Is washing day sexist?

Grannygalactica
Just ignore the must say it right nit picking individuals.

Sexist....hmmmmmmmmmm what a load of rubbish a day does not have a gender.

I am fed up with all this let's be offended stuff, I am offended when I can't use the men's toilets and there is no queue, and they have banned whistling on building sites........what fun that used to be, I would walk down the street and be pleased with the whistles. No body asked me if I wanted it stopped.

And poor Jenni Murray being told off for having an opinion, women are only allowed opinions when we have been told what they are. We are just ridicuous now. Pocohontas was disapproved of as a fancy dress by Uni students on TV last week, all busy being offended on behalf of other people.

Where will it all end??

I think your critic was taking things a little too far now that 'washing day' actually means bundling some fabric into a programmed machine and pushing a button!

When my appreciative family say, 'Oh, thanks for washing my ... whatever...' I say, 'Well, I didn't have to take it down to the river and beat it on the rocks, you know.'

It reminds me of the labour of the old days. My dad bought my mother the first electic copper in our street to boil her washing in. What luxury! And I vividly remember her putting sheets thorough the mangle which was a heavy job for a small woman.

In 1979 we were given a twintub for a wedding present by my MIL who thought it was absolute heaven compared with what she had to use when she was young and first married. (Nappies on a line.) However, we still had to stand over the machine and bundle the wet clothes from one tub to another.

A couple of years later we were 'fully automatic' and then added a tumble dryer.

Washing is a pleasure now.

We can all be thankful how easy it is to have more than one washing day a week when it only takes 5 minutes and a few button presses. Now ironing day is another matter.......

There was a question on a recent QI programme which read 'who is offended?' the collective answer was 'everybody'.

Tricia Yes!

My mother used to say 'A woman's work is never done'!

She didn't specify what work

Remember this song?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAlevP8JWOQ
Nice idea to have all the children helping.

Oh dear - I think I would be tempted to slip in some really sexist stuff just for the hell of it - tsk, tsk

My Granny used to put on a rubber apron and wellies to do the washing! Always done on Monday and took all day. Definitely woman's work in those days!

Don't have washing day at all, stuff just gets washed when it needs it. Having said that I still seem to be the only person who can work the washing machine!

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Why are people so easily offended these days?
They should have lived through WW2, then they would have found something real to be upset about.

I suppose traditionally washing day was a Monday and women were pretty much responsible for what was a labour intesive task putting sheets etc. through those old fashioned mangle contraptions. All that aside, I think that mode of laundry has been consigned to history now and as roses has said we all (men included) wash as we go so the comment seems odd for the times we live in. Some like to look for insults where there aren't any imo.

Well said Maggie; that just about sums it up.

What absolute tosh, GrannyGalactica. That person really needs to get out more!

Oh me too ?

I'm hardly being sexist to say that I've washed my bedlinen this morning, given that I live on my own!

sunseeker

You got me!

That is the correct way to say it.

Goodness! Words fail me(almost!)
What a stupid fuss about nothing. A person daren't open their mouth around some people!

I can't see why it is sexist - as I understand it, you weren't referring to women doing the washing/drying or whatever.

Pogs My mother always said about an aunt that she would walk miles over broken glass in her bare feet just to have her feelings hurt!

Exactly GrannyG and we do see a lot of that about , finding fault with 'the words' don't we?

It seems to me that some people spend so much effort on finding fault with the words that they miss the meaning. I like the quotation POGS.

FFS have people nothing else to fill their tiny minds with.
I agree totally with POGS & Roses.
Definitely not you GrannyGalactica

agreed POGS
GrannyG hardly sexist....if they were to say anything it could be said that washing Day is a bit old fashioned ( we wash and dry as it suits us these days) but nothing else.