What's the feminist stance on young women's taste for bad boys?

Question

I know, this is an uncomfortable area to face. It's also complex and has many of it's roots in evolution; therefore it's hard to fix. Men do not have a counterpart to this. We don't disproportionately seek bad behavior or mistake bad behavior for something it isn't, like young women so often do. Men have a whole different set of problems. So, go ahead and deny this or try to invalidate my question because I have no stats or because you and your friends didn't/don't go after bad boys. Since warnings about and efforts to control this tendency in young women (by parents) tend to backfire, what should we do?

Answer 1

Since feminists are not all the same, it is difficult to define THE feminist stance on this. I think that it isn't my business who other women are attracted to. It is only my business who I am attracted to and what I decide to do about it.

It isn't bad boys I am attracted to: it is good looking men

Answer 2

Let them make their own mistakes. They're adults.

Answer 3

"My definiton of that is the mysterious guy, the shy with a badass attitude..."

You have just created a paradox. It will now consume the universe.

Answer 4

my husband got with me and i was a bad girl (not in a cheating way but in many ways i couldnt write here.) he use to love it cause it was exciting to say the least. i like being the one to lead people astray lol. its the excitement factor

Answer 5

"We [men] don't disproportionately seek bad behavior..."

Yeah, because men are FAMOUS for choosing conservatively dressed young librarians who drink tea over bleached blond party girls with large b*****s, tight clothes, empty heads and a taste for hanging out in bars.

Answer 6

I'm A femnist not THE feminist. My Point of view depends on your definition of bad boy. My definiton of that is the mysterious guy, the shy with a badass attitude but he wont hurt you. That's my definition. Your might be the alcoholic, the cheating one, the one the girl thinks she can change. That defintion for me is a b*****d, a bad man. I'm not attracted to bad men nor understand why certain women are. What should we do? Nothing. It's their decision, they are not babies.

Answer 7

Oh great. Another dude who thinks he knows what all women "should" be attracted to, therefore assuming that we all have horrible, horrible judgment. How is it any of your damned business who someone else is attracted to? Or are you pissed off because these young ladies are sleeping with the bad boys and not with you?