Sexual Relationships 
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Sexism towards women has always been very widespread and extremely limiting throughout history. Tides have turned and this has now begun to involve men as well, though we're only just beginning to see it.
Women are expected to date up, men are expected to date down unless he wants to be seen as a 'sexist prick'. A man is expected to be taller, smarter, more athletic, and earn more than his female companion. There's also a gender-specific ageism at play (preference for older men, and younger women).
Violence? Yea, that's fine towards men. Towards women? Nah, not allowed, people would call it "sexist" 90% of what I watch, could be a program, or even a movie, there is some form of sexism towards men, a man gets kicked in the nuts, audience laugh, What if it happened to a woman? Probably wouldn't even be allowed on t.v.. In movies, you see a woman beat the crap out of a bunch of men and the audience loves it.
‘She’s so badass!’
The other way round? Again, probably wouldn't be allowed to air on any sort of medium.
Men are, in general, stronger than women (cheers evolution). So when a woman hits a guy it's usually greeted with ‘wow, she has the guts and the strength to do that’. Does that mean it's perfectly okay to smack or hurt your man in any way? Essentially making a human punching-bag out of him because you 'couldn't really hurt him anyway'?
A young boy raped by a woman can be forced to pay child support to his rapist if she gets pregnant.
If a woman cheats then it’s usually going to be greeted with excuses as to how she was drunk/sad/feeling neglected. With the blame often shifted onto the guy for her slipping onto another fella's dick. That he didn't treat her 'well enough' or some variant of that. But when a man does it, all hell breaks loose. He's basically put in social isolation, blacklisted by the entire social circle for lacking self-control.
Upon asking a man who's been coerced, intimidated, or physically forced into sex with a woman whether or not he's been raped, he's pretty likely to say no. Once researchers figured out that only if you rephrase the question and ask whether or not he has been "made to penetrate" another person, they're more likely to respond in the affirmative.
If a woman is in a relationship that feels to be abusive in any way, beit sexually or emotionally, there are women’s shelters set up specifically for that reason. To provide shelter, a way to get away for women in such situations. Perhaps some counselling/therapeutic services until the victims feel strong enough to rejoin the real world. Men who feel that they are being abused? Those sorts of claims will generally be disregarded as them just being ‘not manly’ enough; made to be the bitch-boy of their girlfriend, treat her like an ‘independent, real woman’ yet getting the bill at every restaurant among others things.
Light forms of male subservience are labelled as chivalrous and gentlemanly and widely expected (imagine seeing women open doors and pull out chairs for men). Female subservience in terms of washing the dishes, cooking dinner for her family and tending the house once in a while? Oppressive, overly conservative.
&My own personal favourite, being the gym-rat that I am:
What Girls & Guys Said
17 43I hate that this even has to be a thing. Men have their issues, women have their issues, and neither of us always treats the other one right. Why we continue to bitch and complain that the other one is the oppressor is beyond me
You miss the point entirely. This isn't to make women feel like they're oppressors, even though if you do oppress, that's what you are. It's more opening them to the idea that their shit stinks too, and that they shouldn't be able to get away with these things. Society shouldn't be so openly accepting to allow them to get away with these things. Nobody is accepting of any bad thing any man does to any woman. Society least of all.
@M_A_X it's pretty clear women are oppressors as well though.
Excellent Take, missy! One of the issues is that a guy is way less likely to speak out when it comes to a woman abusing him in any way. The fear of his "manhood" being challenged, supposedly.
lol No sir, not supposedly. For a matter of fact~
Somewhat true, but activism isn't going to fix anything. You need to have the guts to personally stand up to nonsense in your everyday life, despite the risks. This, especially, if you're a guy. At the same time, you can't lash out stupidly, because that's counterproductive. I remember some vicious arguments on this topic, with some people in college. If you're a guy, you have to remember to stay calm and avoid being belligerent at all times. Just don't take the crap, and calmly explain how people are wrong, preferably with well-presented facts and evidence.
Feminism/Sexism in hypocrisy non-shocker.
I'm glad some women can appreciate these things. When there's a woman's rights issue we're expected to take it seriously and many do, including myself. But if we dare complain about how we sometimes get the shit end of the stick we're 'whiners' and we need to 'man up'.
While some shit is skewed in the USA and it's common talk among guys (I even heard it tonight among friends), I just got to ask, how often do you dudes actually get hit by women? I've never been hit once and I've been with some crazy girls that will just start yelling shit in the middle of were ever and throw fits. I had a girl lie her ass off to the police when she straight up lost her mind... Yet I've never been hit by a girl or hit a girl myself.
It's partially hypothetical, though a bit of it does carry over to reality. How many guys that you know of would get hit by a girl and speak up about it? Report it as assault and/or abuse instead of staying quiet so that they don't get labelled as a 'pussy'?
I don't know. But if she hit me I pick her up and toss her out the door. :D I guess I was just with the yellers and passive agressive schemers that will stab you in the back not the slappers and shit throwers. I guess I've been on the luckier end of crazy if you can all it that? :p
In reality, the overall size of the IPV problem is small. Most relationships are not abusive that way. There's a heated argument over the composition of the problem (who's hitting whom the most), but the actual size of the problem is rather small.
For the domestic violence part... A police officer told my dad that if they don't immediately put the guys in jail after they get called, the guys will go home and kill their wife/gf in the same night.
My dad was also roofied in his 20s and he still thinks it's funny to talk about now. I've talked to guys who were basically sexually assaulted by girls when they were both drunk, and the guys didn't care at all... but he was the one doing the fucking, so I guess that's why it didn't matter to them.
