To think it really is a man's world?

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We all know it is, but itv1 confirmed it even more for me today by calling the Euros tournament the 'women's euro tournament'. TV stations sure as hell don't introduce men's tournaments with their gender in the introduction.

If your just writing a letter to a company and not a specific department what do you put? Like a firm of solicitors for example

They got this from the book Invisible Women

I'd know which individual were dealing with my affairs at a solicitors. Or, I'd address it to the appropriate team: Dear Conveyancing Team, for example.

Ok I worked in admin in a solicitors office for years and we always wrote to other firms as Dear Sirs, it was just old fashioned tradition I guess. I just wondered what the modern way was if people get annoyed now at dear sirs.

At school I was taught Dear Sir/Madam

It is a man's world. Hence the poignancy of the thread about time off after miscarriage, comments about the length of the pregnancy, about whether and how the woman's sick record might be affected, which has knock-on effects on staff retention, employability and promotion. Men don't have to deal with that shit.
It's bad enough having to go through a miscarriage, both emotionally and physically ( took me 2 months and several hospital visits to stop bleeding), without having to soldier on at work pretending everything is OK, because you are worried about being taken seriously in your career, or worse, losing your job. Most of us do not take time off unless we have to, but working while passing clots of blood, feeling on the verge of collapse/fainting is not only unpleasant but unsafe. Men don't have to deal with that shit.
Obviously there's loads of other ways in which women are hard done by, that's just the one that's on my mind right now.

See also 'x years since England have won y' when the women's team won it last year!

I'm not actually any kind of football fan, but I thought it was brilliant a few years ago when Baddiel & Skinner and The Lightning Seeds sang Three Lions on the Royal Variety Performance (or similar kind of programme).

They sang (I forget the actual timings), but something like "56 years of hurt - for the men's team" and then, the next time around, "14 weeks of hurt - for the women's team" with a big wink from Frank. I loved the idea of it being 'hurt' - when you'd won the last tournament, a few weeks previously, and there obviously hadn't been another one to win or lose yet!

Compare, in terms of the disparity in status, 'Miss' vs. 'Sir'.

High time British schools got with the programme.

I am bemused that anyone doesn't write Dear Sir or Madam. I was taught that in the 80s!

Our school is 'Sir' and 'Ma'am'.

I'd prefer 'Dave' and 'Janey' but I'm.an old hippy 😂

I believe that the FA actually ban girls from playing with the boys after a certain age so, no, the men’s team is not technically open and no woman could ever play on an adult mens team even if she could run rings round them. As football is a contact sport, safety is the reason.

Yes, I've never thought of that but it's so true! Why don't they call male teachers 'mister' instead of sir so it's on a level with what the female teachers are addressed as?

...it took football match intro inequality for you to realise it's a man's world? Oh sweet summer child...

Of course not, but the football urged me to write a thread. Your post has an edge of being a bit up yourself.

Courtesy of the FB group “the man who has it all”

Ta dahhh

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I promise I'm not up myself. I'm mostly down on myself.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you're OK ❤️

I'm one day at a time.

It is a man's world.

Hopefully one day an equal one.

Then you write ‘to whomever it may concern’

Were the team who won the World Cup the same team who were beaten by an under 15s boys team? Or am I confusing them with the Matildas who lost 7-0 to an under 16s boys team?

It's a white man's world. YANBU* *

Do "we all know it is" really?

This post & thread reek of victim hood & some women's weapons grade preciousness tbh.

If it really is such a man's world , perhaps you could tell me why?

• most ads are aimed at women
• there's widespread & woeful depiction & mocking of men & being male in advertising
• car insurance is cheaper for women , surely a government agency or department can recognise this as clear sexual discrimination!? And rectify it??
• the amount spent on women's health (excluding childbirth) clearly far exceeds men's health, just walk into any GP surgery and compare the number of women versus men accessing healthcare, yet every other thread on here seems to try to state otherwise. That's total feminist BS!!
• family law is still very much biased towards favouring the woman (financially, retention of family home & access to the children) over & at the direct expense of the man in question

Many women these days seem to want equal or preferential access to job opportunities, careers, etc while also being busy mothers, they still want doors held for them & seats offered to them etc, yet they want to consider themselves 'equal' as well. it's like they wish to retain the perks of chivalry & the traditional patriarchal protection of women, while also wanting equal pay, opportunity , etc, etc, etc These positions are incompatible, but very few enlightened feminists can see beyond their sense of victimhood to realise that things like positive discrimination, bigger spending on healthcare for women and most consumer spending being centered around women consumers are indicators that it really is far from the man's world posters around here would try to convince you it is.

That's just total bollocks these days!!!

Further to this comment, what about all the unpleasant and dangerous jobs where the majority of workers are men? For example working on fishing trawlers, deep sea divers mending cables and pipes, workers in oil rigs to name just a few. I don’t hear much of a cry for women to get involved in these industries.

Victim hood?

That'd be because women generally are, uh, victims??