Company Creates Satirical T-Shirts That Intentionally Portray Men The Way Society Portrays Women (11 Pics)
Imagine that the world as we know it was turned on its head, gender roles, and social norms were flipped, and men got to see life through the eyes of a woman’s experience. In this world, women are historically the dominant sex, taking lead roles in science, art, and exploration, while men are largely tasked with domestic duties, looking after the house and raising children.
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Facebook (and Twitter) account ‘Man Who Has It All’ regularly does this, cleverly revealing the ridiculousness of the discourse around gender bias by reversing the sexes. “Just a little reminder to smile, boys! Because women like to see positive men. A smile costs nothing.”
Patronizing, isn’t it? These are the kinds of remarks that women are subjected to all the time, so by holding up a mirror to our biased gender norms in this way, the page reveals our outdated attitudes.
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Now with almost 400k followers on Facebook, the popular page describes itself as “a satirical page that exposes the absurdity of the patriarchy by turning the tables,” and “highlights the sexism, stereotypes, and bias women experience every day by imagining a world where men are treated in the same way society treats women.”
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The brains behind the parody account and the T-shirt slogans is an anonymous “working dad” who has taken matters beyond social media to include these funny T-shirts, as well as a Book called ‘From Frazzled to Fabulous: How to Juggle a Successful Career, Fatherhood, ‘Me-Time’ and Looking Good.’
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Australian business owner Tania is a big fan of Man Who Has It All, finding many of the posts perfectly relatable to the situations she finds herself in daily. Having built up her own business from scratch, she, unfortunately, receives the odd condescending comment, and not just from men. “It’s something that really irritates me,” she told Bored Panda. “In the beginning, I got comments like ‘shouldn’t you be in the kitchen?’ from men, and often similar things from women too. The humor and insights of the ‘gender flip’ jokes seem to put my thoughts into words; it clearly shows what kind of non-existent gender equality many of us have to deal with all the time.”
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Erica, from Sweden, also appreciates the ‘parallel universe’ that the page creates, and the opportunity to play along as a ‘man’ in the comments. “The comments I write are all made up of course,” she told us. But it’s still the way many men view women. I follow the page because I think it’s great at revealing hidden patterns in society.”
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“I do think that we are lucky in Sweden though, our society is more about equal rights than most others and I think that in general, Swedish men are well educated in issues of gender equality. It’s partly down to the history of our country. For a woman, being a ‘housewife’ is not really a part of our culture. For a long time now, most of us have worked for our own living, so we are traditionally much less ‘dependent’ on men.”
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“I do relate to many of the comments. I’m not much for makeup and stuff like that! However, I would never go outside in a pair of shorts without shaved legs. In that matter, when it comes to looks, I think Swedish women don’t differ that much. We still have a society that tells us we have to look good.”
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What does gender equality mean to you? Are we as a society making progress, or is there still much to be done? Scroll down below to see how the ‘Man Who Has It All’ gets his point across, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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His fans love the Tshirts especially
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Share on FacebookIn my language most words have a masculine and a feminine variant, so i never understood why using the feminine variant was suddenly offensive but now it clicked. In english speaking countries they take neutral forms and add woman to it, thats sexist as hell. Thanks a lot english :/
THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY DONE IN ENGLISH. It's only done by people who think "Wow, it's weird that a woman is doing what I think is a 'man's job' ", it's not how English is meant to work grammatically. There is no masculine / feminine variant of "scientist" or "architect" or ANY of these words - they're gender-neutral. It's just that barring poet and author a lot of (usually "baby boomers"-era) people think of the jobs as "something men do".
Load More Replies...The satirical "joke" dies very quickly, nothing new is done on each t-shirt. Pretty c**p joke, just done to make money.
Who buys a shirt that just says their profession on it anyway?
Load More Replies...If you really don't get it, go read the coverage of the black hole image and count how many times each story indicates the lead scientist is female. Then find yourself an article about Michael Mann's discovery of the "hockey stick" and see if they bother to point out he's a dude. I mean, yay! Women are finally a real force in science! But at the same time, sheesh!
Not to mention many of the articles included her age in the headline. How many article about male scientists include their age? "MIT Scientist Bob Smith, 32, discovers yada yada yada..."
Load More Replies...That doesn't make any sense, especially in English, where words like "scientist" or "author" are EXPLICITLY neutral. I've never heard a woman say or write that she's a "female [profession]", that's just not a thing that happens in real life. If a woman is an architect, then she will say she's an architect, not a "female architect". Pointless stuff like this is only going to enlarge the rift between the political left and right, but it doesn't make any meaningful contribution to society.
As an architect, I have had older men comment how I'm a "woman architect" or "lady architect" as if it makes a difference. They think it's strange. It's mostly a generational thing, not political. My hope is my daughters won't receive the same treatment, hopefully the generation that still applies genders to professions will be dead and gone, literally and figuratively! :)
Load More Replies...Wow. We all know men are too emotional to handle all that responsibility. They should get back in the garage and fix my car.
The comments make so much sense. I'm the only female in my department, I'd love to gift the "male engineer" tshirts to my colleagues and managers. (Edit: my comment seems to have offended a few guys, well at least now you know how some women feel after irritating job interviews and/or with annoying colleagues and managers. Meanwhile, me and my colleagues laughed this off because they know better.)
Nah Kolvanov, it must be those male engineers who believe that the women engineers couldn’t possibly know as much as them or be as good at their jobs. Or view them as sexual objects to look at while at work. But silly women, that doesn’t happen! All in our crazy little wannabe victim heads.
Load More Replies...Well, there are more women graduating colleges now than men so these T-Shirts will soon stop being satirical and will just reflect reality.
