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

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

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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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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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#10

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.

tasha2701 , Drazen Zigic / freepik Report

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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.

bicika , freepik Report

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#12

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.

fun_crush , wayhomestudio / freepik Report

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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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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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#15

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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#16

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

Ok_Assumption_3932 , Drazen Zigic / freepik Report

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#22

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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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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#24

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

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#25

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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#26

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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#27

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

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#29

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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#30

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.

Cloud_N0ne , yanalya / freepik Report

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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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#32

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

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#33

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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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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#35

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

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#36

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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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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#38

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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#39

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.

Ok_Lecture_8886 , Drazen Zigic / freepik Report

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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.

ScootieSnacks , josemiguelsangar / freepik Report

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What do you think ?

Liz The Biz 1 day 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.

23points

Treelioness 1 day ago

It's because they are blue bloods. We are sheep.

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day 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.

11points

Igor914624 1 day ago

Height discrimination. It is OK to call me short, midget, smurf, or to make jokes about my height like setting up a milk crate for me to stand on. Girls won't date me because I am not 6 foot. But if I a make a fat joke, or a joke about race, I am vilified. If I don't want to date a woman because she is overweight, then I am a monster. 84702598-6...c10df1.jpg

9points

Lailu 21 hours ago

I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity… is height really such a deterrent for some women? I’ve dated people way taller, way shorter and around the same height as me and being more attracted versus less attracted because of their height never even crossed my mind. If you’ve experienced it, I’m sorry. We’re not all like that, I promise!

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