What kind of sexist crap is that!!

[FTRsMammy]

Am looking for a hotel for mine and DHs 5th wedding anniversary in January. We live in the north east if England so there's a few Best Western hotels coming up in searches. I'm having a look at the hotel restaurants to see if the foods any good or if we'd have to go out for dinner and a few of the best westerns have a 'rib room' steak restaurant where the menu lists a 6 oz fillet steak - perfect for a lady! WTAF! AIBU to find that quite offensive and very sexist?

mutny where abouts?

Love a good rare steak.

As men can eat a quarter more calories than women, and not put on weight, it is not sexist, it's fact!

My DW would probably laugh at the suggestion that she should have a smaller steak (although its pretty rare for her to go above 16oz). Cant understand why anyone would want a steak dinner with a piece of meat that looks lost on he plate.

Im thinking that steak might be on the menu for dinner tomorrow. Perfect way to make me feel better after a couple of days in hospital.

mmmmmmmmmmm, steak

These are the same women who order a salad then eat all their dates chips.

As an aside, go to the honest lawyer hotel. Get the suite, it is lovely and the food is amazing. Plus no sexist twaddle on the menu

I will have two sexist steaks, two go.

Ta.

LizzieVereker you did make me laugh, those are the signs of a true lady!

I'm not offended by this sexist steak but I do feel like I've slipped through some time travel wormhole and am on a date with Gene Hunt.

My response would be 'I'm glad that's the ladies taken care of but pray tell what would you recommend for a famished long distance trucker?'

Dildobaggins statistically on average maybe but that carts person to person.

I'm not offended op but it is a stupid thing to put on a menu, not massively surprised of best western I have hated every one I have stayed in (for work), they tend to be ageing, badly kept and not too clean.

I get peed off with things like this because I lift bug weights and eat lots of protein and I couldn't live on salad without passing out. Gits.

Usually if we go out to eat, DP will plough through his meal and then finish mine.
If we're going for steak I skip lunch, eat my delicious, wonderful 12oz rare steak and start on his before he's finished his baked potato.

Steak must be conversational. If it's not bleeding all over my plate, I don't want to know.

That's hilarious. Does it come with a glass of wine, for the laydee, a la Al Murray?

You could go and say, 'oh what a shame Lady P couldn't join us this evening. As a brazen pleb myself though, I'll have...'

The funniest thing is the perceived need for the instruction, presumably to a man, 'if you are ordering for a laydee, no need to trouble her with a menu, choice can befuddle the little darlings, here, just say 'how about a lovely steak my dear' and we'll do the rest.

YAB a teensy bit U. It's quite funny, really.

I can't eat much more than an 8oz steak usually but I'd find a 6oz one a bit on the small side - but then I ain't no laydee.

I want steak now, and not a measly 6 Oz one either!

And yanbu, it is sexist!

I'm not sure that's any different that calling something a 'man sized' portion.

I'd like a sirloin now, please. Medium rare. Baked potato with real sour cream and butter and some roasted asparagus.

Ta muchly!

as men can eat a quarter more calories than women, and not put on weight, it is not sexist, it's fact!

Not trye in my case I lift weights, lots of big weights. More than alot of men at my gym do. I eat loads of protein and more calories than alot of men.

Just a thought, but couldn't it be there to encourage men to eat a larger steak than they perhaps would have chosen?

Maybe some men would worry about being teased for ordering a Lady Steak.

It's what my mum would order!!!

I would smirk if I saw that on a menu but I really don't think I would br offended and get so het up.

"Man sized" portion is crap too.

Size is not the only thing that matters with steak y;know.

I would find it patronising but not offensive

Cwtches my mum would too

Now remembers the taste of last nights fillet steak that was a lovely med-rare and the same hoofing great size as DH's

Every time I am sent for a manual handling course they give tell us the maximum amount we are told to lift. Which is different for males and females. Am I wrong to think that is similar to suggesting that women on average eat smaller meal sizes?

Inde, that's rather missing the point. Women know their own appetites and will order food accordingly. We eat every day. We don't need a course on it. We don't need to be instructed by a menu.

Many women do not self-identify as 'ladies', it's a very loaded term and, to me, in this context, very funny. It would appear to be there as an instruction to someone who doesn't know how much a woman will want to eat, so, their dining companion, ordering for them, which adds to the hilarious cultural baggage.