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Quotes About Double standard

But it's different with a man. You don't expect him to be a virgin.
~ Jacqueline Susann
When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or any white man in the world says give me liberty, or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad n*****, so there won't be any more like him.
~ James Baldwin
Nobody calls me a racist when I do redneck jokes. Jeff Foxworthy can do as many 'You might be a redneck jokes' as he wants, but I'm telling you as soon as a guy like that does a black joke or something - 'How dare you!' I totally think it's unfair.
~ Carlos Mencia
It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.
~ Madeline Kahn
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
~ John le Carre
Don't get me started about the media double standard.
~ Molly Ivins
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.
~ Mila Kunis
There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
~ Lolo Jones
We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.
~ Hillary Clinton
There's kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you're an actor and you have a band, everyone's, 'Ugh, disgusting! It's a vanity project.'
~ Megan Mullally
I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
~ Susan Stroman
I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.
~ Eddie Griffin
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.
~ Michele Bachmann
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
~ Minna Antrim
It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.
~ Howard Stern
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~ Barbra Streisand
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
~ Noam Chomsky
Reigning doctrines are often called a double standard.The term is misleading.It is more accurate to describe them as a single standard,clear and unmistakable,the standard that Adam Smith called the vile maxim of the masters of mankind: ...All for ourselves,and nothing for other people. Much has changed since his day,but the vile maxim flourishes.
~ Noam Chomsky
Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that "terrorism is terrorism. There's no two ways about it." There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours. And not just when it comes to terrorism.
~ Noam Chomsky
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.
~ Lisa Gardner
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
~ Barbara Walters
It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.
~ George Carlin
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
~ James Huneker
Women all live a double standard.
~ Joss Whedon