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Originally posted by: jimbo
I believe in equality. Yes women should have equal rights to men. But I think we are the opposite of the 19th century right now. It was wrong to not let women vote but its just as wrong for the legal systemto give mothers more rights in a divorce. I personally know a friend of my fathers who lost his kids in a corrupt legal system. He seemed like a good father and his kids agreed but the court now rarely lets him visit his kids. That happenes more then you think. Legal system always believes its the males fault. It needs to end.
While I disagree with a lot of the things you've been saying, I do have to agree here. There's definitely a bit of a double-standard in society. In the past, various groups (women, black people, etc.) were opressed. They didn't have the same rights as the "dominant" groups at the time (males, white people, etc.) and weren't allowed to vote and so on. Thankfully, though, those days are over and now everyone has equal rights. However, with political correctness and all that, there's now a double-standard between those formerly oppressed groups and the formerly dominant groups. If a woman or black guy or whatever insults or makes fun of one of men or white people or whatever, nobody really says anything about it and it's generally ignored and stuff, but whenever the roles are switched around the people from the formerly dominant groups get called racist or sexist. And it's not just when there are insults or jokes or whatever. It also goes for crime. If a woman gets beaten by her husband, or a bunch of white guys beat up a black guy or whatever, it gets on the news and there's a big story about it and the beatings get called racist or sexist crimes or whatever, but if it was the other way around, it generally wouldn't be like that. Think about it - how many times have you heard news stories about wives beating up their husbands? I sure haven't heard very many. And don't say it's because it doesn't happen, because it does. Things like these happen from ALL sides, but when the roles are reversed from the usual way, it's doesn't get reported on as much because of the double standard.
Well, I'm done for now. Anyway, like I said before, I disagree with Jimbo on a lot of stuff he's been saying, but I agree about the double standard issue. It does exist.
And by the way, I know that there are more than just the groups I mentioned involved when it comes to double standards, but I'm just using these ones as examples.