Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They’re Spot-On (49 Answers)

Life isn’t always fair, no matter how much we wish it could be. Sure, there are times when justice prevails and good triumphs, but far too often, the scales seem hopelessly tipped.

It’s the kind of realization that can really make your blood boil. And it certainly did for these Redditors, who didn’t hold back as they shared some of society’s biggest double standards in a recent thread.

Scroll down to read their thoughts, and don’t forget to share your own in the comments!

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Churches being involved in politics but not having to pay taxes. Tax the fuckn church.

TheSublimeNeuroG , Lewis Ashton / pexels Report

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Lyone Fein 5 hours ago

I would rather we just actually enforce the separation of church and state. Religious institutions should not be involved in politics. And the government should not pass laws that are particular to one religious view point (like making abortion illegal).

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) The huge focus on Joe Biden's apparent mental decline... versus... nobody batting an eyelid about Donald Trump's obvious mental decline.

Remaining_Nameless , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

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Marie 5 hours ago

And he's quickly becoming a straw man for people even more dangerous than he is...

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) When Santa comes down the chimney and eats your food he’s “Holly” and “jolly” but I do it and I’m “drunk” and “breaking and entering”.

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Blada DeBlejd 6 hours ago

😄

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) If poor people don’t pay taxes they are criminals , if rich people don’t pay taxes they are “business savvy”.

Toematehos , senivpetro / freepik Report

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DennyS (denzoren) 3 hours ago

100000% also, jail time vs penalty.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) I need to submit to a background check and d**g test for most jobs.
The president is a convicted felon. Elon does d***s.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 6 hours ago

When you are mega wealthy in USA, there is no such thing as accountability in doing whatever you wish.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) It's 'mental health matters' until you show symptoms that aren't glamorous, romantic or desirable.

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Leonie Löwenherz 6 hours ago

What kind of mental health symptoms are glamourous or romantic? Please elaborate.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Government can't account for 800 billion dollars in an audit, but if I so much as make an honest mistake on my taxes I receive harsh penalties.

fun_crush , wayhomestudio / freepik Report

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Robert Beveridge 41 minutes ago

Oh, it CAN account for that money. It doesn't because "national security". Paranoid b******t.

1point

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Black people are allowed to be racist as f**k.

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Trillian 4 hours ago

Racism is never good or allowed. But the argument is usually brought up in an attempt to qualify systemic racism. Kind of like "but women can be rapists too". While true, it is not the same.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Normal person files for bankruptcy to give themselves a fresh start and they’re being shamed for it.

Rich person files for bankruptcy 8 different times and no one blinks an eye.

tasha2701 , Drazen Zigic / freepik Report

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DennyS (denzoren) 3 hours ago

In that case it was a wise business decision.

3points

#10

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) That a man with five kids from three different woman, all of whom he openly cheated on, and be elected president. A woman wouldn’t even be considered for mayor with that track record.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 6 hours ago

AND adored by so called 'Christians' who would vilify a Democrat candidate

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#11

America calling itself the “land of the free” while simultaneously incarcerating more people than any other nation.

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For All Pedernity 4 hours ago

The level of self deception Americans are capable of is incredible. 'Land of the free', 'the world's greatest democracy', 'the American dream'...

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#12

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Sexual harassment against men being played for laughs in a lot of media.

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DennyS (denzoren) 3 hours ago

Still happens a lot where I live.

3points

#13

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Girls wearing feminine things? Yeah. Girls wearing masculine things? Yeah. Guys wearing masculine things? Yeah. Guys wearing feminine things? You're gonna get beaten up if you enter the wrong alley.

TeMieE , Kireyonok_Yuliya / freepik Report

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Tiger Lilly 4 hours ago

I love a man in a skirt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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#14

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" doesn't apply to cops.

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Luke Branwen 2 hours ago

All Cats Are Beautiful

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) How men are praised for doing basic stuff like cooking or taking care of kids, while women are expected to do it all and still get judged for ,,not doing enough''

Not trying to offend anyone just my personal opinion:).

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Mia Black 6 hours ago

I hate that from time to time I have to praise or thank men for stuff that nobody would blink for if a woman would do it, just to encourage them to repeat good behaviour...

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#16

Rich people receiving praise for getting government money whilst looking down on poor people needing government help.

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DennyS (denzoren) 3 hours ago

Bailout vs welfare.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Rich people get every possible chance to avoid jail time, poor people can go f**k themselves.

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Angela B 6 hours ago

They can even get elected to run a country....

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#18

That viagra is covered by health insurance and most name brand birth controls are not (even though viagra is just for boners and birth control helps with a litany of female hormone regulation issues).

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Team Jay 36 minutes ago

Viagra is not covered by health insurance

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#19

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) People love to say 'don't judge others,' but are quick to judge anyone who doesn't fit their idea of normal. Hypocrisy is real!

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Nea 3 hours ago

I judge everyone. Judging people in your mind is a natural, normal thing. Its a problem if that judgment influences your behavior with them.

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#20

I know it's mentioned a lot, but cannabis being illegal and alcohol being legal (in most countries) is an outrageous double standard.

