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...

Most of the novels taught in schools would be written by women about women, and progressive male teachers would do half a lesson a year on how the male characters (who gets murdered, raped or commits suicide as a plot point to explore the feelings of the female characters) in the book were written in a sexist way.

The male teacher would be considered a little strident and the half lesson would be considered to be 'making the course all about girls.'

There would be one set text on the list that was about a minority ethnic character who was also poor, gay and a man, so that the exam board could claim its chosen novels covered a diverse range of groups. Almost no schools would actually teach that novel.

When the virtually untaught book was removed from the book list by Margaret Gove, nobody would notice but various national newspapers would have articles complaining that the book where the woman gets murdered as a plot point has been removed from the book list. There would be a twitter storm to reinstate 'Of Weasels and Women.'

I've been imagining men wearing Spanx, getting hair extensions and dying their hair. Ha ha!!

Contraception that could lower libido, make you fat, feel blergh because of hormones.... Yeah right!! If men took The Pill it would somehow make their cock longer, burn fat and irresistible to all and sundry.

I'm also imagining Sky Sports making male footballers wear skimpy women's beach volleyball type clothes. Match of the Day not discussing goals but showing lingering shots of ass and crotch.

The token male who got on the company board would be the subject of gossip that he only got there by sleeping with the boss.

Or if the token male was in some way not sexually desirable by women, then he must have got there some other underhand way. Maybe because he is also the token homosexual the company needs, so they can tick the 'equality' box.

There would be lots of TV programmes made about the experiences of FtoM's and MtoF's would be largely ignored by the media.

University students receiving their Spinster of Science degrees after three years' study.

In public space, except t those associated with dating, women would generally only speak to other women, they would habitually interrupt and talk over men. All people walking into a room full of strangers would instantly defer to any female.present before addressing any man in the room. Any man objecting to or.pointing this out would reveal themselves to be difficult and unmaly. Women would be leading men around everywhere, hands on the small of backs, back of necks, leading by the hand. Being handled everywhere in this manner would be framed to men as romantic.

Jokes about women trying to stay free and men trying to get them to commit would be mirrored by endless agony columns where men dissected every aspect of their relationship and their lover to figure out why she wouldn't commit. There would be legion of.middle aged men with flawed careers from child rearing left as LP while women enough masse hooked up with younger partners. There'd be films like The First Husbands' Club in which men so treated were shown to lose weight and sort out their wardrobe, some of them might even attract another woman. This would be marketed as empowering.

Men's physical education and experience would be neglected and gentrified, with an absolute emphasis on appearing both beautiful and.petite. Women would be taken to the park by their mum's from a young age and engaged in active and strength building activities. The emphasis on women's fitness would be the development of strength and capacity; men would be actively discouraged from 'bulking up' and instead encouraged to aim for BMIs which left them technically underweight and undernourished. Men would be sold clothes modelled on fourteen year old boys, many of them with eating disorders. Women's innately superior stamina, capacity for physical plasticity, their ability to incubate and give birth to babies, ability to maintain subcutaneous fat and ability to resist malnutrition, would be narrativised as the basis of their physical superiority. Men would be regarded as fundamentally incapacitated by their testicles and discouraged from physical activity that could be a risk to them. Schools and other public institutions doing risk assessments would assess any contact sport or.any involving bats or balls a risk to testicles, and softened versions of each sport would be practiced by boys, segregated for their own safety.

Don't forget the sixty trillion 'stories' on Kevin and Keith Kardashian Kim

Any TV programmes about straight, white, males would be labeled as special interest, cos after all why would anyone else care. Quite like the idea of that one!

In households where both partners work, men ensuring that the mundane tasks that are required to be done on a daily basis, just to keep the house ticking over, are done.

Ensuring the family laundry moves through the chain of cleaning - washing it, hanging it out, drying it, sorting and folding it up.

Keeping a constant eye on pantry, bathroom and cleaning cupboard stores, to make sure the household basics are always in stock.

Meal planning.

Meal cooking.

Wiping down bathrooms surfaces and cleaning the loo each day.

Checking school notices, getting school kit ready, making packed lunches, knowing what's needed for each child on each day, etc, ad nauseum.

Men constantly doing the sorts of things around the house that are barely noticeable when done quietly and efficiently, but everyone is highly inconvenienced by, when not done.

Actually the Daily Mail internet page really would be the most mind bending of all, every hateful message handily in one place. What the hell would Rachel Littlejohn and Les Jones columns be like

Yes, we would need a whole new lexicon. I suggest testerical and testeria for a start.

We would need to euphemistically rename all the nasty things that women do so as not to upset them.

The men getting murdered each week by their female partners wouldn't be mentioned. We might mention the odd real murder i.e. One that wasn't caused by the man getting a big uppity and probably not knowing his place. But only if he was young and conventially attractive.

Men changing their names on marriage. Women congratulating each other on the birth of a daughter to 'carry on the family name'. All woman being referred to as Ms. Unmarried men being referred to as Master so society could see who was still available for the plucking.

Yes and when a male model is murdered by their super famous athlete girlfriend we would shake our heads and bemoan the loss of her talent to the world.

Being told they only got the job because they were a 'boy' and therefore positive discrimination must be the reason (because otherwise no one would ever consider employing a man in such a female-dominated industry).

Female colleagues making statements like 'of course it isn't really worth educating boys - they just play at having a job until they have children'

The assumption that they cannot be the main breadwinner because they are male - it must be their wife that earns the money (and if this isn't the case, then their wife isn't performing their womanly duty)

Kim147 what an excellent piece. That's a brilliant documentary in a tiny package.

'Testerical',brilliant! That really should be a word...

Am currently watching a TV program featuring Duran Duran. They are all beautifully made up and wearing flamboyant, colourful clothes. Imagine if that was normal for men to ( have to ) look like that all the time?

Mistress of Arts and Mistress of Philosophy degrees. Bring it on!

Do you think a female MP should say that to Cameron?

Hell yes, and if he complains everyone can talk about how pathetic he is and he was being testerical, typical men, we shouldn't have let them out of the kitchen.

'Jokes'

What do you say to a man with two black eyes? Nothing, you've already told him twice.

Any man complaining would be told he has no sense of humour, fucking uppity masculinists.

KristinaM, I do that too.