That is very true. I see wayyyyy more women graduating nowadays and men failing. One nice (if you can say that, really) thing that has come from gender-inequality is that women are raised with more attention and this is very harmful to the male psyche. This is a male-dominated world. It's sexist, stupid, and unfair, but instead of make it better. We constantly make it worse by choosing apathy and anger over empathy and reason.
Load More Replies...I saw some decorations at the store that said things like "Girl Boss" and have seen shirts with things like "Girl Gamer" and my thought it always, "Why do I need to specify that I'm a girl?" I would just be a boss, not a "girl boss". I wonder if this is referencing that type of thing?
WOMEN design those shirts and women buy them. If this is sexist - it's anti-male sexist.
Load More Replies...As a retired engineer/scientist, I got a chuckle out of this article, since it reminded me of all the times in my career, back in the dark ages, of being called a "woman scientist" or "woman engineer", as if I weren't a "real" one. Even worse was the term "girl engineer". Once in a while, I flustered the idiots... at one job, I had submitted a letter of resignation because I was taking a better position I'd been offered. At my exit interview, one male executive of the company I was leaving said to me, "Well, you're a lot smarter than most girl engineers". (I was 32 at the time). Without missing a beat, I replied, "I'm a lot smarter than most boy engineers, too!"
"Woman scientist" or "woman engineer" means "rare and unusual", not "non-real". Just like no one insinuates male nurses are not real. You missing this obvious point - and regurgitating a stupid propaganda cliche instead - proves you are unintelligent and probably not a scientist at all, but a liar.
Load More Replies...I was a male model for a long time.. and cringed each time I was described as such.
I've heard statements like "he's a model model" and "he's a male nurse", where the gender adjective is entirely redundant: it's normally fairly obvious that the man in question is not a female model, nurse etc
Load More Replies...As a native speaker of a gender neutral language I just don't get these jokes.
I would give back your diploma then. It’s a fake problem anyway.
Load More Replies...Do you think that people will finally realize how stupid gender stereotypes are? I am so tired of people saying that 'women cant' (program, do science, do math, garden, run, think...) as well as males. It reminds me to the a*****e in Google who said that women are biologicly less good at programmimg...
He actually said women are less interested in programming and cited the science to back it up. He was asked for feedback and gave the facts.
Load More Replies...It took me years to learn that the penis makes a horrible CPU
Load More Replies...There is a French film on Netflix called I Am Not an Easy Man where a chauvinistic man wakes up in a world where the roles are reversed. It is awesome and strange and French. It is an excellent portrayal of all the little inequalities and biases one might not even be aware of. It creates a world of "what if it were the other way around?" Check it out today!
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-women-everyday-problems-comic-planet-prudence-4/ Maybe stop talking "as a woman" or "as a man" first.
@Jace I didnt say there are biological differences. Perhaps genetics was the wrong term but there have been studies to show that the volumes of portions of the brain differ between men and women when you account for body size variations. When the volume of certain portions are different those brain portions provide more chemicals according to its volume.
Load More Replies...I find it irritating the choice of pictures with the words, sometimes they relate and sometimes they don't. It's not logical damnit.
Okay so question: why is this going to help? It's literally just gonna inflame all sides of the argument; men who say these sentences don't reflect reality are going to want this account shut down for misandrist opinions, and women are going to become more anti-masculine. It's already evident in books like "Destroy a Man Now" (a book dedicated solely to ruining men's careers with allegations of sexual assault and similar tactics), and accounts that send out things like this only make it worse. I'm not trying to say one side is superior or inferior; I'm saying that spreading hateful remarks with this sort of message only makes things worse. Unfortunately, I'm 95% sure this comment will get dozens of downvotes, and people will certainly call me “anti-feminist man" and “misogynist" (which, ironically, proves my point further). However, I'd like to hope maybe some people notice this.
Did anyone ask the male models if they were going to give up their careers when they got married and started having babies?
Read the article. Then read the comments. Then you will understand. Hint: what’s on the shirts is the opposite of what most cultures do (single out and label women when they have these roles, which isn’t done to men, who are considered the norm/default).
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I get that they're trying to be witty, but really they are just obtuse. Most of the female gendering nowadays is done in the name of "girl power." In addition, we seem to forget how many times attention is drawn to the male gender every time they become nurses, stay at home parents, and so forth.
This is brilliant irony. But... I don't see the point. Everyone gets discriminated one day or an other, regardless of gender. That Politically Correctness about accusing people of having discrimination JUST because they are more precise? Hypocrisy and thought-policing. I speak french and we use "le" for masculine or "la" for feminine things. Even then some complain we should use neutral.
Because all of the terms on the shirts in the left hand side are gender neutral and refer to anyone who is that profession. The one on the right hand side specify gender first, because women deal with that alot. People/articles/men don't just refer to them as a scientist, for some weird reason they feel the need to gender it, but only when it is a woman. It is a subtle way to basically put an asterisc on it. It is a qualifier, it is saying 'yes she's a scientist, but she's a lady scientist' it is a way to be subtley dismissive, rude, or say she isn't as good, just because she is a she.
Load More Replies...This joke wore off fast. They didn't even change the designs, just added man/male in front of the word.
Remove the cheesy occupations and all words, and those are some dope a*s shirts. The words make them corny AF though, any gender.
I am finding my new toy is getting old and the younger kids who are coming into my playgroup are playing too rough and causing it to look worn and weary. I am 54 and my toy is equality. When I was younger and had to push myself twice as hard and put up with less pay less respect and more work and more demands on myself than men of my age group did at the age of 18. I understand that this new toy is reaching its use by date. I think the younger generation are used to a throw away attitude and may be treating our hard earned equality from our mothers as something that can be played with hard and not look at as something that can last and end up on a shelf somewhere as a memory of how equality looked back when it was a new glittering bright toy. In the future where equality isn't a topic it is a instinctive right without thought. We are getting there.
