Are double standards in and of themselves necessarily a BAD thing?

With regard to farting, yes, I agree.

Too many of us are too quick to criticise others but what of ourselves?

It is a longstanding tradition men hold that the Woman he marries is expected to not only tolerate, but actually appreciate, his farts.

Admittedly, this is the one double-standard I cannot intelligently argue against. It is too deeply rooted in natural tendencies predating Neanderthal Man.

Beyond that, I do support Equality and Justice. For all people. No matter what their problem is.

Happy Thanksgiving, Comrade!

Not necessarily, in my work for instance we have a lot of rules, but there are also lots of circumstances were the rules can be reasonably bent and broken; the important thing is to use common sense and good judgement. However, I think in general usage the term refers to cases in which people will hold other people to a different standard than they hold themselves or their own family or in group.

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Yes double standards are a bad thing. Is that the question?

The world would be a better place without them.

We shouldn't assume that, in a family, if the father is the homemaker, he is a lazy bum, or if the mother is the breadwinner, that she's emasculating her poor man. Being older doesn't necessarily mean being out of touch and stubborn, and being young doesn't necessarily mean being privileged and narcissistic.

Double standards suck. Who do they help?

I think a big part of finding double standards distasteful is that people see the hypocracy in not holding ourselves to the same standards that we hold others...

A related point, which I think you're hinting at is that in the US there currently seems to be a lot of identity politics, which is too often based on victim narratives and redressing injustice rather than a search for equality... This can sometimes lead to a double standard situation, where a person's identity becomes the measure of what is right or wrong as opposed to their actual behaviour and actions...

I will say this much: Just because someone espousing a standard fails to live up to it themselves, doesn't necessarily mean the standard itself should be tossed out.

Best expressed in parents, who do have to engage in some "do as I say, not as I do," mostly because those are kids they're raising, and because parents would prefer their kids live better lives than they did.

Humans are animals and all of our traits and behaviors originate from natural instincts. It all boils down to self preservation and preservation of species. We protect ourselves first, then we protect others close to us. All other behaviors stem from that.

Double standards are bad and they also stifle creativity. I think "White Chicks" was hilarious, but if there was movie called "Black Chicks" with two guys in black makeup pretending to be black girls, there would be boycotts and petitions to get this movie canned. As a woman of mixed race, I think its not fair. "Black Chicks" could be a funny movie but because of double standards, we may never find out.

More recently, there was controversy over the "X-men Age of Apocalypse" movie. Feminists were triggered over a billboard advertisement, showing Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, in a chokehold, by the mutant Apocalypse. I suppose the ad depicted violence towards women, as if violence towards a man would have been more reasonable. Violence should be viewed in a bad light in general, but in a fictional movie about heroes fighting villians, violence should not even be an issue.

I've also heard of transgender people who believe non trans actors shouldn't play trans roles. Does that not defeat the whole purpose of acting? What next? Only gay people can play gay roles, and straight people playing straight roles. That would be discrimination.

As long as double standards exist, there will never be true equality.