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The Double Standard

IvoryDesk
6 min readDec 24, 2018

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The other day, I came across a Reddit post where a woman was complaining about her engagement ring size in a private Facebook group. It brought to mind all of the absurd complaints I’ve heard from women over the years about society and how they are treated. I consider myself to be a feminist, and by that I mean I believe in equality. Equal rights, equal pay, just a basic gender blindness when it comes to doing my job and going about my day to day life.

Since around the 90s, however, women have moved from equality to outright sexism. Demanding things of men that they have no intention of doing themselves, being cruel and shaming men for things they feel like empower them, and just in general being hypocritical bitches. I can’t take it any longer. I’ve got to say my piece and hopefully shed some light on why women are having a hard time finding love.

First off, masturbation.

Nothing wrong with self love. Period.

Let’s start this off with the big one (no pun intended). When I got to college, my roommate openly talked about masturbation like women everywhere should be doing it. Coming from an extremely sheltered upbringing, this took me wildly off guard. “I thought only men did things like that?” was my brilliant response to her holding up two fingers in the air and trying to show me how to curl them in order to hit the best spot. What she said after that really stuck with me, seeing…

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