50 Times People Ignored Women Because There Was A Man Nearby

It happened to me recently. We had a flat tyre and needed to get towed to a garage. My (male) partner does not speak fluently my language so I was doing all the talking. Despite of that all the men in the garage kept adressing him, looking at him and pretending that I was not there. I wish I could have told them to f**k themselves but we needed to get that wheel fixed. It keeps happening here. I enter, do the talking and my bf is a bit behind listening but silent. In banks, restaurants etc. Most people insist in looking at him and not at me and adressing him. You could argue that they find weird that he isnt speaking. But when we lived in his country and he was doing most of the talking at the beggining nobody ever adressed me or acted as if it was odd that a woman was silent and let "her man" do the talk. F*****g sexist world.

Tried buying a Cadillac from our local dealer. My husband told the salesman he needed to talk to me. The salesman said she probably can't afford it anyway. We went to a dealer 50 miles away. I proudly drove my new Cadillac around the local dealership waving at the salesman.🙂

I HATE this! Happened to me at one dealership - twice in one day - never went back.

My (male) partner always lets me do the talking when we are buying cars. He deprives me of food and coffee first to ensure I'm in a really foul mood to deal with car salesmen. At one dealership the salesman said, "I suppose the little lady would like something to do the shopping in." My partner backed away, grinning to himself. I said, "Good heavens, no. I'm after something high-specced and sporty." He showed me lot of sports cars and then asked if I'd like to test-drive one. "I don't drive," I said. "You'll have to ask my partner which one he likes."

Many men do this. Every time we went to a parts store, the guy behind the counter would ask my husband what we needed. He'd look at the guy and say "I don't know. You need to ask her. She knows more about cars than I do." The guys would seem thoroughly miffed that they were forced to talk to a woman.

"Yes, my husband is a very lucky girl to have married a pilot"

I'm also a female pilot, this one hits me hard.

Now this one...tsk tsk tsk.

Well, you can push him out of your house now.

I certainly hope Kandy made that painfully clear to the adjuster!

A lot of men (unless it's their husbands) underestimate how prepared most women are before making a decision. We read up on the topic, google the hell out of it, weigh the pros and cons... and why? Because of situations like these. Few things are more degrading than not being taken seriously.

When I was in my 20s, I bought my mom a brand new car from salon (7km on odometer - nice feeling) :)) I was so grateful and pleasantly surprised about a salesman in his 40s who was really attentive and accepted me gracefully as a client (without talking to me like to a kid), even though i looked way younger than my age, and dressed like a student :)) on the other hand there was younger man (in his late 20s) who ignored me when I walked in.

In my business dealings with women, women tend to be more direct and upfront.

Fully informed, and with enough money—-of her own—-to buy the entire dealership, in cash, much less just one of the cars on its lot. Never ever judge a book by its cover.

Some men are so stupid, smh.

Lots of men and women get scary easily on backing up in those situations. My sons both are mechanics and it's standard insurance deal that they have to drive in the cars as well as move them out of the buildings. They both work in huge shops with plenty of room. And hey, at least he asked, instead of the " let me back it out for you honey, I'll make sure that pretty rear end doesn't get scratched." That I got once. Long time ago It's a big world. All types.

I have to say I once drove into a driveway with my Ford Transit van confident of my reversing abilities (it was a wide driveway but had parked cars all along the side of it). I go to reverse out and uh oh what if I hit someone's car and panic started setting in. I did ask a forklift driver to help me reverse it out. In my defense I only owned the van for about two weeks. Anyway I'm not ashamed to ask for help from a more experienced driver if needed at all. :)

Was the car on a lift? That can actually be tricky if it shifts as you back up. Not all solicitude is based upon gender bias. Most shops won't allow anyone but staff to back out of the garage because of increased liability.

I had my car worked on and they said they could find anything. Even suggested I couldn't drive a shift. I had the manager drive, with me, we made it about 8 blocks and the car quit. Just like it had been. He looked so shocked and was so freaked out, the shop was closing by that time. FYI the distributor shaft was bent, not a lot, just enough. A guy working out of his garage figured it out.

I loved my micra

My partner has backed me up in this way repeatedly. As I'm a woman who also is a wheelchair user people often ignore me and speak directly to my partner. He says to people I don't know why you're asking me, she's the brains I'm just the transport! It can make people uncomfortable but they might learn not to assume! After all if you assume you make an a*s out of me and you!

In my country it's completely different. Go into appliance store with my husband and I am the one the sales rep speaks to, even though the account is in my husband's name. It happens in most stores.

Get yourself a mans like that!!!

Probably assume a woman likes the physical appearance of it not the actual function, especially if you live to cook, or maybe assumed he’s the breadwinner and wants to get a good sales commission

He's a keeper

this is disgusting ... where the f**k was this, kandahar???

The rule of the thumb with any sales job, be it selling tickets to clubs, a house or a car is listen to the woman, she's the one you have to convince. The man will follow.

I hope to hell you talked to your friend and to the dealership manager about why they lost that sale.

Luckily, the salesperson for the first car my husband and I bought together was a woman. My husband, for some reason, was ready to take the first offers for everything, from the trade in value of our car to the price of the car we were buying, but I put the kibosh on the handshake for both. I lived on my own for a long time before marrying, so had to do things like buy cars on my own—-and I hate feeling like I’m being condescended to and cheated because I’m a woman and the salespeople or mechanics thought I was ignorant about cars and repairs. So I learned very quickly how to do my homework, speak with authority, stick to my guns, and be a hard bargainer. Therefore, I’m the negotiator in the family (I even have a Masters in Conflict Resolution, which includes negotiation), so had done my research and even had my Kelly Blue Book in hand, ready for the back and forth offers. We got good prices for both the trade in and and purchase price, and even had them throw in a couple other things as well (they paid for the tags and registration, and threw in a lot of other paid extras for free). Hubby was impressed, and we drove off the lot with the car we wanted that day. He has let me do the negotiations for every car we’ve bought since then, plus every other large purchase where the price is negotiable.

Just NO.

Good for him -- but what the heck is a "cubicle mate"?