sexist attitudes

[Bollo]

Daphne, we're going herm!

 

[Bollo]

Well that explains the new cycle shorts then.

Purl's slack

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Daffodil.

I've always used the word ,'lady,'

never thought of it as sexist.

It isn't really sexists in most contexts, but it is condescending in many.

 

[theclaud]

years ago I was walking through St Anne's Arcade in Manchester and held the door open for a lady/woman/female coming towards me.

I got a frosty look and a, 'I'm quite capable of opening my own door!"

Is this actually true, or is it like the one English people tell about going into a pub in Wales and all the locals switching from English to Welsh?

 

[theclaud]

I have had that experience in a pub in Neath. It did take a while to find anyone who spoke Welsh but, once I had, I couldn't understand them.

More importantly, WTF were you doing in Neath?!

 

[Crackle]

You could fit my windscreen wipers Sandra. I went back to the local shop three times after they flogged me the wrong wipers. The third time I took the whole damn shebang, car, wipers, dog, wallet, camel, hamster, anything I thought might be relevant to them looking up the right fecking windscreen wiper!

I almost couldn't take them back the 2nd time as one of the plastic bits shot into the engine bay when I removed it's plastic ill-fitting arse in a, surely not, grump, Cue some furtling and swearing as I retrieved it, so I'd much rather Sandra had the hastle than me.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I wouldn't fit wiper blades, I'd be happy for anyone to fit them. I like using the local garage to me because they still have attendant service for fuel.

 

[stephec]

Is this actually true, or is it like the one English people tell about going into a pub in Wales and all the locals switching from English to Welsh?

It's true.

On the Welsh/English.

I was in Morrison's in Carnaerfon once queuing at the till, and could hear the checkout girl and customers speaking Welsh to each other. When it came to my turn she spoke in Welsh to me, but as soon as she realised I was English she apologised (not that I appeared offended) and switched to English.

 

[theclaud]

It's true.

It was a rhetorical question, really. The anecdote is clearly apocryphal.

 

[Mr Celine]

Yeah, but I'm not sure I can "even" fit wiper blades. I have never done it...

This is obviously true, otherwise you would have told us all about your front one being an 18" floppy.

 

[Fnaar]

Out of my normal 'Fnaar' character for a moment, I do actually have an issue with sexist expectations of men... often deemed to be OK, whereas male expectations of women are deemed to be not OK. I am actually very good at all the 'female' stuff, but I'm crap at the 'male' stuff. And I kind of resent the expectation that i will naturally be good at fixing cars, or DIY, or de-virusing the family PC. Why should that fall to me? Seems there are a lot of expectations put on men, but we can't bring them up. So I'm bringing them up. I do most of the cooking and cleaning at home, basically because I'm better at it. I also fix leaks, hang doors, whatever... but it shouldn't be an expectation. It kind of is a negotiation with me and Mrs Fnaar, but I really resent the expectation, as much as women might resent the expectations of cooking, washing, etc.

 

[TVC]

To follow on from @Fnaar, I have a degree in Engineering, so for my entire adult life everyone who knows me has expected that I can fix everything, mostly A-team style.

Obviously I can, also I can cook to Michelin standards, and I am a gentle and accomplished lover. But please don't take it as a given.


@Fnaar here is your cloak back

 

[rich p]

I can, also I can cook to Michelin standards, and I am a gentle and accomplished lover

Similarly, I can cook to remould standard and I am a rough but enthusiastic lover; are we twins?

 

[TheDoctor]

Specialisation is for insects.
I can do anything, for somewhat variable values of 'do'. Most people can. Whether they'd want to is quite another matter!

 

[TVC]

[QUOTE 3530691, member: 9609"]On the subject of fitting wiper blades, even though I have spent a lifetime fixing up cars and vans and stuff, I would never turn down the offer of someone else fitting wiper blades for me. They are just fraught with bad temper, the fittings are always different and difficult to work out, its always a job when its cold and wet, always involves leaning over the side of the car knackering your back whilst fiddling with these horrible snappy off plastic pieces of crap. I really can see the situation where I one day rip the god dam thing off the car and start whipping it Basil Faulty style.[/QUOTE]
I have to disagree, having recently replaced the wiper blades on my Ford Focus I found them over simplistic and flimsy, wondering how the last set lasted nine years.