#MondayMusings – Calling out Condescension
Monday Musings
I was shopping in Broadmead the other day and witnessed a heated argument/shouting match between a female bus driver (on the pavement) and a male bus driver standing in the door of a bus.
After she walked away, she caught up with me, and I asked her what had happened. Â She reported she was a few minutes late and waited for the driver. Â When he didn’t show for several minutes she called dispatch to see if she missed his arrival. Â Apparently, the male bus driver was mad she called.
He made a couple of nasty comments condemning female impatience. Â She wasn’t impatient. Â He was late and off schedule!
It seems like a small thing, but I believe women must call out condescension whenever it happens. Belittling behavior, I believe, must be named for what it is. Don’t ask us to “have a sense of humor” about words or actions that are designed to make us feel small, inferior, or idiotic.
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