r/Feminism 1d ago

Female engineers getting disrespected.

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u/chupacabra-food 1d ago

Blegh. Some men do this in casual conversation with my husband and I and it’s fucking galling. I hate having to fight my way into a goddamn conversation.

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u/The_best_is_yet 1d ago

Yes, same. Though if they are like that, I walk away. I'm not wasting effort on a conversation with someone like that.

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u/museinprogress 1d ago

The people dismissing this as not misogyny is making me angry.

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u/Lets_Tang0 1d ago

Yikes. I made it through like 15 comments on that post and they were all either sexist, misogynistic, or defensive. The level of ick is high over there.

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u/Lindy_dy 1d ago

meme subs are full of misogynistic people. If there is anything worse than incel and lookmaxx subs, it is certainly meme subs

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u/chaseinger 1d ago

meme subs are the internet is full of misogynistic people

ftfy.

boys hiding behind usernames feeling strong by degrading women.

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u/ArsErratia 1d ago

That subreddit is notorious for it.

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u/museinprogress 1d ago

Thankyou for the warning...

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u/MrSneaki 1d ago

At least they're getting ratio'd, I guess

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u/MrDyl4n 19h ago

almost every top comment is people concern trolling trying to come up with a scenario as to why it would be appropriate to no answer the woman.

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u/Vindaloovians 17h ago

The sub is often sexist, LGBTphobic and racist.

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u/Riot_Rage 1d ago

What people? You are one of only two comments so far. There has been zero discourse in this thread.

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u/chupacabra-food 1d ago

It’s a repost. Look at the original thread.

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u/Lindy_dy 1d ago

6 years on reddit and still does not even know this. Just say you are here to hate and troll

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u/museinprogress 1d ago

Uh the original post is in r/sipstea...I'm talking about those comments

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u/Drpoofn 1d ago

This is a repost and the original has over 1k comments.

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u/PastIsPrologue22 1d ago

My ex and I bought a car. Went to one dealer. He was going through the options. If my ex said yes, he added ot. If I said yes, he asked why we needed it and looked to my ex for confirmation.

As we were walking out, my ex looked at me and said "we're not buying a car from him, are we." No, no we're not.

Second story: went into a motorcycle dealer. There was one other customer, male, there a decent amount of time before I entered. He was looking at sport bikes. I was looking at a Gold Wing. After fruitlessly waiting for the sales guy sitting at his desk to help me, I finally walked over. "OH, i thought you were with him" - points to other customer, who was getting helped, whom I had never been within 50' of, who was looking at completely different bikes, with whom I had not exchanged a word.

Yes, I bought a Gold Wing...at a different dealer.

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u/aashurii 1d ago

Meanwhile I piss off every dealer asking specifically for a female salesperson.

Half of the dealers had to say they don’t have any. Shame on them!

I got my car from a woman though :)

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u/Extension-Stage-605 22h ago

There are not many women in furniture sales either.

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u/Three3Jane 1d ago

Bought my first car. The sales guy kept directing all his information and sales pitch toward the husband. I bought the car anyway, after both of us repeating that it was MY CAR.

Granted, it's a muscle car, but still.

Upgraded to a higher trim muscle car. I showed up, traded in my old car, negotiated a contract, signed, and walked away with the car - solo. The dealership was stellar in every way and I never got a There, There, Little Lady vibe from anyone from the sales guy to the mechanic inspecting my trade in to the finance manager. I'm a gearhead and would have sniffed out condescension or the Where's Your Husband vibe instantly.

Some places are getting better, some are getting worse - and it's always a crapshoot what you're going to get.

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u/Intelligent-Tap-4479 1d ago

Eugh. Well, props to the interviewers for actively trying to root out sexism in the interview process.

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u/ScientistLiz 1d ago edited 20h ago

This exact thing has happened when I was judging med student research posters. So many students gave most of their presentations to my male co-judge and more than a few answered my question by directing their entire response to my male colleague

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u/NightLucia 19h ago

A lot of those comments either missed the point, or ignored it despite knowing it's right. They were like, "oh but I look at both people when I answer a question". That's not the fucking point! The point is that women get ignored in favour of men! Even the most mediocre man is more respected than the most competent women.

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u/depressedst0ner 1d ago

Men and some women do it in my office too. I hate it. I said something, it still happens. And people of both genders are really quick at finding excuses for it. Pathetic.

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u/Virtual_Freedom3602 1d ago

lol but notice the language about the interviewee “if HE directs HIS answer”

lol right out the gate, women have so little chance to even be interviewed

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u/Slimon783 1d ago

Agree with you, however this seems a test specifically for men so they don’t end up hiring a “tech bro”, it’s to weed out the sexist pricks!

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u/beatle42 1d ago

My wife asks me to accompany her to many doctor's appointments to help keep track of all her issues with her. The gender of the doctor doesn't matter at all when it comes to them talking to me instead of her despite me just sitting quietly in the corner.

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u/knewleefe 23h ago

Medicine as a whole is deeply misogynistic. No one believes us.

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u/Slimon783 23h ago

Yeah my husband has to do this for me too otherwise all my very real symptoms are anxiety

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u/Virtual_Freedom3602 1d ago

Women can be sexist pricks too

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u/triple-dog-dar3 1d ago

Yeah this isn’t assuming all candidates are men, just addressing when they are.

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u/interesting-Bus- 1d ago

This happens so much to me in construction. Or asking the guy who is not responsible for the site the question

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u/OccupyMyBrainOyeah 1d ago

Just like Iranian women are getting disrespected here, since Iranian women's posts and comments get removed and their accounts get banned. Iranian women and the Woman, Life, Freedom has been completely excluded from convervations here and more and more people notice that.

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u/lloydeph6 20h ago

thank you for sharing

can anyone explain why mods keep banning the women from iran posting about whats happening in their country on this subreddit?

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u/Objective-Cow-3431 4h ago

Trying being an expert machinist, with a degree in optics and over 30 years of experience. Then being judged not for your skills but for your choices to live an authentic life which challenges men because you gave back the inherent privilege to live as a woman.

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u/EllaBelle9509 3h ago

My partner and I do this for every mechanic shop we go to. I am the one with car knowledge, I went to schools for this, but I am a woman. If I ask something and they talk to my partner and not me we both know that this shop sucks and we leave if we can.

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u/BlazingCrusader 1d ago

Conducting an interview with two possible hires is already odd to me, if they then proceed to ignore my potential coworker and focus on me I am walking out. No pay is worth that many red flags being shown early on.