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46 Examples Of Double Standards In Our Society That You’re Probably Guilty Of
Equality is humanity's Holy Grail, the cornerstone of most value systems, but we have yet to reap all of its rewards. Sure, our society has tremendously evolved for the better during the last, say, 100 years, but a long journey is still ahead, and the vast array of double standards that still divide people to this day highlight this perfectly.
The double standard definition states that it is a rule or a principle applied to different people or groups. The most prominent case of double standard examples to this day come from gender equality. What's usually okay for men, is not acceptable when done by women. Starting with beach attire and ending with lady bosses, society finds unnecessary ways to chime in about what's wrong and what's right.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of insightful illustrations that uncover the uncomfortable truth behind some everyday life situations, and it's (mildly) disturbing how accurate they are. Judging by these images, it's clear that sometimes terms like 'gender equality' are reduced to no more than a catchphrase. Scroll down to see the proof for yourself, and vote for your favorites.
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Double Standards
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Clothing Standards
Carris Butcher 8 years ago
I get fake geek girl all the time! I wear big glasses, I dress differently and I do occasionally play games. People I know say I'm trying to be a fake geek girl or gamer girl and I have no idea what they mean. I'm not trying to be anything I'm just comfy this way! I'm glad it's not just me who experiences this
#3
Body Image Standards
Zori the degu 8 years ago
Woman's face though: "I live among idiots. Honestly, do you think that I want your f***ing opinion?"
#4
Boys vs. Girls
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Double Standards
#6
Work Rules
#9
Double Standards For Parents
Zori the degu 8 years ago
That's really annoying. I only have an experience as a passer-by or a witness but I can say some people indeed are narrow-minded enough to act like that.
#10
Double Standards On Emotions
#11
Body Positivity
#12
Generalization
#13
Leadership Strategies
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
That reminds me of the man who made the experience of signing all his emails by a female name for a week to talk about gender inequality in doing business. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-happened-when-a-man-signed-work-emails-using-a-female-name-for-a-week_us_58c2ce53e4b054a0ea6a4066
#14
Makeup vs. Natural
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
So damn true. One time I overheard my coworkers talking and these two guys were discussing about "girls who put makeup are so insecure, it's like they couldn't even go out without makeup if their life depended on it". Then another day in the same week, I was so tired I decided not to put makeup. The very same guy saying this was like "omg what happened to your face?". Yeah no wonder why women are "so insecure"...
#15
Gender Equality
#16
Shameless Girls
#17
Double Standards
coffee zombie 8 years ago
Women don't get round, they get curvy in all the right places. And that's sexy af.
#18
Gender Equality
#19
Girls vs. Boys
#20
Double Standards On Young Girls
Daria B 8 years ago
If you're a true pro-life, instead of blaming a stranger, do something towards building a society where abortion is not needed. Same goes for (extremist) pro-choicers - instead of hating on some women's decisions, let's do something towards building society where abortion is not something a womam does because "she had no other choice".
#21
Double Standards On Bodies
Captain Planet 8 years ago
I think only women have a problem with this. I can't imagine guy's really finding this a big deal. XD Also on the beach people sunbathe topless as well so. As far as armpit hair. Well you're free to do it. But people are also free to not find you attractive then. But there are all kinds of things people find attractive and not attractive so I don't really see a problem.
#22
Shallow vs. Desperate
Helen Burgess 8 years ago
very well done! and the girl in the second instance doesn't even get a speech-bubble, let alone a date!
#24
Girls vs. Boys
#25
Society's Take On Men
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
The second one will always be an idiotic statement, for both male and female. I hear it a lot, yet don't understand why it's a race to get intimate with another person. It's a personal experience and (can be) something special, on top of that: It's none of another's business, and if those think it is, they're the ones leading a sad life. Sure, the term "Lucky at cards, unlucky in love" is on it's place in this regard, but luck can switch lanes now and then.
#26
Dad Bod vs. Mom Bod
Sheila Stamey 8 years ago
Have we totally forgotten how milf went ? Not that that was great but, seriously ? Which one do we pick? Can we just be who we are, male, female, or however, and just be happy? The insecurity is mind blowing to me, on behalf of the observer!
#27
Sexual Harassment
Andrew Petrykowski 8 years ago
How is this a relevant comparison? How about comparing the reaction you get as a male when telling someone about being a victim of sexual assault.
#28
Things You Can Only Do With Boys
#29
Double Standards
coffee zombie 8 years ago
I dont agree that only weak men show emotion. It's nice to see a man who has emotions instead of trying to act like they are made of stone, with no feelings.
#30
Appearance Standards
#31
Comic Book Characters
Kori K. Warriner 8 years ago
Honestly, I have a problem with either gender of superhero being displayed in a sexual manner.
#32
Sexualizing Bodies
#33
Equality
Ivana 8 years ago
We were playing around, play fighting when I kicked my husband in the balls. It wasn't on purpose and I instantly felt horrible as he spent about 5 minutes in pain on the floor. The worst he got me was an elbow to the nose that caused a nose bleed, and one where he slammed my back into the thermostat. Literally last week my husband asked "Why don't we wrestle anymore" and all that flashed through my head. I don't like the idea of women hitting men any more than a man hitting a woman. The only fighting I am okay with is play fighting.
#34
Double Standards
#35
Problem Solving
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
I don't agree with this one. Men get a lot of pressure on their bodies, as much as women. There is not a single person I met who said that they should "accept themselves" as a way to solve their problems (with getting laid). On the same note, any magazine cover will show that makeup is not a way to solve problems, or there wouldn't be 254 pages of the "new amazing diet already used by 45 stars that will make you lose weight before you even realize it". And we also have countless articles on "accept yourself and screw who doesn't, you don't need them anyway"...
