Originally Posted by PUFFPWN

Infract me if you will, but I personally believe that one of the biggest double-standards in our society is between liberals, Muslims, and Christians. Liberals praise Islam as "a religion of peace" and slander the crap out of Christians (ABC's Good Christian B*tches) what if the show was Good Muslim...? If ABC did that, they would be shunned by the liberal AND conservative community. And once again, they whine about Christians being against gay marriage, whilst their Muslim "friends" are not only allowed but commanded to kill homosexuals. I feel that double standards have gone much too far, and that the media is going to have a LOT of explaining to do someday.

Originally Posted by Hxcbbqimo

Think it's getting a little off topic.

Question at hand is "Why are double standards so prevalent nowadays"

I think it has a LOT to do with trying to over-regulate what should come naturally: diversity.

Because you can get a statistician to look at most companies and say "Wow, the average male in your company is making x% more a year than females. And white employees are making x% more than y ethnicity.

I'm only able to speak my opinion on the United States, since it's the only place I have even the vaguest of clues of what I'm talking about here. However, Affirmative Action is creating a lot of it.

Just a thought though. In closing, over-regulation of discrimination and sex/class roles lately causes more double standards than I can think of.

Originally Posted by Agentmax

See this is what I was asking about. Do we just not want to accept certain facts WHICH creates double standards? or are we just that simple minded that we can't move forward?

Originally Posted by Hxcbbqimo

Well I mean it just comes out incentive when you state certain facts.

If you say men are physically stronger than women, you might as well have declared war. Even though everything about our biological structure makes men have the ability to both naturally and chemically otherwise build far more muscle mass and endurance, even though basically every record a man has in the world of weight training is far more than any female, and even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with stating that fact: women will get absolutely pissed.

And that's just like... the easiest example out there. Like that's as black and white as it gets: BIOLOGICALLY men have things going for them to make them better athletes in the world of weights and speed than women. It's an INDISPUTABLE fact. Now if we can cause that much of a problem saying indisputable facts, how on Earth can we say things using statistics?

We're sort of stuck until we're socially progressive enough to say: "Hey, there are some things certain genders, races, etc. are better at. But if I try hard in life, I'll succeed no matter what the hell I am" and just move forward.