I agree with the OP, the societal view and representation of men is disgusting. As always, I bring science to the table so here you go:
Archer (1982): Women are
more likely than men to be the perpetrator of domestic violence, but serious violence is more likely to be committed by men.
Digest that. Women are more likely to commit domestic violence. Every time a domestic violence advert plays casting women as the poor victims it's more likely to reach a male victim than female.
Unfortunately the past 40 years (AKA Feminism, disgusting self-righteous movement that it is) has totally skewed public gender perception. In reality, the common 'testosterone makes men violent' bullshit isn't backed up by science, in fact it's disputed by science [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8400172.stm].
This is an issue which seriously angers me, since on the one side we have the fucking morons in the media making gender polarising statements generally presenting men as genetically violent, stupid and evil, yet on the other we have science (Hyde et al (2005) Gender Similarity Hypothesis, University of Wisconsin 46 study meta-analysis) presenting the direct opposite view.
Sgt. WantCuddles said:
I think the biggest part is that a greater majority of women are abused by men than vice-versa, so there's a stigma along the lines of "why are you complaining? It happens to women much more often than men!"
Bollocks, and the justice department statistics are useless in this matter since men are very unlikely to report domestic abuse.
JaredXE said:
tharwen said:
However,
A man sleeps with two women and he's a legend.
A woman sleeps with two men and she's a whore.
At the same time? Well yeah, and any man who does that is an ass as well. Well, unless it's actually AT the same time, then it's a threesome and it's ok.
But really, usually it's women who call other women names like whore when they are presented as a sexual threat. Women hate and are in constant competition with other women and they will tear down any woman they find threatening.
This. I am 20 now and I have
never seen a man seriously allege that a woman is a whore for having multiple partners (ignoring scorned men etc). I have seen women ***** about one another continuously.