#36
Acceptable vs. Unacceptable
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
As someone who hate body hair, both are unacceptable. But I don't care about what they do as long as I don't have to touch them :p
#37
Double Standards
#38
Men And Women
Eglė Liubinaitė 8 years ago
I kinda like emotional boys more, like, atleast they aren't like those "badass" shitsacks like others. Also, expressing emotions is actually good for own body.
#39
Standards For Dressing
Luc Mailloux 8 years ago
Wait... what is this trying to say, even? What I gather is that people will judge you regardless of how you look. Surprise!
#40
Double Standards In The Workplace
Amanda Sango Hibbs 8 years ago
This is why I like the medical field. Everyone dresses the same
#41
The Smiley Face Double Standard
#42
Double Standards In Relationships
Pasca Mouse 8 years ago
I hate it when people are like " Looks likes someones on there period." it's so annoying
#43
Girl Power
sunnyrei82 8 years ago
women like that are the ones who make people think wrong about feminism. And, because many people are soooo closed minded, they think every single woman who wants equity are like that.
#44
Double Standards
Alison Jones 8 years ago
Ogling secondary sex characteristics are more similar... why don't women ogle adam's apple or broad shoulders? Same thing as men ogle boobs or hips. Genitalia is not same as secondary sex characteristics. We only punish women for showing too much of those...
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Tanja Caloi 8 years ago
god that's like men comparing visible bra straps to their d***s hanging out *facepalm*
Abhilash Krishnan 8 years ago
Where is the d**k? He is showing his pubes.
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Paul Frost 8 years ago
I thought the point is that when you dress in a manner to specifically draw attention to something, it's a bit rich to be offended when you get the attention you were looking for whether it be for an ample cleavage or your pubic area.
Jessica Hepler 8 years ago
Assuming that all large busted women want it is where I'm irritated... I have rather large boobs and I like the fashion of some clothes that
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Eglė Liubinaitė 8 years ago
Technically woman breasts were created to feed babies, so nothing really sexual about this, while man's genitals were created to make babies, so, that's not really the same :p
Daria B 8 years ago
Sex is not the only thing that's the matter here. It's that your pee organs should stay covered for the sake of personal and public hygene. But breasts, well, you don't pee or poo with your breasts....
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Devin Gaughan 8 years ago
I'm just imagining a husky, hairy guy wearing a deep V-neck shirt in an office environment yelling "HEY! My eyes are up here!"
Ivana 8 years ago
My breast are not sexual, they are for breast feeding. There is a huge difference between breast and a penis. Also, women with large breast have a pretty hard time finding clothing that doesn't overexpose their chest. The only way this comic would be making a point is if women went around with their damn pants open! Screw this one.
Chris 8 years ago
Wear what you want, but be sensitive. As hard as you think it is to find modest clothing, it's harder still for people to control where their eyes are drawn.
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Claire Chihaia 8 years ago
Damn breasts are not only for feeding something... They are feminine and so yes also sexual.. I'm starting to think I'm surrounding by breeding chickens 😱 lady's where is your pride?! Your not cows!!! 😡
J Globetrotter 8 years ago
Lack of Adam's apple is also feminine. Must we therefore cover our necks? Lack of facial hair is also feminine. Must we therefore cover our faces?
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Lutz Herting 8 years ago
For everyone commenting "This isn't the same", well, here IS the same: Last summer it was really hot, so one day I (a guy) decided to wear a tummy T-shirt. People freaked the f**k out. The fact that a male belly-button had entered the cafeteria was the main topic of half the peoples discussions for the rest of the day. Of course, as an upstanding member of society, I tried to do the right thing. I wore shirts like that for the following three weeks or so. But that's another story. So here you go: This IS the same.
Grace Boden 8 years ago
If you don't want people to look, then don't show it off. It's as simple as that. If you wear a low cut shirt that's saying that you want people to look at the skin there, if you don't then they won't cuz it's just not there. You can't complain about people looking at something you chose to show off... Of course, that doesn't give anyone the right to touch you, but they're going to look if you give them something to look at.
Chris 8 years ago
Exactly. It doesn't even have to imply that you *want* people to look. You're not asking for anything. It simply implies that looking is ok.
Load More Replies... Shelly Dugan 8 years ago
This is not the same.. the comparison should be apples to apples..It would be equally disgusting if a woman had her pubic hair hanging out of her jeans.
Jessica Hepler 8 years ago
Your comfy shirt can't always cover your tits and they do not make d**k clevage pants
Angelina Farmer 8 years ago
Why are penises automatically the opposite of breasts? Wouldn't the opposite of penises be the clitoris?
Jessica Hepler 8 years ago
The women are visibly horrified and disgusted while the man is casually staring at her chest its normal to be offended
Chris 8 years ago
Why are the women horrified? If they can control where they look, just don't look. If they can't control where they look, then neither can the man, but then why is it fair to take offense? You can't have it both ways.
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Lucina Sandoval-Gordon 8 years ago
This is bs. Sometimes when you have big boobs it's hard for cleavage not to show.
Chris 8 years ago
And likewise, as you've probably experienced, it's hard for men (and sometimes even other women) not to look. I don't think anyone objects to the cleavage. I think the issue is being too quick to take offense if sometimes eyes will have minds of their own.
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Master Markus 8 years ago
I hate this comparison! Breasts are considered sexually attractive but they aren't genitals.
