Double standards

Lindsay Lohan has graced our news this week for supposedly writing a list of over 30 famous men that’s she’s slept with, some of whom are married. Yet it is not the men who are being shamed but Lohan, for having a high ‘number’.

The number of people an individual has slept with is still considered an indication of how much of a man a guy is or how much of a whore a girl is. This double standard still prevails despite it being more acceptable to explore your sexuality. 

Women can’t be the one on the prowl on a night out, they are always a mans prey.  A strong sexual woman is slut-shamed for being easy and having little respect for herself. Yet men can do the same thing, infact encouraged by society, and be praised for their number and ‘conquests’. These same men who take numerous girls home will label an unwilling girl as a prude.

This double standard reeks of sexism and harks back to the days when woman had to be virgins before marriage or they were ‘unclean’. How a man or woman chooses to live their life shouldn’t be dictated by what others judge as acceptable, instead everyones paths through life are different. And men, next time you take a girl home treat her with respect,  she may just be looking for fun as you are and that doesn’t make her any less deserving of your respect.