This post is a result of seeing the video in this. I started a new thread because I want to tie other aspects in the discussion, and would like to get your input.

So the premise is, as i've been seing it until now, that the women questioned find no issue in not liking their boyfriends hanging out with other (especially single) women , while themselves have platonic (from their standpoint) relationships with other men.

On the surface it may seem like hypocrisy or obliviousness on their part. But hear me out, most of you probably figured this out, and may have something of value to add.

The way I see it, men and women have different value systems when it comes to social interraction. Both men and women enjoy sex, but it is obvious that women control its occurence, and (most of them) can get sex whenever. They use this asset to gain what they value tenfold, emotional intimacy, to gain another link in the support chain of companionship and validation (the other links being friends and family).

So you have two major needs: sex and emotional intimacy. Each one being more important than the other to both sexes. Men value sex > emotional intimacy, and women the other way around.

Let's apply this to the premise. A woman (like one from the video), finds it fair (downright normal) to have a boyfriend and spend time with other men (and the girl is well aware that those men are attracted to her, sexually) because she knows they are just another link in the chain, even if they want sex from her, all she wants from them is someone to talk to/go to movies/chat/spend time/etc. She thinks it's ok because sex is off the table with these men - so the boyfriend has nothing to worry about, nothing to be jealous about.

At the same time, she does not like it when the boyfriend has female friends, for the following three reasons.

  1. The other girls are maybe using her boyfriend for emotional intimacy - taking one of her links (with it - attention/love/validation/companionship) away from her. I can't be the only one noticing how terriotial some women are.

  2. The boyfriend is sexually attracted to them.

  3. Both 1 and 2

So from her standpoint, she does nothing wrong, society does not frown upon her having platonic male friends , so her boyfriend shouldn't be against it. And thanks to feminism, guys are perceived as slaves to their own libido, so any assumption on her part about her boyfriend and other women are automatically validated by society. Moreover, any other woman around her man interferes with the network, takes some of the attention away. Sexual or not, she won't like it.

The conclusion here is not just hypocrisy, but entitlement

The outcome is she can get what she values most without any scrutiny. You can say that she can have her cake and eat it too.

This also explains why you hear stories where a woman is jealous when one of her platonic male friends gets a girlfriend, it's not a sign she was interested in him, it just means he will spend less time with her as a result, therefore losing something she deems valuable.

Sorry for the grammar/spelling, english is not my first language.