Ambrosia Devyani 2 years ago
Breasts and genitals are NOT THE SAME. A woman showing cleavage isn't the same as a guy showing d**k and balls!! 2 different body areas!!!
Chris 8 years ago
Everyone saying "not same" is totally missing the point. You want the man to be wrong in both cases. Either he's wrong for creating a spectacle, or he's wrong for looking at one. The fact that it's not the same *kind* of spectacle is irrelevant. Also, the argument that boobs are not genitalia is disingenuous. Why is she mad that he's looking at them? Would she be mad if he looks at her hands? Or her hair? The fact is that when boobs are on display it can be VERY HARD to look away. You can resent human nature all you want. Good luck changing it. If you say that a revealing top is nevertheless ok, then no argument, but even an acceptable spectacle is no less a spectacle. If it's acceptable to display, it has to be acceptable to look at. You can't have it both ways.
Jay Fox 8 years ago
Its not hard to look away from something. Its called self control and its disrespectful to keep staring and use the excuse "well its hard to turn around"
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Marina Hilton 8 years ago
Tits and balls aren't equivalent. If they were, balls wouldn't be so unattractive.
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Gender Equality
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What do you think ?
Shana 8 years ago
Another double standard: just saw a news article about a female teacher that had sex with 4 of her students. Alot of comments on this are: "Boy, wish I had a teacher like that in school", "nicely done guys", ... Yet, if it had said "male teacher has sex with students" the comments would've been "omg, pedophile/perv", "castrate him", ... Both are just wrong and bad...-_-
Howard Vines 8 years ago
Another double standard was in the news recently of Michelle Carter who convinced her 18 year old boyfriend to commit suicide in a quest for sympathetic attention from friends, family and the general public, face jail time. Her texts to him were exposed and she was facing a maximum of 20 years. But it was dropped to only 2 1/2 years, 15 months jail 15 months probation. You can find the transcript of the messages online. The sickest thing is not just what she was saying to the kid, but the fact she remained in a phone call to listen to him die. When it comes to the justice system, men have it far worse by a long shot. Therefore, I believed she should have served a much much higher sentence.
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Roos 8 years ago
We should stop slutshaming and bodyshaming eachother girls! (Girls can be so mean to eachother)
Anthony Evans 8 years ago
Disagree wtih number 8. Fathers are told: oh are you babysitting today? or stuff like"you must be giving mom a day off."
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
And most likely if she's saying something like; "Daddy painted your nails, how cute" she's thinking something completely different like; "you're and utter moron and I'm quietly laughing at you while I feel sorry for your wife and daughter".
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Cpt_Justice 8 years ago
The comic book ones are wrong. Male characters are shown in positions of power, women are drawn to be sexy. That much has been proven & all the "comic book double standard" cartoons ignored that.
Chris Tones 8 years ago
Well to be fair, Supergirl also has a cape and wears her undies on the outside just like Superman.
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Natalie KS 8 years ago
Older woman + Younger man = Cougar Older man + Younger woman = Gold Digger/Daddy issues
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
That comparison is subjective and what you're doing is generalizing. There are male gold-diggers and there are successful younger women who are self-sufficient with no daddy issues.
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Andrei Dascalu 8 years ago
I only wish whoever compiled this knew what double standard meant. Many of these are just examples of different problems in different situations. Eg: skimpy armor on women is a double standard between men and women based only on gender. BUT Skinny woman with burger VS chubby woman with burger are different situations. Yes, as crazy as it sounds your physical shape relates to physical condition and what you can handle. Skinny guy can't lift car but Dwayne Johnson probably can, it's not double standard to notice that. Woman without child vs mother, 2 different arguments in 2 different situations. The lie of omission there is not accounting for the fact that there are also different people making the arguments.
Jaqi Hegland 3 years ago
The point of woman with vs without child is that women get judged and shamed no matter which choice they make, by strangers who know nothing about what factors went into that decision. You have no right to judge someone for choosing to be a parent or not. Just as the woman's doctor is the only person who should be telling her what to eat or not eat.
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Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I wish they were all on the same page so I didn't ave to wade thru clickbait adverts.
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
These are great, but #27 I think is straight out of Gamergate manuals. There's no need to bash overweight people regardless of gender.
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Actually, as an addendum, several of those are Gamergate material, pages 4-5. Sorry, no, wages equality issues exist, and they're not just female hysterics.
Load More Replies... coffee zombie 8 years ago
We have started to accept transgender people and treat them like humans and working on how we can make people feel less excluded and more human but we still keep labelling ourselves with these primitive labels.
Hannah Dodd 8 years ago
Transgender people are men or women. Not "other." A transwoman is a woman, and a transman is a man. I think you meant to say genderqueer people.
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Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
I especially liked number #8. Unfortunately can relate to it thinking about my highschool experiences :/
Alex Willie 8 years ago
The bossy girl vs assertive boy is not nor has it ever been true. Plenty of boys have been called bossy too. There are good leaders, male and female, and there are bad leaders who simply want everyone to do things their way. They are called bossy. Also if your super is abrasive it never matters if they are male or female. This weak claim needs to die. Also shooting the breeze vs gossip. One involves discussing subjects of no importance with about noon who matters and no one is harmed unless copious amounts of alcohol is involved. Gossip usually involves talking smack about other people behind their backs and is the general cause of a great deal of societal ills. Lynchings, witch hunts and gamergate all start with gossip.
