Why can women get away with doing things that would have a man locked up?

As always, one anecdotal story does not make for a true generalization.

Oh come on @janbb. You know it’s true.

I used to say there was a double standard.

But I think it is politically incorrect to say that there are double standards.

So I guess the answer would have to be some kind of bullshit to conceal the fact that there is a double standard, and still give an answer.

Except then there would be this endless thread where everybody would have their own version of bullshit to conceal the fact that there is a double standard, and then finally it would derail.

But @janbb got it off to a good start. I’ll keep it going.

Your notion that woman can get away with stuff that men cannot is typical of your generation. All that changed when Obama was elected. C’mon Dutch and get with the 21st Century!!

How’s that?

Also in Superman one they had a naked boy picking up the car. No one complained about it.

Nobody reported her yet. Call the FBI, and see what happens.
Let us know, k?

I worked in the healthcare industry for 38 years (small hospitals, large medical centers and health clinics). Female nurses most frequently abused me sexually by demanding kisses in private and in groups and sexual innuendos and unwanted or neccessary physical contact. One female boss repeatedly talked trash about my sexuality (loudly for all to hear).

Pretty sure a man couldn’t get away with any of that crap.

Our society in general has a weird reverence for mothers and motherhood, even in an overpopulated world, so I’m not surprised in the slightest. I like to get on my soapbox about this subject, but I’ll stop myself…lol

I think you did the best thing for you.

Think this doesn’t happen? Try hanging out in a woman’s restroom.

See the answer provided by @josie. Feminism was supposed to end all that right….

Maybe feminism is the reason I asked this. Why is it OK for a woman to post nude pictures of her 7 year old son, but it’s not ok for a man to post nude pictures of his 7 year old daughter? FYI, I don’t think either one is OK, not at that age. Maybe when they’re 1 or 2. But I still wouldn’t post them on Facebook.
Maybe without feminism I wouldn’t have questioned it.

The thing is, if she’d only done it a couple of times I guess it would cute, maybe, or if he was even a lot younger, but he’s not younger, and it’s to the point it’s almost an every day thing.
Today’s gem was the kid asleep, in just his underwear, both hands down his pants, hanging on to his genitals. That’s when I decided I had enough.

@Dutchess_III
This isn’t an answer to your question, but that woman needs to seek help. Her kid is gonna end up in therapy. That is just wrong wrong wrong. Especially that last one.

I kind of think so too. And what about when the kid sees it 15 years from now?

Other examples that spring to mind are female teachers that screw their male students getting vastly lesser sentences than male teachers doing the equivalent to female students. To be clear, I’m suggesting the sentences for the female teachers be increased to achieve parity (not reducing the male teachers sentences).

@anniereborn and that really goes to the heart of the question. If it were a father posting naked pictures of his 7 year old daughter I think something would have been done or said by now. But since it’s a woman, if it bothers anyone, no one is saying any thing about it.

@gorillapaws, I agree. However, there is a sense out there that the male students feel like they’re getting “lucky,” (while teaching, I have been hit on by a high school boy. I thought he was being ridiculous.) whereas the girls are being manipulated (I’ve also been hit on by a high school male teacher when I was a student. It made me SO uncomfortable and I hated it. I was afraid to be alone with him.) There is the sense that the girls feel ashamed, and the boys feel proud. I don’t know if that has anything to do with the lighter sentences, but it shouldn’t. They should be equally strict.

@Dutchess_III The damage that sort of thing does to young boys is just like that of young girls. It distorts their sense of what normal relationships are and causes psychological damage that may never go away. These young boys will probably never have “normal” relationships the same way young girls who were abused will have a hard time with relationships. Does not matter if the feel they “got lucky” The difference is girls will feel it immediately, react immediately and with boys there will be an insidious delay. They won’t understand why until later in life. By then depression, substance abuse and other issues would manifest before they even know what happened. And…..their abusers likely got off scot-free…..

I think it is just tougher to wrap my mind around the concept of predatory women. Though @gondwanalon ‘s little story reminded me of my astonishment at the discovery in the 80s were that single airline stewardesses and nurses were equivalent in their off hours to sailors on leave. They would operate in this town like wolf packs culling deer in a park. God bless the memory of them.

I have another anecdotal story that follows along. I once had a neighbor that was accused by the father of a 15 year old girl (friend of his daughter) of having sex with her. The father supposedly found her diary and read it and there were entries about how she fantasized about having sex with him and one entry that stated it happened. The problem was, the date that she says it happened he wasn’t even in town. He had a verifiable alibi. But he was initially facing Felony statutory rape charges because she was only 15. At the same time, there was a story on the news of a woman teacher, the same age as my neighbor, that was having sex with some of her 15 year old male students. She was only facing Misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges. The exact same crime and the woman was facing lesser charges. Why? The only obvious answer is that she was a woman and he was a man.

In HS a teacher and one of the students were actually dating. The teacher used to talk about it before class, with all the girls gathered around her desk. I remember once she spoke about some party she and Jessie had been at the prior weekend. She got mad and stormed off upstairs. Jessie went after her and grabbed her.
She said, “What do you want??!!”
Jessie said, “You baby. For the rest of my life!”
All the girls went “Ohhhh. How romantic!”
I thought it was creepy and weird.

Hot Dog! Every boy’s dream come true. “You baby. For the rest of my life.” I would have paid a teenage fortune for a quiver packed with lines like that.