What sexist behaviour would be the most shocking if reversed?

Adverts for popular condiments would proclaim that it is the "sauce of womanliness!" Because womanliness would be a positive trait that could be used to sell products.

No advertiser would ever have a campaign for "sauce of manliness", because who on earth would aspire to that?

KickAss that beach volleyball one is weird! I hadn't realised quite how odd it is to see decapitated men and shots focussing in on their bums and genitals, it is a very sexualising way to view professional sportsmen, and yet sportswomen are shown this way all the time.

Those captions underneath the photos of women referring to them as "a Spanish player" or "unidentified players" - erm yes, you can't identify them because you've only photographed their arse.

All over the internet, and in adult stores, there would be videos of women sexually assaulting and torturing men. The men would be classed by race, age, body type. This would be considered entertainment.

(Bit depressing that one but it needed to be said.)

School mornings for dads would involve hearing songs sung by their children about how great they are at cooking, cleaning and shopping. Helping with homework is also great, though they don't have a degree. Maths activities include buying cake toppings.

Women's days involve making and shooting bottle rockets.

This school would be entirely staffed by men.

When a dad expresses frustration and outrage with all of this, other dads would look embarrassed and day they think it's just a nice set of activities and maybe he is overthinking it.

livinLaVida

www.metro.us/newyork/sports/2012/08/01/what-if-every-olympic-sport-was-photographed-like-beach-volleyball/

Another engineering one. Men have to wear womens' uniforms and protective clothing (including dresses) because there apparently aren't enough of them in the industry to need to make it gender specific. It is dayglo pink, flowery and too short for most of them, but they are still expected to be taken seriously as professionals and do their job safely.

(tortoise you didn't by any chance see an article on your subject in your company e-magazine today? Very timely comment)

Is this the first ever FWR thread to get to Classics?

Thought of another work one.

In a female-dominated profession, such as engineering, one man has made it to a relatively senior level, by dint of being far more qualified than all the female engineers and working longer hours.

If any of the women, no matter how junior, need something photocopied, they hand it to the man to do.

Oh and that was the only pic I could find that wasn't a sexy viking.

Everybody would assume that Dr or Prof Smith, or a CEO or a GM of a company is a woman. And that the only male employee in the office must be the assistant.

annie here you are am I allowed to post that by the way??

and still a bit at all these.

I want to wear a Viking hat!

I once made one for a fancy dress party out of half a hamster ball, some papier-mâché, a wire coathanger, a lick of paint and some fluff I snipped off my hedgehog slippers. Reckon I could do it again.....

I found this so depressing to begin with. It's soooooo annoying!

I especially hate the darts dancers and booby paraders round any kind of fighting ring, esp cage fighting.

So mine is men gyrating unnecessarily in front of female darts players, pouting ridiculously at cameras, wearing some of nobles ball posing pouches and sashaying past shitloads of lairy, pissed women wearing Vikings hats and dressed as Tango adverts.

When you Googled 'Go Mummy' these would be the pictures that flashed up.

With Theresa May leading the largest party in the coalition, the few male MPs would be referred to as "May's Macho Muffins"

Websites will be set up (and advertised on TV) so you could find and rate quality Tradeswomen!

(FFS - didn't it even occur to this company to use Tradespeople? Really?! I'll never use them.)

Cheers Rowan!

Just been back to the Facebook link to this thread, and the worst of the "whataboutthemenz" posts seem to have vanished, thank goodness. But now there's the typical "naturemademenandwomendifferentsoweshouldn'fightit" crap.

Men would be bombarded with cures for imaginary ailments, particularly special yogurts for bloating.

Injured men would be left in excruciating agony for hours to see if they could 'push through it'. Any pain relief eventually administered would be given grudgingly at the lowest possible dosage and the man would be left full of guilt for being a wuss who couldn't do it properly.

Women would be generally expected to have insatiable sexual appetites and needs, while men who enjoyed sex would be seen as cheap trash.

The world envisioned by posters on this thread is a scarily uncaring place :(

I am sorely tempted to hire a white can and practice my best pick-up lines on the local builders though :o

I havmt read the whole thread but I was thinking of the op and it made me think of my situation a lone female working with men. I have been bullied, handed sexually explict magazines and adverts. Ive had to fight for five years to get a female changing room and a locker.

I thought have their been men in my position and I thought yes, a guy on the admin team who was the only male with a workforce of females, they made his life hell for a while. Caling him alsorts and talking about periods and stuff but in the end he was excepted, I on the other hand are still ousted by much of my males colleagues.

Working with men though I find that the way they talk to women making them feel sexually abuwed sometimes is how they talk to each other, the mens changing room is very sexually charged to find a better word. I guess it is all about power.

what does annoy me are the adverts on tv with extreme gender stereotypes, but the media pandering to them is so wrong.

I liked the new bread adverts lately with the single dads, but why are all the baby care adverts just have mums on, and saying mums pick our products etc etc.

I want to see men hoovering, females driving, men washing up.

Brilliant thread, it made me think of the book Egalia's Daughters . It's an old classic from the 70s where the author portrays a society where the roles are reversed, mind boggling to read but it makes you realise how sexist our society really is.