10 Things I could do without @ Feministing.com

This post has made my day!

For the record my 10 things:

1) Being told that if I was less  feminist/independent/individual I’d attract more men.

2) People telling me that a man grabbing my arse/commenting on my boobs/being an all roudn creep in a bar or suchlike isn’t ‘really’ sexual harassment or that ‘it’s really rare’ or ‘it’s just a compliment’ to try and discount the issues that yes it IS sexual harassment and it happens quite frequently.

3)  Anyone who does the whole ’so you’re a lesbian now?’ or  assume I don’t shave your legs/hate all men/shot andy warhol bullshit when I mentioned feminism.

4) The celebrity ‘thin’ culture that causes women to hate themselves and see this as NORMAL.

5) The fact that lads want to grow up to be footballers and girls want to grow up to be footballers wives and the whole culture/ideal of a woman only being worthwhile for being with a bloke as opposed to for her own merits thats till sadly holds sway.

6) The fact they’ll make something identical to a man’s in pink and charge twice as much for it.

7) It being assumed I know fuck all about anything when I go into a computer shop/music shop/shop of any ‘guy’ domain.

8)  Celebrity magazines, esp when they interview emale celebrities and ask all about thier diets and figures and beauty regimes and forget to mention stuff like thier career/fact they’ve just sold a few million records/been in a sucessful film etc.

9) The whole ‘like a girl’ or ‘girly’ thing to mean an insult ‘ie ‘throw like a girl’ etc. And those bloody adverts where a bloke is sahmed for being ‘girly’.

10) Being pitied and all the ‘poor yous’ I get when I mention I’m single and have been for ages. I actually *shock horror* don’t mind it.

I’d like to add my annoyance of the ‘Cheer up love!’ thing. I didn’t put it on my list because it had been in so many others. This annoys me so much, especially as the last time it happened was the day after I’d moved back from staying at my families after my Grandmother’s funeral, which I like to think would entitle me to look a bit gloomy.