Refusing to neuter their male dog because they're projecting on them. It counts as mental illness, as far as I'm concened.

One woman told me her husband wouldn't let her breastfeed because he said her breasts belonged to him, not the baby.

I was visiting my parents back when my dad was well. My mom was at work.

I knew he had been trying to fix the lawnmower for awhile before I got there. I was sitting inside and heard it working. He came in and I said, hey good job you fixed it!

He said yeah but don't tell mom that I did it the Women's Way.

me: What's the women's way?

Dad: (so soft a mumble I strained to hear) "I read the instructions."

He wasn't joking, which I learned after I burst out laughing. Of course the first thing I did when my mom got home was tell her.

Decades ago I was walking back to our office with my workmates after a client meeting. One of them, a small woman, was wearing a then-fashionable 'astronaut' jacket. I casually remarked that women make better astronauts than men - we take up less space, use less oxygen, have a higher pain tolerance, have more physical stamina, react better in emergencies (I'm sure there were other reasons as well). And one of the men just flipped out. He was so incredibly wounded by this statement, it was unreal.

I had a friend who got incredibly mad at me when he learned I'd beaten his younger brother (12) at Mario kart a few times. Mind you, we were not children ourselves, I was like 21-22 and he was like 25-26 at the time. He was insistent that I needed to make sure if I ever played any games with the kid (which I had been regularly because the poor kid had to come stay with my friend due to their mother having health problems and he had no friends there and was bored and lonely) I needed to lose, because somehow losing to a "girl" would "destroy his confidence and make it so he'll never get a girlfriend". Apparently this applied to everything as well, including sports and anything academic. Because obviously a 12 year old boy can have no self worth whatsoever if he is not better than a fully grown adult woman at everything.

One of my former friends (who incidentally turned out to be an alt-right 4chan chud, who I stopped being friends with when he put me in the "fuckzone" as it were) was watching me play a video game that had a cute easter egg I wanted to share with him: if your character isn't wearing shoes and kicks open a treasure chest, he does an extra animation where he grabs his foot and hops a couple times.

So I told my friend I wanted to show him a cool touch they did (being vague to not spoil it) and then, to set it up, removed the character's bottom armor to make him barefoot. For reference, when you do this he'll be wearing a modest/normal swimsuit that looks like this (but also imagine he's wearing a shirt too). Also worth mentioning is this is a family-friendly game.

He fucking loses it when he sees I took off the dude's pants, getting so uncomfortable and looking... "paranoid" I think is the closest description I can think of. But he literally out loud asked me something similar to "Are you getting off on this?", and then (I am not making this up, I genuinely am not) "Is this how girls feel all of the time [when seeing sexualized female characters everywhere]?"

I just stared at him silently and pointedly, in shock a bit.

I once met a guy who told me his father had taught him that singing was unmanly.

Singing, I kid you not.

If such men weren't usually horrible misogynists, I might almost pity them. Trapped in a prison of their own making. Sounds like a very sad life.

Ex-hub and I once ate in a Chinese restaurant where you could choose the "heat level" of your dish. I didn't want anything spicy that day and went with "no hot " (1). Big macho ex-hub decided that these people didn't know what hot was, that they couldn't make it hot enough for him, and that he wanted his kung pao chicken "spicy hot" (5). Well, it was too damned hot.

He kept eating that stuff long past the point of obvious physical discomfort--sweating, red in the face, watering eyes--while I quietly enjoyed my meal. And he finally gave up and sulked about it for the rest of the day.

Same guy was furious once when I didn't refuse to eat my meal and demand a refund because there was something wrong with HIS meal and he wanted a refund. It was very unsupportive of me, apparently, to sit there eating instead of going hungry to comfort him while he steamed and fumed and sulked.

A male colleague refused to wear mens thermal leggings under his work pants because leggings are for girls. He kept shivering and whining about his legs being cold. If only there existed a piece of clothing made to fix that problem...