Maud Gonne 8 years ago
#30 Fat-shaming isn't okay for any gender. However, the image on the left (large guy, thinner, woman) is the standard trope for TV couples. Rarely is it the other way around. See: http://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-fat-guy-skinny-wife-couples/ranker-tv?utm_expid=16418821-311.AAszGoDYQ7WZsue0Bhz6ww.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F Plus, the guy on the left is drawn in a way that makes him appear unattractive regardless of size. Shave the unkempt facial/neck hair and--more importantly--draw him with the warm smile of the guy in the other picture and the image gives a different impression. Body size is not all there is about having an attractive appearance--for any gender.
Charley Darbo 8 years ago
Almost all of these are meninist neckbeard b******t male entitilement resentment. Most of these comic are illustrations of exactly what the problem is: men seeing their privilege as equality just because that's the way it's always been. Wake up dudebro's: if a woman takes on power, she's not stealing yours: it was never yours to begin with. Almost without exception, she's not taking advantage of you, she's leveling the playing field. Climb out of your mom's basement and interact with the real world and learn what other people are really like.
Augusta Gormenghast 8 years ago
This is funny :) I never think in double standards... my mother was a career woman her mother a housewife... I choose to be a musican and I feel we're all equal because inside our shells down to the core we are all the same - human, we have been both male and female in previous lives... its our soul that remains the same and unchangable... and all these ideas are just people loosing touch with reality :) non of its real... lets focus on what we have in common rather than be divided on issues that are not real, only petty nuances.
Rianna Davis-Josephs 8 years ago
i wish i could like this 1000 times. double standards r stupid. a shame nothing about disability is in there either. when u got mental or physical disability ( i had this personal experience) ppl ask u in study or career wise " u sure u wanna go for that? how will u cope etc!" instead of encouraging having ur back, will be the first to tell u they told u so, let u fall . but then be the same people who r like " u seen that girl with downsyndrome modellling. good for her so proud of her. wish more ppl with disabilities would go into careers and excell" ... its just ignorant >_< yes not all of us are capable of doing things but if society would adapt the majority of us could do some kind of work! excel and would feel like valued members of society. We got so many ideas etc and not able to share its frustrating.
ANGELLO GIORDANI CHIRINOS VILLANUEVA 2 years ago
And it is precisely because all these examples of double standards are not even so common or habitual, they really occur very little.
Load More Replies... ANGELLO GIORDANI CHIRINOS VILLANUEVA 2 years ago
God, most of these images are ridiculous attempts at victimization towards women. There are both men and women idiots in this world and problems with double standards are also suffered by men a lot. Among them we can see how women suffer a lesser sentence for the same crime that a man could commit, how men are asked more in a relationship than women, how now society only focuses on ´´Girl Power´´ but not on ´´Man Power´´, seeing how industries, companies, and others focus attention on women and not on men (or rather, focus on both since that would be true equality).
Norm Farris 2 years ago
Some of these are good. The rest are sexist tropes that single out women unfairly. Is it really an enlightened article when you sprinkle in sexist jibes? Booo.
Kristen Bellefeuille 2 years ago
The only one I disagree with is the sexual assault one, men tend to get a lot if not more judgment
Shorty Morty 3 years ago (edited)
I feel like this person needs to know it not okay to run around with you boobs out just like it's not okay for me to run around with my penis out. They are both private parts. Also the sexist men are like 5% of the population I don't think that many people are sexist cause women often forget it works both ways
JAC 2 years ago
Also, yes sexism works both ways. But last I checked men didn't lose they're right to vote, work, dress how they want, or go out by themselves. Also, 97% of the male sex population hasn't been raped or sexually assaulted (forcably impregnated in a lot of cases.) like women have, just to end up being told they were "asking for it" or just being sexualized further.
Load More Replies... Kristen Bellefeuille 3 years ago
My BFF is 2 years and 3 months younger than me and we get a lot of negative comments but if it was reversed he'd get a high five
Mondariel Visor 4 years ago
Most of those meme had to make a female. I am not saying they are absolutely false, they are just over expressed. As female would do them. 🤷🏻♂️ For example: Woman-things are bad. So man shouldn’t act like woman. Woman-things are bad said nobody ever and if, it was stupid being. So man shouldn’t act like woman, of course man shouldn’t act like woman. Man are not woman so they act differently. That is simple thing this. 🤦🏻♂️ Woman are emotional therefore man shouldn’t be emotional. This sentence is BS. Everyone is emotional somehow. Woman usually express themselves more then man. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Woman are more on words and talks and man are more on actual work to be done. That is what I call equality as we simply supplement each other in life. We cannot exists without each other.
Bogdi Herald 7 years ago
Can you blame me for my sexist education when the world showed me that this is fine?
Sara Baerlocher 8 years ago
You should know #11, 21, 26 and 36 contradict #30. They contradict by fat shaming women when 30 is cheering them on for being with a thin man, which is b******t. Fat shaming happens all the time, especially when out with a thinner man. I actually had someone walk up to me and a date (on our first date) and asked the guy "can't you control her over eating? You shouldn't allow her to be seen in public when she is so fat." So yeah, 30 is wrong.
Matthew Pecek 8 years ago
I'm intrigued. All of these posts about body standards show either overweight women who are otherwise fashionable and well-kept or unfashionable women who still seem pretty well take care of. They're always so clean in every depiction. Meanwhile the boys complaining that women treat handsome men better than unattractive men are sporting greasy, unwashed, uncut hair, neckbeards, acne, chapped lips, they're dehydrated, oily, unkempt, underwashed, unshaved, wearing dirty clothes, and then unfashionable and sometimes overwight on TOP of all that but those last two are really unimportant compared to the rest of all that. Hygiene and cleanliness are WAY more important than a few pounds. That's why James Corden is cute af and these guys aren't. The bottom line is that if you don't take care of yourself you don't come off as someone who would ever be good at taking care of someone else. Before claiming its a weight or fashion thing, ask yourself if its a hygiene thing.
