Do you find this offensive like I do and would you comment on it?

[Sunandnomoon]

Shared by an elderly friend of my mum’s on Facebook. I find it offensive but I’m debating whether it’s worth the hassle of saying so.

It’s certainly not kind, it’s condescending and misogynistic. I’ve known her my whole life and I’ve never seen her be unkind before, actually she did my mum a great kindness many years ago, so I’m not looking to be confrontational or mean.

I just think shit like this being unchallenged makes the world a little bit worse off every day.

I get that it's a metaphor, but the idea of a man mining a woman with the necessary machines to get those precious goods is a bit eww.

You know what it's like ladies, just sitting around waiting for the right reputable mining company with the necessary machines to come along.

Bwahaha

What a load of crap.

@OtherS

"the boomers are the generation of mini skirts, bikinis and female sexual liberation after all! I'd find it difficult not to say anything."

A million thanks. I'm a boomer (although an impoverished one). It does get on my tits when people try to portray my generation as cardigan wearing, pearl clutching blue rinses. I don't know anyone my age even remotely like that. We were entrenched in the modern feminist movement for a start and were involved in many other forms of social and political activism. I personally spent much of my youth smoking weed and living in a comune listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and studying paganism and I wasn't unusual by a long stretch. Now I am clutching my pearls and adjusting my cardigan!

Scroll on by! No point challenging it when they’ve shared it in the first place

What she is wearing is disgusting and unhygienic.

A wise old person accepts change and that includes the next generation changing the rules from those they had when much younger. They embrace the differences and of course can compare, but to critique would be foolish as they'd eventually be ostricesed.

I would say something because I believe that not challenging this kind of misogyny is basically the same as being complicit in it.

If you are silent people will think that everyone agrees with them. They will never think about their views.

i would probably say something like “a woman is just as valuable no matter what clothes she chooses to wear, and we shouldn’t compare women to inanimate objects.”

Your views are disgusting but here we are having to listen to them.

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tbf arse baring shorts make me feel nauseous. but that post is worse. when men come out with stuff like that, it's really hard not to be violent.

It's vomit inducing bullshit but not offensive. It's way too crap to be offensive. Nauseous, yes. Offensive, no.

This kind of ageist comment is so depressing to read

I wouldn't have wasted my time reading it in the first place so wouldn't have seen whether there was anything to be offended about.

"And if they wear revealing clothes nice men won't want them?! "

Exactly, women know that by doing this they scare away the men they don`t want, the idea of "Diamonds not to be revealed" and men "pursuing" women is certainly outdated and offensive though.

Don't worry, women get called many more names than that for doing it.

when men come out with stuff like that, it's really hard not to be violent.

@therealcookiemonster I think the conversation/man is imaginary in this instance.

headachy58 · Today 16:56

A man would be called a pedophile/weirdo if he stood in shop buying a newspaper showing his ass cheeks and probably have the cops called on him.

Men go out topless all the time and wear flipflops in winter. Are you trying to point out the double standards in some way? Personally I think whoever took the picture is the weirdest person in the room in this instance.

Take the fight to them by replying to it and saying you dont understand the context, and ask her "what shop this happened at?' 'They will tire themself out explaining its "something shared online' and they arent sure of the source or the location it occured.

They lack the patience.

Just scroll

My 80 year old father shares not dissimilar stuff he hasn’t even read (that his elderly nut job friends send him) all the time on our family WhatsApp — his ‘logic’ appears to be ‘Someone else found this funny/intelligent, so I will just share it to feel as though I’m making a contribution, even though I have only the vaguest idea what it’s talking about.’

Periodically we pull him up on it, but it’s like pouring water into a bucket with a hole. Charitably, this may come from a similar place. I’d definitely comment, though, on the chance it isn’t. If you have the energy. Educate.

Yes, the idea of men going to all that trouble to "court" a woman and spend lots of money in the process is VERY outdated and IMO highly offensive to men.

I do realise that but have heard men say this as well. absolutely vile

She's elderly and those are her values, which she expressed on an open forum. Move on.