Behind every double standard lies an unconfessed single standard.
“Behind every double standard lies an unconfessed single standard.”
Yeah, I never understood the use of the term “double-standard” to describe people’s attitudes toward, for instance, mena and women’s sexual mores. There’s an assumption that men and women are the same and that it’s somehow inappropriate to have on standard for one and another for the other.
But really, there are two standards for two different things, men and women being different. Two standards is not “a” double standard; it’s two standard. Or perhaps you could phrase it as being one standard, which says, “men can do this and women can do that.”