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Female Pols Have Fewer Sex Scandals Because Men Don’t Find Female Power Erotic
While Baird makes note of a few female pols who have behaved badly (former Charlotte, NC mayor Sue Myrick, Idaho congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, Utah congresswoman Katherine Bryson), one of the possible reasons fewer women have been caught cheating is because there are fewer female politicians, period.
I don't know how true A is but I agree with B, especially female politicians. I don't think many will care if a female celebrity cheats on her boyfriend/husband especially if she is more famous than them but for female politicians, it's hard enough to get elected but considering how infidelity would ruin a male politicians career it would destroy any hope of a career for a female politician.
I don't agree with the title that women cheat more often, and the content seems to disagree with it--
--but I do wonder where all the female Charlie Sheens and Tiger Woodses and Arnold Swarzeneggers are. Shouldn't we have some juicy stories about Denise Richards and Gabrielle Reese and Kristen Gillibrand by now? There's the story about Farrah Fawcett's 11-year affair, but I think the scales are severely out of whack, still. I have often said that people always find out; I said as much in the threads about Woods, Swarzenegger, and John Edwards. So what gives?
A. Famous women are just better at keeping the secret, or they choose more discreet partners. (In other words, they're cheating but not discovered.)
B. Famous women have more to lose, so although men and women cheat to the same degree, famous women cheat less.
C. The media suppresses stories about famous women cheating because of sexist bias.
D. Other.
Haven't had a chance to read the thread yet, but the way I understand it more men do cheat.
It's just that the women who cheat cheat more often and with more people. But there are actually fewer women who do it.
I'll have to see if I can dig that stat up.
And when it comes to famous, powerful women I believe while they may enjoy sex, it's not the aphrodisiac for them that it is for men.
See, I think many regular woman have sex or just use their bodes to feel powerful or to gain power.
But a famous, powerful woman ALREADY has what sex is giving some other women, so they don't cheat like their male counterparts do, which is why we don't have many female Tiger's or Arnold's.
Just my theory
Off to read the thread now to see what everyone else thinks.
A vote for C! I was wondering if anyone would pick that one.
I don't know that it's so much vote as it is just providing info that backed up Coolhand's statement. You have to consider the source which was a men's magazine.
I don't know that it's so much vote as it is just providing info that backed up Coolhand's statement. You have to consider the source which was a men's magazine.
That may not be relevant, if it was about men cheating and in a woman's magazine would we question it?
I'll try to explain. . . You don't have to be MARRIED to cheat.
If TWO or MORE of the women that Tiger Woods was cheating with were also in RELATIONSHIPS, then they were cheating too.
I don't agree, as I think that most people, reading such studies, understand it to mean exactly married people...not single.
I do think there is a double standard, but I think it comes from a place where society still believes that a woman would never risk a good marriage, given all the obstacles she may face being single and getting older, while a man will take on that risk, even in a good marriage, just for some sex & variety.
I also think the cheating husbands tend to get vilified more than the cheating wives, because we (society) pity & come to the defense of the wife. The wife.... that "poor, aging woman who stood by her husband's side and supported him and his career and is now left without as many options". [i]
I don't think the double standard falls so neatly along gender lines. It seems to be more on a case-by-case basis. For example, Brad Pitt supposedly ditched Jennifer Aniston for Angelina, but I don't see a lot of people badmouthing Pitt. Now contrast that with John Edwards. He cheated on a woman who was suffering from terminal cancer so it's no surprise people hate him. Next we go to Bill Clinton. His approval ratings actually went up after his affair, partly because people hated the whole impeachment saga, but also because a lot of people just find Hillary incredibly unlikeable.
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