HBO Killed "Leave it to Beaver"

The death of the Double Standard has occurred and it happened without a single headline or Oprah episode. The only place the Double Standard still exists, is in the minds of men. Which is about as useful as watching the chimney for Santa to tumble down.

In the beginning...men were the hunter/gatherers that carried a club in one hand and a woman’s hair in the other. Each was symbolic of conquests, which became intrinsic to our very beings for almost 2 million years. Right up to about 1998.

For almost all of time men were lauded for their acquisition of multiple partners while the women, who were concerned about stability and child rearing, praised monogamy. Put bluntly...if guys got laid they were studs, while the poor women were branded as whores.

Hey, don’t yell at me. I didn’t make the perception. It is what it is...or shall I say...was.

Two things changed everything. Firstly women have finally gotten near equality in pay, allowing them to care for themselves and their offspring, independent of a man. This equalizer gave women the ability to enjoy the thrill and excitement of freshie tube steak, without the need to find one that would support them financially.

Men were now rentable with no purchase necessary.

The second thing needed, was the green light from their peers. June Cleaver was never going to get some new schlong action on the side and be able to show her face at “ Knitting Night”. A women’s sexual veracity was still not getting the high-five love the men had enjoyed for eons so the stigma remained until a little HBO show hit the airwaves in 1998.

That’s right; “Sex in the City” was the green light and the second ingredient necessary to change everything. Women could now have their cake, eat it, bang it, smack it’s ass...then brag about it with their heads held high. Just like a man.

That show so wasn’t about handbags and shoes. It was a show that said “women like sex with multiple partners and are damn proud of it”. No more guilt and remorse, or looking at sexual indulgence as a fatal flaw. Women joined the fray and there is no going back.

So you may ask what hath the last 11 years wrought?

Trouble.

This is not to imply women are at fault for this new found trouble. It is just calling a spade a spade.

You see, we men have always been whores. We have always lusted after women and had two separate lives like George in Seinfeld. There is “Relationship George” and there is “Independent George”. The first lives in the real world while the other guy lives in “Fantasyland”.

Fantasyland is a place where guys try to make magic happen with random ladies, unencumbered by guilt or remorse...unfortunately...even if he is in a relationship.

Guys who live in the jungle also know the rules of this jungle. We only talk of this “imperfectum” in the company of other men and those other men are often ambiguous to the disloyalty and sometimes even enjoy the vicarious ride.

Fantasyland for men seemed like guys doing what guys do. No harm was meant by it and it’s akin to glorified masturbation. I mean who really masturbates to their significant other anyways?! This was just adding a body. All in the name of fun, kinda like riding a rollercoaster...Weeeeeee! And yes...we men can be that dumb.

So that leaves us with trouble. Women were mankind’s last bastion for integrity. They were our anchor of morality and the last thing keeping us attached to the possibility of something profound and real. Now that they have fully entered the ring with us in fantasyland...what chance does monogamy have?

Look around you and at your friends. How many relationships do you covet? Notice how people are marrying later and later in life? She’s a tough scene out there right now people.

When I look around, I see a bit of a Fuckapalooza going on out there and although ignorance is bliss....those lights at fantasyland are getting awfully bright to ignore.