@YARNLADY – there you go, the boys are kings and the girls are princesses, submissive to the king. At the very least they should be queens.
I call it the way I see it. I have a niece who is interning in internal medicine right now. She is still fighting for equality even though women doctors are commonplace now. I have a granddaughter who is apprenticing as an airline mechanic, what she goes through is testament to her determination to succeed. So equality ain’t here yet.
I think all of these subtle little nuances of everyday life, add up to still make life difficult for a young woman trying to break into the man’s world atmosphere that still exists whether we choose to acknowledge it or not. If you look back in fluther you can see threads where it was said females don’t like going fast that is why there are not more women driving race cars, girls don’t like engineering and on and on. So if my noticing it is indicative of my own gender issues, I will gladly own that one, and continue to fight for equality and the elimination of subtle sexist slurs wherever they hide! I will seek truth and justice, oh wait that is Superman, what does the Bionic Woman say??? (have you concussed yourself yet?)