Favorite double standards

[banksy122]

2- Every white man can be a racist but nobody can be racist against white men.

You're joking right. Where I'm from (Australia) everything you say that can even remotely be considered racist will be if you're white but black people can say whatever they want and nobody will say anything against it.

That sounds false as I'm from Australia too and seeing as we're one of the most multicultural countries in the world we would be falling apart if this were true.

Maybe in Cooper Pedy but not in the rest of society, people do blackface and no one cares.

It is true where I live, and true in a lot of the other parts of the country where my friends live. Australia is 'multicultural' but that doesn't mean that this double standard doesn't exists.

Also, USA is way more multicultural then Australia, and when I was over there and from my friends over there, it seems much better then here.

 

[Megahedron]

Any religion can talk bad about, condemn, and mock atheism.
But god forbid (No pun) any atheist make a joke degrading religion, or everyones up in arms. :/

You kidding? I always see the exact opposite. People everywhere are constantly mocking various religions (this very website, most tv (Family Guy, South Park "You're such a Jew", Simpsons, many more), most professors, most students, ect ect), but people from different religions are just supposed to take it, or suddenly they're "religious extremists" for not wanting people to talk shit about what they believe.

People don't give a damn if an atheist belittles a religion.

I am simply speaking from experience, I tend to be more tolerant of other's beliefs and cultures, while i am shunned for being an atheist.


I don't wanna start any fights or ruffle any feathers, but a very good example of this is Stephen Hawking saying "There is no heaven". Such a stink about that.

Think about this, if a good christian man wants to share the "Word of god", it doesn't seem to bother anyone. But if someone starts passing out fliers saying "Religion is Foolishness", people are pissed.

I would say that one's very region specific. I've heard some... well technically they're horror stories but when combined with the people who tell them they just sound like sob stories. In one community, being religious gets you openly mocked as an idiot, and in others being atheist gets you openly mocked for being a heathen (not to bring up the places where it's a lot worse, we'll worry about the civilized world for now). In both it's just the majority putting down on the minority simply because they can. Kinda sucks.

Also, (self-pity soliloquy) damn it, I'm not a moron, if you people would actually look up Pascal's Wager. You may not agree with it, and I don't give two shits about changing your beliefs, but it's not like I'm flying blind here. Sometimes I hate my friends.

 

[OneStepAhead]

Any religion can talk bad about, condemn, and mock atheism.
But god forbid (No pun) any atheist make a joke degrading religion, or everyones up in arms. :/

You kidding? I always see the exact opposite. People everywhere are constantly mocking various religions (this very website, most tv (Family Guy, South Park "You're such a Jew", Simpsons, many more), most professors, most students, ect ect), but people from different religions are just supposed to take it, or suddenly they're "religious extremists" for not wanting people to talk shit about what they believe.

People don't give a damn if an atheist belittles a religion.

I am simply speaking from experience, I tend to be more tolerant of other's beliefs and cultures, while i am shunned for being an atheist.


I don't wanna start any fights or ruffle any feathers, but a very good example of this is Stephen Hawking saying "There is no heaven". Such a stink about that.

Think about this, if a good christian man wants to share the "Word of god", it doesn't seem to bother anyone. But if someone starts passing out fliers saying "Religion is Foolishness", people are pissed.

I would say that one's very region specific. I've heard some... well technically they're horror stories but when combined with the people who tell them they just sound like sob stories. In one community, being religious gets you openly mocked as an idiot, and in others being atheist gets you openly mocked for being a heathen (not to bring up the places where it's a lot worse, we'll worry about the civilized world for now). In both it's just the majority putting down on the minority simply because they can. Kinda sucks.

Also, (self-pity soliloquy) damn it, I'm not a moron, if you people would actually look up Pascal's Wager. You may not agree with it, and I don't give two shits about changing your beliefs, but it's not like I'm flying blind here. Sometimes I hate my friends.

Hmm, i guess it is experienced both ways. Bottom line, people don't like other people to disagree with them, it makes them feel insecure and thus they ridicule anyone who is different. Humanity is cruel and ignorant, doesn't matter what you believe or practice, someone out there is going to hate you for it.

