Pop Culture Of Double Standards - 1532 Words

Laxa Xiong Professor Baer English 5A 16 November 2015 Pop Culture of Double Standards As we all know, pop culture, or also known as popular culture, is the current mainstreams of a given culture in a time period in which ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena affects the culture. In the 21st century, there are many pop cultures that are in the mainstream. One of the current mainstreams I chose for pop culture is double standards. I find this mainstream really interesting because even in the previous centuries (1800s and 1900s), there were many double standards. An example would be that sexually active high school girls are more likely to say they ve been bullied than sexually active high school boys (Svokos). From my perspective, double standards will always be an issue that even in the future generations, it will not be unavoidable and a critical problem that should be discussed. Double standards has been an issue to men and women ever since the 17th century. 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