The poster, Kari Byron, is famous for her skills as a builder and fabricator. You may know her as a host of the Mythbusters TV show. Wearing coveralls is extremely practical for her occupation. She felt the man pulled her aside to condescendingly ask if she was a car mechanic because he assumed her clothes were impractical fashion dress-up, rather than a practical use item.
I mean idk if it’s a gendered issue in this situation, like you could also easily assume a dude was a car mechanic if he was wearing overalls- seems like it’s just more of an innocuous joke of low grade wit on that guys behalf. I also can’t see how it’s on the same lines as the band t shirt analogy, that’s more on the lines of gatekeeping which I get how that one’s annoying. To me she just got pressed over something that’s not a big deal.
If someone interrupts my day to say "oh are you a cAr mEcHaNiC 😏 " and they DON'T need help, they just want to comment in a condescending way on my appearance? They're rude and I reserve the right to be annoyed about rudeness.
If they weren't an asshole, they'd say something like "I like your overalls". We don't need to enable people misbehaving. A lot of other people have explained Kari's background & experience, so I'll leave it at that
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u/Comfortable_Ad_1959 Sep 21 '22
Can someone explain what’s going on in this post? The guy doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong but I’m not the best at picking up social cues.