What sexist behaviour would be the most shocking if reversed?

[GrumpyOldNag]

I was thinking feminist thoughts to myself (as you do ), and I was thinking about how this belief that sexism doesn't exist anymore creates a huge backlash against anyone who speaks out against it, which in turn makes people who do in fact believe in equal rights for men and women try to distance themselves from feminism because it's perceived as crazy and unreasonable. The problem is that a lot of it is so ingrained in our culture and society that it is completely normalised, and the majority of people don't even notice it anymore.

So what would be the most obvious, outrageous sexist behaviour, if we swapped the genders? Would it be men being followed, harassed and intimidated in the street, or on the music channel men gyrating and grinding dressed increasingly revealing clothing while women are all fully clothed? Men dancing in the windows of the red light district, or the overwhelming majority of politicians and CEOs being female?

What in your opinion would bring about the most uproar if one day sexism suddenly switched genders?

Sorry if any part of this doesn't make sense, I had a beautifully written OP all typed out and then my iPad lost it all for no apparent reason...

This is the thread that just keeps giving isn't it..?

< bit sad tho >

Despite documentary evidence to the contrary, a widespread belief that the title "Mster" pertained to divorced men would persist.

Men keeping their own name on marriage would be met by incredulity from some, who might come out with gems like "well, you can call yourself that but legally, your real name is your wife's, isn't it?" - or they would be told their name was just their mother's anyway, so why not change it?

You would have tons of men explaining that they changed their name because it was ugly and hard to pronounce, nothing to do with the customs at all. Interestingly, no women would have those difficult ugly names..

At the school fayre the stalls would be manned by men whilst the women either are at home gardening.

PTA men only of course.

When rarely women would drop dc to school they'd avoid "all these men with nothing to do chatting away the mornnings at the school gates" (heard such comment in rl by a man. Wonder what men do outside the office, at football matches, at their lunch break).

The woman who cooked the steaks on the barbecue would be praised to high heaven for her clever culinary ability while the men who made everything else that went with the meal would be totally ignored.

After men have children, people don't bother to learn their name or call them something generic like "sir" or "mate". People just call them "dad".

school run dads would slow down the "important" traffic in the mornings.

A film should be made out of this...

Men hiding their razors, paying many pounds every month for fragranced ones, covers and unable to talk openly about when they need to shave. Advertisrment showing them frolicing atound with oddly colured razors.

Being told "don't be such a big boy's shirt"

Netball World Cup commentators would all be female, as would the coaches, match officials and Presidents of national and international netball bodies.

A mother wouldn't turn up to their child's birthday party and no one would bat an eyelid.

And football! We're winning girls (yes, really!) those silly boys just cant get it together, can they? No point putting them on the telly

Girls would be considered much more straightforward than boys because when they have a disagreement then just thump each other and all is right once more. Boys on the other hand can remember and recount what someone did to them six months previously. This apparently is more complex and obviously a lot more difficult and worse to deal with.

In an imaginary reversed sexism world, bad behaviour of girls would be excused with the phrase "girls will be girls".

Although men and women all have a variety of different colouring, including hair, women's colouring is unremarked upon but men are called "blonds" "redheads" and "brunets". It is very funny to ask very personal questions about body hair of men with red hair.

• but if they object, however mildly, they will be called "fiery redhead" to the end of their days and everything else they say can be discounted

Boys would have silly flimsy shoes that didn't stay on properly.

Men would have to walk in heels.

All pockets would be removed from men's suits.

The aisle with 'boys toys' would be only blue, no other colours. The buttons on their toys would say things like, "you go, DIY Prince" and giggle. If they tried to play with anything cool like the robotic pony, they would get laughed at indulgently and called a Tom Girl.

Small boys on the beach would wear something like this. Girls would wear something like this.

In an imaginary reversed sexism world, male scientists who make scientific discoveries would be expected to answer the news media's question "do you have a girlfriend?", instead of being asked to describe their scientific breakthrough.

The male contraceptive pill would have been formulated five decades ago, owing to stringent social and financial enforcement of legal and caring responsibilities for all children.

And, vesuvia when they died, and the BBC wrote an article about them, the tone would be sheer amazement that a woman scientist, yes, a women invented something. And, was a woman while she did it. Woman, I tells you.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27951043 BTW on my Mobile site the title is "Woman who invented Kevlar dies". Presumably because 'Stephanie Kwolek' was too big for the title and Inventor of Kevlar dies wouldn't have fitted either I suppose.

"The Prime Minister and all the other main party leaders would be women with young children, who would happily pose with a newspaper that featured a daily picture of a teenage boy's naked arse. "

Yes. And the widespread criticism of this action would not focus on this paper's perpetration of sexism day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, for 44 years and counting, but only on a particular terrible act of that paper 25 years ago.

Hullo! Back from the dead, just been reading through the thread and you lot are amazing (and pissed, rightly so!). If anyone tells you sexism doesn't exist anymore, if you see people like this
southern-conservatism.tumblr.com/post/38237773193/i-dont-need-feminism-because-real-feminism-is
Or this
womenagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/post/60758155694/allthingswittyandneko-i-dont-need-feminism
Show them this thread. Tell them what we've just told each other. And then ask them to tell you again why we don't need feminism anymore.

This thread has made me very angry, but in a good way.

You could walk into any high school in the country and find a handful of pupils, nearly all girls in the "exclusion suite" for serious misbehaviour - such as fighting with other girls or swearing at staff etc. You could walk into the classrooms and see girls sprawled across desks engaging the majority of the teacher's time with low level disruption such as calling out, shouting sexual innendos, making farting noises etc The boys in the class would be sitting together either waiting for the teacher to resume the lesson or, having given up, either chatting quietly with other boys or getting on with their work according to how conscientious they are. After school, the girls who had been most disruptive would be given extra time and resources to get rid of their pent up energy by playing team sports. Should they beat the team from the school up the road, they will be lauded and presented with badges at a special assembly and, when they are next disruptive in class, the teachers will make a speical point of commenting on how good their sporting prowess was in the hope that this will get them onside. Should the teacher address any of the boys in the class with a question, or really any observation at all, this will be interupted by one of the girls shouting out either the answer or some hilarious sexual innendo.