Hey Pandas, What’s The Most Sexist Thing Anyone Has Said Or Done To You? (Closed)

I’m a doctor. I rented an apartment that had bed bugs in it ( I had just finished medical school and was a Resident). I then complained to the building. They sent two male professionals to check. These two men then proceed to mansplain to me that not even a doctor could tell me that the bites I had all over my body were because of bed bugs. And I told them “as a doctor, you are correct, I could not tell you with 100% certainty that I was bitten by bed bugs. However, these are bed bugs”. Their faces were priceless. They then shut their mouths and go check. My apartment was full of bed bugs.

I was in my university chamber choir, and my section mate had narcolepsy. She and I had discussed it, and she knew I’d worked as a camp counselor with kids and young adults with disabilities. I was first-aid certified and specialized in helping move those who couldn’t move themselves for whatever reason. She asked if I could always sit next to her during rehearsal.

With her type of narcolepsy, she could have conversations and answer questions. One day she fell asleep during rehearsal, and the director asked her what she wanted to do. She asked us to help her move to the floor. I offered my assistance, and he said, “No, we need strong young men to do this right. Why don’t you step aside?”

I used to work in an office where we had guys who would come in from regional offices for supplies and stuff. If they happened to come around while I was having lunch -- and it wouldn't matter if I was eating plain lettuce -- their very first comment would be "You'll get fat!"

I don't normally stop for people who are on the side of the road with their cars broken down due to this experience. I was helping a woman who had three small children in her car, broken down on the side of the road. A guy in a big 4x4 pickup pulled up and sauntered to the front of the car where I was explaining to the woman what I had found. The man literally pushed me out of the way and said "I'll take care of this little lady" and I guess the woman felt relieved that there was a MAN there to save her because she turned her back on me and hung on every word coming out of his mouth. I got on my motorcycle and drove off swearing never again.

My sports teacher in elementary school (who was female) wouldn't let us play football or basketball and would only let us play throw ball because we were girls. They also only had boys teams for sports up until middle school and even then, the girls' teams didn't get as much recognition from the school. When the girls complained about it, our headmistress (who was also female) reprimanded us for 'disrespecting' our elders. Only when our parents threatened to pull us out of that school did the teachers let us play, and even then, they refused to let us mix with the boys in games despite our school being co-ed. When I reached middle school, one my older friends told me that a similar incident had taken place with the middle school teacher (and she was also, you guessed it, female). Wtf?

I play hockey as a goalie for a women’s league. Occasionally I will play for other teams or beer leagues as I have time or energy. Got a request one night to play for a beer league team as they didn’t have a goalie fairly last minute. I show up to get dressed a few of the guys are surprised that I am a woman, and question how long I’ve played and if I was actually any good. As the dressing room fills up guys start chirping about how they have “a buddy who could play goal” and a few joking that aw man we gonna have a shitty game cause we got the girl goalie. At this point I was 3/4 dressed in my gear. I stopped and started to take off my gear. The guys in the room stopped talking and were like “Wait what are you doing?we need a goalie!” At which point I slung my pads over my shoulder picked up my bag and casually said as I walked out “Call your buddy you got like 5 minutes before the ice is ready”
I never looked back.

Buying a toy car in the boys section. Clerk says she won't let kid me buy it.

I remember that I once had a teacher in my freshman year of high school who I already hated for a multitude of reasons (including repeatedly complimenting me on every single thing, seemingly forcing me to talk to her, and all around treating me like a small child). My hatred for her only cemented in when someone in the class swore while I was around, and she said something about how you "shouldn't swear around ladies". (for context as to why I have a masculine name despite this, I'm transgender (FTM) and have only come out online) When I gave her this "wtf?" look, she thought I was on her side, too.

Another one worth mentioning: Though few of his comments were ever directed at anyone specifically, I also knew someone in 8th grade who said a lot of sexist statements. I still vividly remember him saying something about how the only purpose of "females" was to make you want to kill them.

