This International Women’s Day, we asked our Facebook fans what was one gender stereotype they wished they could change, and here’s what we got!

Siobhan Irving: Having ovaries does not give me a shoe fetish: I have 2 feet and a grand total of 4 pairs of shoes.

Mu Lao Hu: That women are all dying to get married and have children.

Joshua Tan: That boys and girls have to like different types of toys.

Halima Gose: Men are stronger than women.

Shazina Zaini: That a woman expressing any sort of strong emotion is overreacting and being hysterical.

Yeong Sheau Shyan: That women aren’t suppose to participate in certain sports eg. football, rugby etc.

Aarti Olivia Dubey: That a woman with a colorful vernacular and who wears tight clothing is called a loud mouthed slut. That all men are supposed to be macho. Okay that’s two things then :D

Tanneke Zeeuw: damn – do you have ANY IDEA how hard it is to just pick one?
I want them all to GO!
I don’t want to hear: ‘Woman can’t…’ or ‘Men can…’, or even vice versa

Sean Chan: Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys

Gillian Nelson: That there are obvious and huge assumptions made about people based on their gender at all bothers me. I am more than the shape of my genitals, and so is my husband.

Kokila Annamalai: That guys can’t control their sexual urges. That’s offensive to all the guys I know who very well can, and undermines the need for consent.

Martina Par: “Boys will be boys” hence girls will be girls.

Sumedha Jalote: All women are looking for serious relationships, marriage and kids, and never want casual sex. This one always bothers me, especially when combined with people saying that women have “tricks” to “trap” a man into marriage. The stereotype that all guys want is sex and want to “escape” serious relationships and marriage is also equally stupid.

Tania De Rozario: I would like people to stop assuming that gender does and should conform to sex.

Janet Jia-Ee Chui: That women (and only women) are emotional and from that, irrational.

Yenyen Lee: The image women should maintain in order to seduce men. Slim tall Figure, beautiful Face…as what flooded advertisements from slimming centre Hair Salon, plastic surgery recommend . The Korean Model

Lee Yuen: That when we make tough decisions, men are being strong, and women bitches.

Indrani Vidyarthi: That women need protection (this is more relevant in India where I come from) and hence segregate them from men eg reserved seats in buses, reserved compartments in trains, purdah to hide from the male gaze, and now a womans’ only bank!! No, women need society to simply see women as no less equal than men, and treat us with respect and dignity like any other human being should be treated.

Daphne Ong: That women are either asexual creatures that only want love but not sex, or they are horny “sluts”. Real women are complex beings of love, sex, and humanity, and not just either of the above extremes. We’re not just heart or vagina, but a whole lotta brain.

Veronica Nathan: That women are emotional more than the men!

Is there a gender stereotype that bothers you? Write to us at kokila@aware.org.sg and let us know, or leave a comment on this post. We’ll be adding to this list till the end of March!