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This mornings everyday sexism

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IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 04/06/2014 12:39

Went to wash car with DH in supermarket car wash this morning and a woman was inflating her tyres nearby. She came over to us in a flap and said "excuse me does your husband know how to inflate car tyres I've done it wrong?". This annoyed me the assumption that a man must know about cars and not me. I was smug pleased to be able to say "I can help you with that" and showed her what to do. AIBU to be irritated by this?

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Lovecat · 04/06/2014 14:29

Yay!

I've posted this before but my father was a motor mechanic and taught me how to maintain and fix a car. DH doesn't know how to open the bonnet. He's still the one who gets approached for help... in one case we helped a woman changing her tyre and she addressed ALL her questions to him... which he then had to relay to me who was actually doing the work...

runningonwillpower · 04/06/2014 12:51

Everyday sexism is annoying.

But it works both ways. I regularly hear colleagues make jokes at the expense of perceived male inadequacies. I think I'm the only one who doesn't find it funny.

So let's tackle it from both points of view.

Sauce for the goose and all that.....................

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 04/06/2014 12:42

Am I the only one wondering how it can be done wrong?

Cant do it - fine (but a bit daft!) But wrong? What did she inflate?

But yes, I agree, and would have been quite smug too "I can help".

Tbf dh doesnt drive and literally has no clue about anything car related. He filled up the petrol one day and didnt realise there was a cap that needed puttig on - it was only as I drove away I heard it roll off the roof.