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    Double standards: available in his and hers

    by Susanna Schrobsdorff Oct 01, 2016 3 minutes

    THERE’S THIS THING ABOUT MEN. THEY LIKE TO RANK things: Women. Guitarists of the 1970s. Pitchers of the 1990s. Theirs is a hierarchical world. When men first meet other men, they circle each other warily in conversation until they find something they can rank together.

    I’ve been trading on this dumb stereotype for so long, it’s embarrassing. But recently I was called out on it. “If I said anything remotely like that to you about something

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