Women around the world get lots of inappropriate questions. In case you had any doubts that sexism is alive and well, Reddit user u/imakindainsectoid asked women to share the “personal and intrusive questions” they often get asked that men usually don’t. Here are the responses that are the unfortunate response given;
1.”I get asked if all of my kids are from the same husband. A coworker in a professional industry asked me that. I don’t think my kids’ dad has ever been asked anything even remotely similar.”
—u/itsalloriginal
2.”Do men get asked why they put their career before having babies? And then, do they get told they’ll regret it? Because I’m real sick of that one.”
—u/not_doing_that
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3.”Whenever I’m without my kids, people always ask if their dad is ‘babysitting.’ No. He’s just, you know, parenting.”
—u/MILisacunt
4.”Why I don’t color my gray hair. My doctor told me my face looked too young for gray hair. I waited an hour and paid money to get lectured on my appearance.”
—u/Sushisando
5.”Any time I get even slightly irritated or show any sort of emotion that isn’t pure goddamn joy, I get hit with the, ‘Are you on your period?'”
—u/bunnygoats
6.”I’ve been asked if I live alone by the cable guy and furniture delivery men. Once, when I was driving a few miles upstate to visit a friend, the gas station clerk asked if I was driving alone.”
—u/Axtorx
7.”On days I don’t wear makeup, I always get asked if I’m sick. Telling them, ‘No, this is just my face’ ends the conversation pretty quickly.”
—u/Squirrel625
8.”‘Did you ask your husband?’ He’s my husband, not my father. I don’t ask permission.”
—u/IceCreamToiletPaper
9.”This probably isn’t an every-woman question, but I’ve seriously been asked, ‘Do you really need those glasses?’ With the follow-up: ‘You would look so much prettier without them. Have you thought about contacts?'”
—u/venushoneytrap
10.”As a woman in her 40s, I get asked, ‘Why haven’t you gotten married?’ Or, the more hurtful version: ‘Why didn’t anyone want to marry you?'”
—u/Miss_Behavior
11.”A classic: Why don’t I smile more?”
—u/missshrimptoast
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12.”Whenever I was pregnant, I’d get asked, ‘Was it planned?!’ Sorry random male coworker, I don’t think that’s your business. My husband was never asked if our kids were planned.”
—u/airlii
13.”I went to a mortgage advisor about buying my first property, and despite me being financially ready to go ahead with it, he asked me whether I thought it might be worth waiting until I had met a man so I could borrow more on two salaries. I can’t imagine a single man in his 30s being asked the same thing when he wanted to buy a property.”
—u/bunnygoats
14.”I’m a woman dating a woman, and men are always asking to join us in our bedroom. For some reason, I feel like this doesn’t happen to two men who are in a relationship.”
—u/Staphyl0coccusAureus
15.”‘What size bra do you wear?’ ‘Why are your boobs so big?’ ‘Isn’t that shirt too revealing?’ All of these questions were in response to my 34GG boobs before I got breast reduction surgery.”
—u/cmccaggiano
16.”As a young, female professor, I’ve been asked multiple times if I’m ‘the professor’s teaching assistant.'”
—u/itsprofessork
17.And finally, “I get asked when me and my boyfriend are getting married, and why we haven’t gotten engaged yet, a couple times a month. No one ever asks him.”
—u/banana_smuggler2019