Women more sexually empowered?
There is an interesting debate that started over at Huffington Post and I heard about on Q100’s The Bert Show. It is centered around the questions: Do women now have a sexual advantage? Are women more sexually empowered than men?
Since women are earning more, staying single longer, and are generally living on their own terms, our sex lives are drastically different. Somehow this translates to a sexual advantage.
There is something about sexual empowerment being connected to economics that bothers me, but I understand the point that is being made. The idea is that there is some type of advantage in being a female today with more money, power, and freedom to make choices.
What I wonder though is how can one truly qualify or quantify sexual empowerment? Perhaps I am over thinking this, what are your thoughts?
Is sexual empowerment in men and women something that can truly be compared? Especially considering all of the different/double standards society hold for men and women?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Into the Light
April 11th, 2012
3:44 pm
LOL@Leggs. I can never resist the chance to poke a little fun at my Mountaineer friends.
SlimUno
April 11th, 2012
3:47 pm
Well, hello folks! By the looks of only ‘barely’ 3 pages, I would assume I haven’t missed much.
Leggs
April 11th, 2012
3:50 pm
O/T: creating my own graduation announcements, and I must say so far so good…looking smashing (lol).
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
3:53 pm
Random:
I’m ready to go
Velonese
April 11th, 2012
3:53 pm
Fred wrote: “Until women start doing the asking” Your funny Fred, women don’t have the ta-ta’s for that. Even as a Christian if the only way for me to get into heaven was to marry, I’d rather burn, but I know god isn’t that mean so I know I am ok. Like I have said before when women’s mind-set changes and allot of laws change, maybe, MAYBE I’ll consider it. And that’s a really big if. I know I am a broken record but that gina is highly over-rated, a woman is not worth the risk of losing everything I have attained and done for myself, I just don’t feel like starting over just because someone decides “Well I don’t love you no more, time to clean you arse out” and it IS that easy for a woman to do so. Fellas should really should be wary.
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
3:54 pm
Random:
A coworker with access to another coworker’s calender can see marriage counseling sessions scheduled
Ut uh
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
3:55 pm
Random:
Wonder what happened that caused Velonese to lose his title of “Lord”
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
3:59 pm
Random:
Wonder if it’s true “the devil made me do it”
Leggs
April 11th, 2012
4:05 pm
Bad has to be blamed on someone.
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:07 pm
My pastor says stop blaming the devil and take responsibility…lol
Leggs
April 11th, 2012
4:10 pm
True, that’s where “devil the scapegoat” comes into play.
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:11 pm
Yep it is.
LeeH1
April 11th, 2012
4:20 pm
Actually, this is an economic class thing. Those women of the lower and lower middle economic classes have more sexual enpowerment, and end up marrying less and divorcing more than upper and upper middle class women do. Women who make a commitment to a long term marriage end up richer and usually happier, as do their partners and children. Women who use their sexual enpowerment and sexual entitlement most often fall off the marriage and commitment highway.
Men who know women who feel sexually enpowered also feel enpowered to take them as temporary sexual partners rather than as lifelong marriage partners. So in a way, this sexual enpowerment has made many women worse off. It will take a few generations to get this all settled and sorted out between the sexes. That time is not yet here.
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:24 pm
I really wonder this topic can REALLY be proven. Everybody has their take on it and see through the windows of their lives and experiences. I just wondered though (a bit earlier), if you can REEEEALLY say and prove women are more sexually empowered. I wonder if women who believe they are, are just fooling themselves and I wonder women who believe otherwise just didn’t get the memo. Of course I fall in here somewhere and have my thoughts and beliefs but I wonder if somethere it can be solidly proven.
Just another random….sort of
SlimUno
April 11th, 2012
4:28 pm
So men are more apt to marry the ‘closet freaks’ or prude chicks but then once married, will go out and cheat on their wives with the more ’sexually empowered’ women? I seeeee
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:33 pm
And I wonder too if it’s something men REALLY can’t speak to..you know the “it takes one to know one” thing…well sort of or if they have some real insight and not opinions. It’s easy to call a woman a wh@re or say she’s a prude, too loose or not loose enough. By who’s standards? Men? Do they have a say so? Can they speak to what’s considered “loose” as we’ve seen on here, many differ along these lines as well. So who is right or what is right?
Again, just wondering.
Into the Light
April 11th, 2012
4:34 pm
(*sigh*) I need a break…. When my tix for Phoenix arrived today, it only made my cabin fever worse!
SlimUno
April 11th, 2012
4:49 pm
Cel – It gets frustrating at times to see how harsh or differently women are judged for some of the same things that men do, who aren’t given the scarlet letter when they do it.
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:53 pm
Slim – You’re right, I got to think about that a bit earlier and again when LeeH1 posting (not knocking your post). But men are harsh in their assessment of women when they’re doing the same and two, it’s really their opinion…at some point
Celisea
April 11th, 2012
4:54 pm
thinking and too, not two…sorry was on the phone with my SIL while I was typing