Is it normal to start noticing sexism?

Hatred stems from these "jokes". It's the same thing as telling racist jokes. Sure, it seems like harmless fun at first.. but after a while, if you share enough of them, you start to believe them. I've seen it happen. "Make me a sandwich" jokes go hand in hand with "all black people steal" jokes. It's the same thing.

You sound like you have a lovely fresh mind. You SHOULD be angry. You have every right to be angry. Sexism is alive and thriving my friend and the only way to stop it is to get angry at the idiots who are spreading it. Make them feel bad.

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I never really got angry about sexism until I started getting harassed on a daily basis by classmates, older high school boys, and worst of all, grown men. I sprouted a pair of breasts (like any other teenage girl), and all of a sudden, I'd get guys shouting at me when I walked home in my all-concealing winter coat. I'd have grown MEN shouting "take it off, baby!", at a 14-year-old! It scared me to have grown men shouting at me. It's absolutely disgusting, and it's not a joke. I still avoid certain streets because of the amount of piggish men who hang around. I never had to deal with sexism as a kid, and it angered me that I had to deal with it just because I'd reached puberty, and was now open game. This might be the 21st century, but there's still a lot of people with NO respect. I also heard Paki and n***** jokes almost everyday at my school, and I think those are also disgusting. Degrading someone is not a joke. I don't blame you for being angry - funny that you don't notice those things when you're younger, but it suddenly hits you that there are a lot of bigots around.

I'm a guy and I hate it when people are sexist! Whenever one of my friends says something to stereotype girls (like how they can cook) or boys (like how they are violent) I get so angry. I do notice there is a lot of female sexism and I try to tell people that it's wrong and you can't say that a whole gender is like that. I am totally on your side for this :)

I know it's a joke, I stated that. It has just become a bothersome to me because I found out some people my age who actually really hate women and they really think like that even with their girlfriends. We didn't grow up in a society where this was acceptable so why did they change over the years. We don't make fun of Negro's in cotton fields, we just make jokes of their hate crimes because slavery isn't funny and there isn't much difference between thinking a woman belongs in a kitchen and a black man in a cotton field.

I'm a man, and like most of the rest, I didn't think sexism was such a problem - I thought it was mainly a thing of the past, and that women now had equal rights and opportunities. But then I discovered how wrong I was - sexism is still a HUGE problem, and it seems to be getting worse, not better!

It now makes me as mad as it makes you, to the extent that I'm now very cautious about accepting people as friends, and going to places where attitudes are likely to be sexist. Most of my friends are now gay men or straight women - not to say that these people can't be just as bad, but they tend not to be.

Gender shouldn't matter! People like to be told how to act, and the easiest 'clubs' to get into are the gender clubs - all you have to do is be male, or female. But to be approved of by fellow members, you need to act and think in a certain way - so men should like sport (particularly football), never cry, and (apparently) treat women like shit. Women have similar club rules, that are just as pathetic.

Well, it sucks - and I for one have opted out of the man-club. I can't stand football, I treat women as equals, and I cry - but I don't cry like a baby, I cry like a human being.

I started noticing all these things a few years ago. They make me pissed off. But there are things that happen to men that are sexist too. So it's not just men. Also, a lot of the girls who hear the sexist jokes just laugh, which makes a light bulb in the men's head go "it's okay to say these things, because they don't offend anyone". I believe that the whole world should just start thinking of everyone as the same. So you're normal :)

I understand how you feel. Sometimes it really scares me, because it seems like people really don't care any more about issues like racism and sexism, when they're so important.

Sexism is suckish. I hate it when my mom says stuff like "you cant get scars like boys, its different for girls" Im guessing shes stupid because i dont care if i have not said that enough. I like to tell my mom to get back in the kitchen and tell my dad to get back in the kitchen as well, but when they say its different for me cuz im a girl, i wanna push em' down the stairs!

women are God`s greatest creation :)
Don`t let them dumb and immature jokes get you down ;)
I`m a guy and know for a fact that those kinda guys usually have a poor understanding of common sense and morality as in respect and treating people around you (also those kinda guys usually get laid rare :D haha)
You should clearly not hang out with guys like that, because there lots of nicer people who know that a girl should be treated with respect.
So.... stick around with intelligent people who don`t have distorted views on morals and behavior, but get yourself what you deserve ;)
PS: Always tell them that that`s just not right, otherwise they don`t get it, because obviously they aren`t smart enough to understand by themselves.
Pisses me off, too * I once punched a friend in the face for saying a sexist joke in front of my girl * :)

You make a good point. What starts as a joke, becomes a stereotype. What becomes a stereotype, becomes an attitude. What becomes an attitude becomes an accepted truth. What becomes an accepted truth becomes an acknowledged truth.

Every gender or race should accept joking against them, but nothing more than joking.

You're all good. Don't listen to people saying that you're being too sensitive or that you need to lighten up. A lot of awful, sexist stuff is done to women, and you are allowed to be angry about it.

All people that said no are men sexist!!

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