Sexism
I have a pretty thin voice for a male. Thus, it’s not rare that people will take me for a female when on the phone. I’ve rather gotten used to it, and it no longer bothers me that much, specially since it usually happens with people I’ll never speak to again anyways (such as telemarketers).
But, today, this guy called asking for info on an apartment we’re selling. I gave him the price, he said something about calling back later, called me “Ma’am”. So far, business as usual. He then reiterated he’d call back and ended by saying something like “thanks, cutie”! He actually hit on me! And it’s just so upseting! I mean, what could posibly make him think I want total strangers to call me that?
So now, I just try to think about how it must be to be a woman, and have random strangers hitting on you all the time and on top of that thinking you’ll like it, and I think I just could not bear it. Most of us males really are just pigs. Ugh.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:30 am
You are upset because another guy was hitting on you. Would you be upset if a girl were hitting on you? I wouldn’t. I assume its the same for women.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Yeah, there’s that, too. But I’m not completely sure it’s the whole thing. I’m not sure I would not be upset if a girl (a random strager I’ve never seen) hit on me.
October 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Thank you for sharing!