To ask about your little rebellions?

[Sensibletrousers]

I’m sitting here about to get changed for Zumba and I want to wear shorts but my legs aren’t shaved. I will be wearing shorts anyway. It’s a little rebellion, a tiny “up yours” to the man.

I have always found little ways to rebel (recovering people pleaser) that don’t actually hurt anyone so that I don’t have one massive rebellion and ruin my life one day!!

I also don’t share food, even with my kids, and am unapologetic about it. It’s now a family joke.

What little rebellions do you enjoy?

You win the thread! That is pure evil! Ooh, I'm all of a quiver now at the mere idea.

The thing that makes me happiest on this thread so far are the number of people who've queued up to tear a (depilatory) strip off the unfortunate poster who believes that only through shaving our legs can we be saved. I think they had it coming, but they might trichophobia so we should probably #bekind.

Or possibly not 😈

The words "suffer from" were obviously missing from my penultimate sentence. Sorry 'bout that.

Oh, bugger! WHY did someone have to report this? I'm dying to know what it actually said ...

Referring to a paper that often quotes threads from this forum as The Paper that Supported the Blackshirts. They never quote my comments, perhaps that's why.

You want to try this in a swimming pool.

Really does not go down at all well.

I buy my daughter very colourful socks to wear with her uniform. I am chaffed when her little trouser legs go up as she sits crossed legged and they are all colours under the sun but white. So does she. Oh dear...
Sometimes drive the wrong way in car parks...
I am sure there are others, I´m just totally oblivious to them...

Also forget letting the hair on your legs grow, I now have a moustache and beard appearing and cant be bothered to pluck the hairs, but I have quite bad eye sight so often dont notice and its normally my DD who will suddenly approach and try and pluck my chin that makes me realise.

😂Priceless!

I've realised I do several of the patriarchy ones:

I play patriarchy chicken (and am teaching DD to)
I always assume every judge/lawyer/doctor is a woman. And call them all 'she' unless corrected.

Every animal is a 'she' be it a dinosaur or a shark.

I take up space in public areas. Manspread next to me on public transport at your peril.

However, I also tick no on read receipts and if I could tick 'yes I am a robot' I bloody well would.

What kind of hooligan empties a dishwasher bottom to top 😱😱

Dammit. I wrote that wrong. Meant to say "what kind of hooligan empties a dishwasher top to bottom"

Oh dear.

The trick for this is backstroke. I'm always in the right lane, on the right side, doing the right speed.

I do this since having my baby 6 months ago. Tbf most people are very good at stepping aside/moving over but when they (usually men) don't, I'll stop the buggy just as they're about to walk into it and look in my bag, down in the basket etc and they have to go around. I then say THANK YOU as they walk past.

Sometimes when I wash my family's clothes, I use the tumble dryer even though it says not to on the label, and I suspect they will end up several sizes smaller,

I can plait mine. With little beads in it for special occasions

All these things I do that I didn't realise were little rebellions

• not shaving my legs
• using carrier bags from one supermarket in another
• driving the wrong way around car parks
• emptying the bottom tray on the dishwasher first
• crossing out 'gender' and writing in 'sex' on forms

Obviously I'm a born rebel. My Mum would be so proud!

Me too. Can we have a clue?

I do this too - and with that book as well.

I don’t have a gender, just a sex.

🤣

When mine were young enough for that book, I finished with "so I decided not to get an animal at all because I am obviously completely irresponsible!"

What exactly does it say?

I mean the entire winter season I dont shave, haven't died yet.
It says I'm not uncovering my legs in this cold so fuck the shaving.

What is wrong with you that you think unshaved legs is uncaring.

I don't tear the kids' names off exercise books before recycling them (teacher).

To a large extent, I do what I want as long as it only affects me. I don't mean I'm an anarchic hoyden, I just ignore a lot of irrelevant (to me) stuff. It never makes any difference and no-one ever notices.

Baby Owl is female in this house.

Fuck the Patriarchy

I think you’re just a bit of a dick.

Neither of these things actually benefit you, they just cause inconvenience to your DD or the other car drivers/pedestrians.