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50yearslate said
In chemistry just now our teacher asked us to help him move some bookshelves around. Me and a few other girls got up to help, only to be told by this super annoying guy, “Let the REAL man do the job.”

  

Good response to any crap like that is “oh cool, where is he?”. Nothing like making a sexist a*****e feel like an idiotic, sexist a*****e 🙂 .

50yearslate said
That’s amazing

IIRC my friend said “I’m the real man here” which did the trick. But I like your response better.

I’m always ready for it . Back when I was in secondary school, there was some lad who would constantly annoy me when I was sitting in class (looking back at it I think he had a crush on me but obviously went around it the wrong way). Anyhoo, he kept on saying crappy comments and I eventually turned around and said “oh go f**k yourself, Ryan ’cause no one else will!”. 

There was also one girl (which I might have told this story before but if you get a flashback of glorious achievements in your life before you die, this will definitely be one of mine) who was talking in a derogatory way about gay couples. She said something like “oh yeah I hate seeing gay people holding hands in public”, and I said “homosexuality is seen in 100s of species but homophobia is only seen in one- humans!”. I literally got a sharp intake of breath from everyone in the room and a load of people afterwards came up to me to say well done for talking back to a girl who was seen as the “popular girl”. 

My friends were in the toilets a few hours after it happened and they heard said girl say to her mates “what a bitch, I can’t believe she said that in front of everyone” mwahahaha.

This was during a religious retreat as well (which my school despite being “secular”, it was a Catholic-dominated retreat that everyone was forced to go to). They had 2 young devote Catholics (a lad and a gal) hosting it and they had us divide into groups to give our opinions on different topics, like I strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, blah blah. One of the topics was ‘sex is meant to be between a couple in a loving relationship’ and I was on the disagree group because go ahead and have one night stands if you want or FWBs, I don’t care. Out of the class of about 30, there were 3 people (including me) on the disagree side and I was saying that being sexually liberal isn’t a big thing so long as it’s consenting (and obviously legal), and it isn’t really a ‘natural thing’ amongst species to be monogamous. The hosts weren’t pleased about me saying this and they tried to counteract with “swans mate for life” but wouldn’t let me interrupt by saying “yeah but swans aren’t mammals like we are” (and yes I know a small portion of mammals mate for life but by-and-large no it’s not a done thing). I go to university with a lot of the people who agreed that “sex should be between a loving couple in a relationship only” and l0l ’nuff said.

I’ve got loads of ‘ASJ disagreeing with the Catholic Church and being told to shut up’ stories. Might tell a few more in the future because I get such delight in doing it.