Discrimination: What Is The Gender Double Standards?

Waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror, I realize how much I care about what other people think of me even if I try not to. Judgement itself isn’t a bad thing because it helps us choose between right or wrong; good or evil; fair or unjust, but there is a branch of judgment that we could do without, discrimination. Discrimination is a poison killing whatever it touches; giving us false power over those around us. We all deal with discrimination, whether we are on the receiving end, or the cause. Nothing good ever comes from it, so why do we continue to be participants?

A product of discrimination is the gender double standard between and within genders. Before we can ever address the overall gender double standards, we have to address it within the genders. When a woman sleeps around a lot those she thought were her friends call her easy or a slut. We each face different stigmas that we are “supposed” to live up to, but when we don’t, or when we drift from the norm we are looked down upon. An example of this is women have a certain unspoken grooming standard causing women who go above or below this standard to be shamed by their sex. Men are viewed as strong individuals who are supposed to be

Women are supposed to be stay-at-home mothers while the men go and earn a living if these roles are switched they are discriminated against. All men are pigs, and they don’t care about women’s feelings. Women don’t make as much as men when working for the same company and the same job. Men cannot slap a woman without it being considered abuse, but a woman can hit a man without any consequences. The list goes on and on. Men and women really aren’t that much different from each other because we all have the same goals in life to be successful, to be loved, to be acknowledged only to name a few. We are not different races or species; we are all human beings with the same basic