about older men (in general) unless they're celebrities or someone the girl knows personally.

What's up with this double standard? Also, discuss any other double standards that irritate you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Do you take up with dikes on a regular basis, russ?

I can answer that for you. Yes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Crash, I understand your pain. Really, I do. But the thing is, there's yet another double standard at work here, which is the fact that women who do what you're asking them to do in your post are labeled "slutty," or at the minimum, "too forward." And I can tell you from what I've been told by boyfriends over the years - particularly when I was middle school/early high school age - boys' mothers AND FATHERS warned their sons about the dangers of girls who would pursue them. At least they did in my day.

This may be a generational (or maybe a southern) thing, but I was taught by my mother from a very young age that women are the pursued, NEVER the pursuer.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Sorry. I've determined through LOADS of trial and error that anyone under the age of 20 isn't worth my time. =P

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm sorry, but was that really necessary? Do you think we could we get back to talking about double standards now?

I was speaking idiomatically.