To cringe at the cutesy act?

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Probably IABU, but...

I work for a big, engineering type company. Male dominated, but do have many senior women, the CEO is female also.

I'm hot desking in a different department today and I'm sat next to two women, who are both around 30. Although they're both very nice, I cannot stand the cutesy act (I hope it's an act).

As soon as any men come into the vicinity, their voices immediately go high pitched and incessant giggling ensues. I can't get away with the "What does that word mean?", "that's a big word", "OMG Germany is in the EU?" and other inane comments and I've been gritting my teeth all day. Surely this is an act? But I really can't see the benefit of such an act? AIBU to think they're setting women back decades??

She thought north and south were like left and right and changed depending on which direction you were facing.
Well that explains why I get lost so easily!

Farmers voting to leave, seemingly oblivious that it would end their EU subsidies. You just literally could not make it up

It's not all about getting a bit of free-shit at some government's trough.

Ive mentioned this before, but my parents have a friend who thought that Pompeii was a holiday resort with beaches, bars, hotels etc. She was most shocked when she arrived to discover the ruined remains of a Roman settlement and little else..

DD (nearly 16, top sets, bright, articulate) wondered in all seriousness why you "never see adult caterpillars"
Her friend declared her terminally stupid

All health & safety and workers rights originated out of the EU, BarbaraofSeville?

A little more attention in history lessons would have been worthwhile! The earliest steps to (much needed) safety regulations and rights were taken before Queen Victoria reached the throne and came thick and fast between then and 1900 (while Germany and Italy were becoming nation states).

Maybe there's a Darwinian theory behind the thick-as-shit cutesy behaviour......grown women that act like babies might get shagged more often and further their gene pool. It's the only plausible explanation I feel.

My grandmother did the cutesy, simpering thing with men, most notably with the doctors while in hospital (many years ago now). She was outraged* when they tested her for dementia.

• smart woman with a couple of successful businesses behind her

I once asked someone where they had been skiing, dunno she said but it was near the airport!

Well that made for a tough day though reading some of the stories today has given me a good laugh

It got worse as the day went on, some of them were just ridiculous. A female manager sat near us at one point and they carried on, said manager looked over at me with a look of despair. It was cringe-worthy.

I'll make a conscious afford to sit further away when I'm next in that department!

"I had a conversation with someone recently who genuinely thought the EU was a country, and that dinosaurs were endangered."

Sounds like a friend of mine, she also thinks that humans are going to evolve in the next few years and lose their little fingers on both hands because "we don't use them whilst typing" 🤷‍♀️

They do it because it works. Because a large proportion of men are even dumber than these women.

The best ones I heard were:

A colleague asking if she should use a family pack of multivitamins as she was single

And my favourite:

A different colleague going on about the intelligence of French children "cos they can like, speak French". I had to pretend I was sneezing to hide the laughter.

My friend is a pharmacist and once received a phone call from an (adult) customer asking what time they sold the morning after pill until, as she needed it but was in work and couldn’t get in until her lunch break.

I’ve got a colleague who does something similar - not exactly the same - but she becomes extremely fake around men (especially slightly older ones). She’ll laugh hysterically at all their (horrendous) jokes. If one says he feels ill (just for example), she’ll do this weird ‘oooooh’ sound in sympathy, which sounds like she’s faking an orgasm, followed by their name, ‘oooooooh, dan’ with a mock-sympathetic head tilt.

I would call them out on it in front of the men...

"What's the matter with your voice? Why does it change when someone enters the room? Are you ok? You didn't speak like that to me"

But I'm a bitch that can't stand it when women act like teenage girls or play dumb for the opposite sex.

A man I work with recently admitted that he was well into his 30s before he worked out that unicorns were mythical and hadn't actually become extinct....

My sister thought Vietnam was in America until she was 30.

Name changed as this is outing.

Until I was about 30, I thought the Hebrides were mythical I thought they were like limbo, or out of Dante’s Inferno.

In my defense, I’m not from the UK.

I promise I’m smart. S. M. R. T. Smart.

I once met someone who thought that different coloured cows produced different coloured milk. So chocolate milk comes from brown cows...

I genuinely thought she was joking so laughed hysterically and asked where strawberry milkshake comes from and she got very offended. Oops!

Oh god, I’ve known a few of these women.

One used to do the full-on baby voice combined with a giggle and a head tilt when talking to men. She also thought Scandinavia was in Wales and that MP stood for Minister’s People. We used to call her malapropisms ‘Anthea-isms.’ She was notorious.

I currently work with someone who believes that dinosaurs were put in the ground by the devil to test us and that witches are a real and present danger and can fly!

I used to know someone who thought bananas were made in a factory.

Not reallty, but I don't believe the people mentioned by others on this thread exist either

Well, mine was true.

Mine too. Very stupid people walk amongst us.

I used to work with a woman who put on a baby girl act and baby girl voice whenever she got within a yard of a male. It was embarrassing and she was more than old enough to know better. Mind you, she was quite stupid, too.