Dear lady walking around the lake with your delightful toddlers

[Dogsaresomucheasier]

You know when there is a bit of a pile on here where someone mentions sexism and everyone else insists their partner would never dream of xyz?

I’d really like to think you’ve had a word with yours!

My dog stopped to relieve himself while on our walk. I would never dream of doing anything other than picking up his waste and I can manage that without an audience.

I’m 5ft and female walking a breed of dog typically thought of as a good family pet. If you or your partner are labouring under the delusion he would have stopped to supervise a man and make sure he was a responsible dog owner, or remark,
”good choice” when I turned out to be so and he missed out on his civilian law enforcement moment, I rather suspect you are mistaken.

NAMALT-but yours is!

Yes this has been bugging me since it happened, yes I probably do need to get a life!

I dont know what happened, maybe her dh made a comment at OP (and OP thinks he wouldnt if OP was male possibly? ), but its hard to tell!

I’d really like to think you’ve had a word with yours!

If I’d have asked him if he was always this rude, or perhaps fucking rude, if I had a bit of anger to work off. Not sure what she has to do with it, maybe she got pregnant by accident and got stuck with the twat. So not being her is maybe something to meditate on rather than being annoyed about not having a come back.

Following your logic, he should only have commented if the OP didn't pick it up.

He sounds like a prick but I'm not sure why your op is addressed to his wife.

I think you'll find the correct response is 'Thank you, random man!'

Make a comment to him. At the time. Or address your post to him, not her. Ain't her fault he's a sexist twat.

This.

Thank you for this!

What a load of tosh!

Why is your height relevant?

Who cares what anyone says or thinks, you're clearing up after your dog, that's all you need to concentrate on.

If you don't like how someone has spoken directly to you or indirectly about you then tell them to fuck of.

Sounds to me like he was stuck in ‘parenting toddlers mode’.

Yes. Is she responsible for his behaviour in the same way as she is the toddlers’?

Do you think she should have put him on the naughty step to reflect on his actions?

In English please

Why is it her fault her husband is a dick? Why does she need to be told? Your misogyny is showing.

When he said "good choice"

I'd have had to reply "same I can't make the same comment to you wife re choice of partner"

And no, of course he wouldn't have been so patronising to another man.

Yes. It’s definitely ironic that the first paragraph is about sexism in a post asking a woman if she’s sorted her husband out?

How lucky you were that a man was there to congratulate you on your decision making.

maybe he meant good choice as in nice dog?

Wow what a patronising twonk he sounds!

You shouldn't make it his wife's problem though! (She probably has enough to contend with...)

& of course OP doesn't think she'll see this, FFS. Why are people so bloody literal. Or disingenuous.

How infuriating. He definitely would not have done that to a man. Hopefully you will see him again to let him know what a prize arse he is as you were too gobsmacked to when it happened, understandably.

That would have been a brilliant response.

Why didn't you just thank him profusely for his kind interest in the contents of your dog's bowels at the time, rather than fester on it and post it here?

Ah, sorry! I’m old enough to remember men telling each other being told to sort their women out being frighteningly commonplace. It was tongue-in-cheek! Then again, she’s potentially in a position to stop him breeding again without a suitable correction program…

Witty responses are wonderful but I only ever think of them after the event!

You can address the man in question directly, you know.

So you're directing your frustration at the woman who hasn't 'trained' her partner not to encourage you to pick up dog crap? Bizarre to say the slightest.

Perhaps he's just sick of entitled dog owners feeling they can do as they wish when he's trying to have a nice time out with his family?

But hey, not all dog owners are like that, right?

This seems to happen a lot - as if it's everything is always somehow a woman fault.

It's fairly frequent to see mother's blamed for raising sexist sons completely ignoring wider cultural influences or other male parent for example.