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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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#1

40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Churches being involved in politics but not having to pay taxes. Tax the fuckn church.

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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online The huge focus on Joe Biden's apparent mental decline... versus... nobody batting an eyelid about Donald Trump's obvious mental decline.

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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online If poor people don’t pay taxes they are criminals , if rich people don’t pay taxes they are “business savvy”.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online It's 'mental health matters' until you show symptoms that aren't glamorous, romantic or desirable.

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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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America calling itself the “land of the free” while simultaneously incarcerating more people than any other nation.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Sexual harassment against men being played for laughs in a lot of media.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Black people are allowed to be racist as f**k.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every person can be racist, regardless of their race. My Asian FIL is definitely racist against blacks. We have to chastise him all the time. Anyone can be racist.

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

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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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Viagra is not just "for boners" it's still used as a heart medication. Also, in most of the civilised world contraception, including the pill, is free or reduced cost.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Rich people get every possible chance to avoid jail time, poor people can go f**k themselves.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Women as the default parent even if both parents work.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's something that needs to be worked out prior to becoming parents.

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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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online Entry level positions requiring years of experience.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 60 years old. I have tried MANY churches in my life and finally gave up. There has not been one church in all those years where I did not feel or hear judgmental attitudes toward me. I suffer from clinical depression and PTSD from childhood and an abusive marriage. I am finished with church. I can worship on my own.

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 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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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.

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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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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online As long as you claim that you are a victim it’s okay to be the perpetrator.

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I learned this the hard way. My ex-husband attacked me, and I defended myself. He admitted to the police that he hit me first, but because he sustained an injury that required stitches, I was held liable to pay his Dr bill.

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

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2 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. I moved some money around to free up a down payment on my house. Lender was ALL OVER my records demanding to know where the cash had come from.

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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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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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"We should ban abortions, contraceptives, and gay marriage because they are against God's will. But don't try to regulate me. You're violating my religious freedom!"

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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online 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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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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