So is a male programmer a male who programs computers or a person who programs males?
Then you are literally missing out on a lot of things going on in the world.
Load More Replies...They need to make the male shirts of a really thin fabric so you can see through it
Next up: Halloween costumes. Because a God knows, you can't be female AND a doctor, nurse, superhero, police officer, pirate, soldier, or apparently, even m-f-ing Pennywise, unless you meet the T & A exposure quota. (Though Slutty Mr. Rogers was the one that caused me to die the most on the inside. That's a crime against humanity, that is.) Also, so many victims of r/whoosh in this comment section... I've heard of mass hysteria, but mass obtuseness is a new one on me.
Next up: Halloween costumes. Because a God knows, you can't be female AND a doctor, nurse, superhero, police officer, pirate, soldier, or apparently, even m-f-ing Pennywise, unless you meet the T & A exposure quota. Not gonna lie, Slutty Mr. Rogers was the one that caused me to die the most on the inside. That's a crime against humanity. Also, I don't think I've ever seen this many victims of r/whoosh in a single comment section before. I've heard of mass hysteria, but mass obtuseness is a new one on me.
Hey, guys, I don't know any "female scientist" next to "male scientist". Why didn't you use: "scientist man" and "scientist woman"? You're making it not just weird but stupid as well. Whoever finds sexism in the language has a twisted mind and deserves a knock on the head. Correct people today do not use those words with sexist meanings. Only idiots. Teach the idiots or kick them in the but if they don't manage to learn the difference. Teach them the right way, not through other stupidity.
I was a programmer for a decade. I was hired within two days of my male counterpart. We did the same job, had the same duties. We were virtually clones of one another as far as work went. A few years in, my director asked for my help on an HR project, which allowed me to see all the salaries. My male counterpart was making 12 grand a year more than me. And it wasn't because my attention was split by playing mommy. I had no kids and no intentions of having any. That place got the same exemplary level of production and dedication that my male co-worker put forth. Now I know why they guard salaries so dearly and do all they can from you finding out what your co-workers make. Because I gotta say, finding out that info pissed me off.
Because women fought to be recognized, now they don't like being recognized. I'm a woman hear me roar, but also I'm just as good as you, but men are trash. Jesus Christ. Enough. I'll unfollow Bored Panda since it seems like an echo chamber.
why does bored panda have so many posts about sexism and racism?
Well, it's not only 'female' scientist (or any other profession to be honest) that tends to be written in the media, women usually get their age listed too - "Tracey (42) is a female scientist" sort of thing. Men don't tend to get their ages listed. I'm glad projects like this bring attention to these things. There's a fun French film called 'I am not an easy man' that flips gender cliches in the same way.
tbh, once I saw the poet and author shirts I was like GIVE ME THOSE NOW. But then again, they're not my dream tops.
What's most ironic, this "gender-flipping" is cute, but fails miserably as a message and only shows that feminist narrative is a joke.
This would make sense if women were expected to be the breadwinners, leaders, fixers, emotional support, protectors and providers for men. As it currently stands men are expected to do most of the heavy lifting.
2nd wave feminist - We need women to know that women can be in any field, so we need to praise and publicize women who enter majority male fields. Let's make everyone know about female engineers, scientists, and programmers! 3rd wave feminist - Why does society emphasize that she was a female engineer, or a female scientist, or a female programmer? That's sexist. We should just call them engineers, scientists, or programmers without referring to their gender.
This is presented as "The Way Society Portrays Women" But it's the way women portray women. It seems no-one is keener to point out the sex of women entering some predominantly male professional than other women.
Actually the cuck is the one selling these useless shirts
Load More Replies...Wow talk about contrived outrage. Am I supposed to be outraged that I don't take wamen seriously
People just take notice of things that are less common. We want more women in space and in labs, there are just so few. I personally rejoice when i see more diversity. But by the same token as what's being expressed by these shirts, it would be cool if people didn't think of themselves as a "black" person or "Latinx" or aything. I can agree with these shirts in that we should all regard ourselves as human and nothing more or less to add value to ourselves or others. Being a male or female scientist doesn't matter, nor does a black or white, male or female president.
A few days have passed since I commented some misconceptions here. But its funny to see how much dislike my comments got. Most of them are objective stated science. So most of them are true. Sure I like my fair share of sarcasm, guilty of that. But most is science. Seems science is not that beloved these days, especially if it is against your "believes". So to all you disliking what I posted, a quick research into what I wrote, would show you that I am not lying to work against some feminist agenda or in alot of cases men-hate. If you dislike science, then you are on a nice trip to lala-land, throwing out rationality and reality. Sad, very sad people are this way today
The tweets and ppl's reaction comments are hilarious, but I clicked on this to see the tshirts and it's like really?? The same thing on each one?
I like to add "Male Fronted Band". Nobody (well: me for reasons) would ever claim their own band "male fronted" but bands having women as the main singer often use it as unique selling point. But I don't see the point in this...
It would be funnier (if feminine is the norm and masculine is the exception) if the shirts said "Aviatrix" and "Male Aviatrix" or "Poetess" and "Male Poetess", etc.
It would be funnier, because it would be this much more stupid.
Load More Replies...You know I'm an equalist. I treat men and women are just as badly as each other, no different. People are idiots.
Will the building stand? Was the surgery a success? Is what you created or discovered useful or beneficial? Those are my questions. I could not GAF about your gender, race, whatever, as long as you were successful. We place equally too much emphasis on pointing out that "a man/woman does this job" as we do "I am a man/woman and do this job."
