Reddit Shares The Dumbest Things “Real Men” Refuse To Do

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There may be nothing funnier or sadder on this world than a fragile man. I don’t imply a delicate man, or a medically delicate man. I imply a man who feels he’s always combating for his life to take care of some form of robust man standing. It’s unhappy as a result of, gosh, what an terrible strategy to stay. But it surely’s humorous as a result of these guys are as a rule — it should be stated — trash, and watching them twist themselves into pretzels for essentially the most ridiculous causes is entertaining. Take, for instance, a current publish on r/AskReddit asking “what’s essentially the most ridiculous factor you heard a person refuse to do as a result of it was “too female” or ‘for ladies’?” And boy howdy did the toxic masculinity come rolling in…

Some individuals get offended once they hear the time period “poisonous masculinity.”

“So it’s poisonous to be masculine?” they’ll ask indignantly. And… no. That’s not how adjectives work.

Masculinity itself isn’t poisonous by itself: that’s why now we have to add the phrase “poisonous” so you understand what we’re speaking about. It’s like, if I stated “These are toxic flowers,” would you assume I meant all flowers are toxic? Clearly not. It’s the identical factor with poisonous masculinity.

And when poisonous masculinity rears its ugly, unmoisturized head? It’s dangerous… but additionally, like, tragically humorous. The Reddit publish spawned greater than 11,000 feedback. Right here had been a few of the extra unhinged solutions…

Save one other man’s life…

“I labored in a hospital setting, however within the company workplace. We did not work with the sufferers however we needed to be educated on security procedures and the completely different hospital codes. My boss, who was a pleasant man in any other case, stated he would refuse to offer CPR to a different man in an emergency /life or demise state of affairs and I assumed it was fully ridiculous.”

Fundamental hair care & hygiene

“Use conditioner in his hair. His actually lengthy, dry as fuck hair.”

“[Use] face wash and a loofa. He stated he was a person he doesn’t use shit like that. I used to be like rattling you’re actually that fragile: it’s cleaning soap.”

“Skincare. I dated somebody that labored building open air. An actual beer consuming, cigar smoking man’s man. His pores and skin was turning into leather-based however he refused to moisturize or clear it correctly. At some point I forcefully carried out an at dwelling self-care spa day on him – mud masks, exfoliation, cleanse, sheet masks, serums, chilly eye packs, moisturizer. He had half of Sephora on his face. Afterwards he was radiant and stated he felt fairly and favored how good it smelled. They do not know till they know!”

Be close to something pink

“[My father-in-law didn’t] let his spouse use a pink towel on his sons.”

“We had been tenting with a gaggle of mates and my good friend’s small son was thirsty very first thing within the morning, however we hadn’t carried out dishes but so we solely had three pink cups out there. My good friend would not permit his son to drink water from a pink cup so as a substitute he let his son be thirsty.”

Be close to tampons or pads

“My brother-in-law refused to purchase female hygiene merchandise for his spouse. I by no means understood that. I all the time purchased them for my spouse I imply it is apparent they aren’t for me.”

Sadly, and maybe unsurprisingly, this got here up quite a bit.

Eat the next meals…

Yogurt (“Too homosexual for me.”)
Fruity drinks
Quiche (“He referred to as it ‘girly breakfast.’”)
Chickpeas
Bananas (“Too phallic.”)
Ice cream cones (Ditto.)
Donuts with sprinkles on them
Soup
Greens (“Greens are for girls.”)
Water (“He stated he ‘doesn’t must drink water, males simply robust it out.’” Apparently hyrdration is for the women and the gays…)

Carry or maintain the next…

An umbrella (this got here up weirdly quite a bit)
Their spouse or girlfriend’s purse
Cats (“He didn’t wanna take his girlfriend’s cat to the vet trigger a person holding a cat is female.”)
His personal baby in public (apparently that is girls’s work)

Change diapers

“My boss at a earlier job did not perceive why none of his three youngsters would converse to him. Then after a coworker returned from paternity depart he proudly proclaimed that he had by no means modified a diaper in his life ‘as a result of it was girls’s work’ and I am guessing that is the place it began.”

That is one other one which got here up a complete bunch…

Praise a girl

“My good friend’s husband gained’t praise her look as a result of ‘it’s homosexual to note little shit like that a couple of girl’…. Fellas is it homosexual to love girls?”