Channel your inner 12 year old. The answer will reveal itself.
Oh, come on, people!
It’s a penis! A penis which popped Ellen’s Cherry! How is that NOT hilarious?! 
Franks and Beans!
Fair enough. That was probably not the clearest example.
That said, I’ll throw another couple out there. My boss frequently tells me that he wishes that another female in my group were performing better. Unfortunately, he says, it must be “her cranky time of the month” or “maybe her husband isn’t satisfying her,” so she’s doing a bad job.
Then there was another gem: he said that a woman who had stayed at home with her kids might have problems adapting to the work force. Which would’ve been a good point - after all, getting used to a new schedule and new responsibilities is difficult for anyone - then he went on to say that most women who had kids got too used to being “kept” and probably should forego working entirely because women, especially stay-at-home moms tended to just get lazy anyway.
I’m 25, my first job was at a discount department store. The manager of the hardware/automotive department was a woman. I never worked in that department. Men (& the occasional woman) would routinely ignore her (a middle-aged woman with a nametage saying “Manager”) to ask some random stockboy or cashier for help. Or they’d see nobody but her, reluctantly speak to her, then abruptly stop as soon as they saw a male associate walk by. I was often that associate. I’d say something like “I don’t know sir, that’s not my department. She can help you, she’s a manager (while pointing at her”. More often than not they’d just get frustated and leave. A couple even complained about me being “rude” or “useless”.
I think I was trying to read more into it that was there. Like, is it a spoof on the women not understanding distances joke or something…but no. I guess sometimes a wang is just a wang.
I’m out of your target age range. However, I suggest Googling “Dallas fire department sexism” for some recent sexism in a professional context. Here’s one link: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/013010dnmetdfr.3f884ff.html
Spoken like a man who’s never been in charge all day, every day, of a pack of little kids. :rolleyes:
I’m 24 and in the tech industry. Haven’t encountered any sexism, really. Sometimes I think my gender might even be a boon, because of equality laws and blah blah blah chicks don’t do stuff with computers for a living.
Did have a boss who wasn’t impressed when people went on mat leave, but it would be the same if a guy went on pat leave or medical leave. It was the absence and need for a temp worker and training that bothered him.
Yes, exactly. *So *annoying.
I don’t agree. I feel that is demeaning. They are my coworker not my grandfather.
Accepting for the sake of argument that it is demeaning, something can be demeaning without being sexist. If he said (as Nava says) the equivalent to males, I don’t know what conception of sexism would apply here. Doesn’t it require being worse off in some way because of your gender? If both genders are worse off, then it can be a lot of things which are reprehensible, but not sexism.
I totally get why you’d exclude this, for space and clarity and yet, it’s probably what I’ve experienced the most (racism, too). Older guys at parties or family dinners who think they can let their guards down with those crazy PC police (and HR nazis) gone, who need to tell me and anyone else with ears what they really think about working moms or colored people. Then they go back to pretending to be progressive on Monday morning. I don’t work with them or for them, but I feel bad for any women who do and actually think they’re good guys judging them on their performance.
I have experienced plenty of sexism in jobs at restaurants and the like, and didn’t really care much. The guys making the jokes or stupid assumptions led sad little lives. It’s been much rarer in ‘career’ jobs but obviously hurts much more.
Exactly. To me, that guy wasn’t sexist, ageist yes but in a “damn, I’m working with people young enough to be my kids” way, not in a “young folk nowadays!” way (it’s all in the tone of voice and body language). Sexist was that boss who called men by their names but addressed all women as “flower”, and who answered our protests of “I have a name, you know” with “I’m not going to bother learn it, and I’m the boss so fuck off”. That guy yes, that guy was a sexist ass.
Oh, and what was mentioned about a boss “expecting more of women”: that’s how I first encountered sexism, in the form of a teacher (not one of mine, but some of mine did the same) who expected perfect handwriting from girls but was ok with a messy hand from boys. It all amounts to the same shit of having to do more to get treated the same - if ever.
I’m under 30 and definitely have experienced extensive sexism.
I worked in male-dominated fields, focused on diplomacy/security, international affairs and politics and constantly was treated poorer based on being female. This was hugely exacerbated when most of my work required me to be based throughout Asia on a regular basis for several years. It was extremely frustrating.
I now work in a position combining medical and legal focuses, and the sexism is substantially reduced. However, within the legal field, I have still been subject to and witnessed considerable sexism.
I had my promotion to supervisor cancelled at a grocery shop (a truly shit job which I quit before the statutary time period to ‘resolve the problem’ had expired, so this did go un-reported to higher management) due to a new manager, who told the deputy that he ‘didn’t want girls being in charge of the shop in the evening, it’s dangerous’.
I had already been given a date for when I was supposed to be starting, given the management pass codes, shown how to use the computer system…
It did get quite ironic really, the supervisor I would be partially replacing was a skinny 19-year old who cheerfully admitted I could probably wrestle him to the ground one-handed- I’m a pretty big lass.
Then they hired a security firm anyway for the evening shift, as there were too many shoplifters.
The first guard that was sent by the agency to protect us feeble girlies turned out to be female
Oh, and that same dept store absolutly refused to send female associates out to get carts. Even in broad daylight. And there was a code for any available male associate to come to the front to the front for customer carryout.
I’m 23, and encountered sexist and homophobic jokes when I worked in a corporate environment. It’s been less of a problem since I moved into politics/charity sector. Currently I get sexual comments thrown at me by one colleague and more subtle, and yet insiduous, forms of sexism from management.
Same department store?? 
I’ve never worked at a department store, I was talking about a grocery shop, it didn’t even have shopping carts (and is in the UK, so they wouldn’t be called that if they did) so I assume either you mean the same happened to you, or you’re mistaking me for someone else 
I worked in a hydraulic lift rental place. On the rental/repair office wall, the guys had hung naked girl calendars. When office women complained that the pictures were inappropriate for a professional atmosphere, we were told with an elbow jab, “Whatsa matter honey? You jealous?”
So what we in the front office did was get ourselves a Playgirl magazine and tacked up pictures on our walls of naked dudes with schlongs a-waving.
Point taken. Calendars came down. Score one for our side. Had fun doing it too.