Everyone is praising this to highest levels, but this is just stupid and wrong 3. generation feminism propaganda. It covers jobs that are dominated by men, not by any prejudice or genderhate, but by preferences. As there are engineers, phsicists on the list, also scientist and architect. I studied architecture in Aachen at the RWTH, 70-80 % of all architects are women! engineering and machines are a male preference (not saying there are women who don't like it) but the majority of women do not like those fields, if you say otherwise you disregard statistics, which makes you definately not a scientist, female or male, you are just living outside reality and cherry pick information that fits the agenda. For example: yes, high up manager jobs (btw thats jobs that make lots of money, guess its less a gender issue than jealousy and greed, but thats just my opinion on the side) are dominated by men, but thats not only to genderprejudice, there are more factors involved.
To be honest I being an internet person used to pictures and moving fast through posts I saw the pictures first and didn't note the problem until I read it and was like... ooooh, then came outrage, until I asked myself wait, this was ok before I was told it was relating to how women are given the "but for girls" addendum. To me flip one way, or the other just adds more info to what I'm reading(oooh the scientist is a man, gud to know), not exemplifies out of ordinary. Like porn star, and black porn star. haha. Quick let's find more things we can get outraged about. Like someone painting themselves brown and being like, today i'm going out as awesome... That get's us angry, how dare you imply being brown is awesome, why you think you can wear my face. I'm not a toy or creature to parade as. Does anyone stop you from parading as white? No. I think if we paraded as each other it wud be fun and bring us closer. Like the whole role reversal at therapy thing that helps us relate to our spous
Like how we are not allowed to mock strangers but if they are close friends we insult and mock them all we want not in a bad way but in a we are close enuf. Why we create a wall of barrier. Addendum. I'm a person....... oohh that wasn';t clear enuf....... I'm a real living live person..... how about this.... I'm a black man. Was that offensive? did it alternatively and much more importantly add more information and give context to what was being said? I'm I less person now because I dared add further information to the fact that I am a person? Did it imply a real peson is another colour/race and I'm the fake version? If you think so please state in clear words that this is originally your thinking process that is only projected thru this medium of expression and noticeable by you for that reason. Like a thief who upon hearing store, goes "what do you mean stole diamond, who stole the diamond, why wud you say stole the diamond, why imply that?" I never said diamond? You have a backgroun
Load More Replies...I'm a "Male Nurse", oh wait, that's not satirical. As less than 20% of Nurses are Male, this just denotes the uniqueness I hold within the profession. FFS, Find something worthwhile to be "offended" about.
Well, looks like no one noticed it, but the politician shirt is designed in shape of the female symbol and that's pretty funny.
I see my comment has been duplicated in several different threads, including some where it makes very little contextual sense. Go home Bored Panda, you're drunk :-)
The word "man" as meaning "male human" is NOT 100% correct. "Man" is an old English word and its original definition is "human being". It is gender neutral. How we use it today, though, is both in a gender neutral way and a way meaning only male humans. People should keep in mind that when it is still used in its original gender neutral form such as in "mankind" or "The Ascent of Man". Wyf was the original word for woman and came to be the word for "wife". Wer was the original word for adult male human.
Okey, couple things. Not nearly all of these are true, like female journalist? I've never seen anyone specify that? Also, in some occupations there are a lot more women, than men. Few would react to male nurse, for instance. Because nurses are more often female. Right? Anyhow, these are also a little lazy. BUT, I would like one. :D
These things would make sense if women were expected to provide financial support, emotional support, physical protection, pay for dates, romantically pursue and otherwise do all the heavy lifting for men.
THO WOKIFIED!!! Just one little quibble: It's only LEFTIST IDENTITARIANS who are obsessed with gender. race, etc.
The pictures on both look the same? I cant see the improvements on the make image?
The comment below was voted down. I guess "science" is the new four-letter word. Humans are mammals (read some Darwin if you doubt this). Mammals have two sexes. They are different. Shocking. Really shocking. Gender Feminists "know" that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth. If you claim otherwise, and invoke "science" you are just part of the white-male-racist-sexist-patriarchy.
What about "MAN CONSTRUCTION WORKER", or "MAN GARBAGE COLLECTOR"? Oh, right, feminazis ad their cucks don't see the issue in not having "equality" in those jobs, only the high-paying white collar positions are "problematic" xD Cucks.
Humans are mammals (read some Darwin if you doubt this). Mammals have two sexes. They are different. Shocking. Really shocking. Gender Feminists "know" that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth. If you claim otherwise, and invoke "science" you are just part of the white-male-racist-sexist-patriarchy.
Job lifting heavy drums with male as applicant: Hiring manager: "Try lifting these drums." Male applicant: he's got scrawny arms, weak, has trouble doing it. Never been to the gym a day in his life, but he needs this job. Hiring manager: "If you're struggling, just get one of the other guys to help you or use this piece of assisting machinery (e.g. dolly)" With female applicant: she struggles to lift just like the male applicant Hiring manager: "If you can't lift these drums, you can't do the job. This is no place for a woman." Designer of drums is a man: "Let's not make these light enough so that everyone can lift them. Let's make them so only the average man can lift them."
So they just took one not a particularly bright idea and made a shitload of t-shirts just switching professions? Why is feminists' "humour" always so defective?
You seem to not appreciate the humor. That doesn’t mean “feminist humor” is defective.
Load More Replies...Nice to see BoredPanda is leftleaning, feminist prejudice supporter. Hiding comments, that are true but could offend someone. I am offended by wrongfull statements from female sexists, that are far of any statistics or reality. DO not forget we talk 1st world here, noone is denying problems in the rest of the world
This was a very half witted, hyperbolic article. The only qualifier I have gotten used to hearing in my lifetime is "male nurse" and I don't think men are bitter about that.
