What is your definition of a double standard and whom do you find most guilty of using them?

When a person or persons expects you to behave a certain way and if you deviate from that expectation you commit a “foul” but when they commit the same “foul” it is somehow OK.

The list of the guilty (including me) is way to long to name names.

People who say one thing and do something else. I call my sister “The Queen of the Double Standard.”

Ouch!

A lot of religious leaders.

I have had to deal with double standards for quite some time. My son had several emotional difficulties when he was young. A psychiatrist said he had a very strict moral code and if you gave him a set of rules he would do his best to follow it BUT if YOU violated the rules YOU set then all bets were off. If you also abided by the rules you set then all was fine but If you did not have to adhere to a specific rule then he felt like he was not bound to adhere to ANY of them. It caused quite a lot of problems in public schools. Schools are good at that, set up one set of rules for the kids and another for the staff.
NO, just no, if you expect someone to follow a certain standard then you too have to abide by the standard you require. If it does not apply to you, how can you ever expect others to follow it?

It’s like a no-winner situation. I hope it got better for him.

I must be in the political- thoughts realm too much. I watch and read about anything being bandied about politically.
I am watching both parties. All ‘characters’. Who is tied to what groups or lobbies. How they handle themselves , etc.
For what has been said about woman news reporters, and dismissive remarks by some about each other. I’m begininng to feel a pull towards making THE DECISIONnnnnnn…... about who can cut through the hoo-ha and understand just what is at stake and what and whom we will be dealing with with in – and around the world.
But that ” double standard ” that is in the undercurrents concerning the comments that were made about female journalists shows just the top of the ” Titanic Iceberg ” about which group controls what. And what viciousness that lies ahead in these political races.
I think it’s going to be incredibly nasty when that total iceberg surfaces.
And it makes my stomach hurt now- beforehand.
But I saw the unpleasantness of the ERA dirty politics in the Seventies. I was very aware for my age, and watched those people pull some real midden then.
Who knows?
Perhaps it was ‘The Stonewall’ point for Women, and now all those double standards are raising their ugly heads again.
Fasten your seatbelts folks…..

I think of Republicans saying there should be less government. Less Government Interference!
Yet they think they should regulate and control woman’s right to choose. Before you get that abortion you need to have this ultrasound probe shoved inside you so you can see what’s up there. Sorry, all I see on that monitor is government interference and all I see is arrogance.

People applying different standards to equal things, because they support one but not the other.
Best example is christians.
They harp on about “religious freedom” when it comes to themselves, and rail against sharia when it comes to muslims.
All the while they push to enact their own form of sharia into law, and have no problem oppressing and discriminating against non-christians.

@LuckyGuy I think people need to get a grip and realize that we the taxpayers are going to pay for that abortion one way or another. De-fund Planned Parenthood and women can and will turn to Obamacare to pay to have their fetuses removed. Time to stop all the hand waving and move on to more pressing issues like planning Boehner’s retirement party.

@Cruiser Exactly. Taxpayers will be paying for it one way or the other – one way waaay more than the other.

(However that wasn’t my point. I was just using it as an example of double standard.)

@LuckyGuy So hard to resist grabbing the low hanging fruit! IMO the word Congress should define double-standards.

@Cruiser That was the first thing that came to mind . Easy!