Go on - I'll bite. But the question itself implies some kind of "otherness". I mean, how would you feel? I probably feel the same.
In reality, it's tiring, but women of my generation are used to it. Most of my secondary school education happened before the Equal Opportunities and Sex Discrimination Acts, and I and other girls my age were not allowed to study what we wanted to study but were made to study some things that I was really not good at - and didn't want to be. But they were the girls' subjects. So we were excluded from certain paths of study and therefore jobs.
The fight for equality is not just about not being allowed to serve someone I wouldn't even want to talk to. And while I applaud this thread's welcome but somewhat unusual foray into feminism, the majority of men that I was brought up with, and have studied and worked with, see equality as something women have to earn. That it's something that men bestow if we behave properly. That it's how we want to be "treated". Rather than it being a fact of life. That's the real issue.
Ask yourself why women have to be concerned about what we wear, whether we can walk home alone, who we need to worry about. Then have a look at some of the avatars in use on this board. Have a read of some of the words used as insults by one man to another, some of the words used to describe female athletes and other women and ask yourself if this is a welcoming space. I'm not banned from participating but excluded? Very often. As I said, it's tiring.