Maybe it woulf be nice if we treated people as 'human beings' instead of treating them differently for being 'women' or 'men'
Load More Replies...As a dentist, there are gender specific organizations. Also, there is a men’s group in town that meets weekly where I am not welcome.
Load More Replies...And you’re appealing to the anti- justice, fearful-male crowd.
Load More Replies...Oh look, more pseudoscience to justify cultural myths about men and women having so-called biologically-driven roles to play. You are promoting myths. There is zero valid science behind your apologetics. Men and women do not biologically differ in brain function. All behavior differences are entirely cultural.
Load More Replies...As teenage girl growing up with a twin brother, I say this is not male bashing. I want you to go to the nearest store selling clothes. A store selling baby clothes or kid clothes or toys or anything that is sorted into gender. Notice what they are selling. Shops sell baby girls clothes that say "I hate my thighs" or "little princess." Baby boys are sold stuff like "future astronaut" or "I will take over the world." Girl toys are all about fashion and beauty and boy toys are all about working and getting smarter (Barbie doll vs toy truck, etc.) My mom once got me a book called A Smart Girl's Guide to Strating Middleschool and A Smart Boy's Guide to Strating Middleschool. I read my brother's too. Mine was all about how to look pretty and make friends, my brother's was how to befriend the teachers and how to study. Is that not inequality?
Load More Replies.......this ia how the world is. Marie Curry was introduced to me as "a great female scientist," I think my teacher even said something like, "not all scientists are men." Marie Curry was a great scientist, period.
Load More Replies...In my language most words have a masculine and a feminine variant, so i never understood why using the feminine variant was suddenly offensive but now it clicked. In english speaking countries they take neutral forms and add woman to it, thats sexist as hell. Thanks a lot english :/
THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY DONE IN ENGLISH. It's only done by people who think "Wow, it's weird that a woman is doing what I think is a 'man's job' ", it's not how English is meant to work grammatically. There is no masculine / feminine variant of "scientist" or "architect" or ANY of these words - they're gender-neutral. It's just that barring poet and author a lot of (usually "baby boomers"-era) people think of the jobs as "something men do".
Load More Replies...The satirical "joke" dies very quickly, nothing new is done on each t-shirt. Pretty c**p joke, just done to make money.
Who buys a shirt that just says their profession on it anyway?
Load More Replies...If you really don't get it, go read the coverage of the black hole image and count how many times each story indicates the lead scientist is female. Then find yourself an article about Michael Mann's discovery of the "hockey stick" and see if they bother to point out he's a dude. I mean, yay! Women are finally a real force in science! But at the same time, sheesh!
Not to mention many of the articles included her age in the headline. How many article about male scientists include their age? "MIT Scientist Bob Smith, 32, discovers yada yada yada..."
Load More Replies...That doesn't make any sense, especially in English, where words like "scientist" or "author" are EXPLICITLY neutral. I've never heard a woman say or write that she's a "female [profession]", that's just not a thing that happens in real life. If a woman is an architect, then she will say she's an architect, not a "female architect". Pointless stuff like this is only going to enlarge the rift between the political left and right, but it doesn't make any meaningful contribution to society.
As an architect, I have had older men comment how I'm a "woman architect" or "lady architect" as if it makes a difference. They think it's strange. It's mostly a generational thing, not political. My hope is my daughters won't receive the same treatment, hopefully the generation that still applies genders to professions will be dead and gone, literally and figuratively! :)
Load More Replies...Wow. We all know men are too emotional to handle all that responsibility. They should get back in the garage and fix my car.
The comments make so much sense. I'm the only female in my department, I'd love to gift the "male engineer" tshirts to my colleagues and managers. (Edit: my comment seems to have offended a few guys, well at least now you know how some women feel after irritating job interviews and/or with annoying colleagues and managers. Meanwhile, me and my colleagues laughed this off because they know better.)
Nah Kolvanov, it must be those male engineers who believe that the women engineers couldn’t possibly know as much as them or be as good at their jobs. Or view them as sexual objects to look at while at work. But silly women, that doesn’t happen! All in our crazy little wannabe victim heads.
Load More Replies...Well, there are more women graduating colleges now than men so these T-Shirts will soon stop being satirical and will just reflect reality.
That is very true. I see wayyyyy more women graduating nowadays and men failing. One nice (if you can say that, really) thing that has come from gender-inequality is that women are raised with more attention and this is very harmful to the male psyche. This is a male-dominated world. It's sexist, stupid, and unfair, but instead of make it better. We constantly make it worse by choosing apathy and anger over empathy and reason.
Load More Replies...I saw some decorations at the store that said things like "Girl Boss" and have seen shirts with things like "Girl Gamer" and my thought it always, "Why do I need to specify that I'm a girl?" I would just be a boss, not a "girl boss". I wonder if this is referencing that type of thing?
WOMEN design those shirts and women buy them. If this is sexist - it's anti-male sexist.
Load More Replies...As a retired engineer/scientist, I got a chuckle out of this article, since it reminded me of all the times in my career, back in the dark ages, of being called a "woman scientist" or "woman engineer", as if I weren't a "real" one. Even worse was the term "girl engineer". Once in a while, I flustered the idiots... at one job, I had submitted a letter of resignation because I was taking a better position I'd been offered. At my exit interview, one male executive of the company I was leaving said to me, "Well, you're a lot smarter than most girl engineers". (I was 32 at the time). Without missing a beat, I replied, "I'm a lot smarter than most boy engineers, too!"
"Woman scientist" or "woman engineer" means "rare and unusual", not "non-real". Just like no one insinuates male nurses are not real. You missing this obvious point - and regurgitating a stupid propaganda cliche instead - proves you are unintelligent and probably not a scientist at all, but a liar.
