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Quotes About Double standard

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.
~ Toni Duggan
As Katie J. M. Baker observed in her Jezebel article, "In Missoula…drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
~ Jon Krakauer
drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not." Compounding
~ Jon Krakauer
guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
~ Jon Krakauer
The British are entitled always to mistrust other people but others are not entitled to mistrust the British. That is why England is known or was known abroad as 'Perfide Albion', because the British have two standards, one for themselves and one for other people.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
~ Jesse Ventura
After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.
~ Pierre Louÿs
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.
~ Olivia Wilde
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
~ Monica Crowley
At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else had done that, it would've been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous.
~ Donald Trump
Half [of] us approve of other people's daughters having children out of wedlock, but hardly any of us approve of that for our daughters. [We] don't wish to be 'judgmental,' unless [we are judging] something we care about, [like] the well-being of the people we cherish
~ James Q. Wilson
We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
~ Lindsay Davenport
If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.
~ Powers Boothe
Did you ever notice that women can seem common while men never do? You won't ever hear anyone describe a man's appearance as common. The common man means the average man, a typical man, a decent hardworking person of modest dreams and resources. A common woman is a woman who looks cheap. A woman who looks cheap doesn't have to be respected, and so she has a certain value, a certain cheap value.
~ Rachel Kushner
Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.
~ Kirsten Powers
The reason for this double standard in our scepticism is, quite simply, that we can see and we can't echolocate.
~ Richard Dawkins
A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one party.
~ Karen Armstrong
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
~ Joyce Brothers
until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
~ Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.
~ Christopher Hitchens
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
~ Faye Wattleton
When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.
~ Glenn Close
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
~ Gloria Steinem
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan