3. Men and women of Reddit, when have you experienced sexism?

Men and women of Reddit, when have you experienced sexism?

- Wasn't allowed to see my friends and go out when I was a kid and a teenager. My brother could.

- As a young adult when I still lived at my parents' place I had to send texts saying I arrived at places when I went somewhere. My brother never had to, even though I had proven being much more reliable and responsible than he was.

- I started being sexually harassed in elementary school. Teachers and parents didn't do anything because "boy will be boys. He's just in love".

- My interest in video games used to be mocked by guys at school. I didn't play videogames online as to not be harassed. I pretended being a boy on videogame forums as to not be harassed.

- I've been street harassed.

- I've been raped several times.

- I've suffered from sexual harassment in the workplace, from male clients when I was in retail, from male students when I was a TA, from a former male manager, from a potentiel male employer during a job interview.

- I've been raised being told I couldn't go outside because it was dangerous and I'd be raped by strange men. The result is that I'm not armed against sexual assault and that I had trouble understanding being raped as it was not done by strange men in dark alleys but by men I very well know.

- Men often talk over me and/or retell my ideas and present them as their own.

- My mother told me vaginas were dirty.

- I've been patronized by doctors (male and female) who misdiagnosed me and who didn't listen to me as to my choice of contraception.

- While my brother has been raised being told how awesome he was my sisters and I were constantly criticized and were raised being taught our thoughts had little value and we should be quiet.

- Women fashion is ridiculous and it's almost impossible for me to get clothes with real pockets. Hence I'm forced to have a bag.

- Stuff about diet, about which shape my body should have, about having to look happy and to smile. The very silly women fashion (high heels, clothes cut really absurdly...)

- Not being taken seriously when I brought my car to a garage, the mechanic trying to rip me off.

- Having a friend pretend to be my partner so that it would not look like I live alone to people having to work on stuff at my place, after a bad experience with a worker that repaired my dishwasher and harassed me afterwards.

The list could go on and on.

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