Load More Replies...I was a male model for a long time.. and cringed each time I was described as such.
I've heard statements like "he's a model model" and "he's a male nurse", where the gender adjective is entirely redundant: it's normally fairly obvious that the man in question is not a female model, nurse etc
Load More Replies...As a native speaker of a gender neutral language I just don't get these jokes.
I would give back your diploma then. It’s a fake problem anyway.
Load More Replies...Do you think that people will finally realize how stupid gender stereotypes are? I am so tired of people saying that 'women cant' (program, do science, do math, garden, run, think...) as well as males. It reminds me to the a*****e in Google who said that women are biologicly less good at programmimg...
He actually said women are less interested in programming and cited the science to back it up. He was asked for feedback and gave the facts.
Load More Replies...It took me years to learn that the penis makes a horrible CPU
Load More Replies...There is a French film on Netflix called I Am Not an Easy Man where a chauvinistic man wakes up in a world where the roles are reversed. It is awesome and strange and French. It is an excellent portrayal of all the little inequalities and biases one might not even be aware of. It creates a world of "what if it were the other way around?" Check it out today!
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-women-everyday-problems-comic-planet-prudence-4/ Maybe stop talking "as a woman" or "as a man" first.
@Jace I didnt say there are biological differences. Perhaps genetics was the wrong term but there have been studies to show that the volumes of portions of the brain differ between men and women when you account for body size variations. When the volume of certain portions are different those brain portions provide more chemicals according to its volume.
Load More Replies...I find it irritating the choice of pictures with the words, sometimes they relate and sometimes they don't. It's not logical damnit.
Okay so question: why is this going to help? It's literally just gonna inflame all sides of the argument; men who say these sentences don't reflect reality are going to want this account shut down for misandrist opinions, and women are going to become more anti-masculine. It's already evident in books like "Destroy a Man Now" (a book dedicated solely to ruining men's careers with allegations of sexual assault and similar tactics), and accounts that send out things like this only make it worse. I'm not trying to say one side is superior or inferior; I'm saying that spreading hateful remarks with this sort of message only makes things worse. Unfortunately, I'm 95% sure this comment will get dozens of downvotes, and people will certainly call me “anti-feminist man" and “misogynist" (which, ironically, proves my point further). However, I'd like to hope maybe some people notice this.
Did anyone ask the male models if they were going to give up their careers when they got married and started having babies?
Read the article. Then read the comments. Then you will understand. Hint: what’s on the shirts is the opposite of what most cultures do (single out and label women when they have these roles, which isn’t done to men, who are considered the norm/default).
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I get that they're trying to be witty, but really they are just obtuse. Most of the female gendering nowadays is done in the name of "girl power." In addition, we seem to forget how many times attention is drawn to the male gender every time they become nurses, stay at home parents, and so forth.
This is brilliant irony. But... I don't see the point. Everyone gets discriminated one day or an other, regardless of gender. That Politically Correctness about accusing people of having discrimination JUST because they are more precise? Hypocrisy and thought-policing. I speak french and we use "le" for masculine or "la" for feminine things. Even then some complain we should use neutral.
Because all of the terms on the shirts in the left hand side are gender neutral and refer to anyone who is that profession. The one on the right hand side specify gender first, because women deal with that alot. People/articles/men don't just refer to them as a scientist, for some weird reason they feel the need to gender it, but only when it is a woman. It is a subtle way to basically put an asterisc on it. It is a qualifier, it is saying 'yes she's a scientist, but she's a lady scientist' it is a way to be subtley dismissive, rude, or say she isn't as good, just because she is a she.
Load More Replies...This joke wore off fast. They didn't even change the designs, just added man/male in front of the word.
Remove the cheesy occupations and all words, and those are some dope a*s shirts. The words make them corny AF though, any gender.
I am finding my new toy is getting old and the younger kids who are coming into my playgroup are playing too rough and causing it to look worn and weary. I am 54 and my toy is equality. When I was younger and had to push myself twice as hard and put up with less pay less respect and more work and more demands on myself than men of my age group did at the age of 18. I understand that this new toy is reaching its use by date. I think the younger generation are used to a throw away attitude and may be treating our hard earned equality from our mothers as something that can be played with hard and not look at as something that can last and end up on a shelf somewhere as a memory of how equality looked back when it was a new glittering bright toy. In the future where equality isn't a topic it is a instinctive right without thought. We are getting there.
So is a male programmer a male who programs computers or a person who programs males?
Then you are literally missing out on a lot of things going on in the world.
Load More Replies...They need to make the male shirts of a really thin fabric so you can see through it
Next up: Halloween costumes. Because a God knows, you can't be female AND a doctor, nurse, superhero, police officer, pirate, soldier, or apparently, even m-f-ing Pennywise, unless you meet the T & A exposure quota. (Though Slutty Mr. Rogers was the one that caused me to die the most on the inside. That's a crime against humanity, that is.) Also, so many victims of r/whoosh in this comment section... I've heard of mass hysteria, but mass obtuseness is a new one on me.
Next up: Halloween costumes. Because a God knows, you can't be female AND a doctor, nurse, superhero, police officer, pirate, soldier, or apparently, even m-f-ing Pennywise, unless you meet the T & A exposure quota. Not gonna lie, Slutty Mr. Rogers was the one that caused me to die the most on the inside. That's a crime against humanity. Also, I don't think I've ever seen this many victims of r/whoosh in a single comment section before. I've heard of mass hysteria, but mass obtuseness is a new one on me.
Hey, guys, I don't know any "female scientist" next to "male scientist". Why didn't you use: "scientist man" and "scientist woman"? You're making it not just weird but stupid as well. Whoever finds sexism in the language has a twisted mind and deserves a knock on the head. Correct people today do not use those words with sexist meanings. Only idiots. Teach the idiots or kick them in the but if they don't manage to learn the difference. Teach them the right way, not through other stupidity.
