Unraveling Gender-Based Double Standards

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Are double standards real?
Society has always felt that there was an imbalance between genders and this imbalance can include double standards. Double standards range anywhere from sexuality to how you act and whether you are a typical male or female. These double standards affect both genders but it tends to affect women more. As time has gone by society has evolved and accepted certain changes like women are allowed to work full time and men can stay at home but one of the biggest problems hasn’t been addressed yet. Although women are gaining new freedoms there are still repercussions for being more sexual than a male or more aggressive although some believe that it is just a stereotype.
Sexuality has always been an issue whether it be what …show more content…

“It’s like you’re living in jail, doing a five year sentence where you’re only having a visitor once in awhile.”(DeShong 93). Men think that they have the right to do what they want without looking at the effects it has on women. Some of the men would hit on their partners and if they left and came back would hit them again because they didn’t have the right to leave the first time. Dominance isn’t all about being violent but that is the only way that men see it so that is how they act.
Men being violent towards women is common and well known but there are instances of women being violent towards men but because of the stereotypes that women are less aggressive and more passive people tend to not look at the other side. Ignoring the other side has been made noted and called the confirmation bias (Marks and Fraley 19). The confirmation bias is more relevant in sexual behavior for both genders. Those being studied said that women were judged more for having more casual sexual partners than men are but that could just be because that is what they had grown up

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