I recently remembered an old movie by Tinto Brass. Its story has a very interesting take on actual equality between genders.
A female protagonist, Livia, is married to a rich RSI official. She married him only for money and secretly despises him.
She gets a chance to cheat on him with a young and handsome SS officer, Helmut. She completely falls for this guy and tries to spend as much time with him as possible.
However, for an officer she is as much of cash cow as her husband is for her. She steals as much money from the family as she can to payroll Helmut's gambling and other expensive habits.
She thinks he actually loves her, but he does not. Just like she cheats on her husband, he cheats on her with a cute young girl.
When Livia finds out about that girl, she feels betrayed and complains to Helmut and says she loves him. Helmut unceremoniously puts her down, saying she never loved him, and it was all about his dick.
Livia clearly has doble standards. When she cheats on husband it's alright, but when her illegitimate lover has someone else it's an outrage. Not only that, despite all her cheating she gets completely away with it all. In contrast Helmut is executed by his superiors for various violations of military discipline, because Livia rats him out to the government.
Clearly men have it worse, yet women keep complaining that they are.
Also, it would not be fair for a relationship between an old rich cougar woman and a young gym addict to be any better than those of Livia and Helmut, however for some of them they probably are. The rest of them whine online about inequality, patriarchy and so on.
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