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[[http://psych.nmsu.edu/faculty/marks/pubs/M&F2005.pdf That double standard claim doesn\\\'t hold up to research.]] Actually, research indicates a confirmation bias(which I can\\\'t link due to paywall). People will see it even in fiction where it was intentionally not present. Equal positive and negative references for both the male and the female in the story results in most people remembering the negative references toward the female and the positive references toward the male. Those people don\\\'t like it either, so the presumption of the double standard is actually a perceptual bias so deeply ingrained they can\\\'t not see it, even where it verifiably isn\\\'t.

<a href=\\\"http://psych.nmsu.edu/faculty/marks/pubs/M&F2005.pdf\\\">That double standard claim doesn\\\'t hold up to research.</a> Actually, research indicates a confirmation bias(which I can\\\'t link due to paywall). People will see it even in fiction where it was intentionally not present. Equal positive and negative references for both the male and the female in the story results in most people remembering the negative references toward the female and the positive references toward the male. Those people don\\\'t like it either, so the presumption of the double standard is actually a perceptual bias so deeply ingrained they can\\\'t not see it, even where it verifiably isn\\\'t.