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30 Comic Strips That Show Blatant Double Standard In Today’s Society
Comic strips, when done right, can be a powerful medium. Although we usually associate the art with humor and levity, comics can actually deliver profound messages that can make you stop and think.
Case in point, the strips below allow all of us to see and realize the rampant hypocrisy of the modern world. As you will see below, these thought-provoking comics about society’s double standards are tinged with so much wit, sarcasm, and reality it actually hurts.
Go scroll down to see for yourself.
#1. Public display of breasts.
Source: LA Times
#2. Really impossible to please people sometimes.
Source: Tumblr
#3. But that’s obscene!
Source: Metzger Cartoons
#4. Same things, different labels.
Source: Reddit
#5. Appropriate vs inappropriate.
Source: via BoredPanda
#6. Fat chicks can’t cosplay.
Source: DeviantArt
#7. Who’s the fake fan now?
Source: Tumblr
#8. Life can be so unfair for mothers…
Source: Facebook
#9. What is it about metal underwear anyway?!
Source: Anna Maria Jung
#10. Labels, labels, labels…
Source: Robot-Hugs
#11. Girls and math.
Source: XKCD
#12. I love food!
Source: Tumblr
#13. Non-threatening strategies for women.
Source: The Cooper Review
#14. Makeup vs no makeup.
Source: Kate or Die Comics
#15. Why is she shouting?
Source: Alternet
#16. Equal outrage.
Source: ShortPacked
#17. Love handles.
Source: fborfw
#18. The dilemma of growing up as an Indian girl.
Source: via BoredPanda
#19. Acceptable vs not acceptable.
Source: kendrawcandraw
#20. This sums it up very well…
Source: DeviantArt
#21. Abortion vs being a single mother
Source: Imgur
#22. Date me!
Source: pixiv
#23. “You need to dress more appropriately.”
Source: Lingerie and Libraries
#24. The disgusting culture of victim blaming.
Source: pixiv
#25. Society’s sad expectations of what it means to be a man.
Source: pixiv
#26. Dinners and boys.
Source: via BoredPanda
#27. Dad bod.
Source: How Baby Comic
#28. Things you can only do with boys.
Source: Last Place Comics
#29. Double standard indeed!
Source: Dilbert
#30. “Not a real man” vs “You go girl!”
Source: Tumblr