Oddly enough, I didn't find myself wondering that at all. It seemed patently evident.
As a woman, I can attest to the uneven treatment. Women begrudingly learn to live with it at least in part. I live in a medium size town where alernatives to a given establishment might not be plentiful.
That said, many of the male generated responses to this story are symptomatic of the problem, as Aardpig infers. The products purchased really aren't the issue - I can go just about anywhere but the most female-targed businesses and within as long as it takes to fire up my laptop, locate someone willing to treat me in a codescending fashion. Having this happen in a location that parallels my job experience (network admin) is indeed particularly frustrating, but never surprising.
It all revolves around social attitudes - 50 years ago nobody complained about this type of behavior because it was the expected norm - "Now honey, don't you have a husband to help you with that?" We've obviously come a long way, but we have a long way to go. Frankly, I doubt it will be erased in my lifetime, if ever in whole. Men are men - sorry guys, but your need to grunt and proclaim your superiority is inbred or something. 75% of the responses here prove that!
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Gosh, divorce didn't go well, eh?
Oddly enough, I didn't find myself wondering that at all. It seemed patently evident.
As a woman, I can attest to the uneven treatment. Women begrudingly learn to live with it at least in part. I live in a medium size town where alernatives to a given establishment might not be plentiful.
That said, many of the male generated responses to this story are symptomatic of the problem, as Aardpig infers. The products purchased really aren't the issue - I can go just about anywhere but the most female-targed businesses and within as long as it takes to fire up my laptop, locate someone willing to treat me in a codescending fashion. Having this happen in a location that parallels my job experience (network admin) is indeed particularly frustrating, but never surprising.
It all revolves around social attitudes - 50 years ago nobody complained about this type of behavior because it was the expected norm - "Now honey, don't you have a husband to help you with that?" We've obviously come a long way, but we have a long way to go. Frankly, I doubt it will be erased in my lifetime, if ever in whole. Men are men - sorry guys, but your need to grunt and proclaim your superiority is inbred or something. 75% of the responses here prove that!