To get annoyed at Women who are childlike.

[Leena49]

It's driving me crazy this week...
It's my dds birthday next week . My SIL has rung 4 times to ask what to get her for her birthday. We said Julia Donaldson books (because they are easy to find) so she calls back 'I couldn't find any' then we say anything from brave film. So she calls back. 'Argos didn't have anything! I feel like saying. Forget it please!
Colleague at work also driving me mad. What jobs should I do? I tell her then she says she doesn't know whe things usually go so she can't do that job.

I don't understand how women in their late 50s can be so lacking in the ability to think for themselves!

I know (too well) a woman in her 60's who has never put petrol in her own car, despite the fact that she drives everywhere, because she's a lazy arse.

She's also one of the most jealous, hostile unpleasant people I have ever come across, I often wonder if it's frustration at being so utterly useless at everything except flower arranging, mainly because she doesn't make any bloody effort.

I don't like her much.

Oh, childlike men. Don't get me started.

I had to bite my tongue when one pissed man started to baby talk to his gf and pawed at her when he spoke or the guy who did a full pout and sulk when his dw asked him what he would like to drink. (He said "You know that I like coffeeee" in a whiney voice)

grown women who collect teddies (on the dashboard) or who wear Disney T-Shirts, bunches in their hair or Winnie the Pooh pyjamas, drive me crazy. (Male) clothes producer conspiracy to infantalise women imo. My DH once bought me a teddy for Valentines day. Safe to say he will NEVER do so again!

Presumably not a black silken teddy

I'm getting paranoid now. I have an appallingly squeaky girlie voice and I hate it, but what can I do? It sounds fine from inside my head, and then I hear a recording of it and I cringe. I don't WANT to sound like my eight year old son, but I just do. Please don't judge me for it - IT'S NOT MY FAULT!

cockyoant, cool name btw. Me too. My cousin talks in a baby voice and thinks it's endearing.
I hardly ever exchange words with her as it really pisses me off!

It's not the squeaky voice. I have a squeaky voice. It's the baby talk. That's annoying.

It's definitely the baby talk not the high-pitched voice. I like to imagine that I can hear a deliberately "look at me I'm so cute and girly" voice rather than one that just naturally has a higher range.

Caribos,that lady has serious issues which she has now passed to her son.
Some older women dont want to grow up
some like others to do something for them
some are scared to grow up and take responsibility
some want everything their own way
some are flirting
some dont like thinking too deeply

nothing to do with a squeaky voice btw
Anonymumous,if it bothers you a lot,elocution lessons might help?

Meh, I look and sound like a real life version of the main character in Brave.

People occasionally come over all protective...until they listen to what's being said in that twee girlish voice.

Maybe I should carry a bow & arrow too to show I mean business

But, there's a difference between making yourself helpless (by never learning how to do things), dividing work in a way that works for your family but being able to do the other's if need be & just being stupid / lazy. Incapable of finding a book is the latter IMO.

I worked with a woman like this; she believed that as a woman, she should be 'helped' with all the difficult things in life, like making decisions regarding what she should have to eat

This is a woman who SORN'd her car when it broke down - it was later discovered to have run out of petrol I wish I was kidding

What does SORN'd mean?

Statutory Off Road Notification - you tell the DVLA that your car is officially off the road so it's no longer legal to drive it. Means you don't have to buy a tax disc but the car is no longer street-legal. Usually done for hopeless wrecks that need fixing up before they are fit to drive.

I'm the youngest of 4 siblings. I have in the past noticed that I sometimes played the 'baby' card to get out of stuff. It's a side of me that I do not like, and I try to squash it down relentlessly. It has forced me to deal with stuff that scares me (power tools, electricity, dead things) as I don't want DD and DS to have a simpering fool as a role model of womanhood

I have a colleague who is a bit like this.

It is a constant stream of "I don't know how to do that, you'll need to do it. I'm just no good with computer stuff and numbers"

This is despite her being shown the tasks on a almost weekly basis for at least a year.

We work for a bloody bank ffs!

Tbf it looks like it may be coming back to bite her on the arse as she is going through Capability.

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but does anyone remember that Arrabella Weir character in the Fast Sow who was hard nosed, but who went all pathetic when a man walked into the room? Couldn't find it on Youtube

I don't like ineffectual adults. It's a form of manipulation, and normally barely-disguised laziness.

Is there a special mumsnet retort we can use to slap these women back to reality when they talk like this?