CheckHerBodyCount Hypocrisy

Why is this even a thing?

Let’s check his body count.

For those who may not know, there were a few articles today about outrage over the above titled website.

Outrageous is warranted, in my opinion. It’s one thing to announce yourself as a whore on Instagram and to publish your own grim stats, but it is entirely another for people to subject the commoner women to such an invasion of privacy.

If we tally in Jesus’ standards (porn = adultery), I guarantee most men’s body count is higher than most women’s (or at least equal - it does still take two to tango, right?). By like A LOT. Based on the men I’ve known, his body count is higher irl too.

Porn + irl sex = men’s grossness far exceeds most irl women. (And if it doesn’t, you may need to ask whether that girl/woman has been trafficked and pimped out.)

There are two people generally involved in sex, right? And, from the way I still hear it, men get around too. Men excuse themselves for “sowing wild oats”; so does the culture. Yet they still get treated with general respect in society. Fascinating. And very undeserved.

Some men are sluts.

Some women are too.

So many of the dumb things I read online these days are still a classic case of Adam blaming Eve, and Eve blaming Adam.

Hey! You were both there in the dark doing the nasty. This is a two-way hub, dear.

Why are men who entertain sluts online like they’re King Solomon, worried about how many people the slut has been with? Seems like a big oversight to me. And an even bigger ego unchecked.

There are people out there who don’t make a habit of sleeping around. If you want to find them, that probably starts with you amending your own ways… Those people typically don’t live like the world lives.

They certainly aren’t getting off to websites about body counts.

*** The Weeds

As an aside, I realize that people don’t like these labels (ho, slut, etc…), but, however you want to frame it, these words are used to describe a particular behavior or type of lifestyle. If you’re stingy, you’re stingy. If you’re a narcissist, you’re a narcissist. If you’re modest, you’ll be called a prude. And if you behave and dress like a slut, you’ll be called a slut.

The label isn’t the problem; it’s just the handle by which we describe types of people. Don’t like it? Change the behavior. It really is that simple. You’d tell any narcissist or prude the same. I’ve been called a prude many times, though I am merely modest but, alas, I cannot change the misperceptions of a hyper-sexualized culture.

The trafficked / pimped out don’t apply here. Some of them cannot easily alter their circumstances, which often began before they were old enough to understand the consequences of such a life they may have felt forced to live. I speak only of those who choose and are of age to choose such a lifestyle - of women, whom I assume are no longer girls, and the sluttiness of doing anything so outlandish and inappropriate as to brag about a body count, as I have heard some do.

Great Aunt Mildred