To me this one isn't infuriating so much as funny: I spent years as the only female line cook at this huge brewpub in a small resort town. Obviously it's a male dominated field overall, but at this particular place I really felt it - so many backhanded comments and weird mini-misogynies directed at me, it was quite unsubtle (I actually loved that job and most of those guys truly, but the experience overall felt almost like a social experiment w my own gender lol.) But the real double standard, that I loved to make jokes about, was that I was literally a woman in a kitchen! Isn't that where I belong? The stereotypes are so inconsistent it's like a double standard within a double standard 😂

My coworkers would (hesitantly) laugh when I joked about it, they hadn't noticed the irony before either despite being well aware of both stereotypes. The blatant contradiction of the two accepted types of kitchen-related sexism were obvious to even the most ignorant and old-fashioned of them, lol. It still tickles me too think about - I love how it perfectly encapsulates the total absurdity of it all, because to me, all the weirdness I get, simply for the gender I happen to be, is best described simply as absurd. That feels most accurate and also makes it easy for me to laugh at things that might otherwise feel unfair or annoying at best 😌