I like when men freak out over being expected to use basic tools instead of everyone pretending that they have freakish/magical special abilities and don't need to like the rest of us plebians. See: men who construct things and insist on 'eyeballing' them instead of measuring and marking, using squares and levels, etc. Men who refuse to use a map or GPS when they don't know where they are. And so on.

Also men who get offended when you want them to put down their damn phone when driving because no, they're not special, and texting and driving isn't safe when they do it either. And neither is driving drunk. And the usual argument that they can do these things because they're such good drivers is BS because bare minimum even to be a mediocre driver you don't text and drive or drive drunk. You are a bad driver, dude. Enjoy your insurance premiums while you tell yourself women are worse drivers because you saw one of us scrape a curb while parking the other day.

I said a newborn boy was a beautiful baby and the grandfather said "boys aren't beautiful, they're handsome".

The whole being terrified of vegetarians and vegans. Thinking recycling is effeminate.

This was many many years ago with my high school boyfriend. We would spend our weekend dates either going to the movies or going bowling, because those were the only real "dating" activities available in our small town.

When we went bowling, he won probably 95% of the time; I can only remember two or three games, ever, that I beat him. But oh my God, the breakdown that he experienced when I did.

It wasn't so much that he threw a tantrum, but when it became obvious that he was having a terrible game and that he was going to lose, he would sullen and crabby. I couldn't believe how badly it bothered him to lose to a girl even once out of every time we bowled. Just wild.

Oh I've got another one (probably have lots but I'll keep the sharing to a minimum) - at an office one day, sunny in the morning but pouring down rain by lunchtime. Male colleague had not brought an umbrella, wanted to go out to get something to eat. I offered to lend him the spare umbrella I kept in my desk drawer. He literally, physically shied away from it, refused to take it, apparently preferred to get sopping wet rather than hold an umbrella that wasn't black (when I tell people this I say 'it wasn't the one with venus symbols and vulvas on it' - it was, IIRC, a dark blue check pattern). As often happens when I reflect back on things like this, I realise that this guy had probably been beaten up as a child for touching 'girl things' - the physical reaction I saw that day was shocking and extreme.

Some dude at work arguing with me in front of the other dude there who happens to be his friend on something, refusing to hand me the BOL so I could show he had the wrong freight. He literally handed it the other dude first, who doesn't handle this freight, and yanked it from my hand after the other dude handed it to me instead. I asked FOUR times can I see that before he finally handed me it. As usual, I was right that he did something incorrectly and had the wrong paperwork matched up.

The best part was the next day when he tried to start shit or mock me or something idk n idc. The other dude who's literally the manager told him to grab the pallet I said to grab, he goes "can we verify it first", I respond "I did, it's that one", manager backs me up, and the insecure dude loudly says something like "well we all know LEGOPANTS knows everything!" in a mocking like tone, so I just said back "yes, I do"

Not my story. You might have heard it. There’s this typical southern American country girl who’s building / renovating (?) her house and she catches fish with her hands.

Anyways, guy on social media says, “you must be gay to date this tomboy.” (Paraphrased)

Imagine how fragile his ego must be to feel threatened by this feminine woman who is self-sufficient. MRAs really don’t see women as people developing skills to survive wherever they live but as pretty props on their life stage.

This isn't hilarious, more sad and VERY racist. But it's quintessential male fragility. I know a guy who has an open relationship arrangement with his wife (his idea ofc), where they can hookup with other people. There is the condition that she's not allowed to sleep with black men 😐 He's white and I get the feeling 🤏

https://hornet.com/stories/wiping-butts/

Not playing as female characters in video games. Refusing to eat anything they perceive to be remotely phallic, like hot dogs, bananas, popsicles, etc because porn brains. Pissing contests in general. I've heard plenty of men bragging about how hard they "beat the shit out of someone".

I was having a drink with a (female) friend at an outdoor, long communal table, when two guys sat down with their drinks at the end of the table. One of them inserted himself into our conversation, and I noticed his pupils were blown out. Figuring he was high, I chatted with him for a bit, then when the conversation got into some strange territory, I asked him how high he was.

He stared at me like I'd slapped him. "I'm not high! I never would!"

