Both Uses
double standard
in
The Kite Runner
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- And she would bear the brunt of that poison, not me—I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favored my gender.†
p. 146.9 *
- Maybe it was because I had been raised by men; I hadn't grown up around women and had never been exposed firsthand to the double standard with which Afghan society sometimes treated them.†
p. 180.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(double standard) an expectation that applies more strictly to one group than to another; (the term is usually used disapprovingly)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)