Sexism examples

[Magicboobies]

Has anyone got any examples of sexism here in UK recently?
husband truly believes there is not much sexism “these days” 🙄 we work in the same profession and i gave him a few examples of at work and he was like “really! I’m sure most people don’t experience sexism nowadays”
I agree we have come a long way but also think he doesn’t see and a lot of little things will go un noticed

Had a passenger ask to come and visit the bridge while my ship was on passage. Got them up. Man acted all shocked that “they let a woman drive something this big” then told me he expected the boss would be up to park it for me since it goes alongside stern first. “Don’t want to risk you reversing it do we love? We all know what women drivers are like” hilarious.

Hello, i am a 46 yo man, recently became awareness of my masculinism and I learn a lot reading all your posts. Thank you for that.

Perhaps you could show him this comment I received on Facebook last week for having the temerity to comment on a post about football.

It's shocking just how early it starts, too. I used to be a Year 2 teacher, and at the beginning of an academic year (so they were all 6 years old) I mentioned something about my motorbike.
Some of the boys then joked and laughed about it:

"This is Mrs Idiot on her motorbike: 'Aargh! How do you stop this thing?!'"
Whilst pretending to be me swerving all over the place. 🙄

We had a window cleaner come to our house. I was busy with kids etc.. and he managed to persuade me to sign up £140 for a window clean as I wasn't really listening etc.. Checked with my next door neighbour as thought it was a bit steep and they were paying £20. I think he thought I was a middle-class woman living in a nice-ish house and would not know the going rate. It made me really angry for the men who try to take advantage of women, vulnerable people and older people.

Married titles and surname changes are just two examples of the patriarchy still existing. I'm a married Ms but be honest - how many other women are? Only one I know personally.

I am. Has been confusing people for over 20 years that I wasn’t forced to change my name and title because I made a legal commitment to another human by virtue of having a vagina!

Bit daft to agree to pay £140 for a window clean though. 🤣 Bet he laughed all the way to the pub.

£140? I’m hoping that was a typo for £40 and he merely doubled it.
otherwise, if he comes back I think I’d be telling him that surely that was a yearly rate.

I had a play date at the weekend, I’d only ever met the mum before at school and she dropped the child round and the child’s dad collected them.
I answered the door and my husband sat on the sofa, I said hello and he looked round to my husband and said hello. I said how well behaved his child had been and he didn’t reply but started chatting to my husband. Everytime I spoke to him he replied to my husband as though it was him that spoke.
Then as he left he said I’m Paul by the way (not real name) and shook my husband’s hand, who by this time was standing next to me.
I said bye and he turned to my husband and said bye. I’ve never felt so invisible in my own home.

I take issue with your H’s position of denial /skepticism after you’ve explained your experiences, and your response of seeking evidence to seek to demonstrate the problems and convince him.

Ask him to take a look at the Euro 2024 and the Euro 2025 marketing materials and see if he can spot the difference and if he sees any subtle sexism? * *

Big fat lazy Dad parked on double yellows (right outside the school gate) had the audacity to tell me to move my car so he could fit his ridiculous oversized car into a gap it wouldn’t actually fit into. I told him I was leaving (I don’t usually park anywhere near the school but had a sick child to take home so was there early). He then told me I was a stupid woman who can’t drive. I was parked perfectly sensibly (if I was parked how he wanted, I would have been on the yellow lines). If I was my husband driving the car, he would NOT have said anything. I think he just likes to sit there and bark at all the poor mums, doing the lions share of parenting and juggling work and life. I told him he was boring, to piss off and park further away so he could shift some lard. He didn’t like that and kept calling me a stupid woman, I just laughed and drove off.

Being catcalled.

You mean the world 30 years ago.

Maybe he’s a “stupid” entitled and fat lazy man who is the one who cannot judge parking spots or exercise his brain to find another one.

I didn't actually hear him when he said the amount as I was busy with kids/dog etc... We live in central London in an area which used to be working class but has been gentrified so there are lots of posh people who have moved with funds for full-time housekeepers etc.. so for them £140 for a whole house window clean would be normal. Not for me of course (or my neighbour) so I sent him a message saying that I would be quite happy to have the same quote as my neighbour. Our road is full of very old and vulnerable people who don't have a lot of money but bought their houses when no one wanted to live in London and you could buy a house for £20k etc..and if this guy tries this sort of thing with me then he will be trying it on all along the street I'm sure.

But if you keep your "maiden" name, you're (probably) keeping your dad's name. And even if you take your mum's surname, hers was probably her dad's as well.

