little things you do each day that are a tiny bit feminist

I always change the Police Inspector character in the Enid Blyton Secret Seven books to a female. I also change her 'policemen' to police officers and make sure there are a mixture of sexes. I confuse myself sometimes
I always, always, always talk about clothes children LIKE to wear, and toys children LIKE to play with, rather than saying 'boys' or 'girls' clothes/toys.

Oh yes I’ve stopped moving away a while ago.
And I always ensure I take my space in trains, a few men have clearly being upset by it too!

I try not to include "sorry" or "just" in every single sentence

What I am not sure on how I can address it is the condescending comments from strangers.
Like the Tesco driver doing the deleivery who thought he needed to tell me that I left my keys at x place and ‘you dint want to leave them in the garage’ followed by ‘the garage door isnt closed love’ (yes I know I just stopped to sign on your little machine....)

I'm in the army and where I work, there's a bloke with the same name and the same rank but he works for me (in the sense that my command over him is legally vested in me).

Fortunately he plays right along but we're referred to as "the real" and "the pretend" and "greater" and "lesser".

It's highly enjoyable at times when people make assumptions

I try to ensure I take up the same amount of space that a man would on public transport. Not in an aggressive or rude way, just in an 'I am here too' way. Men always react with surprise.

I correct my students' essays when they write about 'ladies' or 'mum' when what they actually mean is 'the woman' or 'women'.

I also insist on Ms, and whenever possible I will ask why it's important that my marital status is recorded.

I try not to apologise for things I don’t need to apologise for. I used to apologise just for asking for something- nonsense.

Protested (in a reasonably articulate way) when a female trainer made a hilarious joke that was meant to illustrate a serious point about 'all men are crap at talking, eh girls'. Done with that shit.

I use Ms and I've been referring to the men's world cup. I've also stopped moving out of the way when men walk towards me - I own the space that I'm occupying.

It’s a good thread.
I try to

• not apologise or minimise what I do all the time
• pull H up each time he is treating me as ‘lesser than’. Sounds bad but it’s more about all the little things he does that shows he is only helping with HW or parenting. So leaving stuff for me to do when it’s a little bit harder, taking for granted he can do x and y wo checking with me first etc... and doing the same wth my two teens boys.
• rephrasing anything from my dcs that has ‘girls did ...’ (or boys for that matter) and make them replace ‘girls’ by ‘people’. It’s sinking in very slowly.

I work in a male dominated creative industry that is quite technical.

Often I will have customers come in and ask “Can you run this past that man over there to see if it can be fixed?”

My male colleagues and I take great pleasure in them responding that they haven’t got a clue and that I’d be the best person to ask.

Today at work one of my team, a man recommended we advertise in Cheshire life. Apparently it is read by "Cheshire housewives" and he was implying they might be looking to divorce a rich hubby. I could help but call him out on blatant sexism.

I prepared a pitch document yesterday. When choosing official branded images i left out any with people in as they were all men. My pitch is full of pics of birds in flight instead

Girls>women
Gender > sex (on forms if I can amend it)
Sir/madam > Madam/Sir

Enjoying saying "Men's football World Cup" as well.

Oooh lots of really annoying things...

I also correct girls or ladies to women
I hold the door open for men (but accept graciously when they do the same for me)
I carefully use neutral pronouns when I don't know the sex
I use Ms or nothing at all
I point out every example of inequality I see to my daughter, who gets very cross with me. I am incessant, but I am bringing up the next generation of feminist (even if she doesn't know it yet).

It's the Men's World Cup in this house ( Although I'm fairly sure that isn't where the apostrophe goes...) according to my very wise 4yo DD.

Watching for tips

Re 'girls' - in some contexts, a mild 'girls? oh, I didn't know they/we had work experience school kids in at the moment' can do the trick.

I am going to start doing these!

I too insist on Ms despite hating it.

I also correct "girls" to "women".

My colleagues hate me

I do that too TheCatFromOuterSpace!

I insist on "Ms", even though I hate the sound (like a bee in a jar).

I change the sex of characters in books when reading to my 2 year old, so that I'm using she/her at least 50% or more of the time.

I try not to apologise before giving my opinion, and I try to gently question any casual sexism from colleagues/acquaintances if I think I can do so without being labelled a shrill feminist harridan.

At work today they male colleagues wanted to name groups after key people in history. They had three women and 6 men. I made them get rid of 2 men and add 2 more women.

They didnt see why it mattered. I said not knowing why it matters to have balance is male privilege.

@Verbena87 now you’re aware of it you’ll get SO irritated hearing everyone else around you say “he” every time for all animals. I tell my DH off for it all the time and he swears he says ‘she’ 50% of the time but I’ve NEVER heard him. He says he. Bastard (love him really!)

But seriously. Now you’re aware of it you’ll notice it everywhere.

Crayons and Errol you’ve made me realise I default to ‘he’. I’m going to stop doing that. Thanks.