Which is more socially acceptable?

Indus1986

A guy to cheat on his girlfriend or a girlfriend to cheat on her boyfriend?

I'm not saying it is right to do so (just so you over emotional haters can get off my back)...

In my opinion I think cheating is preferable because at a primative and sexual level the male is trying to impregnate as many females as possible to spread his genes far and wide to continue the species...

It is not desirible for the female on the otherhand to have many sexual partners as only the sperm of one can impregnate. A man cen be the father to many children via many females but a female can only be a mother every 9 months by one man....

Reply 1

Mrs_F

15

Socially - it is more acceptable for men to cheat or at least that is how it appears.

men I'd say

Why do you care?
were you planning on cheating on your "thick" immaginary girlfriend?
If i were you id find a different chat room where everone doesnt hate you. Just an idea.

Reply 4

Indus1986

OP

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Do you think it is fair that it is more acceptable for a man to cheat?... or do you acknowledge the reasons...

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Bob123

Why do you care?
were you planning on cheating on your "thick" immaginary girlfriend?
If i were you id find a different chat room where everone doesnt hate you. Just an idea.

Reply 5

Helenia

20

Neither is acceptable, and stop posting these threads.

Oh, and using the evolutionary argument to say that one is more socially acceptable than the other doesn't work - evolution is not the same as social acceptance. It is evolutionarily preferable for us not to care for people with genetic disorders; does that make it socially acceptable for us not to?

Reply 6

Mrs_F

15

I don't suppose it is fair. I haven't really thought about it in depth though.

Reply 7

Keybolasosa

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Bob123

Why do you care?
were you planning on cheating on your "thick" immaginary girlfriend?
If i were you id find a different chat room where everone doesnt hate you. Just an idea.

Don't be so harsh, It's a very reasonable question.

I'd probably have to say men.

Reply 8

Indus1986

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Helenia

Neither is acceptable, and stop posting these threads.

Oh, and using the evolutionary argument to say that one is more socially acceptable than the other doesn't work - evolution is not the same as social acceptance. It is evolutionarily preferable for us not to care for people with genetic disorders; does that make it socially acceptable for us not to?

Excuse you, what do you mean "these threads"?... This thread does not violate any TSR rules. I am asking a question related to health and relationships...

Reply 9

Helenia

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Indus1986

Excuse you, what do you mean "these threads"?... This thread does not violate any TSR rules. I am asking a question related to health and relationships...

I mean this continual stream of threads asking for people's moral judgments on certain things, in which you're always slightly sexist and only rely on evolution and the status quo to argue your case.

Indus1986

Not the end of actually... please continue the discussion.

No, it's the end of my opinion. Why should it be ok for one sex to cheat but not the other? I accept the biological argument that men are more likely to want to but that doesn't mean that it's ok for them to do so.

Reply 10

Helenia

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lynseyweth

Socially - it is more acceptable for men to cheat or at least that is how it appears.

I was actually going to say the opposite actually - women are more likely to be really destroyed by their other half having slept with someone else; some men wouldn't be so torn apart (lots would go mad with jealousy though.)

In my book, neither should do it at all. End of.

Reply 11

Indus1986

OP

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Not the end of actually... please continue the discussion.

Reply 12

Segat1

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Indus1986

Excuse you, what do you mean "these threads"?... This thread does not violate any TSR rules. I am asking a question related to health and relationships...

Seriously, are you trying to get banned?

Reply 13

Keybolasosa

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Keybolasosa

Don't be so harsh, It's a very reasonable question.

I'd probably have to say men.

Saying that though, I think women are just as likely to do it as men are.

Reply 14

Beekeeper

13

Neither is, nor should be socially acceptable.

Theres plenty of men and women out there who have no respect for their partners, they are all as bad as each other.

Reply 15

fuglyduckling

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Helenia

I was actually going to say the opposite actually - women are more likely to be really destroyed by their other half having slept with someone else; some men wouldn't be so torn apart (lots would go mad with jealousy though.)

In my book, neither should do it at all. End of.

Agree: Neither should do it. But, I'd say it's more socially acceptable for a man to cheat! It's considered to be a fairly common phenomenon, and I personally believe more women would forgive adulterous men than vice versa.

Reply 16

Keybolasosa

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segat1

Seriously, are you trying to get banned?

I think by Indus1986 saying that he's actually trying to do exactly the opposite........

Reply 17

Helenia

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fuglyduckling

Agree: Neither should do it. But, I'd say it's more socially acceptable for a man to cheat! It's considered to be a fairly common phenomenon, and I personally believe more women would forgive adulterous men than vice versa.

Is the forgiveness due to social reasons though (they think men are more likely to cheat so they don't mind if they do), or personal emotional ones (they don't want to lose this man even if they can't trust them any more?)

I could argue either way on the overall social view though - personal responses to it are different.

Reply 18

q1w2e3r4t5y

Bob123

Why do you care?
were you planning on cheating on your "thick" immaginary girlfriend?
If i were you id find a different chat room where everone doesnt hate you. Just an idea.