‘Sexy’ female tradie reveals men troll her for doing her job
A woman has hit back at some of her TikTok followers after she was viciously trolled for working in a male-dominated industry.
A glamorous female bricklayer has revealed how she’s trolled by men, who claim she’s “not strong enough” to do her job and it makes her “unattractive”.
Darcie Richards, from Old Buckenham, Norfolk, in the UK, is fed up with being judged just because she works in a male-dominated industry.
The 26-year-old has more than 212,000 followers and 6.6 million ‘likes’ on her TikTok page — where she says she’s “doing it for the girls”, The Sun reports.
But putting herself out there on social media — pink hard hat and all — has led to lots of trolling from men.
In one clip, she bites back at a troll comment saying: “Well this has to be the most unattractive thing I’ve seen a woman do today.”
Other comments include: “What is a b***h doing laying bricks”.
The former waitress has also been accused of being “not strong enough” and “too slow” to do a traditionally male job.
In one video, she explains: “Being a female and being in this trade is REALLY hard. It’s not the type of job where you can come in and just fluff around all day. It is hard graft every single day.
“And being a female in this job has been extremely challenging.”
But Darcie also plays up to the hate, showing herself flicking her long blonde hair on site.
She captioned one video: “You don't need to look good on site … but I aint doing half bad” and another “bringing the glamour to site”.
Darcie won’t let the hate dissuade her from doing what she loves.
She says: “There have been so many girls, hundreds, who have come to me and said how much of an inspiration I am to them.
“They think it’s awesome and they are going to do the same.
“But it’s not just women, half of my followers are men, who are also really happy to see us entering the trade.
“Luckily, the positivity outweighs the negatives in the hundreds of thousands. But I do get some negative comments from people online too. If I do, it is always from men.
“They just see a girl and think it’s pathetic or that I want attention; they don’t think I’m strong enough or I am too slow. One man even said it was unattractive.
“But I did a video replying to that and I got 16,000 comments from girls all in support.”
Not all Darcie’s male followers are negative — in fact she’s been inundated with attention from admirers.
She previously told The Sun: “Who knew steel-cap boots could be so sexy? The cliche is that most women like a guy in uniform, but it appears men do too.”
Women make up just 14 per cent of the UK’s construction workforce, while in Australia, the overall number of women in construction roles increased by 34 per cent in five years, from 44,583 in 2015 to 59,587 in 2020, according to the ABC.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
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