Clint Hobson 8 years ago
The one of the good looking guy getting away with a complement to the female worker while the ugly guy scares her, people may have easily come to that conclusion insinuated in the comic, but in reality the good looking guy already built up a rapport with her earlier and now appears to be getting away with saying things that she doesn't like other guys doing.
John Yuill 8 years ago
just saw a youtube video called just for laughs it was about a woman going around in the street groping guys down below and the guys were shocked but took in their stride and walked on by but can you imagine if it was the other way around the guy would be arrested charged will sexual harassment jailed and put on the sex offenders list for years lose his work and girlfriend and be called a pervert for the rest of his life and probably end his own life....double f*****g standards....and all for a laugh..
JAC 2 years ago
Only 6% of rapists even spend a day in jail... And the average they spend in there are 3 years. Sex offenders list is for sexual assault/rape on those under 16, literal CHILDREN. That video was staged. Out of the 3.73 BILLION women who have been raped/sexually assaulted MAINLY BY MEN, you're gonna sit here and pin women as the bad guys?
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Ashley Park 8 years ago
I agree with everything except #45 there's a difference between chest and genitals.
Aurore Chamallow 8 years ago
exactly, I was waiting for a comment about that. I also disagree with the comics ones
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Petra Christovová 8 years ago
Loved this compilation. Sadly, I have been working in purely "men´s area" for many years and I must say that almost all comics in the article were true. The stereotypes are b***h. It was quite surprising that half of the people saying various c**p like above were women though and according to my experience I can say that the bigotry and stupidity is the same at both genders. I think I heard it all and I do not care anymore. Why punish yourself for someone else being an idiot? Better do not take it personally and just make fun of such people with an irresistible smile on your face. ;-)
luke murray 8 years ago
Haha some of these were funny and true, others were sad and true but there were a few that were gender based differences not society based differences.
Erik Van Zanen 8 years ago
Cringeworthy, the most of this post. Sounds like it's for teens to adolescents. or u must be a weird person yourself to be so negative and judgemental all the time. besides, what's wrong with saying a person is too fat to take the role of lara croft on her, or superman? when hollywood makes a movie, they cast a guy that fits the character, but in real life it;s suddenly a problem. this sjw/pc attitude is destroying more then it is helping.
Hannah Dodd 8 years ago
Most of these are really good. But a few are really misogynistic. Our patriarchal society creates double standards that harm women the most, but that also harm men (such as society telling men that they shouldn't show any emotion or that they can't be as good parents as women). We do need to point out the harmful effects of these double standards on men. But even so, some of the comics here (especially the ones on the last page) depict women in a really vile, misogynistic way that is not at all in the spirit of the other comics in the series.
Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Are all these about gender? Seems it's pretty horrible to be a woman.
Charley Darbo 8 years ago
Almost all of these are standard neckbear misogyny that take no account of societal context. They leave out the very real factor of power and social hierarchy; they only work if society is already 100% equal, so that if a woman takes power, she's taking unfair advantage. Whereas the reality is that in most circumnstances, if a woman takes on power of her own initiative, she's leveling the playing field. This is a bunch of meninist b******t.
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
What's your definition of power? I will agree context is almost non-existent. Most men don't feel threatened when a woman is self sufficient or even in control, in fact its quite attractive. When she acts like men or women owe her something, then it switches, because there's obvious insecurity there and this is the same for men.
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Dhruv Sharma 8 years ago
#20 is something I will never understand about society. I feel guys are the real sluts, they'll f**k a hole in a door if they went more than a day without masturbating
Joseph Nodurft 8 years ago
Somehow I knew this was clickbait... And another men bashing article. Number 6 is the way it is.
Bob-A-Lou Anna Maria 5 years ago
A lot of these are stupid. especially the split figures. When someone says one thing they aren’t saying be the complete opposite. They are saying find more moderation. You can have less of a characteristic without being the complete opposite
Matthew Kirk 8 years ago
O__o This article was about Double standards, yet the one who posted it was committing a double standard. Like you literally only had ones where all the guys were the Villains. Then I find out the persons name was Monika. Uh huh.- Also allot of these seem very in-accurate or un-observant of ones own abilities. For example: Crazy and Angry are very different for specific reason and Hitting someone no matter the Gender is still wrong.
Greg NZ 8 years ago
How about the racial double standards ? I can't be proud to be a straight white man. Every other racial spectrum can be.
Dave Roger 8 years ago
Why the f**k would you be proud of that? You have no control over being white or straight or a man. Where is the source of pride for being born a certain way?
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David Ross 8 years ago
I love this, and am a male pig. Still fantastic humor and an honest reflection of our society.
Ale Rumba 8 years ago
THESE SCENARIOS ARE PRETTY MUCH THE RESUME OF AMERICA SOCIETY. I LIVED IN BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND IN EUROPE THEY DONT HAVE SO MUCH THIS. AMERICAN SOCIETY INSTEAD IS PRETTY MUCH F****D UP , TOO MUCH TELEVISION AND CELEBRITY WANNA BE. SO HAPPY I AM NOT FROM THE USA. THE ONLY SAD THING IS THAT THE BAD CULTURAL INVASION OF AMERICAN TV SERIES IS CONTAMINATING ALSO EUROPE NOW AND THEY ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING IDIOTS LIKE MOST OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
Entitlement is a *****. It would seem the rest of the world has already learned that a lot of people don't have s**t and never will.