We need a whole new system for surnames really.

I told him he was boring, to piss off and park further away so he could shift some lard. He didn’t like that and kept calling me a stupid woman, I just laughed and drove off👏

I was telling DH about this yesterday and saying how horrible it used to be walking past building sites. That at least is something that has improved (though may also be partly to do with my advancing age).

I would probably assume a plumber and carpenter were male and a cleaner was female as well. We are so solidly conditioned...

I think I'd have just walked out actually though DH would probably get embarrassed if I made a scene. But it needs more bolshy women to make a scene.

By the way, did anyone see that an employment tribunal has ruled that "Karen" is a sexist, ageist and racist slur?

Loos on planes are unisex and individual. Not spaces with shared washbasins etc.

People who can't understand that really need to go back to school.

men being the only ones considered to own their names is peak sexism. It doesn’t matter where the name comes from, once she has it, it belongs to a woman.

‘Girls aren’t as good as boys at maths. They’re just more careful.’ Primary school male teacher.

Yes there is indeed a lot of sexist today and it's everywhere. I've noticed it in places where for some strange reason nobody pays attention to or brushes it off and makes me feel like the crazy one and I'm frustrated and exhausted of all this sh*t. Like take sex for instance. Why is it that we get more examples from TV where a man pins a woman against the wall and not the other way around? As if that's the normal or default. And every time people use language to describe things they make it seem like the feminine is a variation form the male making male seem like the norm when it's not because there is no norm. When talking about the 'main act' of sex people always say he penetrates her. How come I never hear people say she engulfs him or traps him? why is the emphasis always on the man and his part? it's always worded as a way to make it seem like the guy is doing the work and the girl is passive. I think it's really unfair also how we always get say in animation or anime, we get the girl blushing more than the guy or many times the guy doesn't even blush at all. In many fan art, I've noticed him taking up more space than her and it's okay? How do we not notice the repeated bias of blushing and the space difference and we're supposed to accept and go along with the idea of that being the 'normal' way girls and guys act? That's not only inaccurate but also unfair and it's ignoring the couples where the guy tends to blush more and the girl doesn't show her emotions outwardly. And it's so frustrating because nowadays, term like 'man', 'guy', 'bro', 'dude'. etc have become 'general terms' to the point that it's now the plural default for some reason oh but if it were reversed oh my God forbid we ever call males girls within a mixed group. Why do the males presence matter more than the females? and why are females being linguistically erased all the time? Why don't we get enough female representation when it comes to accomplishments? like in educational systems it's almost always men who accomplished great feats in history and women are treated even if subtly as those 'rare exceptions'. Women's abilities are also not mentioned as much. Why do people always point out guys being stronger or better at physical tasks yet people can't point out when women excel at physical tasks such as with flexibility, agility, endurance, etc. Why can't we ever acknowledge women's natural abilities without making them seem like a subcategory/exception or like a second man? WOMEN ARE WOMEN, not men. We're all humans yes, but we have to recognize and teach more about our differences. And I feel like what makes women powerful, incredible and great aren't talked of as much. So no wonder a lot of women struggle with self esteem and confidence, and bad self image all because of society and media not showing women's side of human nature. Like what makes a woman different from a man isn't just her being able to have children. It's many more things but people don't seem to understand that. What's even more infuriating is that women are human being who have ego as well yet for some reason people always tend to pay more attention to men's ego. Why is it that I always find the male character who started out sexist but went through a change yet he had 'character development' yet there isn't enough representation for say women who might feel the same about men. There are a few instances but they're usually related to their own history; e.g. having toxic men influence their views on all men. Yet can't it be simply that a female character feels hatred towards males and has the same kind of development? Kingdom? Never 'Queendom?' Viking? never 'Viqueens?' It's like society doesn't know how to honor women's qualities and abilities that make them different form men while treating them as humans as well. They make such a big deal about 'how to treat them well' and society's definition of that is apparently treating them exactly as guys? no. Not all girls wanna be part of 'the guys' the prob is that society thinks being 'one of the guys' is the default and 'one of the girls' is the variation. And there's many more examples like the "may you kiss the bride" instead of "may you kiss each other". Women leading in dance and sex (not just a variation or 'switch'/'break' from the 'norm'.) It should be normalized more. And there should definitely be more female leaders, and more couples should adopt female's last names after getting married. If we truly want to live in an equal world, we shouldn't be doing these things and expressing ourselves and showing things in such a biased form. Give equity where it's needed and equality where it's needed. I don't understand what's so hard about this.