Me 'mummy doesn't work' ,dd2 'of course you don't ,you're not a man'.

[Waltonswatcher]

AIBU for laughing at this statement and should I take back the Dyson I've bought her for Christmas ?

I find it very difficult to explain exactly why it is I would not laugh, but do not like the MN thing of "you have a different opinion - let's belittle you " - uptight, po-faced, lacking in humor, OTT, joyless, get a grip, lack of sense of proportion

all because I, and others, don't happen to believe that the pervasiveness of sexism in this country is a laughable matter - sometimes the bigger picture is just as important as the teeny tiny 2 year old's words..

why laugh, why not just say "mums work too"

this week I received a marketing email from a national company stating they were sorry not to have included the promised voucher - but their email elf was pregnant and suffering mummy brain - I didn't laugh at that either - though I was supposed to... (and it was written by a young woman)

I wonder what world some posters live in. You are an easily offended bunch, how do you cope in rl?

I used to love that "small talk" programme with ronnie Corbett - the way small dc see the world is often hilarious.

i do wonder that bonkers it must be exhausting to be so offended all the time by everything.

you we would live in a very grey world indeed if we could not laugh at our toddlers funny moments.

I wonder what world some posters live in.

An imperfect world, which some of us try to improve as we go.

Humansatnav - you mean Santa doesn't live on top of the gasometer?

Why is my post so offensive ? What undercurrent has been surmised about my parenting I wonder?

She's 2. It's not.like the OP hasn't got time to rectify her incorrext assumption. By the sound of the older DD it doesn't seem like there are any real problems here!

Are you kidding slightly, at two there's no hope of reversing the damage. It should all have been explained at 18 months really.

Right OPs DD has no future hope of equality...at its deepest level this is clearly not funny, but a 2 year olds ramblings whether correct or not can definitely be funny. If my 2 year old dd had said this I probably would have laughed then corrected her with a light touch. Ridiculous responses on here.

My 2 year old firmly believes her cuddly toys are all real people.

Pretty much all 2 year olds are screwed one way or another.

I agree with sparkling