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HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials
An anonymous reader writes with news that researchers from the University of Western Ontario have been given approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an HIV vaccine in humans. From the article:
"The vaccine is the first based on a genetically modified killed whole virus, [researchers said.] ... a clinical trial on 40 HIV-positive volunteers will begin next month. That phase will last a year, after which 600 HIV-negative volunteers will see how the vaccine impacts their immune systems. A final phase, which will take about three years, will involve about 6,000 HIV-negative volunteers."
No, it means you have successfully applied the double standard that men cannot be sluts.
WHAT double standard?
For a man to be a "slut", he has to be one or more of the following:
1. Extremely good looking.
2. Have a great job or a lot of money.
3. Be well groomed and well dressed.
4. Be charming/funny/witty and outgoing.
5. Be willing to spend time and money in pursuit of sex.
For a woman to be a slut, she just has to show up and yell "HEY, WHO WANTS TO FUCK?".
You'll see short, fat, ugly female sluts all the time. You never see a short, fat, ugly male slut (unless he's paying for it). Ergo, there is no double standard; men and women both get congratulated for achieving something difficult - it's just that "something difficult" happens to be different for the two sexes.