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Meowton Mewsk 8 years ago
Actually we know that it's changed since primitive times. Studies show that modern women are more likely to mate with smaller, smarter men rather than muscular providers. This is because of equality leading to women being able to provide for themselves. Look it up. There are many things primitive people did that we no longer need to do.
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stacyh 8 years ago
Right, because acknowledging common stereotypes is "liberal b******t." How about run along to Breitbart? Might be more your speed.
Load More Replies... Shana 8 years ago
Another double standard: just saw a news article about a female teacher that had sex with 4 of her students. Alot of comments on this are: "Boy, wish I had a teacher like that in school", "nicely done guys", ... Yet, if it had said "male teacher has sex with students" the comments would've been "omg, pedophile/perv", "castrate him", ... Both are just wrong and bad...-_-
Howard Vines 8 years ago
Another double standard was in the news recently of Michelle Carter who convinced her 18 year old boyfriend to commit suicide in a quest for sympathetic attention from friends, family and the general public, face jail time. Her texts to him were exposed and she was facing a maximum of 20 years. But it was dropped to only 2 1/2 years, 15 months jail 15 months probation. You can find the transcript of the messages online. The sickest thing is not just what she was saying to the kid, but the fact she remained in a phone call to listen to him die. When it comes to the justice system, men have it far worse by a long shot. Therefore, I believed she should have served a much much higher sentence.
Load More Replies... Roos 8 years ago
We should stop slutshaming and bodyshaming eachother girls! (Girls can be so mean to eachother)
Anthony Evans 8 years ago
Disagree wtih number 8. Fathers are told: oh are you babysitting today? or stuff like"you must be giving mom a day off."
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
And most likely if she's saying something like; "Daddy painted your nails, how cute" she's thinking something completely different like; "you're and utter moron and I'm quietly laughing at you while I feel sorry for your wife and daughter".
Load More Replies... Cpt_Justice 8 years ago
The comic book ones are wrong. Male characters are shown in positions of power, women are drawn to be sexy. That much has been proven & all the "comic book double standard" cartoons ignored that.
Chris Tones 8 years ago
Well to be fair, Supergirl also has a cape and wears her undies on the outside just like Superman.
Load More Replies... Natalie KS 8 years ago
Older woman + Younger man = Cougar Older man + Younger woman = Gold Digger/Daddy issues
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
That comparison is subjective and what you're doing is generalizing. There are male gold-diggers and there are successful younger women who are self-sufficient with no daddy issues.
Load More Replies... Andrei Dascalu 8 years ago
I only wish whoever compiled this knew what double standard meant. Many of these are just examples of different problems in different situations. Eg: skimpy armor on women is a double standard between men and women based only on gender. BUT Skinny woman with burger VS chubby woman with burger are different situations. Yes, as crazy as it sounds your physical shape relates to physical condition and what you can handle. Skinny guy can't lift car but Dwayne Johnson probably can, it's not double standard to notice that. Woman without child vs mother, 2 different arguments in 2 different situations. The lie of omission there is not accounting for the fact that there are also different people making the arguments.
Jaqi Hegland 3 years ago
The point of woman with vs without child is that women get judged and shamed no matter which choice they make, by strangers who know nothing about what factors went into that decision. You have no right to judge someone for choosing to be a parent or not. Just as the woman's doctor is the only person who should be telling her what to eat or not eat.
Load More Replies... Adrian Hammersmith 8 years ago
I wish they were all on the same page so I didn't ave to wade thru clickbait adverts.
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
These are great, but #27 I think is straight out of Gamergate manuals. There's no need to bash overweight people regardless of gender.
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Actually, as an addendum, several of those are Gamergate material, pages 4-5. Sorry, no, wages equality issues exist, and they're not just female hysterics.
Load More Replies... coffee zombie 8 years ago
We have started to accept transgender people and treat them like humans and working on how we can make people feel less excluded and more human but we still keep labelling ourselves with these primitive labels.
Hannah Dodd 8 years ago
Transgender people are men or women. Not "other." A transwoman is a woman, and a transman is a man. I think you meant to say genderqueer people.
Load More Replies... Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
I especially liked number #8. Unfortunately can relate to it thinking about my highschool experiences :/
Alex Willie 8 years ago
The bossy girl vs assertive boy is not nor has it ever been true. Plenty of boys have been called bossy too. There are good leaders, male and female, and there are bad leaders who simply want everyone to do things their way. They are called bossy. Also if your super is abrasive it never matters if they are male or female. This weak claim needs to die. Also shooting the breeze vs gossip. One involves discussing subjects of no importance with about noon who matters and no one is harmed unless copious amounts of alcohol is involved. Gossip usually involves talking smack about other people behind their backs and is the general cause of a great deal of societal ills. Lynchings, witch hunts and gamergate all start with gossip.
Maud Gonne 8 years ago
#30 Fat-shaming isn't okay for any gender. However, the image on the left (large guy, thinner, woman) is the standard trope for TV couples. Rarely is it the other way around. See: http://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-fat-guy-skinny-wife-couples/ranker-tv?utm_expid=16418821-311.AAszGoDYQ7WZsue0Bhz6ww.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F Plus, the guy on the left is drawn in a way that makes him appear unattractive regardless of size. Shave the unkempt facial/neck hair and--more importantly--draw him with the warm smile of the guy in the other picture and the image gives a different impression. Body size is not all there is about having an attractive appearance--for any gender.
