Examples of Everyday Sexism

[denny]

libellum and I have a fair few conversations where she's trying to talk to me about a general problem, and I start arguing with her by asking for and/or knocking down specific instances of the problem. There's some scope for claiming this is 'a boy thing' or 'a geek thing', but whatever - I'm not about to claim it's unchangeable. So, I keep trying to do it less, and take her points on board instead of quibbling over details. It's an ongoing process.

Sexism is an area we end up discussing quite often, her being increasingly interested in analysing her feminism and me being basically well-intentioned but actually a bit crap in practise, it seems.

Today she posted a really interesting post, possibly the first in a series. It simply lists some things that have happened to her recently, most of them frequently, which are casual everyday examples of sexism (or other gender-specific unpleasantness). Her objective isn't to convert raging sexists into nice people... it's to help people like me realise just how pervasive this stuff is. Despite my best intentions, my instinctive response every time I hear about something like this is probably mostly based on "but I never see/hear this stuff happen". Well, I wouldn't, would I?

Anyway, if you're interested in being reminded every now and then of how the world seems to behave less than ideally towards females on a regular basis, you might want to track this tag:
http://libellum.livejournal.com/tag/sexism:+every+little+counts

Out of curiousity, if she (or someone else) were to start a community where women could post this kind of thing and men could read it:
[Poll #1188074]

Feel free to explain/elaborate in comments. Apologies to any snowflakes, I wanted to keep the options very simple - if they bother you that much, don't vote, and leave a comment.

Comments

[alixandrea.livejournal.com]

'I would post in such a community' = I might post in such a community. I might just lurk instead, I'm good at lurking... ;-)

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

same.

some days i find myself noticing every eye i catch, other days a bomb could drop and i'd be too busy thinking about my euphonium/lunch to notice. i wouldn't necessarily have anything to post, or want to...