Assumptions

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Two very petty things have annoyed me today

One the assumption in the mixed swimming relay that the oldest boy should do the final leg, not the fastest swimmer (Several schools had very serious club female swimmers with them)

Why is it assumed that only Men would be interested in nautical charts the woman's background is dull, www.seasaltcornwall.co.uk/men

I guess the insult here goes both ways. I'm a Woman I'm interested in clothes not technical things. Men don't care about clothes so lets try and hold their interest.

First thing deffo outrageous, how strange, lodge a complaint, ask them what on earth??? etc. That is simply bizarre.

Second thing not sure what you're talking about!

Agree about the first instance.

Absolutely no idea what the problem is with the clothing website though. DH would love these, but he's into pirates (checking to see if they come in my size - I'm quite partial to them, too.)

I just liked the map background and wondered why only men's clothes had it.

Just get annoyed that anything vaguely "sciency" for want of a better term is automatically presented as male.

Not that my DH would ever be caught looking at a clothes web site, I'm afraid that stereo type is 100% accurate in this house.

Oh and Sea Salt stuff is nice if a bit expensive.

Oh, okay. I suppose I've seen so many even more obvious gender demarcations in advertising of clothes, particularly for children (footballs and trucks for boys, princesses and fairies for girls, yada yada,) that this didn't register as being so bad.

DH looooooves to shop, for anything, for everything, including clothes, but not particularly on line though.

I just love maps and I've holidayed in that bit of Cornwall so it jumped out at me.

That things only come in pink or blue, when the DDs want turquoise and purple and are too old to want fairies on anything is a whole other thread.

I'm with you here

I'm having a daughter in July and cannot find any clothes in the main retailers that aren't distinctly girlie

I'm also really keen for her to be treated as an equal in all things but somehow I know she'll get given dolls and sparkly sh*t

As for the swimming, I'd march right up to the coach and tell him/her. I kick my husband's ass in the pool!

The first thing is like something from the middle ages.

The oldest male gets the most important job. Blimmin eck!!!

Well not most important it's a team thing but YKWIM

I missed the oldest male thing, where's that?

The kids clothes are lovely - mostly unisex. The whale shirt is brilliant, and loving the broad stripey trousers.

The first bit - "the oldest boy should do the final leg"

I'm not going to complain about the swimming because they were just trying to come up with a simple system for the last race of a very busy afternoon, but it just struck me as one of those automatic assumptions that my DH simply wouldn't notice.

An old one, but I got a new phone when I was about 14 that came in either pink or grey/turquoise. When we asked for it, we were told it was out of stock. Eventually transpired they were only out of stock on the pink and had plenty of the grey/turquoise, but had assumed I wouldn't want that one