This is a Pt.2. There was also a Pt.1.
Once again as a feminist, it behooves me to point out ugly gender-based disparities. In the previous post, the term "wifefucker" was thrown around considerably freely. It falls to me to point out that the companion term, "husbandfucker" carries nowhere near the same level of pejorative charge. It is weighted down with nothing like the same freight of opprobrium, that "wifefucker" carries.
In our male-dominated society at large, a "husbandfucker" is almost always seen as a good thing. Somebody performing a dutiful service on a deserving recipient! Possible troubling aspects to the situation are glossed over, because the important thing is: a husband got fucked. Good job.
Yet "wifefucker" is thrown around as a judge-first review-the-circumstances-after term of scorn! When it is a wife getting fucked, male hackles are raised, alarms-of-propriety go off: "WHOSE wife got fucked? Was it MY WIFE? Did some WIFEFUCKER get in?" Calm down, buddy! You don't seem to mind when it's the husband getting fucked, do you? Maybe you've got some disparities of your own to see to.
Anyway, I'm not saying there's something to do about the situation. I'm just pointing out the disparities, keeping people conscious.
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