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

My dad is the only son of 4 siblings. When I, a girl, was born, my grandparents never came to visit although we lived only 5 minutes away.

A teacher at the school I worked at in 1999. Girls were being told to cover up and wear less skimpy clothes. Teacher in his fifties said “don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind them wearing skimpy clothes, know what I mean, whoa, etc.” I told him he could get himself in trouble saying things like that and he went off at me, got really abusive.

So I’ve already done one but I got so much positive feedback so I’m going to do a few more in one post. I will try to separate it as to help those who get overwhelmed by large texts like me ^^

1) we were reading Romeo and Juliet. It was the part where Mercutio is talking about Quean Mab (roughly translates to wh*re pr*st*tute) and the kid aforementioned in my other post and his group who was in the room with us kept repeating and making fun of it
I gave them the death stare as I am a DECENT HUMAN BEING. They are like “what” and I say why are you repeating it. 3 of them were stuttering, probably to come up with a decent excuse and the boy I mentioned before went “because it’s funny”

2) Same guy. Did you think I was done with him?? Hahahhahahahahahahha. Ha. Ha. Ha. My friend who is always mediator, always neutral, and I were talking about his most recent b*tchy thing and I was saying “he’s never had a girlfriend” and she was like “yeah because he’s sexist”

3)Boys in our class looking through our yearbook and making fun of our pictures. Aforementioned friend REALLY p*ssed and talked about how none of them have ever had girlfriends or talked to girls. Ever. At all. This year.

4)not a story but there is one guy (different guy than the main one)who will only listen to other guys if he’s being told to do something, even if the female is a teacher

I have SO many more but I’m tired and will be going to bed

I used to work for a company with a headquarters in a city and country where women are supposed to be quiet, demure, and subservient outside the home. I'm American. That's (generally) not how it's done here anymore. So when they started demanding things from my team/office that we could not provide, I was firm in telling them we could not meet those demands and suggested a middle ground instead.

I thought it went great. Apparently not.

My local boss pulls me into his office and tells me that the higher ups (at headquarters) were furious because I was "too aggressive for a woman". That's a direct quote.

The company was super shady, looking back. But that stuck with me. I left corporate work not long after that.

On my last day of a job that I as WAY over qualified for my boss told me, “You’re good, but not as good as you think you are.” WTF?! Who says that to someone?! I was exactly as good as I thought and went on to have an awesome banking career.

My granny died and I was told real men dont cry by my uncle. I spent the previous 5 years as her carer, day and night, while his grown children would walk past the house every day and not even come in to say hello to her. They were allowed to cry

My mom & I were at the beach a couple hours from home when her classic Cabriolet stalled out as we were parking. Of course popping the hood seems to draw all men like zombies getting a whiff of brains. I'm handy, but I only know a little about cars. We call her boyfriend, who is a mechanic and had fixed this car up for her to see what he recommended. I'm trying to listen and look at a few things to diagnose the problem over the phone, while 4 or 5 men mill around the engine pretending like they knew what was wrong, and I am not sure that any of them could have jump started the car if I asked, but I didn't pay them any mind. Her boyfriend tells me it's a relay switch, tells me I just need a couple inches of wire and that he can tell me where to put it if I can get the wire. We were at the park & ride bus station (because parking at the boardwalk is impossible), happens that one of the men standing around worked there & could get the wire from the shop. When the men heard that I was going to fix this old car, they literally couldn't bare to watch (I'm not sure if out of fear that I would hurt myself, damage the car, or fail so miserably that I would cry) and all shuffled off to their cars to watch from a distance. The employee, who was probably 10 years older than her, chatted up my mom, who had been playing helpless female, while I got back on the phone. While sitting upsidedown in the driver's seat, trying to hold the flashlight in my mouth to see under the dash, while on the phone, I put the wire in place to complete the relay,then flipped around and started the car, a manual transmission at that. Certainly wasn't any of the problems all the men stood around speculating, and the employee was genuinely shocked that I could follow a Mechanic's instructions to make the repair, after helping to correctly identify it by phone.

