The Double Standard

Welcome to today's edition of What JLB Thinks! Hope you all had a great weekend because I certainly did not. I spent the bulk of my weekend thinking of you all and a proper subject to kick the week off with. Me being me I was hit with this topic like a bolt of lightning from the mystical deity of Zeus himself. The topic that I am referring to is the "Double Standard."

"Don't do what I do, do what I say do" is what my dad told me once as a youngster and it has stuck with me ever since. What a huge double standard! As a kid you always want to do things that adults have told you not to do, but they're the reason you did those things in the first place.

As a man when you get older and experience relationships with women, often time the woman will justify her actions by saying you "did or said" the same thing to her. So you must let her know that she can't do what you do because you two are not the same. Double standard indeed, but that's how it has to be.

As a woman it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to have like a gazillion male friends who are solely "just friends." Because as women you aren't out to hump every creature of the opposite sex like your male counterparts. (This may be true...partly) But as I said as a woman you could have a gazillion male friends and even talk to your man about them and your man has to accept that because you're a woman and it's okay for a woman to have male friends. Some of which you men will never meet. Conversely, it is not okay in the eyes of a woman, for a man, more specifically HER man, to have a couple or a few female friends. If she does find it okay, she has to meet and inspect her thus she must get a feel for this "friend." ONE is pushing it, but a multiple? You can forget it because in the mind of a woman, he must be "hittin' dat!" Double standard, YET AGAIN!

Those double standards sometimes work in the favor of us males. We can live with our female counterparts having X amount of male friends because what women hate is that we can have sex with as many women we want in pursuit of Wilt's record and be idolized by those who live vicariously through our experiences. If a woman on the other hand just so happens to have sex with two men, who know each other, SHE'S A HOE! Sorry ladies, that's just how the world works. So choose your casual sex wisely young grasshoppers. Double standard.

Last but not least is a serious double standard that was the very log for this fire of a blog post. Sex or should I say the possibility of sex is a major component of the pursuit of a woman. Men don't judge women on the same things she judges a man on. A man can have the freshest of gear, the whitest of smiles, and the heart of Patch Adams but if his life isn't in order, which translates to him being at the same point the woman is in her life, "he loses." (M. Wood) If a woman isn't at the point the man is, but she's still a beautiful and intriguing individual, she still wins. To be even more specific take for instance a man expresses interest in a woman and he is unemployed, has no automobile, has multiple children, and still lives with his mother, he is deemed a LOSER or a deadbeat if you will. Now if a woman has a couple puppies, no ride, lives with mom, and is "in between jobs" she's a victim. Total double standard. Difference is the man would still give the woman a chance, but the woman rules the brother out before it begins. Double standard...but that's just What JLB Thinks