Now you would think that with as much as the world has evolved and as much as we have grown as people, things such as gender roles and sexism would be of the past.

Apparently not.

In the present day, it seems that some people still hold fast to outdated idealisms. I specifically want to talk about the sexist double standards associated with how males and females are "allowed" to take pictures.

Tell me why men are allowed to walk around and take pictures completely shirtless and in their underwear and no one even bats an eye, but as soon as a female chooses to show a bit of skin their pictures are viewed as being risqué and scandalous. Why are females not allowed to show as much skin as they want without ridicule? What could start off as a show of confidence by a female can be warped by the media into a scandal, yet the media seems to embrace males showing skin.

When pictures of Justin Bieber were released of him modeling Calvin Klein underwear, people did not have a problem with it besides a bit of skepticism as to if the image was photoshopped.

Yet when pictures of Selena Gomez came out with her showing more skin that usual, people thought they were scandalous.

Selena Gomez was simply showing the public her confidence and that she wasn't ashamed of her body and her weight. Before this picture was taken she had been getting a lot of hate from people telling her that she put on weight. This picture was her way of saying to the world that even if they thought she gained weight, she still looks great and is happy with her body. Even though Justin Bieber's picture is definitely showing more than Selena Gomez's, people would call her picture the scandalous one and that's what is sexist.

Recently very successful UK YouTube star Zoella, who has millions of subscribers, was featured in "The Sun" who published an article about her posting a "scantily clad" picture of her in bed to her SnapChat.

Comparatively, "The Sun" also published an article, about celebrity Tom Hiddleston, featuring many scanty pictures, including these:

I have a problem with how The Sun said that Zoella had "cast off her squeaky-clean image to pose in her pants," while on the other hand they described Tom Hiddleston as being "proud of his toned physique." Double Standards much? Fans of Zoella were outraged by Zoella being sexualized because of one picture because she is one of the most wholesome vloggers on YouTube.

So, the question is why are sexist double standards still a thing? Why is it shameful for a female to show confidence in her body yet when men do it, they are encouraged to take off even more. Sexist attitudes need to go. It's time for change.