Can a women who cheats on her husband ever be judged less harshly than a man?
Young woman using mobile phone and checking messages in bed while her husband is asleepAs punchlines go it wouldn’t raise a laugh, but it would provoke the ire of the press, and society’s judgement. Why is it that we’re so quick to forgive a man who cheats, and so hasty to condemn a woman who does the same?
In 2012 actress Kristen Stewart’s affair with married director Rupert Sanders, while she was in a relationship with actor Robert Pattinson, became an international news story, causing so much furore and condemnation that Stewart had to issue a public apology. Why did the world’s press focus on Monica Lewinsky’s behaviour rather than Bill Clinton’s? Rebecca Loos when she proclaimed an affair with David Beckham? Angelina Jolie, when Brad Pitt was the married man?When I wrote my novel, The Guilty Couple, I was faced with a dilemma: should Olivia, my main character, have an affair or not? I knew there was a risk I might alienate my readers.
Psychotherapist Paddy Magrane thinks that, ‘all too often, an affair is framed as a ‘blame’ narrative – a simplistic case of victim and perpetrator’ and that, ‘when women have affairs, that basic take can become heavily tainted with gender inequality and sexism.’
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