The 35 Things Women Find Most Offensive Nowadays

There are plenty of plus sides to being a woman, like the fact that many of our bodies have the magical capability to grow new humans and then produce the milk to feed them. Or the way we unite as a gender to fight for what we believe in. But, as we well know, there are also plenty of downsides, too.

The gender pay gap is still 18.1%, which is a hell of a lot of money to lose out on simply because you identify as female. And, despite efforts to make progress, women are often still penalised in their career progression if they take time out to have children.

But it's not always the big things that can be frustrating; everyday interactions can be peppered with subtle (or not so subtle) misogyny, and it can get tiresome. So it's nice to have a vent every now and then, which is exactly what polling firm Ginger Research facilitated when they carried out a nationwide study of 2,000 millennial females to find out the daily annoyances that wind modern women up the most.

Prepare for your blood to boil...

1. Being sent explicit pictures, when you didn’t ask for them
2. Being charged VAT for sanitary products
3. The notion that women are bad drivers
4. Being asked if it’s your time of the month
5. Not being paid as much as male colleagues
6. Being approached by someone in a bar just because you are alone
7. Being chatted up on LinkedIn direct message
8. Being told to cheer up as "it might never happen"
9. Being told to calm down
10. When someone talks to your breasts rather than your face
11. Airbrushed images of women
12. Being wolf-whistled at
13. Being told your biological clock is ticking
14. Being asked if you plan to get pregnant
15. Tradesmen insisting on talking to your partner rather than you
16. Being asked why you do not have children yet
17. Having your right to choose debated by male politicians
18. Being mansplained to
19. Being called "love"
20. Being ghosted by someone you have been dating
21. People assuming you’re not the main breadwinner
22. Being bought household appliances for your birthday
23. Being asked if your breasts are real
24. The view that you should not have long hair over 50
25. Being told you have childbearing hips
26. Being described as a housewife
27. Being told you look good for your age
28. Being left with the wives of your partner’s friends at dinner
29. Waiters assuming the healthy meal or salad is for you
30. Anti-aging adverts
31. When the barperson assumes you want a half pint, not a pint
32. The waiter assuming your male companion is picking up the bill
33. Being chatted up in the gym mid-workout
34. The assumption that you’ll change your name after getting married
35. The assumption that you look after the family calendar