Sexism as kids, AIBU to still be annoyed?

[CocoChan]

I was an only child growing up with both male and female cousins all of similar ages. My grandad owned a massive house in the country and we all used to visit most weekends. Every time the adults used to wave the boys off as they headed out into the countryside exploring, making dens, playing soldiers etc. I always wanted to go with them but was told “no, let the boys have their fun”. Us girls had to sit in the living room drawing or “making stuff”. I used to feel so fucking bitter when the boys came home all rosy cheeked, covered in mud with stories of their adventures.
What did you lot do? “We made stuff” 🙄

Any other examples of childhood sexism to cheer me up?

(Yes it is meant lighthearted)

This is probably outing, but at primary school one term the girls all did cross stitch while the boys made model cars (out of fag packets we'd collected from our parents )

At primary every Wednesday afternoon for a year we got sewing while the boys got to.play football and I'm.just over 40!

Are you sure you’re not in a Famous Five story? Is your name Georgina, George for short?

On our first Christmas at my MIL's she sent all the men off to the pub whilst the women stayed at home to look after the children.
I was not accepting that. So off to the pub I went. I think I killed the mood slightly. Eek.

• just realised this was a childhood sexism thread. Sorry!

@Cozytoesandtoast00

On our first Christmas at my MIL's she sent all the men off to the pub whilst the women stayed at home to look after the children. I was not accepting that. So off to the pub I went. I think I killed the mood slightly. Eek.

Good on you. That sort of shit needs to die out.

At primary school all of the girls had a sex education class whilst the boys were sent outside to play football. This was in the mid-90s by the way, not the 50s

but at primary school one term the girls all did cross stitch while the boys made model cars At my primary school, the boys did cross-stitch. Quite impressive for the 1950s.

We had different sports for boys and girls in P.E. in secondary school and I was born in the late 80s. Not just separate groups, which makes sense, but the boys played football and we played netball (for example). I hated netball! Always thought this was ridiculous and I hope it's not still the case.

My family was fortunately rather matriarchal. Mainly we all ran around screaming and the boys got told off by our man-hating grandmother.

I was also born in the late 80s and had separate PE lessons. I can’t remember what the boys did while we had netball and hockey. Girls were allowed to play rugby though, I remember that much.

I always hated how my brother was given so much more freedom than me. Whenever I complained I was told that it was too dangerous for me to do the things that he did because I was a girl. I just wanted to spend time with my friends, I wasn’t asking to do anything crazy.

My dm still resents that her brother had more pocket money for his age than her as "boys need more".

@SaucyHorse we had the very same! Also born late 80s. I always thought it odd.

@SaucyHorse

We had different sports for boys and girls in P.E. in secondary school and I was born in the late 80s. Not just separate groups, which makes sense, but the boys played football and we played netball (for example). I hated netball! Always thought this was ridiculous and I hope it's not still the case.

Nope still a thing! I left school in the late 00’s and we had separate sports... boys had rugby, cricket and football and girls had netball, hockey and dance

@SaucyHorse

We had different sports for boys and girls in P.E. in secondary school and I was born in the late 80s. Not just separate groups, which makes sense, but the boys played football and we played netball (for example). I hated netball! Always thought this was ridiculous and I hope it's not still the case.

I went to secondary school in the noughties and we had different sports. Unfortunately for me (not because I'm a girl, but because I hated it) we still had to do rugby and football, the only difference, bizarrely, was the boys did basketball and girls did netball

We had an elderly lady teach us sewing in 1980, and she insisted that the boys and girls both learn as boys' buttons fell off just as much. She told some dads that,too.

Though same school also made boys drink their breaktime milk outside (where their loos were) and wear shorts all through winter, while girls weren't allowed to play football, so it wasn't all progressive.

YANBU OP. You would love this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3998720-What-are-you-still-salty-about

I am 40 so definitely not young but have never experienced this.

I am quite feminine but I was always encouraged by my family (parents and wider family) to:
Play cricket, football etc
Climb trees (not for me)
Have fun and get dirty (also not for me)

I wanted to do ballet and brush my hair but my family always wanted me to do other things as well

In my primary school they decided one year that boys could be on the netball team. Girls were not allowed to play football though.

Home Economics teacher in High School in the early 90s told the girls that we should keep all our recipes in a folder as we would need to cook for our families, but the boys could throw them away as they would have wives to cook for them.

In winter Girls played hockey and netball
Boys played football and rugby
In summer girls played tennis and boys played cricket
Girls did cookery and sewing
Boys did metalwork and woodwork
Boys did technical drawing
Girls did childcare
All in the 70s when I was at a comprehensive school