hilarious if it wasn't so heinous comment by mother to son...

[Heathcliffscathy]

on way into selective school entrance exam this morning:

'...but I'm a girl, I don't know anything about difficult things like these exams because i've never had to take one...

my brain exploded.

Oh fuck

I don't know whether to laugh or cry

she was probably being ironic because of something the kid said

but lol

no no, no irony, she was making him feel better about having to go in for a morning's worth of exams. this was her way of building him up.

brain explodes again.

do you think he ends up misogynist pig? it's her fault if he does isn't it, he hasn't got a hope in hell...

A century of fighting for equality and this is where we've arrived.

Lovely.

Hope she has no daughters.

Oh no, obviously they were at home darning their brother's socks or baking him a cake. When he gets home they will fetch his slippers, make him a nice mug of cocoa and sing for him round the piano.

Actually, I've just strayed onto here as I don't really consider myself a feminist in the full sense of the word but this has made me want to break something.

Another exploding brain here

where do you find these women who do the cocoa and slippers thing? I've never met any :(

No doubt the daughter is being groomed for a hedge-fund manager.

You overheard one comment, with no context. Quit exploding.

mishy, it was a stupendously jaw dropping comment though wasn't it. not something i would say in any context. would you?

Agree with mishymoshy. If anyone chose to go round earwigging on my conversations with the children, they would be posting on MN like a shot.

Find out her email address and send her that Tony Porter video I posted on here the other day!

Ooopsadaisy - it's worse that she has sons. It's men who need educating more than women IMO.

well if you said it omnium it was you. i have quoted pretty much verbatim.

i'd love to know how this comment could be justified in any context tbh.

Sigh. No, it wasn't me. My point was that it's very easy to hear something in passing, and to make a (false) judgement on the basis of that.

I say crap like this to my sons sometimes

because they know I am being sarcastic to something they've said - kids in our house learn sarcasm early - all my children know that both DP and I are intelligent, with good degrees, DP has his PHd and I'm aiming for mine if I ever finish my fucking thesis

and if you overheard me you might think similar but you would be so wrong

do you really imagine that any woman with a 10 year old (assuming age) has never had to take an exam? really? how could it have been anything but ironic in the UK with our education system.

all the brain imploding is simply laughable

you have to trust me here as i was there: she was SO not being sarcastic. she was genuinely bigging up her son. by letting him know that his big clever strong self was encountering something so beyond her ken that she couldn't really imagine it.

sorry but my brain has imploded again.

She said 'these exams' so maybe she meant she'd never had to take a school entrance exam because the local selective school to where she used to live was a boys school. Hence the relevance of saying 'but I'm a girl'.
At least that's how it read to me.

I really would save the exploding brain for something of more consequence.