Before I went home on Christmas I passed this bar in downtown Reykjavík and shook my head at the casual sexism in the sign (all men like sports! women are sooooo into shopping!).

Last weekend I went on the discussion forum for the people participating in the long distance study of my current university course and one other student had already posted under what I recognized as a male Icelandic name. "Hello", it said. "I'm a nurse". Automatically I rechecked the name and then I felt bad.