In plain sight - comments by men at adverts

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I noticed some time ago on the bin fire that is X, that if the charity Refuge put out a promotional appeal, the comments were just horrific.

I thought that maybe X is just especially bad and didn't look anymore.

I'm on LinkedIn, a so called professional platform. There's a current advert by Scottish Widows about the pension pay gap. The comments are just as horrific.

These are men under their professional profiles making comments like. ..

There is no gap

Women don't work as long or as hard

What about the family court gender gap against men

When did you see a woman repairing a road in winter

It is unbelievable. So depressing.

I agree but I've also met a fair few horrid females over the years too. The types that like to gossip, make nasty comments, and form little cliques at work etc. So I don't think it's really helpful to create an 'us' and 'them' dynamic with men. It's better to judge people on their individual merits IMO.

Not mending the roads but certainly saw plenty of old ladies in Ukraine shovel snow and scrape ice off pavements in winter when I went, Dec 2008.

The thing I always try to remember about these comments is that the kind of men who can actually be arsed to write them are the kind who have an axe to grind. Normal men don’t bother, so you aren’t seeing a random cross-section of men (fortunately).

I only create an us and them dynamic with men who have those attitudes. I don't want anything to do with them. And as men commit nearly all crime, particularly violent and sexual crime, it very much is us and them. It's not a case that the sexes are the same or women are as bad as men as we really aren't, and I utterly reject any attempt to blame women for men's behaviour or crimes. Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them. End of. It's not the same.

Well, yeah, men are far more violent. I just don't tend to view all men as the same when going about my daily life. Interpersonal violence isn't really top of the list of things I'm worried about on the average day at work.

We have 2 female dustbin wagon drivers 😀 at my Council, the people running street cleaning, car parks and the Finance Director are all female :-)

The fact that men call women whom disagree, or stand up for the rights they still have “misandrist “ tells you everything you need to know.

~Some Men have now decided that women who are outspoken and argue back, obviously hate men.

Being a mother of 3 boys, and in the past, been a quite a strident feminist, I want my boys to grow up with respect and regard for all women … not teach them that we’re better or more worthy.

I’m so fed up of the roadworks argument. Who’s cleaning up all the shit in care homes up and down the country? Very, very few men, that’s for sure.

Before anyone says’ ‘but I know a male care worker’ yes so do I.

There are defo more male carers and nurses than female roadworkers, but I take your point.