It took me forever to figure out and trace down what that "absurd sexual double standard for women" is in English...the one that's so obsessing the Sex these days....

It turns out that what is referred to is the fact that there are, in English, no equivalent terms of opprobrium for males for the words which refer to females as "sluts, whores, skanks, etc."  Call a boy those things and he will smirk with gratification. Girls who are called such things repeatedly or insistently enough often kill themselves.  It is, after all, the female equivalent of "Dishonor."  But of course the young ladies who are working themselves into such a pother about this linguistic happenstance, and who are blaming the English language and those who speak it, and write it, for this disparity, are seriously setting the cart before the horse in faulting the language for doing what languages properly do by way of faithfully reflecting the psychology and beliefs of its users.  In no language that I know of--and I know of several--is it possible, or feasible, to render the sexual profligacy of men opprobrious (to men), or to speak of the sexual profligacy of women without implied censure, contempt and disapproval.  Among female English-speakers the term "womanizer," for example, has a distinct pejorative and scandalous meaning--but it is never a word that a man can use, in speaking of another man, without some connotation of friendly approbation.

I bethink me of a conversation I had some three decades ago, with Kirsten, about the ever-odious Orrin Hatch, whom, as far as I can recall, I described as a right-wing ideologue from Utah and a Mormon--and Kirsten replied, "Yes, and he's a womanizer."

To which I replied, "So fucking what?  Who cares if he fucks a lot of women?  Are you nuts?"