50 Women Who Called Out Sexist Things That Are Still Blatantly Accepted

She’s a future leader!

YES

I agree.

Priorities!

Agree. But they don’t actually respect that man. They just say “but he don’t mind if you have friends, right?” “I have a boyfriend” really only works because some men think it’s the only possible way THEY could be rejected when mama said they were so handsome!

DAMN!

But men do say "I hate women" and other statements like that all the time. Half of all Boomer jokes boil down to "wife bad".

So true

For those saying "not all men," that also proves the point. It was never the clothes. Still, people continue to blame women for dressing "provocatively."

My friend told me she was so happy she is turning 40, because finally people have stopped with the baby questions, because now they think maybe she does not have kids because she is too old. And now she does not have do defend herself for not having kids. Jeez, why can't people just back off? Like, do people ask a women questions like that because they think they forgot to have kids and they need to be reminded?

It isn’t logical, it’s sexist and ageist and pro forced birth, and by nature illogical.

And you know... controlling themselves instead of blaming others for their actions...but I’m an atheist who is going to hell. What do I know, besides they have crazy lit parties in hell.

Absolutely!! We don't even wear makeup or paint our nails to impress men. If there were no men in the world we would look exactly like we do now - but wear much less clothes....

The lesson that we can take from all this is that people need to keep their nose out of other people's private parts. End of story.

And yet it's been given such a negative connotation :(

So many issues approached in just a dozen words. Clever girl.

Try it with race too. "First White Astronaut", "First White President."

Yep, in my country they give condoms for free, to help prevent spread of STDs, many people want them to do this with Tampons, Heck, even just get rid of the VAT on Tampons.

How do we get this higher up the list?

"How convenient it was when we could assault them and they would just shut up... good ol' times"

Not just "every woman you know", just "Every Woman".

Most of the action taken to protect women from sexual assault helps men as well. The activism, even when based mostly on cases involving women, results in gender-neutral legislation.

I truly hate the phrase boys will be boys.

Yes. Consent is the MOST BASIC thing to know... It's what makes us human.

The only appropriate response to this is "Yes." If they're unaware enough to ask it, that's the answer they deserve

Thank you Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner!

The entire Trump presidency was invasive.

This made me laugh out loud. For real.

Absolutely nothing wrong with braids. It's your hair... do with it what you want! Braids look great on her!

I don’t shame hypocrites for having the same amount or more sex than others. I just like seeing them flustered while they try to work out why it’s okay for them.

this hasn't aged well in Australia

It's also none of your neighbour's business

Haha! I wish I could have been there to laugh in his face

Wow, they cry you didn’t like sports? I figured it would be a relief to many men who don’t like the pressure of having to enjoy sports when they don’t. I’ve never dated a guy who seriously cares about sports. That’s so cringe and middle America basic.

I had a gynecologist (and woman) ask me if I wanted kids and then reply to my negative yelling at me the old "what if your husband wants them?" First thanks for assuming that I want to marry or that I am straight. And second if my partner wants kids he can go look for a woman willing to have them with him. Its not my problem at all.

As a man, I've gotten the question of "But what if your future wife wants kids?" and I just think...we probably would have discussed this and reached some conclusions about our life priorities and future trajectories before someone became my wife?

2 weeks after I got married, I went to my hairdresser, and asked to have all my long hair cut off. My hairdresser asked what my husband was going to think about that? I said, you mean my bald husband who has no hair?? I didn't ask him, because it's my hair. We have been married 25 years now.

And yet, people still trot out that old trope about how "Men marry women hoping they'll never change while women marry men hoping to change them." No, we are expected to change for men before we've even met them!

I never understood this thinking. Even when you're a couple, you are still two individuals. You do you and he do him, right? But then I see a lot of my friends trying so hard to "share" every aspect, and it led to so much resentment.

I had to take a great photo of myself off the dating app bc none of the Neanderthals knew about the nasty woman campaign and thought I was actually “a nasty woman”. Meaning I was “slutty” and wanted d**k pics. I don’t know how I lucked out meeting my boyfriend on a dating app. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Boy, this one sure gave me a bittersweet laugh. Speaking as a guy who hates sports, doesn't drink beer ( or anything else alcoholic ), never wanted kids, and used to regularly watch "Style with Elsa Klensch", I spent so many years having every woman I attempted to ask out respond with utter contempt that I've long since given up even trying.

I had a (woman) doctor say that exact thing to me when I asked about sterilisation. My body, my decision!

It's weird because no one ever talked Ike this to me when I was a teen in the 80s are we going backwards?

Y'see, this is why you put all this stuff on your profile. It avoids people who don't want all that in someone from going through an entire relationship to discover it. So, if they're so much into sport and want to share it with someone like minded (fair enough) then she is doing them a favour..

This!!

When my mum married my dad she didn't want kids. She was kind of persuaded by dad's family to have kids. She had two (inc me). She loved us and cared for us but she developed bipolar disorder after having my older sister and she really struggled to cope. My sister and I both have mental health issues too and both refuse to have children. She's now in her 50's and no longer able to have kids, I'm menopausal and single and have had no kids. We don't want to pass any issues we have on to any children we may have had. We would have been bad parents

150% Feminist? Wow, that's effectively Anita Sarkeesian, her royal highness of the Femnazi-order. No wonder men, children and sane women run in fear! That's the type of woman that refers to eye-contact as "sexual assault"

I cut my long hair short. It looked fab according to all of my friends (and me) but not my then boyfriend. He dumped me. I was pregnant. I have an awesome son who has only met his father a few times. Thank God. We don’t need his kind of judgement and negativity in our lives.

True, this is so sad.