I'm beginning to feel very sad for the society and culture that we live in.
I don't know whether I'm just getting old, but I'm seeing so much casual sexism that I just didn't notice before.
For example I ended up having a huge row with dp at the weekend and I'm seeing him in a totally different light.
We were watching xfactor and I noticed that a lot of the male acts had female dancers, barely dressed dancing around them as if to make out they are done kind of stud.
Then we got onto the subject of the Moto go and how they have women standing there with high heels, short skirt and low cut top holding a fucking umbrella for the sportsman. I just think it's crazy and that these young women are being paraded like show horses.
Dp said that I was being daft and that they obviously enjoy it and get well paid, and I argued that most don't get well paid and are doing it hoping to hit the big time, most don't and have chucked away their youth parading around like pieces of meat.
I asked him how he's feel if we had a dd and she wanted to do this for a living and he said that he'd support her 100%, I then asked how he'd feel if ds wanted to do that and he burst out laughing and said "as if he'd do that", to me that was very telling. He wants ds to have a career if course, a respected career, use his brains, but it's good enough for a woman.
There are so many accepted acts of sexism, men beeping at women from their cars and vans. I stood in a bus stop about a year ago and I couldn't about 5-6 beeps and things shouted at me from vans. Dp thinks that this is life and men are aroused by women and it's normal.
I then mentioned the inequality in sport, the fact that we have an excellent women's football team who get barely any airtime, and women don't even get a look in with other sports. Dps response was that they're not very good and if they were they'd be on TV because what men wouldn't want to watch good looking women running around in shorts and riding a motorbike.
I felt like banging my head against the wall by this point.
Films I used to watch and enjoy are becoming unwatchable due to the sexist undertones.
I might feel a little like this because sexism has had an adverse affect on my life, I suffered from it from my father, my ex partner, I get it at work.
I hear men at work slating women who are overweight or who dress gender neutral or have their hair short despite then being no male model themselves.
It's making me miserable and I wish that I was blissfully ignorant to it.