Originally posted by Eileen
This site is like a train wreck. It's horrible in many ways, but I can't seem to look away ...
I’d like to say I have got a more noble cause, but frankly, I don’t. There are a few men on this board who know what they are talking about and I offer them good advice. The others, well, if I’m treated like the enemy I’m going have fun with it. Sorry, I’m just a bytch like that.
Eileen (or anyone else for that matter) --
If you would, please articulate why you think "real" men don't go for easy women. What I'm really getting at here and what I'd really like for you to articulate, however, is the female side of that which is, it seems to me, that you are therefore degrading "easy" women (for lack of a better term).
I personally do not like (for any serious relationship) what I would view as "easy" women (let's just say that easy means promiscuous) and have been trying for years to reconcile why I think a women's many-partnered sexual history matters. The answers that I've seen on this site are usually pro-woman, that is to say that most men defend women for their promiscuous pasts in that "it's in the past" or that women should not be degraded for being easy. So, because it appears to me by saying that "real men" don't go for "easy" women, you necessarily agree that being an easy woman is wrong.
I assume that you feel that a woman who is easy, who is promiscuous has some type of self-esteem issue or the like, but is this necessarily so? Are there not women who are completely self-possessed who simply like a variety and multitude of sexual partners? I believe there are. If so, why is it still negative? If not, why assume that women who are very sexual therefore have "issues?" Isn't this belittling women in a paternalistic fashion?
Looking forward to your thoughtful answer.