Quotes About Double standard

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

But even today, young women cannot afford to shrug off a reputation for promiscuity and attempts to turn the double standard on men simply provokes laughter. Sexual conquests enhance rather than detract from a young man's reputation—his past desirability to women increases his future success with others.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

You have now learned the valuable lesson, Dee, that law and custom are only there for the common people; they don't apply to exalted persons like me.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

Womanism is feminism's vulgate. It asserts that women are the oppressed or the victims and never the collaborators in the 'bad' things that men do. It entails a double standard around sexuality where women's sexual self-expression is seen as necessary and even desirable, but men's is seen as dangerous or even disgusting. Womanism is by no means confined to a tiny, politically motivated bunch of man-hating feminists, but is a regular feature of mainstream culture.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

Whore" goes, "Christ" goes, "shit" goes, etc. And yet somehow there is not the same ring behind his dirty words as with mine. Sincere enough, frank, honest, but not so raw. Almost seems justifiable. Mine seems flagrant and wanton.

Desire, I thought, belonged to man; it reassured me not to admit that women could experience similar ones unless she were a woman of easy virtue.

According to the prevailing double standard, the young man who was equally responsible for the pregnancy was not condemned for his actions. It was her fault, not their fault, that she got pregnant. This was in that period of time when there wasn't much worse that a girl could do. They almost treated you like you had committed murder or something. —

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

The dirtiest minds amongst the adult males are perhaps the ones who back-up their support to the women, but back- out seeing when the men are in the same situation.

The same acquaintances who ignore or give even trouble to a person at the time of his struggle are often the first to surround and sound a bugle for him on his stupendous success. This is the level of double standard of the people.

During the years I was still playing, I would go to Puerto Rico in the winter and manage. When the day came, I had the experience without having to go to the minor leagues for four or five years and then wait for an opportunity. Still, there's a double standard. Some whites, like Pete Rose, Joe Torre and Ted Williams, never had to go to the minors.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.