Hey Pandas, What Double Standard Bothers You The Most?

Just one? ... Double standards towards women. If a guy sleeps around he's a cool dude. If a women sleeps around she's a s**t. If a male has short shorts then it's just a hot day. If a women wears short shorts she's inappropriately dressed. I could go on and on but you know what I mean.
Then there's the hypocrisy in religion. The "love your neighbour" but not caring if someone needs help and support and they look the other way.
How about the polluted world we live in .... people buying useless stuff and complaining about climate change (IF they even bother to think about it at all).

Religion. Pretty much everything about is hypocritical but one of the things that pisses me off the most about it is people demanding the freedom to practice their religion, while at the same time trying to force the rest of society to also follow that religion and suppressing their right to follow their own religious beliefs or lack thereof. You follow your beliefs and let me follow mine. If you don't support abortion, don't have one but don't stop others from having that choice. If you don't support the LGBTQ community, that is your choice but never try to restrict the rights of anyone in that community.

It’s a silly one, but as a comic book fan the double standards of the costumes gets me mad. Female superhero’s get glorified unitards, bikinis and sometimes just two ribbons covering their boobs. Whereas guys always get to be a hero first and model second

(If anyone wants to complain in the comments I’m more then happy to explain the differences of sexual and power fantasies to them :) )

How little help and compassion there is for male victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse.

When someone doesn't speak your native language in the USA. If you don't know Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Cantonese, etc. that's normal. If they don't speak English, they are ignorant foreigners.

Almost everything about the UK seems to hinge on double standards. Poor? Fiddling your benefits? You're going to see serious jail time. Rich? Fiddling your taxes? Slap on the back of the hand and a paltry fine. Virtually every aspect of life and law seems to hinge on how much money you've got, the more bread you got, the less you-know-what you eat!

In the UK you can only buy a child ticket for the train or bus if you are 15 or under. yet if you are under 18 the national minimum wage is less than if you were 25+. if you want under 18s to pay the same as "adults" then pay them the same!

Capitalism for the working class, socialism for the elite.

Walmart that pays their employees c**p, and then provide assistance to their employees on how to apply for EBT and welfare. That's corporate socialism. It maddens me that they don't pay fair wages, then push it off on us taxpayers.

get someone cremated and your a good friend but do it in your yard and its burning the evidence

The whole "You're a dad who is alone with your little kids? Awww, how's the babysitting going?" thing, to which the following response should be given: "I wouldn't know; I'm too busy parenting right now."

And, while I know the numbers are disproportionate based on gender, if a man were to attempt to help out a child in need who is not his own, even in a public space, many will assume he has the worst intentions.

I went to a camp this summer and there was a dress code for the girls and the boys. Well the boys just had to wear t shirts no tank tops but could go topless in the pool and could wear any length of shorts. The girls on the other hand had to wear knee length shorts (I’m 6ft so that was hard) and no leggings it was too hot to wear jeans. Also our swimsuits had to be a one piece with knee length shorts! On the last day they pulled ALL the girls aside and told us to change our shorts if they weren’t long enough and if we didn’t have any that we would have to borrow some from our friends!

As an autistic person I was (and still am) sound sensitive. During high school I'd pop in earbuds if the classroom got to loud so I wouldn't melt down... teacher didn't like that and would rip my ear buds out of my ears. But it was OK for everyone else to put their ear buds in... they're the ones screaming at each other, they don't need to muffle the sound.

Double standards for fat people.
When you're fat, you have to put extra effort in anything you do so people will actually bother to view you as a person. A lot of doctors use "lose weight" as an universal cure for all ailments of their fat patients, without bothering to investigate the problem deeper. Another nightmare is buying clothes (even when something is labeled "plus size", it usually means "for slightly larger thin people"). All while people tell us it's our fault / our choice, even though it's been proven that weight and body shape are just as genetic as height or hair color.

The massive amount of relatively safe male impotence drugs (Viagra etc.) vs small number of drugs that minimally help with menopause and are nowhere near as safe. Lack of a boner = multi-billion $ industry. Serious medical issues for women when they are losing their estrogen = possible cancer-causing industry with less than stellar results.

If a man argues about something, then he's passionate. If a woman argues about something she's a b***h or hormonal or emotional. Like how is that fair?!

That when I was 44 I was told I couldn't have a hysterectomy to put right a very painful condition because I was still of child-bearing age, but if I had fallen pregnant with my first child at that age the doctors would have advised me to abort because of the dangers.

Bored Panda responses to things that happen in the US that are damned but happen in other countries get a "pass."

People automatically demanding your respect while saying "my respect has to be earned".
I don't get that! What's wrong with having a basic amount of respect for each other and giving a little before you take?

The way society deals with mental illness versus physical illness. Like with physical problems millions, if not, billions of people struggle with mental health issues daily. Yet, there is still a huge taboo on it and most available (professional) information seems very clinical. I think it's wonderful that more and more people are opening up about their struggles and what it's really like, I love that! However, there seems to be so much more acceptance for psycical problems and that struggle. Mental problems should be equally accepted by society. All those people deserve to get rid of the taboo surrounding it. From experience I can say that getting rid of the shame makes a huge difference! Hugs to everybody struggling, either physically or mentally!