To be starting to feel angry about this?

[Idontwanttobeaman]

People keep mistaking me for a man at work. I do wear an unflattering uniform and a baseball cap and I do have short grey hair - but I do have large breasts and a name badge with a female name on it.. it SHOULD be obvious that I am female.. but every day I get called "son" or "sonny" several times and today a child asked their mum if I was a man or a woman. It was funny at first, but it's really starting to upset me now and make me think that I am terribly masculine. I'm not Kim Kardashian for sure but I'm not Desperate Dan either.

That is awful I would be upset too.
Sadly nothing to add that hasn't already been said.

Oh, I get called mate a lot too.

A few weeks ago a woman said to her child "the man is going to wipe the table for us".

I'm in the UK.

My son gets mistaken for a girl frequently. He has long hair. That is all. He doesn't look like a girl. People just don't really look at other people that much, try not to let it get to you too much.

What job does not allow you to wear some makeup if you want to?

I work with food.

No make up, no jewellery, no perfume, minimal deodorant. Those are the rules.

Ha, well there you go. You'd be putting your life in your hands calling a grown adult son in my neck of the woods.

If this is in McDonalds then it's just the crap uniform. Everyone looks a bit shit and lumpy in it.

My goodness what is the company OP?

Overalls, cap, no make up, no jewelry, no perfume, minimal deo ... for wiping restaurant tables??!

Not MacDonalds.

Yes, those rules are to prevent contamination of food by anything we might be wearing and everyone follows them.

No overalls, and not just wiping tables.

I’m a flat chested woman with long hair and I live in jeans an, usually men’s tee shirts and regularly get mistaken for a bloke. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest, even when I was younger and working on building sites, I used to laugh it off. I and the people that know me, know I’m a woman so it’s no biggie to me.

Must be very annoying and cumulatively upsetting OP.

Imagine if you were a transwoman! You could make a fortune suing people for "misgendering" you, and calling the police.

I think I'd have more sympathy if "guys" hadn't changed from exclusively meaning men in the 70s to be more inclusive (thanks to our US cousins) in the 80s/90s ...

... and nobody asked me

Never been called a guy..Son, Sonny, Mate, Man yes, Guy nope.

Actually it's more "guys" - plural - to a mixed crowd.

"Hey, you guys ! Check this out."

"Guy" - singular - tends to be used in absentia

"Hey ! You know that guy that did that song ?"

As I say - always used to mean a group of men. But since US TV of the 80s ...

"Hey you guys, check this out" directed at a mixed group appeared. And it ever so slightly grates.

And don't get me started on changing pronunciations and placenames ...whatever happened to Peking - which was taught as fact at school ? Another memo I didn't get