I was a programmer for a decade. I was hired within two days of my male counterpart. We did the same job, had the same duties. We were virtually clones of one another as far as work went. A few years in, my director asked for my help on an HR project, which allowed me to see all the salaries. My male counterpart was making 12 grand a year more than me. And it wasn't because my attention was split by playing mommy. I had no kids and no intentions of having any. That place got the same exemplary level of production and dedication that my male co-worker put forth. Now I know why they guard salaries so dearly and do all they can from you finding out what your co-workers make. Because I gotta say, finding out that info pissed me off.
Because women fought to be recognized, now they don't like being recognized. I'm a woman hear me roar, but also I'm just as good as you, but men are trash. Jesus Christ. Enough. I'll unfollow Bored Panda since it seems like an echo chamber.
why does bored panda have so many posts about sexism and racism?
Well, it's not only 'female' scientist (or any other profession to be honest) that tends to be written in the media, women usually get their age listed too - "Tracey (42) is a female scientist" sort of thing. Men don't tend to get their ages listed. I'm glad projects like this bring attention to these things. There's a fun French film called 'I am not an easy man' that flips gender cliches in the same way.
tbh, once I saw the poet and author shirts I was like GIVE ME THOSE NOW. But then again, they're not my dream tops.
What's most ironic, this "gender-flipping" is cute, but fails miserably as a message and only shows that feminist narrative is a joke.
This would make sense if women were expected to be the breadwinners, leaders, fixers, emotional support, protectors and providers for men. As it currently stands men are expected to do most of the heavy lifting.
2nd wave feminist - We need women to know that women can be in any field, so we need to praise and publicize women who enter majority male fields. Let's make everyone know about female engineers, scientists, and programmers! 3rd wave feminist - Why does society emphasize that she was a female engineer, or a female scientist, or a female programmer? That's sexist. We should just call them engineers, scientists, or programmers without referring to their gender.
This is presented as "The Way Society Portrays Women" But it's the way women portray women. It seems no-one is keener to point out the sex of women entering some predominantly male professional than other women.
Actually the cuck is the one selling these useless shirts
Load More Replies...Wow talk about contrived outrage. Am I supposed to be outraged that I don't take wamen seriously
People just take notice of things that are less common. We want more women in space and in labs, there are just so few. I personally rejoice when i see more diversity. But by the same token as what's being expressed by these shirts, it would be cool if people didn't think of themselves as a "black" person or "Latinx" or aything. I can agree with these shirts in that we should all regard ourselves as human and nothing more or less to add value to ourselves or others. Being a male or female scientist doesn't matter, nor does a black or white, male or female president.
A few days have passed since I commented some misconceptions here. But its funny to see how much dislike my comments got. Most of them are objective stated science. So most of them are true. Sure I like my fair share of sarcasm, guilty of that. But most is science. Seems science is not that beloved these days, especially if it is against your "believes". So to all you disliking what I posted, a quick research into what I wrote, would show you that I am not lying to work against some feminist agenda or in alot of cases men-hate. If you dislike science, then you are on a nice trip to lala-land, throwing out rationality and reality. Sad, very sad people are this way today
The tweets and ppl's reaction comments are hilarious, but I clicked on this to see the tshirts and it's like really?? The same thing on each one?
I like to add "Male Fronted Band". Nobody (well: me for reasons) would ever claim their own band "male fronted" but bands having women as the main singer often use it as unique selling point. But I don't see the point in this...
It would be funnier (if feminine is the norm and masculine is the exception) if the shirts said "Aviatrix" and "Male Aviatrix" or "Poetess" and "Male Poetess", etc.
It would be funnier, because it would be this much more stupid.
Load More Replies...You know I'm an equalist. I treat men and women are just as badly as each other, no different. People are idiots.
Will the building stand? Was the surgery a success? Is what you created or discovered useful or beneficial? Those are my questions. I could not GAF about your gender, race, whatever, as long as you were successful. We place equally too much emphasis on pointing out that "a man/woman does this job" as we do "I am a man/woman and do this job."
Everyone is praising this to highest levels, but this is just stupid and wrong 3. generation feminism propaganda. It covers jobs that are dominated by men, not by any prejudice or genderhate, but by preferences. As there are engineers, phsicists on the list, also scientist and architect. I studied architecture in Aachen at the RWTH, 70-80 % of all architects are women! engineering and machines are a male preference (not saying there are women who don't like it) but the majority of women do not like those fields, if you say otherwise you disregard statistics, which makes you definately not a scientist, female or male, you are just living outside reality and cherry pick information that fits the agenda. For example: yes, high up manager jobs (btw thats jobs that make lots of money, guess its less a gender issue than jealousy and greed, but thats just my opinion on the side) are dominated by men, but thats not only to genderprejudice, there are more factors involved.
