About this remark? I expect an unanimous yanbu to this please!

[GypsyMoth]

conversation with my dad about dd uni plans.... All a bit up in the air as she has to complete her A levels to gain correct grades for her course, then there's a bit of worry cos the uni isn't the best and again as there are no halls. All small niggles which can be overcome... I was just explaining..... His comment?

'' so she has no plans to marry?'' no.she has no boyfriend! He knows this. She wants a career.

He did this to me 25 years ago. I wanted to stay at 6th form, then perhaps uni. My brother was encouraged, I actively wasn't!

I'm for dd that be still holds this opinion. Aibu to have it out with him and tell him he is wrong to assume girls should just marry?

You know what? This thread and today's call has made me see him differently. He's an 'old man' now.

He still works though.... With the general public.

Just remember that one day you'll be an old woman and may hold completely alternative views to you DD.

The expression 'agree to disagree' can be a real relationship saver.

Theres nothing to have out really. Its an old fashioned view, you dont agree to it. Thats the end of it surely?

overreaction.. I don't get the big deal, and some people do still get married at that age, and you can study and be married they are not mutually exclusive! that comment would not really have been out of the ordinary to people, there's still plenty of people around who would ask that! but as for your dd if she does not have any interest in getting married at the moment, just answer the question by saying no...

I would just laugh and say 'yes Dad-you said this to me-you can marry and have a career you know' and change the subject.

tell him no-one would want to marry her without a degree- might shut him up for a bit

YABU. Girls should settle down as soon as possible otherwise their brains may overheat and ahsdjhifiwjklq jndqwi

Nope cant do it.....not even as an obvious piss take.

I was a bit about my dads first comment on my sisters DS being born, which was that he needed to phone the other grandfather and organise which one of them was buying the train set.

But I have decided on the basis that my dad also got his eldest daughter (me) a train set almost immediately after birth that its probably more about trains than sexism.....