Reading this qotw
...makes me think that there well may be no sexism as such, just disdain. One could be forgiven for thinking that alot of the sexist encounters outlined here are borne out of meeting utter cunts of whichever sex, rather than a view of the whole of that sex. Or maybe that's what sexism actually is - disdain without good reason.

I'm trying to think of a sexist view that I have - can't really think of one, as working in a male dominated profession for over ten years a few years back got me exposed to just about all the sexism I could stomach for one lifetime.

Oooh hang on - men don't appreciate flowers. They have no idea how lovely they are, from the most complicated lily to the smallest forget-me-not.
I genuinely believe this to be true. I've never met a man who personally liked flowers - I've known plenty of men who give flowers as a "tool" or "gesture", but none who actually liked them as objects of beauty.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 23:23, 13 replies)

I like flowers
But I'm a Plant Science Graduate so I suppose I love their engineering rather than their beauty. Does that count?
(The Sausage Tree "Snort...Huh?...Shit", Sun 27 Dec 2009, 23:31, closed)

Some appreciation of engineering is an aesthetic appreciation
So I think this counts.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 23:43, closed)

on the infrequent occassions I get flowers for my girlfriend
it's me that cuts the stems (under water of course) and puts them in the vase; I always choose my own colours and types, and I always add a rose which I know is a cliche but she likes it. Always me that changes the water too, which annoys the hell out of me!

Probably stems (pardon the pun) from when I bought some for my ex and she left them in the box for 5 days. The same box in which these particularly lovely and not inexpensive orchids had arrived, by air, directly from Thailand. This is one of the reasons why she's the ex, unappreciative cow!
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 23:48, closed)

You sound like you might be a 'ben-derrrr'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 16:46, closed)

Flowers
Cut flowers always put me in mind of imminent death.
I would much rather give a potted plant or flower as a gift.

Flowers look their best in a field or forest somewhere, IMHO of course :)
(BigAndyBee, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 1:20, closed)

This
With (hare)bells on.

Some time ago Best Beloved bought me a bunch of roses for Valentines day, lovely girl that she is.
Within a week I had a big vase full of stagnant death.
Very sad. But I didn't cry, for I am a man, and thus strong...

Next year she got me a Whole field of flowers and I cried like a girl.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:20, closed)

I knew a Paleo botanist
who really liked flowers,specially if you could eat them
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 1:30, closed)

Really?
I have rarely seen anything so beautiful as the moment I captured this on an early spring morning a couple of years ago.


(cypherspace is not a toaster, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 1:32, closed)

^^
Good picture!
(RVD420 has his world coming down on, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 14:35, closed)

When I lved on my own
I always bought flowers for myself to have round the house - lilies - and failed in the eyes of the female check out staff when they said "do you want those wrapped" and I said "no, they're for me". I could almost see the speech bubble going "no, they're for your boyfriend".

I am (last time I checked) male.
( I_Was_Mordred, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 8:34, closed)

I'm a horticulturalist
and I love flowers!
But I defiantly prefer them with roots on and in the ground, happily growing.
My favourite has got to be one of the annual Nigella's such as this www.herbies-herbs.com/pages/herbpictures/nigella7060lg.jpg
Gawjus!
(burkyman, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 15:59, closed)

I like sunflowers.
A lot. I think they're neat.
(Scritty Bakerman., Mon 28 Dec 2009, 17:21, closed)

Flowers you say?
I love flowers, I think they're fantastic.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 17:50, closed)