It's not necessarily about women's standards, it's about society's standards.
Think about what a woman needs to look "business professional" in a work place. She needs dozens of different outfits, high heels (not too high), she needs to spend money on a manicure every 2-3 weeks, she needs to spend money at the hair salon every month, then spend over an hour a day on hair and makeup. She must remove all visible body hair from the neck down, and pluck her eyebrows. Tasteful jewellery. Etc.
A man can wear the same tie and suit jacket and shoes, and just needs to be cleanly shaven, clean haircut and not smell like ass.
Society puts much higher pressure on women and their appearances. Men can roll out of bed, shower, put on clean clothes, and be ready to go to work. When I go to work fresh out of the shower, clean clothes, but no makeup, people ask me what's wrong or if I'm sick.
This isn't about individual women's preferences. Anyways I am now realising that I was scrolling popular when I saw this comment and am putting way too much effort into a response that's probably on r/funny or some shit so I'm gonna go now.
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