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It's not listed on No Real Life Examples, Please! or In-Universe Examples Only, so no, it's not one of those things. (Maybe it should be, but that's a different discussion.)
As for how it's different from Hypocrite... um, all of it? A hypocrite says one thing and does another. A double standard is when people are held to different standards for no good reason.
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Hypocrite is IUEO, also.
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My impression is that Hypocrite pertains to individuals inconsistent standards and Double Standard pertains to institutions (cultures, rules).
Or Hypocrite disregards their own rules while Double Standard is regarded but inconsistently applied rules?
^ Hypocrite is about a character in the work being intentionally called out for their hypocrisy in the narrative.
Double Standard is more about works treating characters different based on things like gender or sexuality; either as a Trope In Aggregate that shows an overwhelming double standard, or the work itself treating characters differently.
One is an in-universe thing, one is about how works treat characters' actions.
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^Double Standard, at least its page, sounds more general than just applied to works even if it does effect them as you described.
And what is the diffence between in-universe double standards and hypocrisies?
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught
A He-Man Woman Hater who thinks men need to be tough fighters like himself, and that women should Stay in the Kitchen, has a Double Standard but is not a hypocrite.
He’s following the very rules he believes, unfair as they are.
Edited by NubianSatyress
^ Meanwhile, if that same character never took part in any action and hid in the kitchen with the women, he'd be a hypocrite.
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^^That answer my question. Thanks.
A person who believes in a double standard thinks they belong to different rules than someone else, without any solid reason. A hypocrite says one thing and does another. So yes, someone displaying both would promote a double standard while acting opposite to it.
This looks like the kind of query that needs to be posted in Trope Talk rather than here.
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Is Double Standard a no real live or in-universe only trope? And how is it different than Hypocrite?
I'm doing some clean-ups that would be helped by this.