Women are calling men out with wild new social media trend

Women are flipping the script to call out callous acts, remarks and gendered microaggressions made to them by men.

Women are flipping the script to direct sexist remarks usually made to them back towards men in a new online trend.

The phrase “women in male fields” has taken social media by storm in the past 48 hours. Women are using it to call out sexism they have experienced, and it’s also being used to mock undesirable dating behaviour.

“When a man tells me his PhD application got rejected and I hit him with the ‘It’s okay, at your age, you shouldn’t be too ambitious. You should focus on making a family’,” one said.

Another added: “When he catches me following OF models on Instagram, so I hit him with the ‘Fine, I’ll just delete the whole app then’.”

One said: “Moved in with a guy and refused to do any of the housework. When he asked me to help I would go out of my way to mess things up on purpose so he never asks me again.”

The ‘women in male fields’ trend has taken over social media. Picture: TikTok/@skyler.delgado

Others talked about making a potential love interest prove their love of a sport predominantly followed by men, such as the F1, or being called a slur due to their clothing. Some talked about dating behaviour, such as claiming to have an early night and ignoring all text messages for hours. Or, being extremely affectionate before ghosting a potential match.

“When he told me he wanted to be a mechanical engineer and I said ‘But don’t you want to be a dad first’,” one said.

Another added: “He told me I act single on Instagram so I told him social media is not even real.”

“When a man is given a promotion based on his meritorious achievements so I tell him he only got it because he’s a man and they need to fill a diversity quota,” another said.

Professor Nicole Moulding, who is an expert in social work with a focus on gender violence at the University of South Australia, explained the trend as women simply pointing to microaggressions they’ve experienced day in and day out.

“The women are using the technique of gender reversal or gender flipping – which is one that feminists have often used historically to throw a light on sexist male behaviour,” Prof

Moulding told news.com.au.

It takes microaggressions women experience and flips the script. Picture: TikTok/@remmiebyriley

It's about everything from dating to workplace interactions. Picture: TikTok/@sin.makeup

She said it could be a powerful technique as when the comments are said by men to women, they can seem unproblematic.

“But when a woman flips the comments around, so a woman is saying them to a man, they are properly revealed for what they are, that is, as deceitful, duplicitous, entitled, misogynistic and sexist,” she said.

Prof Moulding said the trend may have become so popular so quickly following President-elect Donald Trump winning in the US. She said it has emboldened some sexist, entitled men to attack women online.

Experts have spoken on the topic. Picture: TikTok/@isa.morabel

“Phenomena like this can be understood as ‘sexual politics’, which includes efforts to keep women in their place as servicers of men and pushback from women to claim their rights as equals who deserve respect,” she said.

She also pointed to a possible increasing frustration by young women towards men. Young women in particular are fed up with the behaviour they encounter on dating apps.

“And, of course, many women are enraged by the continued lack of progress in reducing rape, sexual assault and domestic violence, and continued practices of woman-blame,” she said.

“Same goes for the limited progress around the gender pay gap. And a major factor for many women at the moment will be a sense of threat to their reproductive rights, which have been removed in many states in the US and in the US constitution, while some anti-choice groups in Australia, including conservative MPs in state legislatures, have felt emboldened by what has occurred in the US to express their personal views and desires to restrict women’s access here, too.”