 

[MisterDyslexo]

You can see the assassination of JFK and the execution of Nguyen Van Lem (which was a war crime, he did not stand trial) on Youtube, but god forbid anybody see a titty. Same for videogames. You can pillage and steal and all that in GTA, kill unarmed civilians, commit genocide, but Mass Effect and a romantic sub-plot: "OMFG SEX SIMULATOR!!!"

Hate the sexuality vs violence double-standard. Yes, what is morally degrading the country are boobies, definitely not the fact you're not giving people any moral compass about the value of life and the virtues of peace, cooperation, etc over violence.

And I'd say sexuality vs violence thing involves itself in that Mass Effect 3 thing with gay content. Nobody is up in arms about earth being decimated? About the ability to kill unarmed civilians, like in the first two games? The ability to commit genocide, MULTIPLE times? But oh no, being hit on by somebody whom you jump into their pants because of their gender is far more egregious than any of that. God knows they don't exist in the real world. *sigh*

 

[cgentero]

Women get welfare, Men go homeless.

I'll admit not always the case but in America, especially where I live, its quite common.

 

[Togs]

Girls: Spend ages in the mirror getting groomed, primped and polished.
Guys: wake up, shower, get dressed, apply aftershave, done.

 

[Friendshipandmagic]

No, it is not.

Oh, then you probably aren't saying what I thought you were.

 

[Fwee]

Christian religions that state you have to accept Jesus to get into Heaven, when Jesus is the (supposed) son of God, who last time I checked had a big rule about Who's Number 1.

 

[Elijah Ball]

Twilight.

40something year old women salivating over buff teen vampires, ok.

40something year old guys doing the same for teen girls... less ok.

 

[Jonluw]

Well, it really annoys me when religious people make fun of other religions.
"Haha, silly people. Can you imagine, believing in a god who has the head of an elephant? Pffft."
Your religion is not any more reasonable than others! Jeez!

 

[Saint of M]

Public Education of California for the last four or five Governors, nuf said.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Gay men are disgusting and immoral, ewwww, I don't wanna see that!
But lesbians are soooo sexy and make men horny.

Same with women, I know a fair few that say, "Gay men are cool, I love shopping with my GBF! Lesbians make me feel really uncomfortable though, they probably fancy me."

 

[badgersprite]

A complete asshole in sport or any type of competitive environment who cheats or uses dirty tactics is a "competitor". A person who tries their hardest to obey all the rules and behave like a mature human being "lacks passion" and obviously doesn't care.

 

[somonels]

There are no such things as un-favourite double standards.

 

[LordSnakeEyes]

3- Man is drunk and has sex with an ugly chick (he was consenting *when* he was drunk. Woman gets drunk and has sex she regrets even Remotely and it's "rape".

Let's not throw around words of that caliber with such ease, especially out of place. Some of us have been raped and to see it so flippantly wheeled out and used so incorrectly is not only hurtful, by insulting to many.

If you engage in sex with someone not able to consent, upon their regaining of sufficient mental capacity to decide if they would wish to consent, they chose not to, you are a rapist. Just the same as someone who would abuse a child or the mentally handicap.

And I do not disagree, I point that it's unfair that, if for example, I were made drunk, witless and were to awaken tied up and made to by women whom I wouldn't usually engage with (however unable to speak out due to that gagball thing in my mouth) when they make me I don't get to complain to anyone because even police officials laugh and dismiss my claim whereas were it the other way around (which I would never do, sorry if my last post was vague in that sense... It was late here, I was half-asleep) then I get a whole lot of problems and am (justly, in that case) accused of being a horrible person by both society and the law at large.

The standard was more against men "always consenting" than the other way around.
Bad wording from a semi-conscious person... My bad.

 

[Ulvai]

Well, it really annoys me when religious people make fun of other religions.
"Haha, silly people. Can you imagine, believing in a god who has the head of an elephant? Pffft."
Your religion is not any more reasonable than others! Jeez!

Yep. I am an atheist.

 

[rdaleric]

Where i work, when i asked why i was being asked to come off my break to move a ladder and not one of the female members of staff i was informed by my (female) supervisor that it was "mans work". I would be sacked on the spot for telling a woman to do some "womans work"

 

[priestswearseatbelts]

Maternity leave.

 

[Adam Galli]

My girl will do something but if I do it, I get yelled at =D

 

[Bucket0Bones]

Twilight.

40something year old women salivating over buff teen vampires, ok.

40something year old guys doing the same for teen girls... less ok.

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