Hey Pandas, What's The Most Sexist Thing Someone Has Said To You? (Closed)

(Overheard on my way to a job interview), “I bet they make me hire some d@*n woman.” Yes, he was my interviewer.

"I thought you were a guy." New coworker on meeting me for the first time, I am a female software developer. He knew my (very feminine) name by then but still thought I was a guy.

Worst one I ever heard was self-inflicted. Newbie female aircraft mechanic (USAF) after coming in from a job looks at her hands and complains that since she began working on airplanes her hands didn't look feminine anymore. Five or six female mechanics were in the room at the time including two who had just finished installing a jet engine. After one girl looked at her own grease covered hands and mimicked her, she left the room in tears. Needless to say, she wasn't very popular within our unit, especially with other women.

Not directed at me, but at all women. We were doing a volleyball unit in P.E. Most of the boys complained, and when we switched to basketball, some dude had the nerve to say, "Finally, a man's sport."

He's also really bad at basketball, for irony.

What was not? We receive snide comments every single day tbh.

I once had a male colleague in medical school tell me girls don't play video-games, then proceeded to try to sleep with me all evening. (video-games are one of my hobbies

My mum when I complained about that? I quote: "You're a woman, you're not supposed to like boy-ish activities. That's why no one likes you."

But the worst? My neurology professor (also a woman) told me when i was considering my option of becoming an interventional neuradiologist - that I am a woman and will want kids someday so that is not a good option for me.

One of my dad’s friends. Whenever he sees me he makes comments about how I should make dinner for my family, is she old enough to cook, who made breakfast this morning, do you cook for your dad, blah blah blah. Never talks directly to me either, just over my head to my dad. Never makes comments like that to my brother. My dad is also super oblivious and just chuckles along. My dad also rolled his eyes when I said there were no such thing as boy colors and girl colors. When he was buying a new house, me and my brother were deciding which room we wanted. He tried to tell me I should take a specific one because the walls were pink. He also always got me Barbies when I asked for toy cars and wouldn’t let my brother try on nail polish when he was only like 5 and wanted to see what it was like. He also should know perfectly well I don’t like pink (no offense to those of you that do) but he makes no effort to remember anything about me or my brother (favorite colors, foods, tv shows, conversation topics) despite seeing us every day. Sorry this turned into a rant, I’m very annoyed.

“You’re a big guy, you could ‘set the kids down’” while being offered a special education job that i was not qualified for. They just wanted a football coach

When I was in sixth grade, these two seventh-grade girls walked up to me and started talking to me. They asked personal questions and said I was hot and that my name was "Sexy". Now, these kinds of jokes tend to go over my head, but at the time, I was obese and altogether a weird person, so I knew there was a trick ahead. I got up and left, and they asked to touch my d**k. When my aunt reported this, and I identified them, they went unpunished, and lied there way out of this. There was security camera footage clearly showing them talking to me, and I personally identified them. They had told the counselor that all they said was that I was hot (which I still would have gotten in BIG trouble for if I did it to them). I knew that if this were the other way around, I would have had barely a chance to defend myself and would have been punished instantly.

A (11) year old kid at my church when he saw my sister's Captain Marvel shirt:

"Captain Marvel sucks. The guy heroes are better."

The same kid at our house playing apples to apples (he's my little brother's friend), the word was like 'amazing' or 'cool' or something. One card was 'women' and when he saw it he didn't even read any of the other cards he immediately put it in the discard pile. I put it back.

Being told that I cannot lift heavy things because I am a “girl.” I identify as a gender non conforming mess, thank you very much.

My gran on my father’s side expected me to be a boy before I was born, and was upset when I turned out to be a girl. But then later she was ok with it, so I guess it doesn’t count.

I got turned down for an out-of-uni type job that largely involved catering, making tea, cleaning etc because (and I quote) "you're perfect for the job but you're a woman and we don't want to hire women for this job because we'll look sexist". So... I can't work for you because I'm female... and you don't hire females... so you don't look sexist... right...

A bloke in a pub who's just finished an Andy McNab novel (he had it with him and couldn't stop talking about it), told me that women can't write books. And NAME 10 female novelists!
I said - Margaret Atwood, Jane Austin, Ruth Rendell, Toni Morrison - and before I could get any further he said ' yeah s**t stuff for women. Not real writing'. And then he picks up his pint glass and pours his beer down his neck so that I had the most appallingly magnified view of the inside of his mouth via the bottom of the glass. Puts his glass down and turns his back on me.

Worst of it was that he made me feel those great women were actually diminished by men like him, because in many respects they were. And I couldn't deny that fact to myself.

Never forgotten that big 6ft weak 30 odd yr old child who still clings to his book for security at night.

Circa 1998

I have many haha but here’s three:

‘Ew… you have hairy man arms.’ We were 11, I am a girl, and my guy friend said that, just cos I have a LITTLE hair visible on my arms. Ah yes, I’m sorry, all women should take the form of naked mole rats! 😃

‘When you said you play hockey I thought you meant you were a cheerleader. Girls can’t play hockey, their too weak to hit the ball.’ Yes. Because ‘ I play hockey’ can easily be mistake for ‘ I’m a cheerleader.’ I mean I’m a tiny little woman, so obviously you took it that way 🥺🥺

Him: ‘You should watch how much you eat.’
Me: ‘why?’
Him: ‘because it’s not ok for girls to get fat. You know, men work so hard they are allowed to eat whatever, women just stand there and look pretty.’
First of all, I’m nowhere near ‘overweight’ and even so, there is NOTHING wrong with ANYONE being overweight. I just stared at him until he left because I made him feel so uncomfortable lol 😂

“You couldn’t have been in the real Army. You’re a girl.”

Not worded, but when I went to see The Mario Movie with my dad, brother, and brother’s mom, they had given me a BARBIE shirt! My brother and dad both had Mario shirts. Like btch do you ever see me with dolls? No. Do you see me playing video games all the time? Yes, so give me a damn Mario shirt! 👹

4 years ago, my classmate on the way to the science fair. "You're a girl you're not going to win". Two days later, I have first with my (also a girl) friend and his team got no recognition at all. Sweet, sweet revenge.

My boss, to me: "I told my wife she ought to put up a calendar in the kitchen, so that I'd know when she had her period, so I'd know she'd be b****y. She got all p****d at me. She must have been on the r*g."

(Why yes, they did get divorced.)

I overheard two girls at my school talking about chess. One of the girls was saying that a boy said to her that it was weird that the queen in chess can move in all directions in an unlimited amount of squares, but that the king can only move one square at a time. And then she replied to him”Because men are useless”. And then when the boy got annoyed at her, she said that he shouldn’t get annoyed and that he was overreacting. And then her friend agreed with her.

Okay, let's think back to maybe... second grade? My gym teacher wanted help putting things away and he told all the boys to come help him. I wanted to help, so I came up, and he told me that girls couldn't do this. Another time, he ran an activity where we had to jump over something, and he wouldn't let the girls do it because he didn't think we could.
ALSO he called boys by their names and all of the girls 'Sweetheart.' Sexist guy.