Small things that make you angry and you feel you can't mention elsewhere

I hated my maiden name. First time I married, it was bliss to change it. Second time, well we had dd, and it seemed wrong to be called by another mans surname. Then I moved to Belgium where women don't change their name at All, and my legal name at work is my maiden name (eek) and my official docs match my passport which is my married name... And I have terrible problems with the post office.

DP was worried about me handling my new cast iron casserole because I'm so weak and little I might drop it.
its clearly a casserole dish for big strong men not us weaklings!

I'm going to be controversial
I have to say it really annoys me when women feel the need to apologise for having taken their husband's name on marriage. The spirit of feminism is that we have that choice to make and shouldn't be judged for that choice. Sometimes it feels like the name issue is basically code:
Took your husband's name? You're an outdated conservative who just wants to have kids, stay home, and bake pie!
Kept your maiden name? You're a bra-burning feminist who deep down really hates men!
I'm being OTT, but it does feel sometimes that you can't take either choice without judgement.
Personally I took my DH's name because I was thrilled to be married and I liked feeling like we were a unit - a new force against the world! Plus, it's a heck of a lot easier to spell than my maiden name

When DH and I are out and order steak, I order mine rare, he orders his medium. I am almost without fail given the medium and he the rare.

The Birdseye ad I just saw on telly. Girl keeps asking boy out and he avoids her, eventually she gets him to agree by tempting him with breaded chicken

The general assumption that the reason Oh & I aren't married is because he hasn't proposed.

As it happens he has, several times, I just don't want to be married. . .

Well not yet, I reserve the right to change my mind.

I borrowed a toy plane from the local toy library. It has a woman singing annoying songs. Then she puts on a 'gruff' man's voice to say, 'this is your pilot speaking, please fasten your seatbelts'. Because obviously, her being a woman and all, there is no WAY she could be a pilot.
Also annoyed at Sainsbury's. I bought socks the other day - a pack for me and a pack for DP. Neither pack actually said, 'men's socks' or 'women's socks'. They were just blue and pink packs. I REALLY hate the blue and pink nonsense!

Greetings cards. Female ones are now a sea of pink (it never used to be this way)

blondieminx some of my Cbeebies pet hates are that Kip the very feminine sounding cat never joins Andy on his wild adventures because she/it is too scared and that in the theme song to Tilly & Friends, Hector's name comes first despite the show being called Tilly & Friends.

I could never say this to people in RL as their eyes would roll right out of their heads, but it pisses me off.

The passe dismissal of problem periods by HCP. Let's face it,if a man was housebound and severely inconvienienced by a bodily function for five days regularly they would not be told that they were just unlucky or offered a solution that they have previously had awful side effects from with a shrug of the shoulders.

I've got another one. I really like football. I've had a season ticket for my team for 20 years and while having children has curtailed my attendance, I still make it to games. While DH looks after our children.
Yes, I do understand the offside rule. No, I don't go to look at men's legs. And stop mansplaining.

Gaaah I give up.

My mum sounded flabergasted that I was considering this. Apparently I need to be careful getting the train by myself because I obviously don't travel all over the world alone for work and make sure I remember my tape measure for the furniture because this isn't obvious to a 28 year old educated woman

...crossing out failure! Obviously because I'm a woman and not very tech savvy

mumpraneur is a vile word. It's so patronising. I actually have got a business from home but I really do get people expecting every thing to be the price of materials as I'm only doing it to "keep myself busy" anyway. No it's a business from home and I am very good at what I do. so you need to pay for my time

On Friday I'm getting a train to a nearby city to go clothes shopping for myself and to price up some furniture. I'm doing this alone.

My mum sounded flabergasted that I was considering this. Apparently I need to be careful getting the train by myself -because I obviously don't travel all over the world alone for work and make sure I remember my tape measure for the furniture because this isn't obvious to a 28 year old educated woman--

Hugely trivial compared to most things on here but:
Saw a peppa pig backpack today with the words Peppa (fair enough) Perfect, Polite, Pink and Pretty

Wonder if there's a George equivalent with handsome on it...

graduated what's wrong with assuming you have same name as kids? why wouldn't you have given your name to the children?

The word mumpreneur. Surely they are just an entrepreneur? Also WAHM.

I did change my name on marriage because I liked DH's better - how shallow is that? Luckily it was just before Women's Lib took off so I have never been harangued about it.

When my mum talks about my cousin and his wife's house and kids it's always his wife's domain despite the fact that the house and kids are 50% his. Boiled piss much.

I didn't want to change my name but did as DH has an Arabic name and gets stopped every time we go through customs. I wanted to be able to say we were married without having to take our marriage cert everywhere. But now I'm wondering whether to change it back as I really don't like not being me...

We've had the bank/bills all being in Dh's name despite me setting some of them up. Also when we lived in Canada our medical policy was thro DH''s work which meant I 'wasn't allowed' to deal with any issues to do with our health. It all had to go thro him.

actually I want to add all cartoons that give "bosoms" to an animal that shouldn't have one. or should have 3sets of them.

my daughter watches a show called "dinosaur" train. it teaches children all about all the different kinds if dinosaurs,what era they were around, how they raised their young and what they ate.

all very educational.

all the female dinosaurs have have long eyelashes the male dinosaurs just look like,you know, dinosaurs.

The babysitting thing gets me. Now, at the beginning of this relationship it was, because DS isn't DPs child. But now we're getting married. It's just parenting!

Getting the rage about changing my name when we marry, everyone insists I should, on both sides of the family. They say it's not a big deal. Then why can't I keep my own bloody name? It's been my name for 20-odd years!