double standards

• Lee argues that a double standard of sexual morality in which boys boast about their own sexual exploits but call girls a slag if she dresses or speaks in certain ways
• Lee states that

  sexual conquest is approved and given status by male peers and ignored by male teachers but 'promiscuity' around girls attract negative labels
• feminists view double standards as an example of patriarchal ideology that justifies male power and devalues women
• double standards is a from of social control which girls experience more than boys that reinforces gender inequalities keeping women subordinate