Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

midnight city wrote: »

So men are not to explain anything (mansplaining) to a woman or to interrupt (manterrupt) a woman now. Wasn't that exactly what women faced about 100 years ago. Now they want to put men in the same position. Its all very misandrist. Where is this going.

thankfully its restricted to the ivory safespace of a gender studies department, when these cookies get their first minimum wage job there will be plenty of mansplaining and manterrupting :pac:

I know we covered women using misogynistic language previously, but here's an article about a new study which shows that they are more likely to use misogynistic language on twitter.

The article also references British police plans to lump in misogyny as a hate crime. So if that does occur then it's more likely that women who tweet offensively will be charged, no? :rolleyes:

I wouldn't hold my breath though.

LostinBlanch wrote: »

I know we covered women using misogynistic language previously, but here's an article about a new study which shows that they are more likely to use misogynistic language on twitter.

My primary school, was like most people's primary schools in Ireland (I think) in that they were all gender segregated. It wasn't overly religious or anything but we were very much taught that we should be respectful around girls. Both physically, not be so boisterous, and how we engaged with them, not shout at them or speak vulgarly to them. The girls school was joined to ours though and so we would line up close to one another and meet in the hall ways etc and so all that time, right up to 6th class (so from age 4 to 13ish) that's how it was.

Then I went to secondary school. Mixed secondary school, and boy was I (and everyone else I went to school with) in for a surprise. The first week or so everyone was on their best behaviour, but shortly after that (and for the next five years) I sat in class, often next to, girls from hell!!! They would lie about each other, cause fights, spit at one another, pull each others hair, call each other sluts, fart, belch, stink, talk about boyband members, what they wanted to do to 'em, what they let them do to them... and my school was a decent respectable community college

The illusion was over for me, quick time and it was much earlier for those lads who had a lot of sisters. I always found that lads that went to the brothers, that had no sisters, always had tended to put girls on a pedestal a lot more than those of us that knew different. Sometimes when I look around at society and grown men are overly protective of women or are speaking about them in a way that you'd swear they were angels, I do wonder what, if any, interactions they have had with the opposite sex, cause it can't have been much.

Even after I left school and for the next twenty years now, 90% of the time it was other women that I heard shaming women for their overtly sexual behavior or whatever. I think, by and large, men are much more easy going, to the point of not giving a fcuk, about what women (not in their field of vision at least) are getting up to. So yeah, no surprise on that finding for me anyway.

LostinBlanch wrote: »

I know we covered women using misogynistic language previously, but here's an article about a new study which shows that they are more likely to use misogynistic language on twitter.

The article also references British police plans to lump in misogyny as a hate crime. So if that does occur then it's more likely that women who tweet offensively will be charged, no? :rolleyes:

I wouldn't hold my breath though.

The problem with that study is that a good number of twitter users are men parading as women. A better study would be a place like boards where a posting history is more revealing. Also, they included words like bitch even when that word has lost a lot of its meaning.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Then I went to secondary school. Mixed secondary school, and boy was I (and everyone else I went to school with) in for a surprise. The first week or so everyone was on their best behaviour, but shortly after that (and for the next five years) I sat in class, often next to, girls from hell!!! They would lie about each other, cause fights, spit at one another, pull each others hair, call each other sluts, fart, belch, stink, talk about boyband members, what they wanted to do to 'em, what they let them do to them... and my school was a decent respectable community college

Was this respectable community college a barnyard? Because I went to "mixed" schools my whole life (single sex schools are so rare in my hometown area we just called them schools) and none of the girls ever behaved this way. Some of the boys did, but even then what you mentioned would be extreme behavior. I mean, farting? That's just pig behavior and I doubt even a group of young men think farting in public is funny.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Even after I left school and for the next twenty years now, 90% of the time it was other women that I heard shaming women for their overtly sexual behavior or whatever. I think, by and large, men are much more easy going, to the point of not giving a fcuk, about what women (not in their field of vision at least) are getting up to. So yeah, no surprise on that finding for me anyway.

If you'd like I could dig up an after hours thread where a woman wrote into an Irish newspaper asking for advice after cheating on her partner and finding herself pregnant by the other man. The men in there gave a lot of "fcuks" and words like slut and whore were definitely in the conversation. This was a woman they didn't even know-- in fact, the woman didn't exist and it was a made up scenario to get gullible morons into a frenzy over paternity fraud. So yeah, I'd say men definitely care what women are up to and you don't notice it because of a whoppin' case of confirmation bias and willful ignorance.

NI24 wrote: »

If you'd like I could dig up an after hours thread where a woman wrote into an Irish newspaper asking for advice after cheating on her partner and finding herself pregnant by the other man. The men in there gave a lot of "fcuks" and words like slut and whore were definitely in the conversation. This was a woman they didn't even know-- in fact, the woman didn't exist and it was a made up scenario to get gullible morons into a frenzy over paternity fraud. So yeah, I'd say men definitely care what women are up to and you don't notice it because of a whoppin' case of confirmation bias and willful ignorance.

I'd imagine on average that women "police" other women's behaviour more than men do , the above situation real or not is a more unusual example where a woman's behaviour would directly affect a man, and anything to do with pregnancy deception is going to peek interest just a tad.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

man/woman/child , no matter who's saying it, any nasty words are perfectly above board for anyone thinking of committing paternity fraud. Its a damaging form of deception that could very well end two lives if it was revealed.

for sure, pretty much society was geared around making it a huge taboo

Eric Cartman wrote: »

man/woman/child , no matter who's saying it, any nasty words are perfectly above board for anyone thinking of committing paternity fraud. Its a damaging form of deception that could very well end two lives if it was revealed.

And yet, no names for married men who impregnate women. And no, bastard doesn't count. I'm talking names specifically geared towards a man's sexual behavior.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

How can you prove that ? bit of a sweeping generalisation.

Because men and women have different writing styles and studies have backed this up. I can predict the sex of most boards members with almost 100% certainty not by the subject matter, but by how it's written.

JRant wrote: »

What would the other "few" things that men contribute be?

The way women dress (too revealing, not revealing enough) . How "ladylike" they are in manners, etc. As if it's so unusual for men to comment on other people's lifestyle.

NI24 wrote: »

then I can't help you.

This seems to be your arguement for everything.