casual misogyny

Julia

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My male roomate refuses to put the toilet seat down. He uses the women’s bathroom where we shower to urinate even though there is a separate half bath in the same room. There are two signs next to the flush that he ignores. But he leaves his notes that he expects us to obey such as to stop unplugging the microwave to save energy (guess he prefers to waste unnecessary phantom energy) and tells us to Google it. He is 59 years old and this is clear casual misogyny. I will tell him to “Google” the Bustle article “Dear Dudes: Put the toilet seat back down.” But us ladies know he won’t read said article , another casual act of misogyny, and instead will argue against the common courtesy in order to preserve his (self-imposed) superiority, while we women continue to talk shit behind his back and complain to the landlord. 🤦‍♀️

Kim Broers

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I love imager. It’s cheering because of the sweet animal videos and hilarious scenes of people battling garbage bins. I felt safe because most folks are very liberal and progressive politics. Then I pointed out the sexist language on a post. My how things change. The condescension and sureness of male imagurians surprised me. I’ve heard snowflake as a term but I’m unsure what it means to others. I have to assume it refers to the frail male ego. It’s jarring.

Economist

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Colleague (male) sent by email a news article about the lack of women in economics. He only sent it to the women economists in the department. I wrote back to say (kindly) that we are already familiar with the problem and it is the responsibility of all economists to address the gender imbalance in the discipline. I recommended that he send it to the entire department. All of this was very politely phrased. He wrote back and said I was right – then asked me to send out the article to the department. I wrote back, ‘no, thank you.’