Why do women get to wear the sashes

[StealthPolarBear]

I've just been in homebase and all the women were sashes advertising the sale or whatever. None of them men seemed to be wearing theirs...

[StealthPolarBear]

Just me then :)

[allnewredfairy]

Dunno, but if I were the manager I'd make them wear them. Goose and gander and all that

[partialderivative]

Do men wear sashes in any other circumstances?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

When I was in the United Manchester Hospitals Carol Concert choir, we used to sing three carols busy candle light. If you found one of the (battery operated, electric) candles under your chair, you were supposed to hold it - and they were distributed to give a lovely random twinkly effect over the whole choir.

The men in the choir stood in a block, in the centre of the stage, and every year they all passed their candles to the altos and sopranos, so there was an entirely black block in the middle of the choir.

I don't know what dreadful thing they thought would happen if they sang, holding a candle.

[StealthPolarBear]

Partial no I don't suppose they do. Probably because they're doing the work while women stand around as if they're in a beauty contest.

[FadedRed]

Don't know how to phrase this and not sound sexist or anti feminist or some other type of 'ist', but in a place like Homebase there is likely to be some heavy lifting of equipment and products done mainly by male employees and maybe the sashes are seen as a H&S risk?
Maybe?

[SenecaFalls]

This man wears a sash on a fairly regular basis.

[StealthPolarBear]

Faded he could have popped it on when behind the service desk which was where he and thy were when I was there.
But if course the men won't even have been given sashes. It's the women's jobs to look pretty

[DJThreeDog]

They do in ours. Must be a more progressive B&Q.

[DJThreeDog]

Oh you said Homebase.

Well....same applies don't judge me I'm tired

[LynetteScavo]

DS wore a sash for his first Holy Communion.

I have no idea what that was about.

[StealthPolarBear]

:o

[Gruntled]

Someone give me a sash. I need to look pretty.

[LyndaNotLinda]

SDTG - holding a candle gives you the gay. Everyone knows that

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Is it just men who catch the gay from holding a candle, or am I gay too? Should I tell dh?

[StealthPolarBear]

He probably already knows. He's ironed his favourite sash

[LyndaNotLinda]

Oh dear :( You probably should tell your DH. I think the power is stronger with men though so you might be able to fight it off. Wear more mascara and perfect a tinkly laugh?

[LynetteScavo]

Ah, now I understand why DH hates my scented candles so much....he scared of catching the gay. That explains so much.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Thank you Lynda - I am laughing in as tinkly a manner as possible.

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

And don't forget to tilt your head coquettishly when men talk to you, that's a sure fire way of warding it off.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

I used to work for a well known craft store.
We had a sash that everyone had to take it in turns to wear. And then go round asking random customers if you could annoy help them.
Twas grim. But as far as I know it had no effect on anyone's sexual preference, just their morale.

[CinderellaRockefeller]

There was a man wearing a hula skirt handing out Argos catalogues the other day if that helps restore the balance?

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

S'true about the heavy lifting. Last time I was in Homebase, this 60-something bloke made me get a trolley for my own vaguely heavy garden stuff*. I dunno how I was meant to get it home off the premises. Must be Health and Safety.

• This is true, but I think it's possible he was, you know, just being concerned. Seeing as this is a DIY store, not Mount Everest crossed with the Olympics.

[StealthPolarBear]

Well it might conderrlla if you had photos to laugh at prove it

[StealthPolarBear]

Well I hope everyone has been wearing a sash and fluttering their eyelashes today.