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Quotes About Double standards

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
~ Mo Rocca
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.
~ Snoop Dogg
Immoral women do not exist, said the organist. That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist women who sleep thirty times with one man, and women who sleep once with thirty men.
~ Halldor Laxness
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
~ Jef I. Richards
Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.
~ bell hooks
Thou shalt not kill, they preached, then screamed at us warriors to slaughter the pagans. Thou shalt not steal, they preached, and forged charters to take men's lands. Thou shalt not commit adultery, they preached, and rutted other men's wives like besotted hares in springtime.
~ Bernard Cornwell
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
~ Warren Farrell
Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away with everything, men. They can do every disgusting thing they like and no one ever says a thing.
~ Fay Weldon
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
~ Florence King
Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.
~ Tomi Lahren
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
~ Bob Dylan
How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label compulsively promiscuous? Three? No, not enough. Six? Doubtful. Ten? That sounds more likely. Probably in the fifteen-to-twenty range, would be my guess--if they ever put that label on boys, which I don't recall their doing. And for seventeen-year-old, how many boys?
~ Susanna Kaysen
How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label compulsively promiscuous? Three? No, not enough. Six? Doubtful. Ten? That sounds more likely. Probably in the fifteen-to-twenty range, would be my guess--if they ever put that label on boys, which I don't recall their doing. And for seventeen-year-old girls, how many boys?
~ Susanna Kaysen
This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but as soon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her life miserable.
~ Sylvia Plath
Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.
~ Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Why do women have to face comments like, 'You are wearing short clothes; you are alluring and inviting men?'
~ Kriti Kharbanda
Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
~ Parker Posey
Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.
~ Hannah Teter
You can do a great many things if you are rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor
~ Henry James
Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know?
~ Henry Miller
I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
~ Tara Reid