Just wondering
If you include the common double standard different treatment of boys and girls in the 50s and early 60s, yes. Some things were easier for me than my sister and some were harder.
I was harassed by a female boss, but it was more professional harassment than sexual. She definitely had a huge hate-on for men, however, and I reported it to the home office. Nothing ever came of it, of course.
yes? being a woman, I’ve been discriminated against, harassed, and treated like a semi-human my entire life. Talked to like I was a 5-year-old at car dealerships, mechanics, in hardware stores, and even the doctor’s office. Ignored at work meetings because someone with balls wanted to talk. The most blatant example was having an unqualified man promoted over me (and several other highly qualified women) at work simply because he was a man. And yes, our very bitter about it boss told us that was why he was promoted (against her decision, it was pushed through by higher-ups) so it wasn’t just us making stuff up.
And currently a major political party has adopted sexism and misogyny as part of their platform.
7 kids, all did the dishes, the boys got out of it when they entered high school, the girls never got out of it.
The girls never had to get a job or pay for a car unless they would not take the free one that Dad let them use.
Not anything else different other that what everybody had due to society at the time. 1950 to 1975 approx.
I’m a woman in her 50’s living in America. Of course I’ve been the victim of sexism. It’s like asking if a black person that age has ever experienced racism. DUH!
Oh hell, yes, while growing up especially. Plenty of it in regular life which is a whole other rant from living with fundamentalists. Once, right from the podium, a man said men should take the lead in families because they have larger brains than women.
It didn’t go over well with the women in the congregation, but of course, women must “keep silent” in the church.
I am a woman in the military and have worked all over the world, including with militaries that don’t allow women in the military.
So, yes.
This. And I’m a minority so I’ve got that going fkr me too!
Very little in some ways, quite a bit in others.
My boss told me that " Because you think faster than I do, I end up feeling emasculated"
I dropped of my truck for an oil change (F250 diesel) when they called to say it was ready they said “your husband’s truck that you dropped off is ready.” I have no husband/boyfriend. And the guy that called was the same one that checked me in.
I’ve definitely been told that I am too abrasive, where a guy saying/doing the exact same thing would’ve been told to be more aggressive.
When buying lumber: “You’re pretty smart for a woman!”
That guy is actually a total sweetheart, he’s just an idiot. I work in construction. Mostly men just seem baff6by the very idea of me.
Sexism can provide both advantages and disadvantages for members of a sex.
How many women have been drafted into the army?
If you are alive and have a sex, the answer is yes.
I’m a man in my 30s. And I’m white, and straight. How many advantages can one person get?
I’ve never been a victim of sexism that I’m aware of. I highly recommend whiteness and maleness – it really makes a lot of things easier. Next time around, I’ll definitely choose it again.
When I was a teenager I did encounter the “boys are stupid” type of misandry a number of times.
There are times when things worked in my favor, though. Men are often under-represented in classical music so sometimes I was given more positive attention than women in this field because I was in the gender minority.
I also grew up in a country where men are conscripted into the military.
In 7th grade I told the band director I wanted to learn to play drums. I was handed a French horn and told “Girls aren’t drummers.”
I once worked for a company where the general manager was a woman, and the assistant manager was a man.
One day, the assistant manager suddenly decided that he didn’t want to take orders from a woman, and walked out.
It meant extra work for all of us, while they hired and trained his replacement.
Yes. Like Anaamika, I’m also a minority.
I’m an engineer and had just moved into Product Management (it is a technical field). I ended up reporting to a Marketing VP who was non-technical and insisted that women couldn’t be technical. He also ended up with a sexual harassment lawsuit from his admin assistant and a Marketing Communications woman who worked for him.
So the VP ended up without an admin assistant and he started treating me like his assistant. He would shout at me in public and mark down my rating for not taking notes for him in his meetings (it was phrased differently like not performing expected duties), making reservations for lunch etc. I was in a team of 4 Product Managers (all engineers) and one was oblivious, one was bothered and one thought it was amusing. The guy who thought it was amusing made it even worse because he made the situation worse. He also would assign me work for say 4 weeks and then 2 days before it was due, he would re-assign it to one of my cohorts. So I would do all of the work, get something into final review and then my co-workers would get the credit for it. This dropped my review grade drastically. The one PM who backed me finally started leaving my name on the documents and the VP ripped him a new one; the PM said that putting his name on something where he had literally done no work was plagiarism. So he stopped getting my assignments but the behavior continued with the other 2 PMs.
I complained both to him and to HR about disparate treatment (VP said we were taking turns and despite my documentation and his prior lawsuit, he was believed) and stopped getting some of the admin assistant tasks but HR backed him on the review grades and the other behavior continued and got worse. It was a completely toxic environment and I couldn’t find another job as a PM with those reviews and whisper campaign. And I was very, very gun-shy about jobs after that.
It really stunned me how oblivious my co-workers were about it as well. The PM who was amused called me a year after I left that job and apologized. He had no idea how bad it was and thought I was joking but he had recently met with the girl who sued for sexual harassment and then with someone who had been in HR and had no idea how serious it was.
Yes.
Not a few companies in my line are small and staffed by women only. I know that I was an exceptionally qualified candidate in more than a few interviews, and in a few of those cases I know the far less capable girly-girl they hired. They were proudly girl’s clubs in one of the only fields where such things are found in the modern world, and only a lack of any women applicants was going to make them change the restroom signs.
Which I found particularly galling in that I’d fought to get qualified women hires in the decade before, when working for “boy’s clubs.”
Oh well. I don’t do either any more.
I’ve also missed out on at least one job for being a white male; it went to a less qualified and less experienced - but female - applicant instead.
And generally, as a white male I’m also frequently told a lot of the things that are wrong with the modern world are my fault, and I’m also not allowed to have certain opinions on things.