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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Mishaps in the name of feminism

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IamTitanium · 09/01/2015 21:49

Recently was having a good chat/debate about feminism (amongst other things) with a few of our mates.

Today a few of the same mates are over and the wind is blowing crazy, I mention to husband that our gate keeps banging and said we should sort it as it will wind the neighbours up. He said he would sort it by putting a few bricks against it in a moment.

I could tell one was waiting for my reaction, and I was not about to give him a chance to joke about wanting equal rights until it came to moving a few bricks in the dark wind and rain-hahaha Hmm

So I said I was going to do it, off I went and forgot there is a good foot of mud next to the path (thought it was all path), and because of the bad rain the mud was mush, I fell over, and with falling and trying to get myself out of the mud and back on my feet I was covered.

I even stayed outside for what seemed ages hoping they would go out for a cig, so I could creep back in, in the end I was bored and cold so braved walking back through covered head to toe in mud.

All cleaned up now, and whilst typing this I have heard the freaking gate bang again Hmm.

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Isabeller · 09/01/2015 21:52

What rotten luck.

IamTitanium · 09/01/2015 21:54

Tell me about it, next time I will not mention I can hear anything Grin

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Isabeller · 09/01/2015 21:57
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New thread title 'selective deafness in the cause of discreet feminism'

IamTitanium · 09/01/2015 22:16
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2andout · 09/01/2015 22:28

I think that's called taking one for the team Grin

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 09/01/2015 22:45

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IamTitanium · 09/01/2015 22:59

Has no one else got any tales to stop me feeling like a tit, or knob I am all about gender equality even with insults!

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YonicSleighdriver · 09/01/2015 23:44

I have a massive bruise on my leg where a table jumped up and hit me.

It's not a feminist story but it made a huge nose and I felt like a nincompoop.

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 09/01/2015 23:49

Years ago the very lovely elderly man who lived across the hall from us knocked the door and asked if 'the laddie' was in as he needed help to change a lightbulb. Wee soul had set up his ladder and moved the couches round and everything but hadn't felt steady enough to go and do it himself.

Well the feminist in me wasn't going to have him wait for 'the laddie' (other flat mate) to come home, so despite his protestations I nipped up the ladder. It's never too late to convert an elderly gentleman to the cause.

Till I slipped off the second bottom rung and sprained my ankle.

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 09/01/2015 23:50

Oh and there's also 'girls can't down a pint in one'

I can down them. But they come straight back up again, apparently.

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 09/01/2015 23:53

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EBearhug · 10/01/2015 00:02

girls can't down a pint in one

I can (without it coming back up again, too). Or at least, I used to be able to back when I had more than about 3 drinks a year. I can still down a pint of water in one, but I don't think that counts.

LightningOnlyStrikesOnce · 10/01/2015 12:54

I prefer to get my dh to do any grating in our house. I've grated my fingers / thumbs / knuckles far too many times (carrot salad with blood sauce? yum). I also have a friend who was forbidden from using kitchen knives for a while, don't know how she's doing now.

My dh also handles anything technology-related or else... but then he is an IT engineer and I'm not. He's currently trying to talk me into using a smartphone, I think so he can pass his old one on and get a new one. I'll let you know if it gives me an electric shock or not.

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 10/01/2015 12:56

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AmantesSuntAmentes · 10/01/2015 13:17

Isn't assuming your husband wouldn't have fallen over too, discriminatory? Smile

Not a mishap but amusing - I was recently carrying a series of potted trees and shrubs (approx 50kg each), up a flight of stairs. Neighbour (male) insisted on carrying one. I could have put my foot down down but amused, chose not to - and he couldn't even lift it off the ground Grin

AmantesSuntAmentes · 10/01/2015 13:18

Isn't assuming your husband wouldn't have fallen over too, discriminatory? Smile

Not a mishap but amusing - I was recently carrying a series of potted trees and shrubs (approx 50kg each), up a flight of stairs. Neighbour (male) insisted on carrying one. I could have put my foot down down but amused, chose not to - and he couldn't even lift it off the ground Grin

AmantesSuntAmentes · 10/01/2015 13:18

Isn't assuming your husband wouldn't have fallen over too, discriminatory? Smile

Not a mishap but amusing - I was recently carrying a series of potted trees and shrubs (approx 50kg each), up a flight of stairs. Neighbour (male) insisted on carrying one. I could have put my foot down down but amused, chose not to - and he couldn't even lift it off the ground Grin

IamTitanium · 10/01/2015 15:40

Na Amantes I did not mention/mean to assume he would not fall over, but he could have been covered in mud and not me Grin

However he does have very good balance, not because of his penis but he was brought up in the mountains in another Country and for many years was used to living with snow and ice for the majority of the year. Me on the other hand clumsy as fuck and no balance to boot, sometimes I am stood still and loose my balance (honestly I am not even joking or exaggerating about that).

I have to ask why were you carrying such large trees/shrubs upstairs, do you have a lovely balcony?

I peeled my thumb today. Just after I stabbed it with a knife.

Does that help?

Nope in this instance not.

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BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 10/01/2015 16:09

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IamTitanium · 10/01/2015 16:42

I can imagine.

Murphy's law though...

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AmantesSuntAmentes · 10/01/2015 19:20

Ha! Damnit. Grin

My house is built up the side of a valley, so gardens and house are on different levels. Moving anything from one area to another entails a climb or descent. I suppose steps would have been more accurate but it's a full flight of them!

Seriouslyffs · 10/01/2015 19:32

Barely relevant but I had a funny parenting/ raising feminists moment this week. As he's taller than me and his sisters, I got DS to change a lightbulb in DDs room. Lots of ribbing from him- 'how many girls does it take to change a lightbulb, yada yada, call yourself a feminist...'
He stretched up and with perfect comic timing, as I said, 'don't panic if the light comes on' it did, he squealed like a girl and threw the lightbulb on the floor...

TooOldForGlitter · 10/01/2015 22:46

I sort of gave the opposite of this. I was out in the front garden yesterday tying up my Palm tree with net to try and stop the wind catching it and blowing it over. Neighbour opposite comes over, apparently he can't just sit and watch a "lady struggling". I wasn't. I said as much. He insisted he'd have it done in a jiff if I just stood aside and let him "take care of it". He's an elderly gent, lovely fella who meant no offence so I stood aside. He got his watch caught in the netting to the extent he stood shaking his arm vigorously up and down for five minutes and cut his finger on a sharp palm frond. He admitted defeat and I finished the job Grin

TooOldForGlitter · 10/01/2015 22:46

*have, not gave.

Seriouslyffs · 11/01/2015 08:46
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