Quotes About Double standard

what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.

became a swellhead, a wise guy, an "uppity" nigger. When a white player did it, he had spirit. When a black player did it, he was "ungrateful," an upstart, a

if a defense lawyer is caught cheating, he or she gets nailed with sanctions by the court, reprimanded by the state bar association, maybe even indicted. If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench.

Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a bitch is assertive, unapologetic, demanding, intimidating, intelligent, fiercely protective, in control—all very positive attributes. But it's not supposed to be a compliment, because there's that old, stupid double standard: When men are aggressive and dominant, they are admired, but when a woman possesses those same qualities, she is dismissed and called a bitch.

You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you. "If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

A slut is like the first piece of bread in a loaf, everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

It is funny that those who make the laws by which we are expected to live are usually the ones who have no regard for it.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.

if my partner wants more affection than I'm giving her, she is "needy and dependent." But if I want more affection than she is giving me, then she is "aloof and insensitive." If my colleague is more concerned about details than I am, he is "picky and compulsive." On the other hand, if I am more concerned about details than he is, he is "sloppy and disorganized.

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

There's one rule for the men and another for us,

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

When a man speaks that way, people say he has authority. When a woman does, everyone resents her and thinks she's his mother. Or their nagging wife.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.