Charley Darbo 8 years ago
Almost all of these are meninist neckbeard b******t male entitilement resentment. Most of these comic are illustrations of exactly what the problem is: men seeing their privilege as equality just because that's the way it's always been. Wake up dudebro's: if a woman takes on power, she's not stealing yours: it was never yours to begin with. Almost without exception, she's not taking advantage of you, she's leveling the playing field. Climb out of your mom's basement and interact with the real world and learn what other people are really like.
Augusta Gormenghast 8 years ago
This is funny :) I never think in double standards... my mother was a career woman her mother a housewife... I choose to be a musican and I feel we're all equal because inside our shells down to the core we are all the same - human, we have been both male and female in previous lives... its our soul that remains the same and unchangable... and all these ideas are just people loosing touch with reality :) non of its real... lets focus on what we have in common rather than be divided on issues that are not real, only petty nuances.
Rianna Davis-Josephs 8 years ago
i wish i could like this 1000 times. double standards r stupid. a shame nothing about disability is in there either. when u got mental or physical disability ( i had this personal experience) ppl ask u in study or career wise " u sure u wanna go for that? how will u cope etc!" instead of encouraging having ur back, will be the first to tell u they told u so, let u fall . but then be the same people who r like " u seen that girl with downsyndrome modellling. good for her so proud of her. wish more ppl with disabilities would go into careers and excell" ... its just ignorant >_< yes not all of us are capable of doing things but if society would adapt the majority of us could do some kind of work! excel and would feel like valued members of society. We got so many ideas etc and not able to share its frustrating.
ANGELLO GIORDANI CHIRINOS VILLANUEVA 2 years ago
And it is precisely because all these examples of double standards are not even so common or habitual, they really occur very little.
Load More Replies... ANGELLO GIORDANI CHIRINOS VILLANUEVA 2 years ago
God, most of these images are ridiculous attempts at victimization towards women. There are both men and women idiots in this world and problems with double standards are also suffered by men a lot. Among them we can see how women suffer a lesser sentence for the same crime that a man could commit, how men are asked more in a relationship than women, how now society only focuses on ´´Girl Power´´ but not on ´´Man Power´´, seeing how industries, companies, and others focus attention on women and not on men (or rather, focus on both since that would be true equality).
Norm Farris 2 years ago
Some of these are good. The rest are sexist tropes that single out women unfairly. Is it really an enlightened article when you sprinkle in sexist jibes? Booo.
Kristen Bellefeuille 2 years ago
The only one I disagree with is the sexual assault one, men tend to get a lot if not more judgment
Shorty Morty 3 years ago (edited)
I feel like this person needs to know it not okay to run around with you boobs out just like it's not okay for me to run around with my penis out. They are both private parts. Also the sexist men are like 5% of the population I don't think that many people are sexist cause women often forget it works both ways
JAC 2 years ago
Also, yes sexism works both ways. But last I checked men didn't lose they're right to vote, work, dress how they want, or go out by themselves. Also, 97% of the male sex population hasn't been raped or sexually assaulted (forcably impregnated in a lot of cases.) like women have, just to end up being told they were "asking for it" or just being sexualized further.
Load More Replies... Kristen Bellefeuille 3 years ago
My BFF is 2 years and 3 months younger than me and we get a lot of negative comments but if it was reversed he'd get a high five
Mondariel Visor 4 years ago
Most of those meme had to make a female. I am not saying they are absolutely false, they are just over expressed. As female would do them. 🤷🏻♂️ For example: Woman-things are bad. So man shouldn’t act like woman. Woman-things are bad said nobody ever and if, it was stupid being. So man shouldn’t act like woman, of course man shouldn’t act like woman. Man are not woman so they act differently. That is simple thing this. 🤦🏻♂️ Woman are emotional therefore man shouldn’t be emotional. This sentence is BS. Everyone is emotional somehow. Woman usually express themselves more then man. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Woman are more on words and talks and man are more on actual work to be done. That is what I call equality as we simply supplement each other in life. We cannot exists without each other.
Bogdi Herald 7 years ago
Can you blame me for my sexist education when the world showed me that this is fine?
Sara Baerlocher 8 years ago
You should know #11, 21, 26 and 36 contradict #30. They contradict by fat shaming women when 30 is cheering them on for being with a thin man, which is b******t. Fat shaming happens all the time, especially when out with a thinner man. I actually had someone walk up to me and a date (on our first date) and asked the guy "can't you control her over eating? You shouldn't allow her to be seen in public when she is so fat." So yeah, 30 is wrong.
Matthew Pecek 8 years ago
I'm intrigued. All of these posts about body standards show either overweight women who are otherwise fashionable and well-kept or unfashionable women who still seem pretty well take care of. They're always so clean in every depiction. Meanwhile the boys complaining that women treat handsome men better than unattractive men are sporting greasy, unwashed, uncut hair, neckbeards, acne, chapped lips, they're dehydrated, oily, unkempt, underwashed, unshaved, wearing dirty clothes, and then unfashionable and sometimes overwight on TOP of all that but those last two are really unimportant compared to the rest of all that. Hygiene and cleanliness are WAY more important than a few pounds. That's why James Corden is cute af and these guys aren't. The bottom line is that if you don't take care of yourself you don't come off as someone who would ever be good at taking care of someone else. Before claiming its a weight or fashion thing, ask yourself if its a hygiene thing.
Clint Hobson 8 years ago
The one of the good looking guy getting away with a complement to the female worker while the ugly guy scares her, people may have easily come to that conclusion insinuated in the comic, but in reality the good looking guy already built up a rapport with her earlier and now appears to be getting away with saying things that she doesn't like other guys doing.
