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A double standard is defined as a "set of principles permitting greater opportunity or liberty to one than to another." Whether the matter arises from issues liker race, gender, age or place in society, people have the need to decide who will be the exception to a rule. Hypocritical actions such as this leads to the world we live in today, one with segregated consequences and our moral value to dropping.

The times are vastly changing but one thing still holds true; superiority is here, and hopefully not to stay. I always take a look at those sitcoms from the 50's, where June Cleaver is the typical housewife who is as obedient as a Labrador and still manages to make the perfect meatloaf every single time. Well luckily for all of us, we have progressed since then. We don't solely put tasks such as the difficult vacuuming or ironing of clothes as merely a woman's job.

The expectant roles women used to play are in fact very broad and they have the same rights and privileges as men do, but only to an extent. Regardless of the decades which came and went, men still hold this image of the female gender in a different regard than their male counterparts. Take a look at a festivity like Spring Break, where hundreds of kids get to use up all of their money on booze and plastic beads just to have a week of fun. Sure, the idea seems grand in itself to some but it is a perfect example of where men have this superiority over women.

Boys and girls both head to Cancun, enjoy themselves at a nice cabana party and end up "hooking up" with some person they just met the day before over a cocktail. What position this put them in? Naturally the girl is considered to be trashy and her reputation is as dirty as a one star hotel bathroom. The boy on the other hand is considered to just have gotten lucky. I don't know where the consensus would lie, but I feel there may just be a bit of unjust in this scenario.

Touchy as it may be, race still plays a major role when it comes to standards such as this. The initial idea of "blacks and whites" comes out as a sensitive topic but I am going to continue using these stereotypes considering the world is probably used to labels by now. Imagine a "white man" in his little rusted up Pinto going about 30 over the speed limit and a police officer is conveniently on his rear, telling him to pull over. The man may get a ticket for a hundred dollars and gets sent on his merry way so he isn't late for his golf game.

Now insert a "black man" in the mix,

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