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Luke Branwen 2 hours ago

If you listed all negative effects of alcohol and presented it as some new "millennial" d**g (think of kratom or similar), there'd be a massive, MASSIVE uproar to get it banned, even from people who get drunk on a weekly basis.

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#21

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) The idea that getting money without working for it is awful and horrible if you're poor, but cool and respectable and a just reward for "success" if you're rich.

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Luke Branwen 2 hours ago

This is one of the most important things if we genuinely want the world to change for the better: be okay with people getting "free stuff" without the knee-jerk "THEY DIDN'T EARN IT!!!" reaction. And before anyone comes with the "ackchyually nothing is free, someone has to pay for it", I have three words: tax the rich.

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Women as the default parent even if both parents work.

Accomplished-Car3850 , prostooleh / freepik Report

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#23

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) If you establish yourself as a "hard worker" everyone notices when you have a bad day and don't perform to your usual standard. Meanwhile "slackers" are praised for performing slightly above average.

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Corvus 3 hours ago

As an old bit of office wisdom goes - "The reward for work well done is... more work."

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Entry level positions requiring years of experience.

Ok_Assumption_3932 , Drazen Zigic / freepik Report

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Corvus 3 hours ago

Of course we'd love to hire some 20-year-olds... as long as they have at least 30 years of experience in the field ;)

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#25

Two tiered justice system.

If you are rich, you can't commit a crime serious enough to result in a reasonable prison sentence.

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Cyber Returns 5 hours ago

What the poor call a fine or compensation the rich call the price

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#26

Men’s nipples are normalized, women’s nipples are sexualized.

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The Big Bad 5 hours ago

Boobs are over sexualized, breastfeeding is "weird". Never understood that the most natural thing in the world is now often being called weird or even rude.

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#27

how men are praised for being confident or assertive, but women who do the same are often labeled as bossy or aggressive. it’s like the same behavior is judged differently just based on gender.

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For All Pedernity 4 hours ago

'It’s like the same behavior is judged differently just based on gender'. No s**t.

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#28

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) Employees are expected to give 2 weeks notice before leaving a job, but employers won’t give us even 2 hours notice before firing us.

Cloud_N0ne , yanalya / freepik Report

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Isabella 6 hours ago

Not in Europe. I have to give 3 months notice! :))

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#29

Elon musk openly smoked weed on camera and talks about taking other illegal d***s on the Joe Rogan podcast, yet he still launches rockets and has just been brought into the president elects cabinet and entrusted to run a department in the federal government but a regular citizen wouldn’t pass a security clearance/background investigation and interview to work for a government entity if they smoked weed.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 6 hours ago

Did you see the video of Trump Jr openly rubbing coke on his gums?

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#30

If a woman sleeps with a lot of guys, she's a s**t. I do the same thing and I'm "gay".

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Teresa Timmons 1 hour ago

😆

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#31

I’m not American, but I know in the USA you can’t drink or buy tobacco until you’re 21. Yet you can join the army and be sent to foreign countries to fight, buy a gun, or vote at the age of 18.

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OldButNewButBroken 5 hours ago

Imagine joining the army at 18. Then get deployed, seeing combat, losing friends. Return home with your soul shattered. And then get a hard NO when you try to buy some booze to numb the pain. Thank you for your service indeed

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Vilifying an entire race and gender. You can be racist to white people, especially white men. But it cannot be the opposite.

CNN can release a news article called “There’s Nothing Scarier Than Angry White Men”. If you replaced “white men” with “black people”, there would be public outrage and much consequence.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/20/us/angry-white-men-trials-blake-cec

Black people can openly say “I don’t like white people” and it’s acceptable. A white person cannot say that about their own race without termination from their job, being deplatformed and deemed a racist. I think both of these attitudes towards one another are disgusting. I don’t feel that way about a race. It’s bothersome that someone would judge me just because of my skin color too.

Progress on race issues begins when everyone has the same social behaviors and mutual respect. Not when one gets a special license to be hateful and the other is supposed to put up with it. Most things deemed “racist” are not about race anyway, it’s tribalism. A very natural thing for all of us.

People with cultural similarities will always predominately flock together. Race is the first and most obvious commonality that make make a group of people flock together. In a diverse room, Christian’s will naturally flock together, blacks will flock together, gays will flock together and so on.

Everyone, without exception or even admission, is most comfortable with people that are most like them from physical appearance to politics, interests, and beliefs. There’s countless studies on it. Instead of understanding and respecting the human condition, we normalize blaming and vilifying white people because they are the majority in the proverbial room. .

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RamiRudolph 2 hours ago

This should be SO much higher.

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#33

The rich are eccentric. The poor are dangerous and crazy.

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Helena 5 hours ago

I would really like to be rich enough to be considered eccentric

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#34

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) As long as you claim that you are a victim it’s okay to be the perpetrator.

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Son of Philosoraptor 9 minutes ago

This was the revelation that swept the orange felon to power.

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#35

The government can fail financial audits to the tune of billions missing with no accountability or consequences. But I have to explain deposits over $600. Totally ridiculous.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 6 hours ago

Guess where slush funds come from...

