The father of gynecology used slave women as his nurses as well as operated numerous times on slave women to prefect his technique. There's a book called Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens that drives deeper into the history.
I had a college roommate who used our drinking cups as a container for her shaving water. On top of that she would leave the water sit on the table next to our bunk beds for weeks.
I'm a lifeguard and I always get "won't your hair turn green if you get in?" No kind patron who is looking out for me. My purple hair will stay purple.
I went to the store to buy a 25 gallon tub for storage. I go to walk out and a man stops me and tells me I shouldn't be carrying it because I'm a woman. He tried to take the EMPTY tub out of my hands, so I turned and told him I've got it. His reply? Women these days are just too independent,…Â
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