What are some examples of sexism?

Question

I mean like situational examples...

Answer 1

Men are REQUIRED to register to be drafted in order to qualify to apply for the same Federal Financial Aid that women get while being EXEMPT. War slave ? or sexist insults ? What would you chose ?

In the military women get the same pay for doing it girl style from beginning to end. It starts in boot camp with the "knee" push ups, half as many reps at everything else, better housing, and running half the distance as the guys and ends with them getting hazardous duty pay when they are 100 miles from the battle as the men who are actually in it (supposedly because they could possibly get hit by one of the shells the guys dodge all day), SAME PAY ! Men are superior so they get punished for it and the women get rewarded for being inferior.

Also, instances when uninformed people insist that men make more money than women for "the same job" when they are obviously overlooking, or suppressing, the fact that it is NEVER the "same job", that is propaganda BS. This society has such a thing called LAW SUITS ! If this could be proven, as so many think it is so obvious, there would be A LOT more suits than there are, if any. Women don't do the men's work, while men are expected to do both. Men have to give up their woman's work positions so the woman can have it. The cush jobs are reserved for women, and men are the ones who get killed at a rate of 20 TIMES more than women at work. Men are also severely injured at work at a rate of 19+ TIMES more than women, E.G. loss of limbs, eyes, fingers, paralysis, etc.

How many women do you see loading the cement bags at the hardware store ? Installing rolls of carpet ? Hanging drywall ? Doing anything but holding the sign at the road "construction" site ? Loading moving trucks instead of being the dispatcher or "administartive assistant" for the moving company? How many concrete truck operators are female?, nope they do the dispatching. Doing the order taking at the fast food restaurant instead of sweating at the grill ? Being the service manager or asst service manager at the car dealership instead of doing the oil changes and other knuckle busting jobs ? These examples don't end. People who ignore the obvious, in this regard, are good examples for sexism. Also people who make the very unusual anomoly the NORM are also good examples.

Women may have the same title/position BUT the job DESCRIPTIONS between the genders are apples and watermelons !

Answer 2

I know a woman who tried to tell me women were smarter than men. I did what I always do and asked her to back up her statement. She couldn't, besides saying it was "obvious" and everyone knows men are "action-oriented" while women are thinkers. (She also tried to act like I was arguing out of some personal stake. I told her if what she said was true I'd be the loudest one to say it, because if women are smarter than men and I have a higher IQ than most women, that elevates me even more for being a higher member of my "kind".) This woman is very courteous, polite, and professional. She's also in a management position. Does this mean she promotes women over men? If she thinks men are more action-oriented does she promote them more exclusively into positions she thinks they will perform better in than women? You'd probably never know it in the workplace but she believes in this, so how much does that affect how she interacts with her coworkers, especially the ones who answer to her? I also think this is a kind of lazy superiority complex. It gets really easy to categorize yourself as better than this person or that person.

I use her as an example but I'm sure there are many other women and men who have similar thoughts. My cousin's husband (who treats my cousin very well) told me he didn't think a woman should be President because she'd be too unstable on her period. (I pointed out as a smoker he becomes unstable when he hasn't had a fix and by that logic would disqualify him for a public office. And also that George Bush doesn't have a period but that doesn't seem to stop him from going to war on emotional grounds.) I had an uncle once who wouldn't vote for a woman just because she was a woman--he couldn't even give me an explanation.

Sexism doesn't have to be some kind of overt workplace discrimination, or derogatory comment. Sometimes it's just in a thought.

Answer 3

I was quite often a "victim" of sexism because I chose to be a female electrician. Quite often I was made fun of on building sites because I was female, I had one guy, whose bedside lamp I was fixing at a workmen's residential village, tell me to make the bed while I was there. The manager of the village once told me, though he was joking, to come fix the hot water cistern wearing a bikini. I also had heaps of people assume I was a lesbian just because I was in a traditional male job.
I usually do my own mechanical repairs on my car, too, and at one point the car I was driving was one I had built from the ground up, repainted it myself, rebuilt the engine etc. I used to take it to the mechanic for the big jobs that I didn't have the tools for, and he would insist on talking to my husband about it. My hubby would say, I don't know, it's her car, but this mechanic, for 5 years, would not talk to me about it. Even after I proved I knew what I was talking about ("it's making this noise under these conditions so would you replace the ball joints please") he still spoke over my head to my husband.
Sexist pig!
Though there were a lot of people who were very good about having a female electrician and supported me, I did often feel discriminated against.

Answer 4

One of the most common examples I see happens at restaurants. A waiter will come with the check and set it down in front of the man without any question. It just plays into the idea that the male would be expected to pay for the meal.

Answer 5

If a person sees a co-worker crying or upset, their assumptions might be based on the person's gender. If it's a guy, some people might say to themselves, "Wow. He must have just heard that his Dad died, or something." If it's a gal crying, a person might think, "Arguement with a boyfriend?" or, worse, "How unprofessional! She should do that somewhere else!"

Of course, not every person is going to make these assumptions. However, I think that hidden assumptions are one of the biggest problems of sexism in our very modern country. They influence so much of people's actions without ever being discussed or considered.

Answer 6

I'm not sure if you wanted like a role pay of examples but if you were looking for recent examples I would consider Don Imus comments toward the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team to be very sexist. More sexist perhaps then "racist" as they were heralded out to be, which again downplayed the issue of sex in favor of race instead. It was racist to be sure but the media portrayal of it as solely as an issue of race was foul. If you note from his comments he even acted in a sexist manner toward the opposing Tennessee team. He referred to these women as merely "cute girls" and the Rutgers University women as "hoes"...both these comments reflect elements of sexism - as seeing women as objects more so than as equal people in the world.

Sorry if this seems hot-headed; since, it's not intended to be...just frustrating!

Answer 7

In a group setting with a male/female leadership team, the group will often look to the male to be the "decision-maker," or as the voice of authority. Also, men still out earn women for the same work at the same levels. If a man is assertive and speaks his mind it is seen as "leadership," while women who do those things are referred to as b****.

Answer 8

For example, it isn't important to my husband to buy me a dishwasher...even though we have a busy household and tons of dishes to do every day and it bothers him how much time I spend doing dishes....but he has to have ALL of the state of the art tools to do HIS job as a carpenter... I know there are less expensive tools that do basically the same things.
They are both tools we need to do the best and most efficient job we can, but he takes his more seriously even though he doesn't use all of his tools every day as I would use my dishwasher more than 3 times a day!!!

Now I'm getting riled!

Answer 9

Office harrassment.

Answer 10

being told women belong in the kitchen while men do the building and heavy lifting.