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This weekend, an insightful Reddit community called <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/wbel6y/what_internalised_misogyny_have_you_overheard/" target="_blank">AskWomen</a> posed the question: &quot;What internalized misogyny have you overheard?&quot;It&#39;s a serious question with some interesting answers and perspectives, but you might want the definition before you dive in. A good definition is from <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/communication-success/202005/10-signs-internalized-sexism-and-gaslighting">Psychology Today</a>, which uses the term &quot;internalized sexism&quot; &mdash;<blockquote> Internalized sexism can be defined as the tendency of some women to regularly put down, make disparaging remarks about, and/or sabotage their own or other women&rsquo;s and girls&rsquo; identity, potential, and success. </blockquote>That said, here are a few examples shared on AskWomen.1. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Avamariathe16th/">Avamariathe16th</a>:<blockquote> Oh god. The one that irks me the most and continues to annoy me is the &quot;I&#39;m not like other girls&quot; trope. Sis, it literally could be you. Also thinking that you&#39;re a better woman because you dress different or don&#39;t have tattoos?! Girl please, just stop it. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pineapple1347/">Pineapple1347</a>:<blockquote> My aunt is always telling me that I&#39;ll change my mind about not wanting kids, but she never says that to her two child free sons. </blockquote>3. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MssDare/">MssDare</a>:<blockquote> Any woman calling another woman a wh*re or a sl*t. If you don&rsquo;t like that woman call her an a**hole or something. </blockquote>4. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CatrionaShadowleaf/">CatrionaShadowleaf</a>:<blockquote> My mother loves to tell me that she doesn&#39;t have any female friends because of how catty and backstabbing women are. Also, almost all the women at work (over several different jobs) &quot;hate her because they think she&#39;s gunning for their jobs/she&#39;s just so good at hers.&quot; </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>5. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TattooPuddle/">TattooPuddle</a>:<blockquote> The most annoying one I hear is when people comment on how guys won&#39;t want to date me if I&#39;m too muscular. Honey, I dead lift because it makes me feel like a superhero. Not for guys. </blockquote>6. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Own-Emergency2166/">Own-Emergency2166</a>:<blockquote> Older women lecturing younger women about how they should enjoy their youth/looks/weight while it lasts. We don&rsquo;t need to internalize and perpetuate the idea that we have value when we are young and lose it when we age. </blockquote>7. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sand_Dargon/">Sand_Dargon</a>:<blockquote> I have heard so many women say they need someone else to do handyman or mechanic type work. </blockquote><blockquote> Girl, you can get on that ladder and change out that light fixture. You can change the oil in your car. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Now, if she just wants someone else to do and pays them, cool. But women can do those things, it is not required to have a penis to use basic tools. </blockquote>8. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Individual_Umpire969/">Individual_Umpire969</a>:<blockquote> That women who keep their birth surname when they get married don&rsquo;t respect their spouses. </blockquote>9. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Noirbot/">The_Noirbot</a>:<blockquote> A friend of mine calling her own sister a sl*t for having sex with her bf of a year, and calling girls sl*ts for wearing shorts in 90+ degree weather. </blockquote>10. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/broke-bee/">broke-bee</a>:<blockquote> This one lady saying how she would be fine with sucky behaviors like not being listened to or taken seriously in a male-dominated workplace because she was a &quot;traditional submissive woman who loved dominant men&quot;. Ma&#39;am, you&#39;re there for a cheque. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>11. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/579red/">579red</a>:<blockquote> Women in male dominated fields who spit on other women in the field who try to stand up to harassment/ discrimination. It&rsquo;s utterly sad to hear them use that survival technique to convince themselves of their very bad position being good. </blockquote>12. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bigbombsbiggermoms/">bigbombsbiggermoms</a>:<blockquote> I was on the bus going home after work one night (12am because I worked at a restaurant), a guy sat down next to me &amp; hit on me, grabbed my thigh and ran off at his stop before I could do anything. </blockquote><blockquote> A lady behind me told me &ldquo;why did you let him do that? why did you let him get away with that?&rdquo; &amp; she continued to talk to her friend about how girls should be better at preventing stuff like that from happening. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> The bus ride was 30 minutes long &amp; she talked the entire time. I was 19 &amp; had very little experience with men </blockquote>13. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pink_bunny07/">pink_bunny07</a>:<blockquote> Women calling other women fake because they got plastic surgeries yet they themselves dyed their hair 🤦&zwj;♀️ call someone fake because of their personality not because of their appearance. </blockquote>14. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/flo-bee/">flo-bee</a>:<blockquote> &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad Elizabeth Warren didn&rsquo;t win the Democratic Primary &mdash; I don&rsquo;t think a woman should be president. Women are just too hormonal and would probably start a war when they&rsquo;re on their period or something!&rdquo; </blockquote>15. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Holiday-Sand3374/">Holiday-Sand3374</a><blockquote> I used to work as a technical advisor for a broadband company. Tried to explain to a woman how to find her master phone socket. She told me she&#39;d ring back and ask a man because he would probably explain it better. Lady if you don&#39;t know where your broadband router is connected in your own house then a man can&#39;t help you any better. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>16. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kirgoa/">kirgoa</a>:<blockquote> That women don&#39;t enjoy sex and it&#39;s a favor for the man. </blockquote>17. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ordinary-Thowaways/">Ordinary-Thowaways</a><blockquote> My cousin claiming that guys are &quot;easier to hang out with&quot; and that female friends only cause drama and compete. I had to tell her that it depends on the women you hang around, not their gender alone. None of my friends were competitive or dramatic. </blockquote>18. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/enchantingcat/">enchantingcat</a>:<blockquote> Being a stay at home wife/mother vs being a career focused woman. Lots of misogyny in both directions. After living with a slob who never had any interest in doing chores, let me tell you... this is heaven. </blockquote>19. From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lydviciousss/">lydviciousss</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a feminist because&hellip;&rdquo; </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 women reveal the most misogynistic comments they've heard from other women.