Whem my aunt went to buy her first car she wanted a truck. The employee brought her to a tiny sports car after she asked to look at the trucks. The employee told her that shes a woman and that it's her first car so it would be better for her. She found another employee and a couple hours later she drove to the original employee in a truck and said see? I can drive a truck just fine. And she drove off with her first car.

Two LBTQI " ladies " walk into the Bar where there are at least 30 men and begin Screaming that " all men are predators and rapists ".

They had to be removed by the police to prevent an " argument " from occurring.

My dad is the only son of 4 siblings. When I, a girl, was born, my grandparents never came to visit although we lived only 5 minutes away.

My stepfather once told me with a totally serious and straight face, that women aren’t allowed to make sausage during their time of the month. The reason? They obviously exhale some ominous fumes which will make the sausage turn bad in an instant. 12 year-old me felt confused and ashamed at the same time, because women are a danger to food safety due to an already annoying body function. I knew that he was talking BS, but couldn’t argument against it. And still to this day, there are butchers who won’t allow their female employees to work while having their menstruation (which in turn means that they have to inform their boss about it). Sure, women are to blame even for some frigging sausage gone bad, not your lack of skills... The German food safety regulations are very strict, and if there was any proof of a negative effect on food due to menstruating women, there would be at least one regulation almost certainly.
This makes my blood boil even today when l think about it. Btw, my stepfather was and is a misogynistic a**hole.

I don't know if this belongs here, I am married and have a daughter. I was looking after my daughter and decided to go for a walk to the park. When talking to family later they asked if I enjoyed babysitting my daughter. This was said with seriousness, I asked would they have said the same thing to my wife? Which they couldn't answer and tried to laugh it off. Still pisses me off when I think about it.

Simple, when I was younger my friend got me some pink s**t simply because I was female. “Well I thought you liked pink, cause you’re a girl?” I absolutely hated it. In fact I despise the color because “girls are supposed to like pink.” :(

I was in law school, clerking for one of the top law firms in the state. One day as I was on my way to work, an older male client got into the elevator with me. He looked at my briefcase, grinned, and said, "That's a mighty fancy lunchbox you have there, young lady."

When I was young working as a cashier my male coworker and buddy to the owner’s son, who also worked there, just blatantly asked me if I wanted to see his, well let’s say only he had one to show, and when I said no, definitely not, he whipped it out anyway, then asking me, this doesn’t do anything for you? As I am gay, I was completely unimpressed and I said no, afraid not, and mentioned we”re working wtf. But he was apparently proud of it, since he waved it around before putting it back in his pants. I was fired shortly after.

I was getting a new car. I pretty much knew what I wanted, just needed to test drive it to make sure it handled well for me. Brought my husband. I explained what I wanted to the salesman. He left to bring a car around. Came back and GAVE THE KEYS TO MY HUSBAND. I was the one buying, I was the one talking with the salesman. Husband gets the keys for the test drive.

I don’t know if this counts but whenever I go to old navy/ gap, %99 percent of the clothes are pink

uk d usual dont wear tht short/ tight/ sheer dress cause when uk men out their 'know u r asking' to be raped......n also d way u walk.........apparently what i have in my shirt or down my pants n simply when walking around n being happy is asking for sex from a person right!!.....hats off 2 ur logic........n f**k u all those who want 2 'give' what a girl is 'asking for'///.../!!!!

Older poker player said "this is why you don't put women in charge" when I caught him cheating.

For context, I have a very traditionally “masculine” voice about half the time—loud, sort of dry, and even though I live in northeastern parts of the United States, I tend to say “y’all” and such a lot. On multiple occasions I’ve been asked if I was lesbian… because I said the word “aight.”

Joke’s on you guys, I’m bisexual.