The Most Sexist Thing That's Happened To You

[The Lesbian Flower]

Lucky for me, I haven't experienced too many of these bad situations in my life. The most sexist thing that's ever happened to me is when my school orchestra was getting new uniforms. The girls got uniforms and the boys got tuxedos. I told my teacher that I wanted a tux and she basically laughed in my face. She said that girls wore dresses and boys wore pants and that's just how it is. I petitioned the school for the option of a gender-neutral uniform and thankfully got my way. Now any girl can wear pants if she so chooses.

So, what's the most sexist thing that's ever happened to you?

 

[Liquid Ocelot]

Not on topic, but I read that about three times and each time I read 'sexist' I saw it was 'sexiest'. And each time your story confused me, because that situation wasn't sexy at all!

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So, what's the most sexist thing that's ever happened to you?

Actually, my job is really good about fair pay, so I get paid just as much as the men.

So, um... crap... **tries to think**

Um... when I walk into a game store, the employees tend to treat me like someone who is there to get a Wii Fit or something. Or they assume I'm looking for my "boyfriend".

Wow, that's lame. ^^;; I'm too tired to think right now. I'm sure I've got a worse "sexism" experience than that, I just can't think of one right now.

 

[Dumbdumbjr]

A girl I know wont talk to me anymore because "I have more feelings and want to talk more than a normal guy". Well, its a little more complicated but thats abou it.

 

[Dense_Electric]

In my senior year of high school I had a teacher who insisted on letting female students leave the classroom before the male students. After about a month of putting up with that bullshit, I just started walking out of the room when they did. Eventually I went to file a complaint with the school, but on the same day I tried to, he retired and the problem resolved itself.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

ooo too many things.

i had a guy come up to me on the gun range one morning and then sit down and explain how i should shoot a gun, for almost an hour before i finally got a word in edge wise and explained to HIM that i happened to be a competition shooter and had more than 12 years of pistol experience. He then proceeded to tell me i was lying and to prove it. After i outshot him, he said it was just luck and i was still lying.

I told him he was an asshole and to get lost.

or i was gaming once, and losing pretty badly, and this guy yelled over his mic "Stop playing a mans game and go make me a sandwich, *****" that was a fun one.

 

[manic_depressive13]

My dad told me I would lose all my worth as a human being once I lose my virginity.

 

[Vrud]

Sadly, I see a lot of sexist shit on this very forum.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Um... when I walk into a game store, the employees tend to treat me like someone who is there to get a Wii Fit or something. Or they assume I'm looking for my "boyfriend".

Ugh, that happens to me all the time. It's rather annoying, especially considering that female gamers aren't anywhere near as uncommon as the stereotype portrays.

Sadly, that isn't the most sexist thing that's happened to me. As I've mentioned elsewhere on this site before, I was repeatedly told by some rather idiotic peers that I couldn't do math or science because I was female. I've actually had suggestions for problem-solving an engineering dilemma ignored, simply on the basis of, "She's a girl, she doesn't know what she's talking about." When my exact solution was mentioned by one of the guys in the group, it was unanimously agreed to be the best.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I'm a fairly heteronormative young white male. Prejudice affects people who aren't me.

[small]Ok, yeah, that's not true, any inequality in a social system will fuck up all sorts of things, and that is going to affect me, but you know what I mean.[/small]

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Well I'm a guy, so I subsequently haven't encountered any discrimination towards me based upon my gender. *prepares umbrella for incoming shitstorm*

 

[Flailing Escapist]

This is more of a brother sister thing but when I was like 15 I was so upset at my sister that I told her if she were a boy I would sock her in the gut. Well my dad heard about this and I was grounded for a week and given a long lecture why its not ok to hit girls...

 

[suicide samurai]

Clothing defines gender? How sexist of you...

Those uniforms are of a tradition in the art world, musically.

The people, as part of an orchestra, play and work together to become one thing. They meld, and are not supposed to stand out. Bravo for wanting to stand out.

Then again, I wear a kilt, and went in drag to a school dance waaaaay back in '96 for the lolz.

As for my own story of sexism...

We're not allowed to call diagonal side-cutters "dikes" anymore, even though the term pre-dates the lesbian slang by quite a while. Personally, I think the whole damn thing is pretty gay, and a bit retarded. I find this battle over words to be rather queer.

Then again, everyone is a beautiful snow-flake, and that will eb our down-fall. There is no community, only self concern.

 

[The Lesbian Flower]

My dad told me I would lose all my worth as a human being once I lose my virginity.

I had a trusted church leader say that exact same thing to me and then laugh when I told him that girls don't lose their worth or appeal when they lose their virginity.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

As a guy that works in a hotel late at night, it mostly comes from drunken milfs on vacation at the beach, so.... I'm ok with it.

It's mostly stuff like heavy flirting, flashing, trying to grope me, etc. But like I said... I'm ok with it.

 

[Silver]

The government sent me a letter threatening jail time, with an excerpt from the lawbook stating this as a specific, legal exception to the law of equal rights between genders. How's that?

 

[orangeban]

Hmm, let me think... well I once participated in a study about gender differences where I told them I was gay and then was given the female version of the test. There, that's a combination of homophobia and sexism, 2x combo!

Apart from that I dunno, adverts, TV, the fact that males can't wear skirts, the fact that girls acting manly is something to be appluaded but men acting girly (or even girls acting girly) are to be made fun of. Though that makes it seem like I'm drwoning in sexism, it's not bad really, for men or for women, but it's still there and, won't. Freaking. Die.

 

[Azaez]

Being told by a teacher that since im a man that i should let the women do everything cause men screw everything up...Then she got fired for flirting with a male student...how odd