“The demand of emotional labor. Somebody married, got a baby? Please take care of the card, you are a woman, you can do these things better. ಠ_ಠ”— Zefirama, reddit.com
“'That's not a very flattering outfit' — my dad judging the important presidential qualities of Hillary Clinton 30 seconds into the first debate.”— delillie, reddit.com
“My (female) supervisor approached my (male) coworker to remind him to get back on task. It was a simple reminder, there wasn't any attitude at all in what she said. He turned to me and said, 'This is why I don't like working with women.'”— iamagiraff3, reddit.com
“Every time we have contractors over at the house and they feel the need to oversimplify shit to me. 'See that shiny silver thing? That's an air duct, air goes through it.' Or every time I've started a new job and men and women alike assume that I'm my (usually upper management) boss's new secretary…”— spirality5, reddit.com
“My mom is pretty amazing with building things, my dad can't build a thing unless it is a computer, so when they wanted to redo the fence in their yard or build a bookcase or a bed frame, mom is the one who planned it out and bought supplies and put it together, only really using dad's assistance whe…”— YoeSafBridge, reddit.com
“When doing my apprenticeship in Carpentry, my supervisors would refuse me use of power tools, before handing them to a less-qualified-than-me male. Also, when buying cars/building supplies with a male friend present, the salesmen will refuse to acknowledge me. Too bad, I'm the one with the money mat…”— Yufraxitr, reddit.com
“At a former job, a male coworker would spend time in every conversation we had just staring at my boobs. He'd either talk to them for a while (instead of making eye contact) or take a space break at the end and mutely look. Just like Bridget Jones' older boss did in the first movie, but for a longer…”— lilac_socks, reddit.com
“I work hotel front desk so I deal with daily sexism from guests, but the worst example was several years ago. A gentleman from another country (not naming the country because I don't want to bash the entire country on one person's account) refused to be checked in by me, stated "in my country women…”— hotel_girl985, reddit.com
“I was once at an STEM event where a speaker commented "it's good to see all you ladies here!". There were about 5 women there including me, out of 20-25 total.”— Chelzero, reddit.com
“There is a certain bias dealing with women who exist and talk within a group. Men who were asked the percentage of women in a group answered "about 50%" when in reality it was actually less than 20%. They also answered that there were more women than men in the room when the number of women approach…”— Halloysite, reddit.com
“I recently took my niece to a doctor's appointment. She's 4. She was wearing a knee-length skirt (and was wearing shorts underneath) and playing on the ground with other kids in the kids section thing they have in some waiting rooms. This older woman comes by, taps her on the shoulder and sternly sa…”— ffreudiannipss, reddit.com
“I have an academic doctoral degree and was on a panel with two other people with the same qualifications. Both were male. They were introduced as "Dr. Smith" and "Dr. Jones" and I was introduced as "Feat" (in other words, they got the honorific associated with their credential, and I was referred to…”— FeatofClay, reddit.com
“When me and the SO were buying a new tv and on a separate occasion a laptop, I had a list of specs and things I wanted at minimum and things I didn't care for. The salesman kept speaking to my SO exclusively and trying to talk about the different products with him. Eventually I went off by myself to…”— Gennova666, reddit.com
“Women can't handle technology. I'm not an expert by any means, but whenever I have an IT issue I can't even finish explaining it before I'm dismissed by the tech guy. Most recently, my laptop charger broke. I went to the store, bought a new one, cost me 15e. My boyfriend has the exact same laptop, r…”— PurrPrinThom, reddit.com
“The only real difference between racist, sexist people and those who are not is the conscious effort that the latter make to counteract their learned-in-childhood, unconscious prejudices.”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“The magazines telling me strong is the new sexy and smart is the new beautiful, as though strong and smart are just paths to hot. The Facebook memes: Muscles are beautiful. No, wait: Fat is beautiful. No, wait: Thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautif…”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard…”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.”— Kim Kardashian, quotezine.com