To be honest I being an internet person used to pictures and moving fast through posts I saw the pictures first and didn't note the problem until I read it and was like... ooooh, then came outrage, until I asked myself wait, this was ok before I was told it was relating to how women are given the "but for girls" addendum. To me flip one way, or the other just adds more info to what I'm reading(oooh the scientist is a man, gud to know), not exemplifies out of ordinary. Like porn star, and black porn star. haha. Quick let's find more things we can get outraged about. Like someone painting themselves brown and being like, today i'm going out as awesome... That get's us angry, how dare you imply being brown is awesome, why you think you can wear my face. I'm not a toy or creature to parade as. Does anyone stop you from parading as white? No. I think if we paraded as each other it wud be fun and bring us closer. Like the whole role reversal at therapy thing that helps us relate to our spous
Like how we are not allowed to mock strangers but if they are close friends we insult and mock them all we want not in a bad way but in a we are close enuf. Why we create a wall of barrier. Addendum. I'm a person....... oohh that wasn';t clear enuf....... I'm a real living live person..... how about this.... I'm a black man. Was that offensive? did it alternatively and much more importantly add more information and give context to what was being said? I'm I less person now because I dared add further information to the fact that I am a person? Did it imply a real peson is another colour/race and I'm the fake version? If you think so please state in clear words that this is originally your thinking process that is only projected thru this medium of expression and noticeable by you for that reason. Like a thief who upon hearing store, goes "what do you mean stole diamond, who stole the diamond, why wud you say stole the diamond, why imply that?" I never said diamond? You have a backgroun
Load More Replies...I'm a "Male Nurse", oh wait, that's not satirical. As less than 20% of Nurses are Male, this just denotes the uniqueness I hold within the profession. FFS, Find something worthwhile to be "offended" about.
Well, looks like no one noticed it, but the politician shirt is designed in shape of the female symbol and that's pretty funny.
I see my comment has been duplicated in several different threads, including some where it makes very little contextual sense. Go home Bored Panda, you're drunk :-)
The word "man" as meaning "male human" is NOT 100% correct. "Man" is an old English word and its original definition is "human being". It is gender neutral. How we use it today, though, is both in a gender neutral way and a way meaning only male humans. People should keep in mind that when it is still used in its original gender neutral form such as in "mankind" or "The Ascent of Man". Wyf was the original word for woman and came to be the word for "wife". Wer was the original word for adult male human.
Okey, couple things. Not nearly all of these are true, like female journalist? I've never seen anyone specify that? Also, in some occupations there are a lot more women, than men. Few would react to male nurse, for instance. Because nurses are more often female. Right? Anyhow, these are also a little lazy. BUT, I would like one. :D
These things would make sense if women were expected to provide financial support, emotional support, physical protection, pay for dates, romantically pursue and otherwise do all the heavy lifting for men.
THO WOKIFIED!!! Just one little quibble: It's only LEFTIST IDENTITARIANS who are obsessed with gender. race, etc.
The pictures on both look the same? I cant see the improvements on the make image?
The comment below was voted down. I guess "science" is the new four-letter word. Humans are mammals (read some Darwin if you doubt this). Mammals have two sexes. They are different. Shocking. Really shocking. Gender Feminists "know" that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth. If you claim otherwise, and invoke "science" you are just part of the white-male-racist-sexist-patriarchy.
What about "MAN CONSTRUCTION WORKER", or "MAN GARBAGE COLLECTOR"? Oh, right, feminazis ad their cucks don't see the issue in not having "equality" in those jobs, only the high-paying white collar positions are "problematic" xD Cucks.
Humans are mammals (read some Darwin if you doubt this). Mammals have two sexes. They are different. Shocking. Really shocking. Gender Feminists "know" that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth. If you claim otherwise, and invoke "science" you are just part of the white-male-racist-sexist-patriarchy.
Job lifting heavy drums with male as applicant: Hiring manager: "Try lifting these drums." Male applicant: he's got scrawny arms, weak, has trouble doing it. Never been to the gym a day in his life, but he needs this job. Hiring manager: "If you're struggling, just get one of the other guys to help you or use this piece of assisting machinery (e.g. dolly)" With female applicant: she struggles to lift just like the male applicant Hiring manager: "If you can't lift these drums, you can't do the job. This is no place for a woman." Designer of drums is a man: "Let's not make these light enough so that everyone can lift them. Let's make them so only the average man can lift them."
So they just took one not a particularly bright idea and made a shitload of t-shirts just switching professions? Why is feminists' "humour" always so defective?
You seem to not appreciate the humor. That doesn’t mean “feminist humor” is defective.
Load More Replies...Nice to see BoredPanda is leftleaning, feminist prejudice supporter. Hiding comments, that are true but could offend someone. I am offended by wrongfull statements from female sexists, that are far of any statistics or reality. DO not forget we talk 1st world here, noone is denying problems in the rest of the world
This was a very half witted, hyperbolic article. The only qualifier I have gotten used to hearing in my lifetime is "male nurse" and I don't think men are bitter about that.
Maybe it woulf be nice if we treated people as 'human beings' instead of treating them differently for being 'women' or 'men'
Load More Replies...As a dentist, there are gender specific organizations. Also, there is a men’s group in town that meets weekly where I am not welcome.
Load More Replies...And you’re appealing to the anti- justice, fearful-male crowd.
Load More Replies...Oh look, more pseudoscience to justify cultural myths about men and women having so-called biologically-driven roles to play. You are promoting myths. There is zero valid science behind your apologetics. Men and women do not biologically differ in brain function. All behavior differences are entirely cultural.
Load More Replies...As teenage girl growing up with a twin brother, I say this is not male bashing. I want you to go to the nearest store selling clothes. A store selling baby clothes or kid clothes or toys or anything that is sorted into gender. Notice what they are selling. Shops sell baby girls clothes that say "I hate my thighs" or "little princess." Baby boys are sold stuff like "future astronaut" or "I will take over the world." Girl toys are all about fashion and beauty and boy toys are all about working and getting smarter (Barbie doll vs toy truck, etc.) My mom once got me a book called A Smart Girl's Guide to Strating Middleschool and A Smart Boy's Guide to Strating Middleschool. I read my brother's too. Mine was all about how to look pretty and make friends, my brother's was how to befriend the teachers and how to study. Is that not inequality?
Load More Replies.......this ia how the world is. Marie Curry was introduced to me as "a great female scientist," I think my teacher even said something like, "not all scientists are men." Marie Curry was a great scientist, period.
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