What he said (Bumped)

Glenn Reynolds on the supposed moral superiority of women:

There’s been a lot of men-are-pigs talk about the Schwarzenegger and Weiner scandals, but it’s worth noting that in both women were willing participants in wrongdoing. In Schwarzenegger’s case, the woman was cheating on her own spouse, and deceiving him into believing that someone else’s child was his. In Weiner’s plenty of women were carrying on with a man they knew to be married. Not much real grist for the female-superiority mill there, really.

 Remember that the supposed moral superiority of women rests on their complexity.

But women are complicated creatures: their sexual health is determined as much by their emotions as by their physical state, which might help explain why as many as 50 percent of women have trouble getting aroused.

The emotions don't have to be noble, justifiable or even real you understand. They don't even have to exist outside of the minds of the women themselves.

ADDED: Driving around doing errands this morning, it hit me that it is far more likely that the process goes the other way. That is that women and men will tend to develop emotional bonds with those people who succeed in exciting them sexually. Thus the tendency of young women to enter into relationships on a casual basis and get very hurt when the men actually treat the relationship as casual. Even with, as in this case, relationships that were so casual as to be ridiculous.