Despite it being 2017, there are still quite a few double standards about gender, and what certain genders should and shouldn’t be doing.
These double standards have become more and more controversial over the years, however, they’re often still commonly found out and about the world.
Here are some of the most annoying double standards men and women are sick of.
I’m a 19 y/o male, and I babysit my 3 and 6 year old girl cousins often. Last time I babysat them, we played tag, then we had to go to the grocery store. The 3 year old decided that she wants to play tag, and runs away from me, so I chase her down, playfully saying “I’m gonna get ya!” in a funny voice cuz it gets her to laugh. A mom passes by and grabs my 3 year old cousin, takes the 6 year old and goes to a manager. My aunt had to come down and tell them that I was watching them. That was the worse it’s been, but if I go anywhere in public with little kids, especially girls, I’m seen as a predator.
I did a lot of things for my boyfriend at uni (cleaned his room, cleaned his toilet, made him food, etc) but as soon as he made me the occasional cup of tea? Well, our housemate started openly accusing him of being “whipped” , “less of a man for bowing down” and that I was a “manipulative b****” that forced him into making me tea (whilst making his own may I add, not just mine). Yeah, we don’t live with him anymore.
That part of being a man is being disposable and no one caring if your life ends up ruined.
We hear talk all the time about the gender earnings gap, women’s right to bodily autonomy (via abortions and access to birth control), and other women’s issues, and those are all important things to discuss. There are also some things we don’t hear about as often:
What we don’t hear as often is the fact that 84% of the homeless are men, 92% of workplace fatalities happen to men, 91% of people in prison are men, etc.
We talk about the subtle forms of discrimination in society that result in women choosing to pursue careers which don’t compensate them financially the same way that careers popular with men do – but we never talk about the subtle forms of discrimination that cause men to ruin their lives at a rate nearly an order of magnitude higher than women.
As a male teacher it really makes me mad that I can’t console any student in a nurturing way, because its frowned upon to give a student a hug. On the contrary a female teacher can literally have a student sit on her lap during read aloud, I do this I’m on a one way ticket to the dog pound
Me as a woman: “I’m a Seahawks fan”
Men: “Really? What’s Pete Carroll’s blood type? Who was the second string left tackle in 1982? How many tickets sold at the Seahawks-Dolphins game in 1996”
Like come on guys…. you don’t know that stuff about your teams either. Same goes for video games.
As a woman, I can’t stand how other women throw the word ‘creep’ around when referring to a guy that they don’t find attractive.
I’ve encountered real male creeps before. And by ‘creep’, I mean, guys that don’t back off when I’ve given clear signs that I’m not interested, don’t respect my boundaries, taking up skirt photos/videos, getting angry/violent when I turn them down, stalking me, etc.
If a guy is unattractive, he’s not a creep; he’s just unattractive. I can’t stand hearing stories from female friends about them getting hit on by a guy that isn’t their type/don’t live up to their standards of attractiveness and writing him off as a creep.
I feel like it cheapens the word ‘creep’ when there are REAL creeps out there who truly deserve the title.
I guess the male equivalent would be guys writing girls off as ‘crazy’, which is just as frustrating.
Women are supposed to love children. Men who love children are pedos.
I’m a childfree woman in my thirties. Have nothing against them, I just don’t want my own, and prefer not to baby-sit (although I still do sometimes for friends and family). People still assume that I’ll change my mind, that I should jump at the chance to spend time with children, or that there is something inherently wrong with me.
On the flip side, if men really want kids, want to work with kids, or love baby-sitting – they’re eyed with suspicion. It’s one of the double-standards that I think has a negative effect for both genders.
When a man is a nurse people think and many times say in their face “Couldn’t become a doctor, huh?”
I’m a stay-at-home father because I’m taking care of my wife and I’s 2 year old son. My wife’s got a career that’s promising advancement and she works sometimes 12 hour days. I often get the “Why doesn’t he have a job” and “He’s a deadbeat dad” routine but if I was a woman I’m sure I’d hear about how mothers work so hard as housewives.
Women having to shave their whole body otherwise we are branded as unclean and disgusting by men who have hair all over their body.
Literally men calling women disgusting for not shaving their armpits while they wear a singlet bearing their armpit hair for all to see.
If a guy turns down a woman because of the size of her breasts, body type or over all appearance he is being shallow but if a woman turns down a guy because of his height, it’s ok….
Seriously I am a girl and this makes me so annoyed!
