Funny this post came up today, since I was packing fish this morning for work and experienced gender issues with a group of Polish immigrants. The women were doing "softer" work, preparing the boxes/bags for the several kilos of fish fillets that would be dumped into them by the conveyor belt, and the men were doing the "heavier" work of picking up the filled bags and moving them around.
I insisted on doing the "heavy" work with the men and they didn't know what to do with me. They kept motioning that I should switch with them, since one of the men had to take a "soft" job (since I wasn't taking it), but I refused. They kept shaking their heads, wondering what was "wrong" with me. I mean, wtf? As if tossing a few kilos of fish around is somehow "beneath" me as a woman? I prefer to act, move, throw, than to sit on my ass and look pretty folding plastic bags.
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Originally Posted by Sultana
Eh, if I gave any of my nephews a dolly to play with, they'd convert it into a gun or a vehicle by any means possible. I've seen it happen.  |
Joking aside, I was never given dolls as a child (probably because I tore my first Barbie's head off
no more after that!), and I always asked for and got "boy" toys. I got robots, science kits, remote control cars... loved them all, and never "converted" any of them to dolls.
I was as tomboy as you could get, and apparently (to the Poles at work), I still am. I hope that never changes.