"Really? Your pupils are massive, I just assumed."

He turned to his friend, still aghast, and his friend said, "To be fair, mate, they are massive "

He got up and left, and his friend said goodbye and chased after him.

My husband asked if drinking hot drinks was gay.

Ohhhhhh I have a couple!

My father is a good man but he was still raised in a mildly sexist and homophobic Italy. Therefore when he watches TV and men are doing something that is not traditionally masculine, he loses his shit.

For example:

• if in a commercial there are two men dining together he gets uncomfortable because "that's gay".
• if in a commercial and in real life he witnesses two men sitting in a car, he gets uncomfortable because "that's gay, a man should be with a woman or his child(ren)".
• if in a commercial there is a very handsome man half naked advertising something, he gets uncomfortable because sexiness is for women only and he's straight and doesn't want to look at gay men. Bonus uncomfortable points if I let him notice that women would like a piece of candy to see too, and that maybe that advertisment wasn't made for him but for women. He gives me that shocked look that makes me laugh out of pity.
• if in a game show there are male dancers and the camera pays them a shot, he gets uncomfortable because... Well, you know what I'm getting at.

I didn’t witness it in person but a friend of mine told me about a guy who cut off his eyelashes after a woman complemented them

Guess he didn’t want them to look ‘feminine’ or something

Not sure if this counts but…it’s gotta be something lol. I was at a concert a few months ago, crowd was super violent so I stayed at the edges of the pit. I mean people had mouthguards in and were physically fighting. At that point just take it outside. It’s a concert, not a fucking wrestling match. Killed my whole vibe. But I digress. Even in these rough crowds, if someone stumbles or falls, there are hands on you instantly to pick you back up. So the last song is ending and this one guy was running around pushing everyone. Another guy comes up and pushes him back. This is textbook mosh pitting. Guy 1 falls and Guy 2 immediately extends his hands with a smile and a “you good?” to help Guy 1 up. Well Guy 1 goes feral. “Why the fuck did you push me down? Huh? Fucker!” Gets up screaming and starts going after Guy 2s neck. Luckily people intervened and got Guy 2 away and the whole crowd did a collective WTF at Guy 1. Just so weird. Most people accept that they’re gonna get pushed if they’re in the pit pushing others. But I guess some guys think they’re untouchable.

I was on a train back home from a football match on Saturday, and as usual there were a bunch of Leeds fans on the train (on the same line as where I lived at the time). I usually ended up chatting and having a laugh on trains with other football fans, both male and female, no issues at all.

This one Leeds fan comes up to me, a bottle of white wine in his hand with a long straw in it, and apologised profusely that he’s not interested in me that way and he’s not trying to chat me up, but what did I think to X player who my team had recently bought. He then went on to say “I’m not trying to chat you up” at least twice more.

The guy was young enough to be my son and I look like a goth lunatic. I think it’s pretty obvious no-one is ever trying to chat me up when we talk on trains to and from games, sir.

What the hell happened to this guy in the past that he felt he had to constantly tell me I wasn’t attractive to him, just to talk about the football? The white wine bottle and straw just topped it all off, because the only other time I’ve seen people drinking from wine bottles with straws were hen parties, yet here’s Mr Masculine in his best Ben Sherman gear and football shirt, telling me he only likes blondes but our goalie is fucking great.

Men are so weird. Seriously, I’ve had so many fun and interesting conversations on trains to and from the football, and never anything like that uncomfortable ‘mustn’t talk to women unless I want to screw them’ kind of thing. I felt kind of sorry for him. Strange bloke.

Another story: my dad was once walking in a parking lot right in the middle of the road. A car came up behind him and he grudgingly went to the side to let it past. It clipped his arm with the wing mirror as it went past - we're talking a few km an hour here, nothing crazy that did any actual damage. A bruise at most. He began running after the car. It of course sped off and left him way behind.

My siblings and I were so embarrassed.

one time this guy I was dating put Youth by Foxes on his TV and informed me that liking the song didn't mean he was gay