Double Standards Edit Meaning

1.

When a certain gender can do something, but the other can't.

In The Odssey, double standards is when men are allowed to have affairs but women aren't..

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2.

When someone is allowed to get away with something others arent. when a particular standard is applied to a certain group but not another. this doesn't necessarily apply to gender but everything.

Politicians complaining about pet projects and pork spending as a problem but still pushing their own through because theirs is obviously more okay is a great example of double standards.

The smaller pay black soldiers receive was also a double standard

See double standards, double standard, racism, classism, standards, discrimination, politicians