How sexist is this article?!!

[MumblesParty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-66985809

I mean - the rock sculpture is really impressive, but how unbelievably sexist!
"My wife doesn't drive, so on a Wednesday I take her to do her shopping in St Austell."

I really don’t think it’s sexist

They could have just said "man faffs about on beach while wife manages household"

How is that sexist?

Its facts - his wife doesnt drive, she does the shopping, he wastes time on the beach while she shops

Reaching

How would you word it without stating facts?

I don't drive because I'm partially sighted, is my DH being sexist now if he drives me somewhere?

Or is it the going to the beach whilst the wife shops part? Because it doesn't say its the supermarket for example, so it might be just for her to wander around the shops. One of the annoying things about being partially sighted is the lack of alone time because I cannot just take myself off for a shopping trip without someone coming along (lack of public transport). So I can imagine quite enjoying being left to wander around the shops by myself for an hour or two.

It says the supermarket, not general shopping. She goes to the supermarket and he pisses about on the beach. Bit sexist in my opinion. Why doesn't he help her with the supermarket shopping? He says "her shopping" but I'm guessing he eats some of the food she buys.

Well you don't know anything about their relationship. Maybe she prefers to do the shopping and he cooks and does the cleaning. Different things work for different people. No need to be so judgemental based on a single sentence.

I like doing a supermarket shop. Fortunately I can drive myself, but would have no qualms if I was unable and my husband drove me. I don’t really have time these days, so we do it online, but a couple of hours wandering a supermarket on my own sounds bliss!!

I much prefer supermarket shopping on my own. I don’t think the article is sexist - we’d need more information about their relationship to make a judgement on whether the man is.

I don't know - I think there's something a bit sexist about reporting that a man has to find an activity to pass the time while his wife does the housework. I'd probably have just reported the rapidly created and very impressive sculpture, without including the bit about his wife doing the drudgery stuff. And the way he says he drives her to town to do the shopping, because she doesn't drive. Rather than him doing the shopping himself. Just struck me as a bit sexist.
But I'm not going to lose any sleep over all of you disagreeing with me!!

My mother can't drive. She loves it when my brother drives her to supermarket and leaves her too it as she gets to browse the clothes section, look at offers etc at her own pace. He alternates between helping her and leaving her too it.

Similarly my MIL occasionally has a little moan how FIL loves to accompany her everywhere now out of boredom. She'd happily let him play on the beach for an hour!

Again though, unless you can't drive and you live somewhere with shit public transport you don't understand how claustrophobic it can feel to not even be able to walk around the supermarket without someone with you

Maybe it's for sexist reasons. It quite possibly could be. But it might also just be because they prefer this set up.

It’s him, not the BBC , being sexist. In that supermarket shopping us ‘her’ shopping rather than ‘our’ shopping.

I sometimes often send DH to the supermarket to do the shopping on his own because I’m feeling lazy and want to stay home and drink coffee and eat cake. Is that sexist?

For all you know she might ban him from doing the shopping with her. I much prefer to do it on my own.
And isn't it sexist that the wife expects a man to drive her around?! OK I'm making assumptions, but so were you.

Not sexist at all, just stating facts. I drive. My husband drives. I do grocery shopping. My husband does grocery shopping. If we’re out somewhere and I want to go to the supermarket, I far prefer if he stays in the car or does something else while I shop as I prefer to do it on my own. This woman may be delighted that her husband is off being creative on the beach so that she can get the shopping done. Who knows!

I don't think it's sexist. I can't see anything wrong with people doing what they do as long as one doesn't begrudge the other.

My partner prefers doing the food shop without me, because I like to look at everything and choose new things rather than being in and out. Not sexist, just how they live their life.

Of course the man himself may be sexist, if he thinks all shopping/cooking/cleaning is his wife's responsibility. But it doesn't say that...

It's bloody ugly. I hope someone takes it down.

How is that sexist? The man has an hour to kill once a week because he takes his non driving wife to the shops. Reaching there.

I hear you @MumblesParty Something about the way he says ‘the’ wife and is quoted as such by the BBC. And the fact that supermarket shopping tends to be household (ie joint) groceries so not ‘her’ shopping. I know what you mean about the undertones.

Most pointless, sexist article imaginable. Lazy arse won't help "the wife" do the household "supermarket" shop so dicks around on the beach. Lovely.
Fuck this sexist prick, and fuck the sexist BBC

My husband can’t drive, I drive him to the supermarket so he can do the food shopping, then I go to the gym or wherever while he does it, he doesn’t require a babysitter or a trolley minder. Also, since when is shopping housework, your not dusting the aisles.

A man driving his non driving wife to the supermarket is the “most sexist article imaginable”. You literally couldn’t imagine any worse examples of sexist behaviour?

isn’t it sexist that the woman can’t drive and needs to be driven around by a man?

I didn't find the article or the bit about the driving sexist but the second part of the headline - 'while wife shops' - has a sexist ring and is unnecessary imo