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Originally Posted by stevie667
Because a man is more likely to be killed young in conflict/hunting, where as a woman is likely not to be involved in those types of things, and by the time she is 30's, she sure better have a kid, or get busy making one.
Thats my view anyway.
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From an evolutionary standpoint that makes sense.
Also consider that males (as a gender in the wild here, not in human society) are preprogrammed to impregnate as many females as physically possible.
It's survival of a species. Females on the other hand, can only get pregnant once per "season" or so. In other words, for a species to survive, a male ought to be fucking everything that moves for as long as possible. With an early mortality rate, that is doubly important.
As far as double standards go, let's for a moment take a step back and consider something...
Men and Women are DIFFERANT! In a discrimination sense, it's no where near fair for them to be treated differantly, but in the end... They are differant, and that's where a lot of it comes from.
The woman unloading trucks (and no offense at all intended) is an oddity. Because women are incapable? No, but think of how many women would balk at the idea of taking that job. The genders are differant, have differant expectations, and psychological standards they set for themselves, society induced or not, and therefor the stereotypes begin.
Keep in mind, that stereotypes, while not fair, from a psych standpoint are necesary. We need them to function in day to day life. If we didn't have them, we would have information overload every day.
Our heads need some basic model to start from when interacting with any given person. That's not to say we should assume all are the same, but none the less, we do need something to start from.
All of this contributes to double standards on both sides of the fence, and I don't know that that's such an evil/bad thing.