Mr. Me said:
Equality without Responsibility. Responsibility without Accountability. Society has permitted it, sadly.
A man cheats on his wife, he's scum. (And he is).
A woman cheats on her husband, it becomes The Bridges of Madison County and becomes a number one best seller, featured on Oprah and a big box office film hit.
A man murders his wife, he's a bast@rd. (And he is, and worse).
A woman kills her husband, she's the victim.
A male teacher has sex with a teenage student, or just touches her in the wrong spot, he's a sexual predator, gets marked for life as a molester and gets a life time prison sentence.
A female teacher has sex with a younger male student, we get she has a mental problem, she doesn't get put away as long, and when the kid becomes legal, apparently she marries him and everything's okey-dokey.
On the less severe end of the spectrum, when she shows up half an hour late for a date and ditzilly says, "Oh gee, I'm never on time!" and the guy whose just happy she's there says, "That's okay!",
When she throws a hissy fit and the guy says "oh, women have their little emotional episodes..." and excuse her behavior away,
When, according to statistics from the Labor Department, women take off from work 20% more than men do, but expect to be seen as an equal for that job opening, I guess I could go on...
in all these instances, they're given a pass of sorts, as the consequences for their actions isn't the same as those of men. Society has different, lesser boundaries for women.
It's actually an insult to women, or at least should be. Isn't society, in effect, saying, "we're letting you slide because we know you're not capable. Men are capable and so, we deal with them in full force. But not women"?
