As we are all seated in the meeting room, I receive few stares. I did come few minutes late but the stares still dont make sense as the team isnt usually bothered about these things.
Then a colleague asks, "how come you arent feeling cold?".
Ah.. that was it. I do have exceptional tolerance towards cold - not exactly sub zero but still higher than the rest. So your winter clothing is my fall and your summer clothing is my fall and so on.
So, I tell him that, that I dont feel cold easily, I can tolerate it.
"We all should feel embarassed", he says.
"why?"
"because all of us men are covered in multilayered clothing".
:)
Ps: It sounded very funny when i heard it, a man must feel less cold!
Ps1: I don't know my colleague really well(but he has really not appeared sexist before this) so please dont pounce on him now.
Ps2: When I described this to a friend of mine she asked, " doesnt this happen in bollywood songs all the time, women skimply clad in alaska while men are completely covered."
ROFL on the bollywood comment.
ReplyDeleteActually I think I read somewhere that men have more cold tolerance than women. Must be all the body hair.
ReplyDeleteBut jokes aside, I think you are an exception. Every woman I know has low cold tolerance, and this comes from a woman who lived a few years in upstate New York. Heck I feel cold today, in Chennai ! Can you beat that?
V.k.n: :)
ReplyDeleteLG: oh my close friend has a hot(!) body just like mine :)
viswajith.k.n:
ReplyDeletewhy even the bollywood comment? look around you in real life too. how many men do you see wearing sleeveless shirts?
sachita:
i don't think you would classify it as a sexist comment. maybe a stereotypical comment, but definitely not sexist. as a rule of thumb, men need a/c more often than women do (there are always going to be exceptions, such as you!), even when the women are as completely dressed as men are.
- s.b.