Unequal Expectations Quotes

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

All this is expected from girls only - wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don't always have to do their hair and makeup.

There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Sometimes even if a common friend holds Soha's hand, I get jealous. But other days, she can go out for dinner and dancing with someone and I wouldn't think much about it.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?