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.

TheSublimeNeuroG , Lewis Ashton / pexels Report

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Lyone Fein 5 days 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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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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Marie 5 days ago

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”.

Toematehos , senivpetro / freepik Report

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 days ago

100000% also, jail time vs penalty.

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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.

rolowa , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 days ago

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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Leonie Löwenherz 5 days ago

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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Blada DeBlejd 5 days ago

😄

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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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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 days ago

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

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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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For All Pedernity 5 days 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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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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Mia Black 5 days 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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#10

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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George Costanza 5 days ago

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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#11

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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DennyS (denzoren) 5 days ago

Still happens a lot where I live.

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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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Robert Beveridge 5 days ago

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

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#13

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

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 days ago

Bailout vs welfare.

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#14

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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DennyS (denzoren) 5 days ago

In that case it was a wise business decision.

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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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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 days ago

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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#16

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 5 days ago

This should be SO much higher.

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#17

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.

TeMieE , Kireyonok_Yuliya / freepik Report

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Tiger Lilly 5 days ago

I love a man in a skirt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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#18

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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Angela B 5 days ago

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

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#19

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

Accomplished-Car3850 , prostooleh / freepik Report

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Mike F 4 days ago

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

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#20

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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Corvus 5 days ago

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

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#21

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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Corvus 5 days 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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#22

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 5 days ago

😆

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#23

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!

justgirldancing , stockking / freepik Report

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Dawn Marie 5 days ago

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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#24

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 5 days ago

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

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#25

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

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The Big Bad 5 days 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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#26

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.

Bizarre_Protuberance , freepik Report

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Luke Branwen 5 days 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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#27

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 5 days 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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#28

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

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Luke Branwen 5 days ago

All Cats Are Beautiful

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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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Cyber Returns 5 days ago

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

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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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Isabella 5 days ago

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

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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 days 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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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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Noname 5 days ago

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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#33

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

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K- THULU 5 days 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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#34

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) 5 days ago

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

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#35

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

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Helena 5 days ago

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

5points

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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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BookFanatic 4 days ago

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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#37

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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Jayjay 5 days ago

I like this one :)

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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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Robert Beveridge 5 days ago

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

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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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Michael Largey 4 days ago

"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

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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The Big Bad 5 days 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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What do you think ?

Liz The Biz 5 days 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.

Treelioness 4 days ago

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

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 5 days 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.

Igor914624 5 days 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

Lailu 4 days 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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