Sometimes I’m okay with double standards. Really, I actually think that there are some rules for some people and other rules for others.
Now, I’m not saying there should be double standards for EVERYTHING. For example, if you murder a person and you are a famous celebrity, I think that you should have the same treatment as everyone else.
If you rob a bank, there are consequences to those actions and you need to face them. I don’t care who you are, what your income level is, or what race you are.
I would venture to say that for the most part, there shouldn’t be one set of rules for some people and an entirely different set of rules for others.
However, there is a clear distinction for SOME rules between men and women; boys and girls; male and female.
For example, in my house, it’s the man’s job to take out the trash and the woman’s job to cook and clean. However, these roles may be reversed in some households; that’s okay.
There is, however, one rule in which is a COMPLETE double standard that I FULLY accept and desire to KEEP as a double standard in SOCIETY.
Okay, let me just say, I’m OKAY with this double standard. Boys can walk around without their shirts; girls should NEVER walk around without their shirts. Unless of course those girls are WOMEN and married and walking around their bedroom or something like that.
Do you get what I’m saying? Is there a double standard? Yes. There is. I’ll admit it. However, the minute my little girl walks up to me and says, “But mommy, Taylor Lautner walks around without HIS shirt on.” Is the day that I will instill in her that there are different rules for boys and girls.
So, do you think it’s a double standard? Is this a double standard that you can live with? What other double standards can you live with? Which ones drive you crazy?
4 comments:
First, let me fess up. I am a dirty, dirty old woman who officially landed in Team Jacob when he posed without his shirt doing a one armed handstand. *shame*
I also read this article and felt even dirtier. Part of the problem is that the whole Miley thing was blown WAY out of proportion by teh media.
I also think the difference is that women like me felt dirty realized that Lautner was too young even as we looked at his pics. We wish we were younger and laugh at ourselves. The men who do the same over Miley's pics and those of other young women don't. They view these girls as sexual beings rather than underage children.
Hm, interesting point there Cairo. I didn't really look at it from that point. I do think that, on some level, the Miley thing was blown way out of proportion; although I did have my own opinions about it. For me, I think we are WAY TOO involved in celebrity lives...not that I don't find myself hooked in once in a while.
I love your comment. Thank you!
Um. I don't know either story. Here is what I think. I'm a Prude and I prefer SHIRTS on, period. Now, men and boys swimming or when they get hot in the summer take their shirts off and that does not bother me and it would bother me if girls did that so I guess I am fine with boys having their shirts off but I still prefer the shirts to be off for appropriate reasons but then again I think I pretty much have established I'm a Prude (lol).
I really don't like Double Standards and I am trying to think of ones I don't mind, I'm thinking hard, I'm sure there are ones that I tolerate and don't realize it but I can't come up with any off hand.
Personally, I think that everyone should keep their shirts on. I don't care if it IS hot out, put on a sleeveless shirt or something, but paleeze, I don't want to look at your sweaty fat. Swimming, I guess that is ok, and appropriate. I can't stand it when guys run around town shirtless. I even make my grand sons wear shirts when they are at my house. But that's just me. I think the best way to do away with double standards is to make the
least 'popular' choice the one everyone has to go by. Pretty soon, people would stop all the belly-achin' , don't cha thank?
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