Buckle up, this is going to be long. Okay, so I'm not so sure if this fits in with sexist, it is more of a menstruation myth. So, this person we will call S was on her period. She wanted to set up before the prayers but was taught that periods were impure and she must not touch anything distinctly god- related. Now, for the most part, S didn't believe or enforce any of these myths ever since she was little, but when it came to god... you get it. She asked me to do it for her. I had a feeling that this was something to do with period myths, but I wanted to be sure, so I asked her why. She sounded ashamed and answered in a low voice that women on their period are considered impure. It went something like this:-
Me: You don't seriously believe that, do you?
S: *silence*
Me: There is literally no evidence of that. It doesn't even make sense! I didn't think you believed such nonsense!
(A little harsh, but still)
S: I don't. I'm just used to going about it that way.
I don't really remember much of it. I do remember aggressively citing sources(see below) and literally shaking with rage. In the end, she very happily carried on with the setting up thing(she loves doing it, good for her).

On a subway to get to work. Dude(TOTAL STRANGER) walks up slaps my ass, calls me sweetcheeks, and tries to hit on me. I mean, that was pretty awful and crap but here's the REAL kicker: I explain that I'm a lesbian. He legit asks: "Who fixes your car?" When I say that really bad issues I take it to the mechanic and if it's minor I fix it myself. HE IS CONFUSED!! CONFUSED that I can fix a car. Calls me weird, and gets off at his stop.

I have a small scar on my face. A male friend from Venezuela told me that beautiful Persian carpets are designed to have one small flaw, because nothing is supposed to be perfect except God. He then compared my facial scar to this. It made me reframe my injury and feel good about it.

When I was in fifth grade (afab) my teacher asked for volunteers to go to the cafeteria after an assembly to help put the chairs away and I raised my hand, in front of the whole class she goes something like "No no, im sorry but I need 2 strong boys to send" and me not understanding sexism all the way just went "But Im just as strong as they are" and she literally said "I'm sure you are" in a sarcastic tone. Keep in mind this is a female teacher, what the heck.

Not me, but a friend in college. We had a weekend project, and she asked if she could stay with me Friday night, she'd buy dinner, but she lived far enough away it was better to stay in town. I said sure that sounded fine. The day comes and we go to my house, but before we leave for dinner she says there is something I have to tell you. Ok.
What she tells me is that when she eats, she sometimes passes out. It can be her just going blank for a few seconds to literally falling on the floor. But I wasn't to worry, because she'd be fine. We were eating Italian and spicy food was the worst, but she also wanted to go to that restaurant.
Sorry this is long, but now just a bit of back story. I'd known her from other classes for maybe a year. And she was an Airhead. Ditzy. Spaced out. It turns out that her problem started at 10 or 12 yrs old. She would tell her doctors the same thing " it happens when I eat". But they Did Not Listen.
They put her on phenobarbital. She was about 26 at this point. Airhead? No, not at all. But she had been on phenobarbital since she was 12. Only recently had she found a doctor willing to listen. So he hooked her up to the machines and fed her. When she burped it caused her heart to Stop.
She was at the time being weaned off the phenobarbital. And at dinner she only fazed out for a few seconds. Our project went fine.

Not me but I feel like the entire Johnny Depp court case is sexist af. There's clear evidence that Johnny is innocent, yet the court decides that he's guilty. Amber herself is crazy sexist as well, I remember in an audio recording she literally screamed, "They'll never believe you because you're a man!" at Johnny. Like wtf man, this ain't justice.

University lecturer. I said I wanted to go to the Australian drama school NIDA, meaning to study directing, not acting. He said, “But you have to be pretty to go to NIDA.”

When I was in grade 5, two boys in my grade where making fun of my chest area, saying: look at those t**tties, over again. I gave up and told the administruative office

Kid in third grade: you play well, for a girl.

I once took a taxi from college and the taxi driver asked what were my thoughts on a big soccer match that was ongoing. I said I wasnt interested in soccer and was pretty much ignorant about everything that was going on. He looked at me up and down and didnt say another word till I reached my destination. Pretty sure he judged me as "gay" just because of not liking soccer while living in Brazil

Once a teacher of mine had this veeeery long lecture about how boys are more superior and that the only thing girls can do is cook , clean and take care of children, and also said that woman are a waste of space

She’s a woman herself

My Teacher said “I bet you would give some great head.” I. Was. 14.