This weekend, an insightful Reddit community called AskWomen posed the question: &quot;What internalized misogyny have you overheard?&quot;It&#39;s a serious question with some interesting answers and perspectives, but you might want the definition before you dive in. A good definition is from Psychology Today, which uses the term &quot;internalized sexism&quot; &mdash; Internalized sexism can be defined as the tendency of some women to regularly put down, make disparaging remarks about, and/or sabotage their own or other women&rsquo;s and girls&rsquo; identity, potential, and success. That said, here are a few examples shared on AskWomen.1. From Avamariathe16th: Oh god. The one that irks me the most and continues to annoy me is the &quot;I&#39;m not like other girls&quot; trope. Sis, it literally could be you. Also thinking that you&#39;re a better woman because you dress different or don&#39;t have tattoos?! Girl please, just stop it. 2. From Pineapple1347: My aunt is always telling me that I&#39;ll change my mind about not wanting kids, but she never says that to her two child free sons. 3. From MssDare: Any woman calling another woman a wh*re or a sl*t. If you don&rsquo;t like that woman call her an a**hole or something. 4. From CatrionaShadowleaf: My mother loves to tell me that she doesn&#39;t have any female friends because of how catty and backstabbing women are. Also, almost all the women at work (over several different jobs) &quot;hate her because they think she&#39;s gunning for their jobs/she&#39;s just so good at hers.&quot; 5. From TattooPuddle: The most annoying one I hear is when people comment on how guys won&#39;t want to date me if I&#39;m too muscular. Honey, I dead lift because it makes me feel like a superhero. Not for guys. 6. From Own-Emergency2166: Older women lecturing younger women about how they should enjoy their youth/looks/weight while it lasts. We don&rsquo;t need to internalize and perpetuate the idea that we have value when we are young and lose it when we age. 7. From Sand_Dargon: I have heard so many women say they need someone else to do handyman or mechanic type work.  Girl, you can get on that ladder and change out that light fixture. You can change the oil in your car.  Now, if she just wants someone else to do and pays them, cool. But women can do those things, it is not required to have a penis to use basic tools. 8. From Individual_Umpire969: That women who keep their birth surname when they get married don&rsquo;t respect their spouses. 9. From The_Noirbot: A friend of mine calling her own sister a sl*t for having sex with her bf of a year, and calling girls sl*ts for wearing shorts in 90+ degree weather. 10. From broke-bee: This one lady saying how she would be fine with sucky behaviors like not being listened to or taken seriously in a male-dominated workplace because she was a &quot;traditional submissive woman who loved dominant men&quot;. Ma&#39;am, you&#39;re there for a cheque. 11. From 579red: Women in male dominated fields who spit on other women in the field who try to stand up to harassment/ discrimination. It&rsquo;s utterly sad to hear them use that survival technique to convince themselves of their very bad position being good. 12. From bigbombsbiggermoms: I was on the bus going home after work one night (12am because I worked at a restaurant), a guy sat down next to me &amp; hit on me, grabbed my thigh and ran off at his stop before I could do anything.  A lady behind me told me &ldquo;why did you let him do that? why did you let him get away with that?&rdquo; &amp; she continued to talk to her friend about how girls should be better at preventing stuff like that from happening.  The bus ride was 30 minutes long &amp; she talked the entire time. I was 19 &amp; had very little experience with men 13. From pink_bunny07: Women calling other women fake because they got plastic surgeries yet they themselves dyed their hair 🤦&zwj;♀️ call someone fake because of their personality not because of their appearance. 14. From flo-bee: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad Elizabeth Warren didn&rsquo;t win the Democratic Primary &mdash; I don&rsquo;t think a woman should be president. Women are just too hormonal and would probably start a war when they&rsquo;re on their period or something!&rdquo; 15. From Holiday-Sand3374 I used to work as a technical advisor for a broadband company. Tried to explain to a woman how to find her master phone socket. She told me she&#39;d ring back and ask a man because he would probably explain it better. Lady if you don&#39;t know where your broadband router is connected in your own house then a man can&#39;t help you any better. 16. From kirgoa: That women don&#39;t enjoy sex and it&#39;s a favor for the man. 17. Ordinary-Thowaways My cousin claiming that guys are &quot;easier to hang out with&quot; and that female friends only cause drama and compete. I had to tell her that it depends on the women you hang around, not their gender alone. None of my friends were competitive or dramatic. 18. From enchantingcat: Being a stay at home wife/mother vs being a career focused woman. Lots of misogyny in both directions. After living with a slob who never had any interest in doing chores, let me tell you... this is heaven. 19. From lydviciousss: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a feminist because&hellip;&rdquo; 

This weekend, an insightful Reddit community called AskWomen posed the question: &quot;What internalized misogyny have you overheard?&quot;  It&#39;s a serious question with some interesting answers and perspectives, but you might want the...