Male chauvinist phrases: we hear them day after day, in any context . They are popular expressions, proverbs and sayings that underestimate the role of women in our society.

Although formally women have been obtaining most rights during the last century in the West, the truth is that, still in the middle of the 21st century, there are different aspects in which they do not enjoy the same visibility or consideration compared to men.

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Phrases, sayings and macho sayings

Among those who believe that women should not have so many rights are disparate specimens: retrograde individuals who generally only conceive of the female gender as a secondary actor, relegated to jobs of lesser social relevance and the care of children and the elderly.

This discrimination is based on archaic gender roles . Fortunately, times are changing, and yet we still hear these detestable set phrases that place women in an inferior position.

In this article we wanted to compile
some of these phrases that we must banish from our vocabulary and from our lives .

1. Men are rational and women are emotional

A phrase that has to do with psychology and that contains a topic that has little or nothing to do with reality.

2. You’re a little nervous… you’re not in one of those days?

Pointing to menstruation to ridicule a woman who is legitimately upset about something is simply deeply sexist.

3. A lot of feminism but… good that women don’t say anything when they are allowed free access to discos

The reason why some clubs let women in for free is to use them as a sexist advertisement for more men to attend. Fortunately, this practice has recently been banned in Spain.

4. Feminism is like machismo but in reverse

Feminism fights for equality between men and women, while machismo is the caveman’s way of thinking that leads us to discriminate and take away rights and freedoms from women. Therefore, machismo and feminism are not “the same but in reverse”.

5. Women drive worse and cause more accidents

In fact, it’s exactly the opposite. Women cause fewer traffic accidents than men.

6. Woman at the wheel, constant danger… Woman it had to be!

Another terrible statement made about their alleged lack of driving skills.

7. (In a job interview): Do you plan to have children?

A hindrance to our societies:
companies that don’t hire women for fear they’ll get pregnant . This means that great professionals cannot access important positions, which are mostly occupied by men.

8. You look fantastic in that dress

Of course, a compliment can be welcomed if the context is right. However, most women complain that men often abuse these compliments on their physique, making them feel valid only through their image and beauty, and not as human beings.

9. You fight like a woman!

Ridiculing the way women fight, run or play sports is to ignore their potential in the physical arena.

10. Scrub!

This one doesn’t even deserve an explanation.

11. Dressed like this you look like a tart

It is exceptionally macho to want to impose a way of dressing on a woman, and even more so if it is to coerce her by telling her she is “too daring”.

12. Smart like dad, pretty like mom

This is how a T-shirt print for children of the Hipercor brand reads. Gender roles in their most putrid expression.

13. The more premium, the more you get

A supposedly funny phrase that hypersexualizes women.

14. I bought my wife a necklace for her birthday. Did you buy yours? I swim, I still let her loose

Another joke in truly bad taste that trivializes the role of women in society.

15. Why don’t women need to have their own car? Because from the kitchen to the living room there is not so much distance

Another funny saying that’s not even remotely funny.

16. A woman’s “no” means: “beg me some more”

A sexist phrase that leaves the door open to attitudes close to rape.

17. I hate the learned woman. I hope a woman who knows more than she should know won’t come into my house (Euripides)

Quote, famously, from the Greek philosopher.

18. Micromachisms are silly. There are much more important things to worry about

By minimizing the existence of micro-machisms we also help to perpetuate sexism.

19. You probably got that job because you slept with someone

When, after much effort, a woman gets a good job, she is criticized and her professional worth is questioned.

20. Women must be chosen to be beautiful and slender, they are responsible for making themselves fat and ugly

Another macho saying to the core.

21. Women don’t like nice guys, they prefer ‘bad boys’

An absurd generalization about the preferences and appetites of heterosexual women.

22. If a woman is a lesbian… it will be because she has not tasted a good man

Heteropatriarchy at its most denigrating.

23. I am not a rapist and I have not hit any woman in my life. This struggle of feminism is not for me.

Feminism is everyone’s responsibility, without exception.