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#36

Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) The perception of a woman hitting a man vs a man hitting a woman. Generally it's less frowned upon when a woman hits a man.

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The Big Bad 5 hours ago

Nobody should hit anybody. There is often a huge difference in power though. If my husband would punch me I'd probably go k.o. If I would punch my husband he'd probably wonder what mosquito bit him :')

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#37

In the western civilizations, You can criticize Christianity but not Islam.

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K- THULU 6 hours ago (edited)

Well, you can't criticise Judaism, either...... and I'm half Jewish so don't label me an antisemitic, please

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) If a guy can't go to a party or event etc. because his girlfriend won't let him everyone's like 'fair enough'

If a guy doesn't let his girlfriend go he is considered controlling/abusive etc.

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Mia Black 6 hours ago

I don't want too play this down. I just want to say that when I encountered situations where the man had to leave ir was not allowed to go somewhere from a woman, it's ever been the man that just used the woman as an excuse. Somehow woman in a relationship are the excuses for many activities the men do or don't and somehow we are fine with this. Woman are the household dragons if it fits for the moment. And I think this is also problematic, although it's laughed over. (Please keep in mind, I see both situations are problematic but only ever have seen my shared experience. This is just my observation. Nothing more)

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#39

Always thought small d**k jokes are inappropriate.

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Corvus 3 hours ago

Like so many other anatomical things, one cannot choose their dck size. You just learn to make the best out of it.

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#40

Women usually get punished less harshly for sexual crimes, a 30 year old female teacher from a high school in my area got caught having sex with a. 16 year old boy and nothing was done about it, no jail time, no arrest, people weren’t mad at her, nothing! Age of consent where I live is 18 so she definitely was breaking the law, if a 30 year old man at sex with a 16 year old girl they’d call for his execution, hell if a 25 year old banged an 19 year old girl they’d call him a predator but when women do it they seem to always get a slap on the wrist.

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Jaaawn 4 hours ago

Look at how the media reports these crimes as well. It's usually 'male teacher rapes student' but 'female teacher sleeps with student.'

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) The pure joy I have when I find a curly fry at the bottom of the regular fries I ordered but the absolute disgust I have when I find a regular fry at the bottom of curly fries I ordered.

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Jayjay 1 hour ago

I like this one :)

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Somebody Asked People To Share Double Standards In Society And They're Spot-On (49 Answers) How some groups think it is fine that they can do what they like, but "others" need to be told by them to what to do. Some groups go, let's make a law governing how others behave, but woe betide anyone who tries to make laws governing how those groups behave.

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#43

Other people are “immigrants” but when it’s someone white they are an “expat” .

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The Big Bad 5 hours ago

In the rich area of my town there are a lot of "expats". Most of them are not white. I think this has more to do with money. If you're rich you're an expat, if you're poor you're an immigrant.

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#44

In the US, justice for the rich/celebrities/politicians vs the rest of the population. A prime example that comes to mind is how Tyreek Hill was given a speeding ticket for going 90 in a 30. The he has the audacity to demand the cop be fired. A regular person in that situation would have been arrested for reckless endangerment and their car impounded.

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Robert Beveridge 27 minutes ago

For others who said "who?", he's a football player.

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#45

People care much more for people they can relate to. A man wearing a suit collapsing on the street will get much more attention and immediate help than someone who looks foreign and homeless.

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Jaaawn 4 hours ago (edited)

Not in my experience. I had a seizure in the middle of an extremely busy street one lunchtime whilst wearing my smart work clothes and not a single bastard stopped to help. Properly banged my head so much I had double vision for 11 days.

1point

#46

There are always 50 wars going on. Bigger and smaller ones.
But we only know and care about Ukraine and Palestine because the media puts them constantly on the screen.

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Corvus 3 hours ago (edited)

Or, we know and care about them because they affect us more than the other 48 wars, which are too far away to matter? Living in SE Europe, the Ukraine war is VERY close to me, so I obviously care about it much more than, say, something happening on the other side of the planet.

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#47

Some mistakes are lessons for some and labels for others :|.

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#48

You can pet a pet but you can’t fly a fly.

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René Sauer 3 hours ago

good, i hate joke answers like this in these kinds of lists 😐

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#49

Mental health.

Men are supposedly encouraged to be vulnerable but f*****g hell, show any sign of weakness and it will be weaponised against you

For women? I think that's going great.

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Helena 5 hours ago

You think a womans vulnerability isn't seen as a weakness and weaponized? The second we have ANY emotion, anger, frustration, sadness, we're considered hysterical. Be at all assertive and we are bossy and aggressive. We have our showing of emotions thrown at us at every turn from every angle and they use it as an excuse to keep us out of any kind of position of power.

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Liz The Biz 6 hours ago

Celebrities who tell everyone to reduce their carbon footprint while at the same time jetting all over the world, running numerous huge houses, driving around in gas guzzling vehicles and generally being wasteful.

13points

Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 hours ago

It's fine for men to be overweight but not women. If you sleep 9pm - 6am you're a fkn saint. Sleep 1am - 10 am and you're the laziest pig that ever lived.

How women are being paid much less than men for the same jobs.

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