A set of rules, morals or principles that are unfairly applied to different groups or people.
Examples of double standards: (About a male boss): "I love his take-charge attitude!" (About a female boss): "She's such a bitch! She's probably on her period." (About a man who has sex): "What an awesome stud/legend/boss he is!" (About a woman who has sex): "What a disgusting slut/whore/skank she is!"
By qbdkusoemv
An ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another
If you are overweight, you get made fun of, yet when you are skinny, you are praised.
By bobie
A standard that is higher for one sex than another is a double standard. Feminism is full of double standards.
It's a double standard to think that a female who can't feed her kid because her tits got cut off by a machete is more devastating to the planet than five hundred males who got their genitals mutilated before they were beheaded. A way of thinking that one sex is more necessary to the future of the human race somehow, or that one sex should be treated as more righteous than the other.
By Solid Mantis
When someone has a twisted idea of what’s right or wrong for a certain gender to do, while believing it is okay for the other gender.
Boy: “She should shave her legs it’s gross” Girl: “but you have leg hair so I guess that makes you gross. That’s a stupid double standard to follow.” —————————————————————————— Boy: “she slept with 6 guys so she’s a hoe.” Girl: “you’ve slept with more than that so I guess that makes you a hoe too.”
By Justspittingfacts
If a male gets his dick chopped off and tossed in a cornfield, the world gets to laugh because he was probably a rapist and an abuser, at least that is the accusation, but if a female got her tits or other parts chopped off and tossed in a cornfield, the world is expected to weep for such a brave soul (even if she might have been someone who wasn't a nice or good person).
It's a double standard when the lives of one sex are treated like junk/garbage, and the lives of another are treated like critical and revered.
By The Original Agahnim