What gendered double standards especially infuriate you?

BlackHole94 · 2018-02-05T21:42:44+00:00

For me, it is

“The future is female”

“I’m so glad that everyone who won XYZ are all female”

Reverse the genders and you’ll get outrage.

ipwr85 · 2018-02-05T21:53:28+00:00

The double standard when it comes to domestic violence is especially galling.Male on female violence is harshly condemned and punished even when a man acted in self-defense.Female on male violence is laughed at,approved of,or excused.

imdog · 2018-02-06T01:03:32+00:00

The number one is probably that it’s socially acceptable for women to hit men, and small everyday acts of chivalry are always a nice reminder that you’re less valuable as a human than women. Manspreading is hilarious to me because men are literally expected to give up their seat for women on public transit and stand as if they’re second class citizens.

Razorbladekandyfan · 2018-02-05T21:56:33+00:00

Male only conscription in progressive countries like Finland, Austria, Switzerland.

Applefanboiz4life · 2018-02-06T00:16:50+00:00

"don't hit a girl" Basically shoving sexist bullshit down a boys throat from a young age

IDeliverToPMME_Users · 2018-02-05T21:34:59+00:00

Army makes boys "men" and they need it to mature, but somehow women just are mature all of a sudden without having to go through this.

And "my body my choice" + outrage at any allegation of touching someone, but no fucks given at mutilating thousands of boys every month.

These 2 just get me on angry rants all the time, the others I don't care enough to be a bitch about but these are just too far.

SpikedGIraffe · 2018-02-05T22:58:24+00:00

Affirmative Action(Employment Equity Act in Canada).

Giving preferential hiring to Women and Visible Minorities over Men even though having equal qualifications.

My brother was interviewing for a job a few years ago for company here in Alberta. The Companies home office was in California.

The Interviewer was retiring in a couple months so had no problem telling my brother he was perfect for the job but could not hire him. He had to meet Quota for Diversity from the home office and was being forced to hire a woman of colour.

My brother is a Drafter and has experience so much sexism and racism from Government entities it really opened my eyes.

BernieSandersgirl101 · 2018-02-06T01:20:18+00:00

That a woman can rape a man and then ruin his life even further. She can falsely accuse him, force him to pay child support or rape him again by coercion or force and nobody will care. People will even call him lucky OE call him Gay (which he may be), or a whiner. The rape victim could be an asexual who gets disgusted and upset by sex and he'll still get laughed at.

Doobie_34959 · 2018-02-06T01:45:08+00:00

The level and extent to which public funds are used to specifically help women in gender neutral problems. DV happens everywhere, but its crazy that most men aren't even aware of what constitutes abuse.

clockworkgirl21 · 2018-02-06T07:59:09+00:00

Male circumcision is okay, female is wrong.

Women don’t consent to being parents and don’t deserve to be saddled with a baby for having sex, but men do.

Men have to serve in the military, but it’s voluntary for women.

jeff_the_nurse · 2018-02-06T02:05:29+00:00

My wife can be with our kids and no one suspects anything, but women profile me fairly often when I'm with my kids.

Luchadorgreen · 2018-02-06T06:23:35+00:00

People bitching about depictions of "violence against women" in entertainment.

Violence against men is a magnitude greater in prevalence, and is much more often portrayed as justified. Those whiners have to climb over a mountain of (fictional) male corpses to get to the relatively few portrayals of violence against women. But they don't care.

Edit: What made me think of this is the recent Uma Thurman / Quintin Tarantino debacle. Somebody made a tweet that got thousands of likes talking about how Quintin Tarantino probably did what Thurman accused him of because there is "violence against women" in his films. Now, I've always gotten the feeling that Tarantino is a dickhole and I wouldn't be surprised if Thurman's accusations were true, but his portrayal of violence against women doesn't come close to how much he portrays violence against men. These people are just too damn blind to understand that.

shadowguyver · 2018-02-06T08:06:14+00:00

Protection from genital mutilation.

perplexedm · 2018-02-06T11:06:05+00:00

When domestic violence cases are reported, in most cases men are supposed to leave their own house almost always. Women abuse this to take ownership of house without any hard-work. Same goes for child custody.

There is no logic at all in this.

Jillian0424 · 2018-02-06T19:38:19+00:00

Anything in reference to male disposability.

Just earlier today I stumbled upon a debate about providing accessible drinking water to impoverished native communities across Canada. Someone mentioned Trudeau's hypocrisy in allowing refugees into the country and helping them but not helping natives, to which a fellow native woman responded (paraphrasing): "You know there are a lot of refugees that are women and children!" I was already annoyed because of the selection bias, but then came some guy who said: "Oh I'm all for supporting women and children, but some of those 'refugees' are young men."

I said to them: "Men from those affected areas shouldn't be denied access to sanctuary on the basis that they're young men. That is very sexist and extremely presumptuous."

It drives me insane. Regardless of your opinion about helping refugees, saying you value one part of the group but not the other because they're not the right gender or age is LUDICROUS.

nascarracer99316 · 2018-02-08T21:36:13+00:00

Men can not be the victims of rape.

Men getting 5x the sentence of women who commit the same exact crime.

MeaningfulTrumpet · 2018-02-06T09:44:59+00:00

Dunno if it counts as double standard, but when people react with pleasure to someone being a woman, usually in a prestigious position or one of power. This applies to both fiction and real life.

Like, when the sheriff of a town is a woman: "Oh, good, the sheriff is a woman."

Why is that good? Female sheriffs can't be assholes? They can't be corrupt? They can't be lazy? They can't be incompetent? Fuck you.

kilbox1a · 2018-02-06T05:23:46+00:00

That it's assumed I'll take out the trash. Like that shit is beneath women. But if I ask to get my damn pants washed all hell breaks loose.

Title	What gendered double standards especially infuriate you?
Author	BlackHole94
Upvotes	16
Comments	37
Date	February 5, 2018 9:25 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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