What do you find to be the most visible sign of casual misogyny?

For a man to be dressed up, all he needs to do is shower and put on a fresh shirt, maybe some product in his hair and fancy shoes. For a woman? It's gotta be a carefully curated outfit, heels, full face of makeup and hair expertly styled. I think the expectations are sooo different in terms of time and effort for considering each gender to be "dressed up".

I find that in social settings and professional settings I get cut across a lot by men when I'm speaking. If I accidentally speak over a man some other guy will go "hey wait let X finish what he was saying".

In my postgrad we had a class which was about professional portfolio development and the men in the group were counselled on ways to get mentorship from local industry people - you know like attending events, emailing them, asking to meet up for a Q&A etc. When it was my turn for advice I was told I could take them out on dates :| I just laughed and said "err what?". As if women in my industry need any MORE reasons not to be taken seriously, dating my way into the industry is SO going to help.

Emotional labor is a thing and it kills relationships. What is this thing I speak of? basically all the duties that women are expected to do but aren't rewarded for in the slightest. Examples are housework, organizing the family social calendar, buying gifts and cards for birthdays and anniversaries, listening to everyone's problems and offering advice. All this stuff is really hard work and takes up a lot of time but it's just assumed as the basic "duties" of a woman and she shouldn't expect anything in return. When a man does these things, he is often praised and congratulated by men AND WOMEN! Every now and again I see an article about a single dad who's wife walked away and left the kids or whatever and everyone's saying how amazing he is yet the countless single mothers out there do it and it's so thankless. I've heard of fathers being referred to as "babysitting" when they take the kids for a night - um no this is called parenting. I often found myself in such annoying situations with my ex where I couldn't articulate what was annoying me so much, but I discovered emotional labor after broke up and it fits everything.

My ex got really mad at me when I said I'd keep my own name in the event of marriage. I said it sharing a name mattered to him so much, he could take mine. He told me sharply "it doesn't work like that". He was also subtly sexist in his expectations of me compared to mine of him. For instance, he expected any clothes left at my place to be laundered and ironed for the next time he came over. I lost one of my dresses and asked him if he had it and he said yes, I went over to get it and it was still dirty from a couple of months ago and when I pointed out he hadn't washed it he went absolutely mental about it saying he was too "busy" to wash it! It was like this for so many things, i felt like he had a special "lady" rulebook for me and then one for himself, which was of course way more lenient. He was pissed off that I went back to school for a postgrad because it meant I'd be busy and he wouldn't get to see me as much, yet his first job out of college saw him travelling out of state for 6 days a week. It was okay for him but not for me! His dad was one of the most stereotypically sexist men I have ever encountered so I can't say this behavior surprised me. Happy to say I have moved on from him.

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