Would you like to play "It's like Feminisim never happened" with me?

[Marchpane]

I have a gem: I'm sorting out the home insurance renewal but since the last policy I have taken redundancy and I'm going back to do a postgraduate course. Which I told them.

They now have my occupation listed as "housewife" which is pretty yuk, but under employer's business it say "domestic service".

Presumably my husband is my employer and I spend my time in servitude to him?

Any one more?

well done Mr Poshpaws. Dh is the same. And he manages to have an expression of 'you knobber' when he does it

"Why, do you operate the drill with your knob?"

Well, I would play, but apparently feminism is pretty trivial.

(Yes, I'm bitching about a thread in another thread, but it's the AIBU to want civil partnerships for heterosexuals' one, so at least you can't say I didn't make it clear.)

ROFL ElephantsAndMiasmas

My Neighbour is old so apparently its ok for him to be a Pig, he is often saying how 'well trained' his Wife is and DP needs to 'take the reins' and 'put me in my place' (he really is a twat of the highest form)

I must admit it was about 5 years ago, have never been back since as a point of principle. Same restaurant massively patronised a mate of mine (aged 21) who asked for a particular wine. Waiter said "I'm going to pour a bit into your glass, so you can taste it and see what you think". Mate says "Yes, that's fine, we'll take the bottle and we'll have a new waiter please."

ooh just thought of another one which I find hilarious - DH and I and my brother and his girlfriend used to go to a very old fashioned restaurant every Xmas. They had 2 versions of the menu, one with prices and one without. Guess which one the men were given? Us 'ladies' didn't care too much, just went ahead and blithely ordered the lobster - cripplingly expensive bill

Admittedly this is a few years ago -

My Mum went into the bank to take some cash out from their joint account. This was the account that both their salaries were paid into. They made her wait for ages, it turned out they were phoning Dad at work to tell him that his wife was in the bank trying to take some money out - did she have his permission?

He said "Give her her money, then close the account"

can I just cite all the Sainsburys ads with the twatty wife/mother who has her little shelf stacking job and asks the DH to 'babysit' the children. Takes the children on an outing where DH and DS look at trains and big penis type engines whilst Wifey and DD bake. Then to add everey cliche into the mix teenage DS is crap at shopping and someone in the store asks him if "she" has 'got him doing the shoppin' ( because it is womans work and boys should not do it - especially as teenage boys are, of course, useless - or asleep - or sulking.)

Could there be a more totally shite advertising campaign? I think not

Oh, ok, I will play now I've done a strop.

I just got a card for my new account which has me down as 'Miss LittleRedDragon'. Possibly petty, but I prefer Ms, and also, I'm married, so 'miss' feels pretty strange. Got a replacement card.

It's now 'Mrs LittleRedDragon'.

This is after pointing to the correct title on the screen - what happens, does it default to the nearest option in horror if you click on 'Ms'?

Also, I've noticed an awful lot of people have the same default reaction when they ask me if I've changed my name to DH's. I say no; they say 'Oh, you haven't done it yet.'

jules - but well done to your dad!
Bumper, mine goes up when i add DH as he has points, so yes it must be his age :o

My mum occasionally comes out with, "ABC went and got herself pregnant (tut tut)" -- mum, if you know some way of getting yourself pregnant, I wish you had told me about it, because it would have saved me a LOT of trouble.

I get well-meaning remarks from female neighbours when I clean the gutters or attend to any high up painting -- nothing hurtful, mostly admiring my grit and determination and fearlessness about ladders, and offering the services of their Hs.

I worked in a dentist's when I was a teenager sending out reminder letters. None of the patient records had any titles on - just first names. So if it was a female I addressed it to 'Ms' - apparently people complained and so I just had to put 'Mrs' after that

DP got asked if he was the 'head of the household' the other day, by someone doing a door to door survey. Haven't heard that term for a while.

Builders etc turning up and immediately asking 'is your husband home?', or phoning and when I answer 'can I speak to your husband?' - (a) I do not in fact have a husband, (b) it's my house too, and you really can speak to me, my little girly brain is actually capable of understanding what you say...

Pag, have you heard the new radio one? When the kids go on about being hungry/thirsty to their mum and then the husband pipes up and says 'Actually, love, I'm a little peckish myself' .

I wanna shout 'Get up and get your own f*ing snack...all of ya! '

'offering the services of their Hs.'

For work requiring a ladder....

Don't tell me Posh. I will just get grumpy

Katie Price.

A council workman once said to me 'do you have a husband' yes why? 'because this door will need blah blah blah'

I said 'do you need a penis or could I just use my electric screwdriver instead?'

Ha ha.

Yy to the supermarket ads Pag. I'll see your Sainsbo adds and raise you any laundry detergent but particularly Vanish.

at thefirstmrs.

You are all denying your essential femininity and your flowery wombs.

I am married and am a Ms and own surname. When I give my name before my marital status, I regularly get pitying looks and a glance at my (generally ringless) finger.

When we moved to our new house I arranged Virgin to install Broadband/TV/phone etc. Dh answered the door and the engineer immediately started asking DH about where to put the Wi-fi router etc, DH didn't have a clue what he was talking about(he would find it hard to work an etcha-sketch TBH). The engineer looked most shocked when DH said he would have to speak to me about it all.

thefirst...you don't understand. Drills and complicated stuff like that are actually penis operated.

I apparently have a flowery cunt. But I have never looked to check.

no? where ?