Sometimes it's Relentless

[clovehitched]

So there's this online climbing forum I read a lot (but don't post to often), where I'm not out as trans, and like lots of forums they have a sort of "general discussion" forum. One topic comes up, about women and numbers of sexual partners, and someone opens the thread with a nice post about the double standard behind regarding a man with lots of sexual partners as successful and someone to emulate, yet a woman in the same position is generally considered dirty, of lower morals, not someone to emulate, etc..

So I read on, and am pleased to see lots of posts expressing a similar sentiment - that this is a misogynist double standard, and then I see this:

Sex is all about the moment not the past ( health and STD's and sex change operations aside that is)

For fuck's sake! Apparently I can't get away from it. *sigh*

Originally posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/219268.html - you can comment here or there.

Comments

[krissie-r.livejournal.com]

*Mrrrls angrily*

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I remember an article in thelondonpaper when it still existed noting the existence of the opposite double standard in some groups. I think the example it gave was that (who was female) had realised that if a female friend had been seeing two guys in the same week she and her friends would cheer her on, if a guy did the opposite, they'd go on about what a cad he was.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Gah! What is it with humans?

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

yeah, transphobia is just so casually pervasive. :(

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Because we're totally here only to deceive men and make them catch teh gay/deceive women and make them catch teh straight.

[moonspark.livejournal.com]

i'm...

my brain may be broken from teh tired but i can't even understand wtf that poster is getting at

crappy crap all around in any case though :/

[wiriamu.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't trans, I'd probably go "Hmm! How insightful! Would you care for another spot of tea, matron?"
Then I'd go check myself into a mental hospital.

[naath.livejournal.com]

WTFFFFFFF

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

UKC? If so, there's a lot of idiocy on that forum. But yeah, mrrrrl.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the one.