Things you do that your Mother doesn't approve of/thinks are unladylike

[noirchatsdeux]

Lighthearted!

My mother thinks it's terrible that I drink beer. Ladies don't drink beer. I'm 52 and she still pouts when she knows I've had some!

Any other unladylike ladies on here?

@user143677433

Excelling in my profession.

Her greatest wish for me was that I might be a PA to someone important. Instead I am the “someone important”. It’s deeply disappointing and distressing to her. She lies to friends and family to downplay my job

Omg this is awesome and hilarious!

@Mol1628 Oh god, best of luck with that one😅

Not doing all the housework.
The fact that I DO mow the lawn, check oil and tyre pressures in the car and, horror! Use an electric drill.
Drinking/eating in the street
Having a lie in at weekends
I’m another one that wasn’t allowed trousers until they were required school PE kit aged 8!

Doc martens.... she called them bother boots?! (I don't get it)

Drinking out of a bottle - if you are close to passing out and there are no glasses available to pour out your water into, a straw will make this slightly less unacceptable.

Having below the jawline length hair past 35.

Eating stood up. Whatever and wherever, sit down or go without.

Also using the front garden, sitting in it, letting the dcs play in it (although oddly ok for them to play in the street) - sunbathing in the front garden would be beyond unacceptable!

I had a 2l water bottle that apparently wasn’t very ladylike. I told her I didn’t give a fuck if it was or wasn’t ladylike

Tattoos
Piercings
Swearing
Not having designated cake forks
And once I didn’t have a separate hand towel in the kitchen, just a tea towel

Oh everything!

Having tattoos.
Breastfeeding.
Blowing raspberries with DD.
Saying "hiya" instead of "hello".
Having a loo brush.
Working freelance.
Dressing DD in secondhand clothes.

The word “belly”

@ivfbabymomma1 your mum is obviously posh to call them bother boots as we know them as bovver boots, I.e worn by thugs so when you hive someone a kicking it hurts them more.

My mum once told me I look like a homeless big issue seller.

I was wearing very normal checked shirt and jeans.

But I'd look so lovely in a nice dress, apparently I'm just wasting myself by hiding my figure the way I do.

@QueenofallNorway

Tattoos Piercings Swearing Not having designated cake forks And once I didn’t have a separate hand towel in the kitchen, just a tea towel

Oooh you absolute heathen. I get this too!! Where's the towel?? IT'S HERE.... THE SAME ONE I JUST DRIED YOUR COFFEE CUP ON!

@SenecaTrewe

Oh everything!

Having tattoos.
Breastfeeding.
Blowing raspberries with DD.
Saying "hiya" instead of "hello".
Having a loo brush.
Working freelance.
Dressing DD in secondhand clothes.

What's so bad about having a loo brush? Isn't the alternative skid marks?

Tattoos
Swearing
Piercings
Drinking pints
Eating or drinking in the streets
Wearing black
Holding a cup incorrectly
Sitting in an unladylike manner
Wearing jeans
Doing men's work - DIY at home etc
Not using a glass for drinks but drinking straight from the can! shocking!!!
Not using handcream and body lotions/body butters

Not wearing a bra. Mini feminist me was determined to stop wearing one when I left school. I do wonder if we had to wear them at school so boys could ping them.

@GeorgeMichaelsEspadrille I can actually believe that. My mother was horrified when I got married the first time (at just 21) that I didn't immediately give up work and start knocking out kids. The fact it was 1989 and mortgage interest rates were horrific and we needed both our salaries to pay it just never occurred to her...

Spending the day in my pj's
Having a FWB 🙈

Not shaving legs or pits often enough.

Not wearing lipstick everyday.

My mum has never said anything about bring ladylike. Although she does do stuff like compliment me on having well stocked cupboards.

MIL on the other hand...

I work
We use childcare
I don't file my nails
I don't wear make up
I'm not dainty
I don't blow dry my hair
I don't dye my hair
I wear glasses
I wear jeans
I get hot and a bit sweaty when I go running. In public.
Etc

Drinking pints, piercings, double barrelling my name when I married, not ironing. I'm sure there are more

My mum has never been very happy about me breastfeeding 😟 She's even less happy now I'm still feeding nearly three years on.

My mother is aghast that after having 20 month old DS, I had the audacity to go back to my demanding job full time. Apparently I was supposed to stay home for two years or get a "nice little part time job"

Disapproves of us living in an old (the horror) flat (it's a garden flat), in a city (clutches pearls). A new build three bed in the suburbs is apparently the only acceptable place to raise a child.

way back when, having a job, earning my own money whilst being a parent.

She's long gone now but she made her disapproval known

I forgot the main one, I didn't cook the evening meal every night (hardly ever) DH, far better cook than me, should expect to come home to his tea on the table! He still does the majority of the cooking 30 years later