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Originally Posted by Livia

I'm a woman and Hazel's always been my favourite. What's more a lot of the comments that have been made about Hazel on this forum have come from men, calling her a slut, and worse...

And this may come as news to you, but women don't want equal rights, we already have them. Welcome to 2013.

I know there are a few women on here who are vocally supportive of Hazel and of course there are plenty of men who are idiots and will happily brand her "a "slut" - probably the same sort of men who, if they cheated on their partner - would try to blame a "slut homewrecker" to avoid the blame...

However its pretty undeniable that most of the public "hazel hating", including on here, has come from other females.

It's also females who are quicker to defend the Daley Safehouse incident, just have a glance at YouTube comments on the videos of it.

It's a bit of an obscure phenomenon if you ask me, it seems to be something pretty deep-rooted in our society.

Yes women have equal rights and have done for several years but there clearly is a bias and a sort of subconscious favouritism that still goes on in society at large... Men get away with more, are less likely to be demonized for the same things.

Here's an obvious example: what do you think would have happened if it was Hazel who had a boyfriend, and Daley that was single? Would Daley have been blasted for breaking the "bro code"? Would he be deemed a homewrecker? No probably not. Hazel would still have been branded a slut.

By women.

Theres clearly still a massive imbalance somewhere in society but it has little to do with the attitudes of men.