To find stereotypes of women irritating?

[Perriwinkle]

Particularly the ones portrayed in TV adverts and women's magazines - you know, women who are all girly and wouldn't be seen dead in anything other than towering heels, who like little dresses and oversized handbags and are prepared to shop until they drop searching for said little dresses, heels and oversized handbags. Women whose idea of heaven would be to sit somewhere for the afternoon having unfeasilbly long acrylic nails stuck on and then a facial followed by a spray tan and then, of course, a couple of hours of the obligatory shopping.

I'm certainly no fervent women's libber but I always find myself wondering how many women actually conform to this stereotype?

I mean how many of these women actually exist outside of the set of "The Only Way is Essex"?

I am an essex girl and tbh you're lucky if many round here even bother cleaning their finger nails.... Not many. Although I am going out tomorrow night and have painted my toenails :)

YABU

But I also hate the stereotypes of men in adverts too where they're portrayed to be too stupid to use a washing machine or buy their wife a present.

Tbh if i won the lottery, i would live that life, minus the heals.

I would steer clear of mags if you want to avoid those stereotypes. The adverts are annoying, but that is the point of advertising, they are setting you up to want to aspire to a certain lifestyle or be a certain way.

Oh I meant YANBU

Some women might like doing shit like Shopping 'N' Stuff, nothing wrong with that.

Doesn't apply to me, nothing wrong with that either.

Advertising and womens mags aren't reality, you did know that didn't you OP?

YANBU. Stereotypes are usually annoying whenever they crop up.

I do know exactly what you mean about advertising... it seems so disconnected from reality. I don't know and have never met anyone who even comes close to those girly handbag carrying caricatures.

They all just seem to be designed to make you feel insecure, for the reasons that birds just said.

It isn't just ads though, tv shows and films are just as bad. I never liked Sex and the City for the reasons you say.

I just try to avoid / ignore.

Well, I would think of a clever reply but I'm too busy painting my toenails, eating chocolate with my hair wrapped in a towel whilst I park the car badly.

picnic I hope you store your chocolate in a wooden box under the bed and only eat it when there's no-one else around?

And obviously you pull an orgasm face as you tuck in?

Are you not mopping your fevered DPs brow whilst browsing for handbags and shoes online picnic?

You're a failure to womankind.

And that's the truth of it.

I think I meant 'mopping your DPs fevered brow'?

I dunno.

Actually I do know people like that (handbag carrying high heeled) BUT we all laugh at them in the playground.....

Of course, Worra - because hiding food is a perfectly normal and healthy thing for all women to do. I have a box of doughnuts hidden in the loo cistern.

I hate the men sterotypes on tv , there is an ad for tea with ben fogle that gets on my wick , he cant look after a toddler for the afternoon without the house falling down piss off ben you can do it

sorry to answer your question i dont give a shiney shit about shoes or handbags its really not my thing at all ,

ROFL at doughnuts hidden in the loo cistern...

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I don't understand £squillion handbags and VB shoes

Those sorts of stereotypes don't really bother me at all, because most people can see them for what they are and know that they're completely detatched from reality and from normal women

I get far more wound up by people posting here on MN and stereotyping, because they're clearly do buy into their stereotypes...

I recently read on a thread that women aren't very rational and have a tendancy towards flapping and panicking, and that men don't sulk, for example. I don't know what sort of parallel universe these people live on to actually a). think this and b). see nothing wrong with admitting such thoughts in public but it's not one I live on, thankfully.

YANBU, stereotypes are tiresome, and hurt everyone, even if they're 'positive' ones.