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This has been bothering me for a while, and I finally figured out what it is.
Sluts always complain that men supposedly call them sluts while not calling men the same thing.
This is false.
There are always moral and immoral people. A moral guy will call a girl who in his estimation sleeps around too much a slut.
A moral girl who meets a guy who sleeps around too much will likewise be bothered by his behavior and judge him a man slut or something similarly derogatory.
Alternately, both male and female sluts can find lots of compadres, both male and female, who will back slap them for their slutty behavior.
Feminists, when they upbraid men for carrying a moral stance, imply that in essence men are not entitled to carry a moral stance at all, which is ludicrous.
I just read Mencken's book, 'In Defense of Women', which clarified this issue quite a bit for me. I paraphrase, but he said that women, not men, are some of the biggest upholders of female 'morality' (calling other women sluts), but not for any actual moral reasons. By calling other women sluts, women are being hypocrites because they are doing this to try to discourage other women from selling their sex out too easily by lowering themselves to enjoying a carnal desire with a MERE MALE rather than by keeping up female solidarity and making men pay out maximum $$$ for the privilege of having sex with a woman.
This explanation FINALLY helped me understand my high-school-long relationship with a girl who loved me essentially unconditionally but who other girls called a slut (for some at-the-time bizarre reason). All Jenny was doing was going with her honest feelings for me, which implied she was not upholding the female solidarity of making me pay for her affection.
I am finally beginning to really understand at the core why so many men are so pissed all the time at women- women are mercenaries who refuse to lower themselves to truly love something as deficient as a guy.
