What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

Contrarily to popular belief, a gander is not a group of geese, that's a gaggle. A gander is male goose. A female goose is simply called a goose while baby geese are called goslings. Now that that’s cleared up, what is does this saying mean? It is usually used when talking about a relationship between people. It means that what is acceptable for one member of the relationship is acceptable for the others, preventing a double standard. Double standards are when certain applications may be acceptable to one group, but seen as taboo to another. If a goose says for the gander not to do something on Monday, and then on Friday she turns around and does the exact same thing, that technology is not a double standard. That’s a hypocrite. There is a distinction to be made between double standards and hypocrisy, which implies the acceptance of a single standard a person claims to hold himself or herself accountable to, but which in practice may be ignoreded. The difference is in the action, in this example, the goose condemned the gander’s intended activity then on Friday she actually participated in the activity. It’s a slight difference but hypocrisy and double standards are basically the same idea. Both violate the principle of fairness, which is based on the assumption that the same standards should be applied to all people, without discrepancy. Holding different people accountable according to different standards is wrong and unjust. All people should be treated fairly and when in the same predicament, the same rules should apply. What is good for a man is equally good for a woman; or, what a man can have or do, so can a woman have or do. Practice what you preach and always preach the same sermon.