The two most sexist statments I ever heard
were from my parents.

Number one - when I was still with my husband and he was a cheating fuck, my mum told me to get pregnant (secretly, which would have involved not taking the pill and not telling my husband I was doing that) to "calm him down".
Number two - my dad told me not to get a tattoo (I was thirty at the time and husband has finally left, thank fuck) because "No nice guy is going to want you with a tattoo. What if you meet someone nice who likes you then discovers you have a tattoo and doesn't want you anymore ?"

These two statements imply alot about both of their views about men but I suspect the ideas say more about them as people.

FWIW, didn't get pregnant (just horrified at her suggestion) but did get the tattoo. Twice.
Got a lovely man who doesn't like tattoos (not that he can see them ;) ) but likes me just the same.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 1 Jan 2010, 12:37, 5 replies)

are your tattoos internal or something?

(foxy01, Sat 2 Jan 2010, 0:21, closed)

I think WHCOLWD's OH is nearly blind
Hence why he can't see her tats.
( Scrumper, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 9:53, closed)

Good for you!
I'm glad you rejected the "advice" about getting pregnant. That is absolutely disgusting. The reason for bringing a child into the world should be that the two parents make a decision together that they want children - and that they have the means to afford them.

How horrible, if the child found out that its only reason for existence was bitchiness. Additionally - two parents who don't love each other and consequently split up anyway, will leave the child in a single-parent family. OK, yes I know there are many very good and capable single parents out there, and I respect them - but it should never be a deliberate decision to have a child in the knowledge that the parents will be unlikely to be together to raise it.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 2 Jan 2010, 16:50, closed)

Yep
It's always interesting to turn it round to see how it sounds - how about a bloke telling a woman he is infertile to trick her into getting pregnant with his baby? What would you call a man who did that sort of thing?
(Audax Victor, Sat 2 Jan 2010, 17:47, closed)

As for the 'using kids to save a marriage' advice
That's seriously fucked-up and I've never known it to work. I wouldn't even get a puppy in those circumstances.

Being paranoid, I'd also start to wonder whether my mum was trying to tell me something about my own conception.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 2 Jan 2010, 17:10, closed)