John Yuill 8 years ago
just saw a youtube video called just for laughs it was about a woman going around in the street groping guys down below and the guys were shocked but took in their stride and walked on by but can you imagine if it was the other way around the guy would be arrested charged will sexual harassment jailed and put on the sex offenders list for years lose his work and girlfriend and be called a pervert for the rest of his life and probably end his own life....double f*****g standards....and all for a laugh..
JAC 2 years ago
Only 6% of rapists even spend a day in jail... And the average they spend in there are 3 years. Sex offenders list is for sexual assault/rape on those under 16, literal CHILDREN. That video was staged. Out of the 3.73 BILLION women who have been raped/sexually assaulted MAINLY BY MEN, you're gonna sit here and pin women as the bad guys?
Load More Replies... Ashley Park 8 years ago
I agree with everything except #45 there's a difference between chest and genitals.
Aurore Chamallow 8 years ago
exactly, I was waiting for a comment about that. I also disagree with the comics ones
Load More Replies... Petra Christovová 8 years ago
Loved this compilation. Sadly, I have been working in purely "men´s area" for many years and I must say that almost all comics in the article were true. The stereotypes are b***h. It was quite surprising that half of the people saying various c**p like above were women though and according to my experience I can say that the bigotry and stupidity is the same at both genders. I think I heard it all and I do not care anymore. Why punish yourself for someone else being an idiot? Better do not take it personally and just make fun of such people with an irresistible smile on your face. ;-)
luke murray 8 years ago
Haha some of these were funny and true, others were sad and true but there were a few that were gender based differences not society based differences.
Erik Van Zanen 8 years ago
Cringeworthy, the most of this post. Sounds like it's for teens to adolescents. or u must be a weird person yourself to be so negative and judgemental all the time. besides, what's wrong with saying a person is too fat to take the role of lara croft on her, or superman? when hollywood makes a movie, they cast a guy that fits the character, but in real life it;s suddenly a problem. this sjw/pc attitude is destroying more then it is helping.
Hannah Dodd 8 years ago
Most of these are really good. But a few are really misogynistic. Our patriarchal society creates double standards that harm women the most, but that also harm men (such as society telling men that they shouldn't show any emotion or that they can't be as good parents as women). We do need to point out the harmful effects of these double standards on men. But even so, some of the comics here (especially the ones on the last page) depict women in a really vile, misogynistic way that is not at all in the spirit of the other comics in the series.
Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Are all these about gender? Seems it's pretty horrible to be a woman.
Charley Darbo 8 years ago
Almost all of these are standard neckbear misogyny that take no account of societal context. They leave out the very real factor of power and social hierarchy; they only work if society is already 100% equal, so that if a woman takes power, she's taking unfair advantage. Whereas the reality is that in most circumnstances, if a woman takes on power of her own initiative, she's leveling the playing field. This is a bunch of meninist b******t.
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
What's your definition of power? I will agree context is almost non-existent. Most men don't feel threatened when a woman is self sufficient or even in control, in fact its quite attractive. When she acts like men or women owe her something, then it switches, because there's obvious insecurity there and this is the same for men.
Load More Replies... Dhruv Sharma 8 years ago
#20 is something I will never understand about society. I feel guys are the real sluts, they'll f**k a hole in a door if they went more than a day without masturbating
Joseph Nodurft 8 years ago
Somehow I knew this was clickbait... And another men bashing article. Number 6 is the way it is.
Bob-A-Lou Anna Maria 5 years ago
A lot of these are stupid. especially the split figures. When someone says one thing they aren’t saying be the complete opposite. They are saying find more moderation. You can have less of a characteristic without being the complete opposite
Matthew Kirk 8 years ago
O__o This article was about Double standards, yet the one who posted it was committing a double standard. Like you literally only had ones where all the guys were the Villains. Then I find out the persons name was Monika. Uh huh.- Also allot of these seem very in-accurate or un-observant of ones own abilities. For example: Crazy and Angry are very different for specific reason and Hitting someone no matter the Gender is still wrong.
Greg NZ 8 years ago
How about the racial double standards ? I can't be proud to be a straight white man. Every other racial spectrum can be.
Dave Roger 8 years ago
Why the f**k would you be proud of that? You have no control over being white or straight or a man. Where is the source of pride for being born a certain way?
Load More Replies... David Ross 8 years ago
I love this, and am a male pig. Still fantastic humor and an honest reflection of our society.
Ale Rumba 8 years ago
THESE SCENARIOS ARE PRETTY MUCH THE RESUME OF AMERICA SOCIETY. I LIVED IN BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND IN EUROPE THEY DONT HAVE SO MUCH THIS. AMERICAN SOCIETY INSTEAD IS PRETTY MUCH F****D UP , TOO MUCH TELEVISION AND CELEBRITY WANNA BE. SO HAPPY I AM NOT FROM THE USA. THE ONLY SAD THING IS THAT THE BAD CULTURAL INVASION OF AMERICAN TV SERIES IS CONTAMINATING ALSO EUROPE NOW AND THEY ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING IDIOTS LIKE MOST OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
Jeremiah Bayles 8 years ago
Entitlement is a *****. It would seem the rest of the world has already learned that a lot of people don't have s**t and never will.
Load More Replies... Meowton Mewsk 8 years ago
Actually we know that it's changed since primitive times. Studies show that modern women are more likely to mate with smaller, smarter men rather than muscular providers. This is because of equality leading to women being able to provide for themselves. Look it up. There are many things primitive people did that we no longer need to do.
Load More Replies... stacyh 8 years ago
Right, because acknowledging common stereotypes is "liberal b******t." How about run along to Breitbart? Might be more your speed.
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