. I haven't really seen the rest if what u mentioned irl. If u cheat everyone thinks u r evil.
Your absolutely right. It is the same when men complain about something, people tell him to man up or quit complaining. I have no problem with people telling both men and women to quit complaining but WAY too many people tell men to suck it up but then when a woman complains,''it is ok, don't listen to those people.'' You can notice it on here for example. People tell guys to delete their accounts if they don't like many of the people on here but women get sympathy and they get told everything will be ok. Also another thing is way too many people are ok with women calling other women that are being bitches, bitches and they are also ok with women telling men whatever they want but if a guy calls a woman that is being a bitch a bitch, etc. they get called an asshole by that woman and so many other men and women. And also you get old by male hypocrites that you should never call a woman a bitch even though, you know for a fact they have called a woman bitch before too and they have no regrets about that. They want to act all tough for the woman they know and bullshit about how you should never call a woman a bitch, when they have done the same shit.
@KaylaS91 do you agree with what I said? And no I am not jaded I have on a date with the same girl 4 times so far starting a couple of weeks ago, I just think the double standards is ridiculous.
Hey yea of course I agree with what you've said.
@KaylaS91 that is good.
A lot of feminists just need to finish their kool-aide. Incredible amounts of hypocrisy.
If they were really fighting for equality, they'd be fighting to make divorce settlements more equal too.
i agree
I Agree with what you were saying about men and women getting along rather than throwing taunts and fighting over things. Its not only childish but doesn't help anyone. THANK god you included pictures too. I mean i like to read but i have read too many of these my_takes about the battle of the sexes and they all were just a blur. Visual rep. really helped here :) Dank´e miss
No problem, glad you enjoyed! Agreed about the pictures.. I'm not too big of a fan of the takes that make me feel like I'm reading a paper or something, even though the material may be good. So if I happen to find some pics that spice it up and only help emphasize my point, why not? 😜
Brilliant take , thank you !! Also , as a single dad , I experience anti male prejudice quite a lot , as , a man on his own is automatically deemed to be a pedo pervert , also there are no support networks for single dad's , if you are a man , you are on your own in life. On the last picture , I have told guys NEVER EVER even look at any woman in a gym , they HATE it !!
I've been beat down by a grl before... its like ur annoying little brother play fighting with u. yet if i were to unwind a left hooks on a girl id fear for her life.
men are bigger than women. sexual dimorphism. there's no double standard there when force=mass*acceleration
Perhaps. But let's suppose it doesn't stop at punches. Suppose she gets all knife-happy one day, for whatever reason, on a man that doesn't use fists to solve arguments. The man is in a bit of a bind. If she fails to stab, he has to get police there in time to catch her with the knife still in her hand, or it didn't happen. YouTube user MyInvisibleChrysalis had to use a knife in self-defense once, and that was Virginia, with the opposite problem. She was badly battered, but was still seen holding the knife to ward him back. They never saw his fist hit her eye socket. But they did see her holding a knife. So take a wild guess which one of those two spent the night in jail. Like playground monitors or sports referees, cops and abuse shelter operators can only act on what they see.
@ObscuredBeyond self defense training, trained professional fighters, etc.. are so few and far between that they're not worth mentioning in the grand scheme of men and women. most people have no clue how to fight 'properly'.
the argument is generic man vs woman w/o weapons or training. which is the most common scenario.
True, and that is pretty sad.
@ObscuredBeyond agreed. sad it is =\
The last picture says it all.
"I hate when guys stare at me at the gym"...
and I'm Santa Claus :)
I love you, like a twin sister. Thank you for posting this!😊
This is a good take, another example of double standards is when a guy has a night out in town and get's involved in a fight while drunk it's his Fault for being drunk and being in the situation.
But if a girl dresses real badly and drinks a lot and makes a bad decision it's always the guys fault.
I scrolled RIGHT down to the females' opinions and observed how a small percent of them made females look bad.
I'm sorry, ladies, for THOSE girls
AWESOME take, btw!
I agree with most of this but I hate when guys stare at me. Like looking is fine but staring is never welcome. I don't believe all women are asking to be stared at when they go to the gym. It gets pretty hot and you can't expect them to wear a lot of clothes but that girl in the pic is pushing it lol.
haha yeah of course. Sometimes, when a guy straight up ogles you and won't look away, it does get a bit uncomfortable. That last pic was just an effort to end the take on a lighter note. Poking a bit of fun at the girls who prance around the gym in booty shorts+nothing but a sports bra on top, with which there is nothing wrong in itself, but then will complain that they got more male attention than usual. :P
Yeah lol it's understandable they look when it's that little but staring still sucks. Why I prefer to workout at home! :P
Don't wear high heels to the gym and you won't have to worry about that. People only stare at things that look good. Don't worry so much about looking good in the gym and people won't stare as much. If you're going to the gym dressed in a way that you want attention, don't get upset because you get attention from more than just the 1 guy you wanted to attract. If you want gyms to be a safe space to get away from flirting, make them one.
ikr. that's why I walk around naked in the summertime in Texas. Can't really blame a guy can ya?
@M_A_X you don't have to be wearing high heels to get stared at, just shorts and a tank top sometimes even more. You're delusional if you think only girls that look and dress like the one above get stared at.
@OmaiBakaDayo y'all are taking it to the extreme. A tank top is enough.
Thank you so much for this take.
Great Take Great Points... Preach.