Why is it that, when a woman falls in love with another man, and cheats on her significant other, ala a romance novel, it is just that, romantic? But when the husband goes out and gives into feelings of passion for another woman you have ladies lining up volunteering to castrate him?
Take something like 'The Bridges of Madison County' ( a dated example, I know ). She stays home while the husband and kids go to the state fair and she's home in the bathtub shtupping Clint Eastwood. Women were tripping over themselves to speak about how romantic and wonderful the story was.
Spin that around and make Clint Eastwood at home while the wife's at the state fair with the kids and some photographer shows up and they make love all weekend, he'd be lower than dirt, the worst kind of scum, the most vilest human ever.
WHY? Can someone explain this to me, please. I'm dying to know what that origin of this blatant double standard is.
I never saw The Bridges of Madison County. But cheating is always wrong. I don't care if it was the male or female who did the cheating. What I don't understand is why the woman always ends up with the children regardless of who was unfaithful to whom. Explain that one to me.