This is one of the reasons why it's hard to legislate morality. Technically, it would be just as illegal for a woman to hit a man as it is for a man to hit a woman. Either men don't press charges or society blows it off as no big deal. The other way around, you're right, a double standard exists. Is it fair? No. But what can we really do?
What we need is an unbiased, fair judicial system that would treat any of age citizen all the same. Money, social prestige, gender, race, etc.. should/would have no influence on a legal decision.
Ahhh.. but we may dream all we want; however, I do not see such a system in the foreseeable future.
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Originally Posted by
togo1234556
It does the other way too... in some ways... like how if a man sleeps with a bunch of woman he is called a player and awesome... but if a woman sleeps with a lot of men she is called a whore and a slut
No, not at all. So what if people call women whores because they sleep around? There is no legal consequences. Whereas, lawsuits and restraining orders consistently result from domestic violence cases.
You're free to call anyone a whore for that matter. But, if you were to go far enough and to claim she slept with people she did not (or he for that matter), and it endangered her reputation or work, then you could be held accountable for slander. But, calling someone a whore is not slander, it is only harmless profanity, in the eyes of a judge.
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