Women have heard some pretty ridiculous things about themselves . Ignorance is bliss. However, for every common myth about them, there’s an equally popular and equally nonsensical misconception about men.
‘Men can’t multitask’ Every time I hear that I have to stop what I am doing so I can get angry
insanebabyd Report
Fk, where to start? I was a stay at home Dad for 2 years. The sheer volume of Karens at parks and playgrounds used to drive me up a wall. They were always dumbfounded when I didn’t need their help. Yes, I can change a diaper. Probably faster than you can. Yes, I have snacks. Celery, carrots and a little ranch Yes, I have drinks. Water bottles and juiceboxes Yes, I have lunch. Chicken cutlet sandwiches. No, we didn’t buy them at the deli, I can actually cook. No, I don’t need wine. It’s 10AM, Karen. Get a fkin grip.
LumbermanDan Report
I hate when I hear from someone when I have my kids and my wife is working that I’m “babysitting”. It drives me insane. I don’t babysit. I’m raising my kids, I’m not a volunteer or a hired hand. Ugh.
FlaFlaFooey Report
I really hate how fruity drinks are associated with women, like damn can I just enjoy my strawberry daiquiri.
fsutech Report
It’s getting better now, but back in the day basically every guy on TV was a sports-obsessed, car/motorcycle loving, beer swilling moron who couldn’t function without his wife to look after him and the kids. My wife went away last week for work and I’ll have you know that only half my kids got eaten by wolves.
UYScutiPuffJr Report
“real men don’t have emotions”. Yeah go to hell.
LeMiaow51 Report
My wife is going to earn 1.5-2x as much as me when she’s done with her study. So I’m gonna work for 2-3 days and take care of the kids when she’s done. People act like I’m a traitor to the whole Male race and that I’m crazy of being a half stay at home dad. Maybe I like to stay at home to spend time with my kids?!
Kardinalus Report
Men can’t be abused by woman
Bujair1 Report
Daughter to a single dad here… There was this myth I discovered when I was young. It’s something almost all my female friends were told, but thankfully not me. The myth is the belief that there are such things as “girl business” where only your mom or other older females in the family should help you with. As the only girl in the house growing up my dad helped me understand and deal with a great many “girl business” problems. Meanwhile all my friends had their moms to handle it for them. When my friends found out my dad was sort of in charge of handling those with me they were shocked. They asked me why I didn’t have an aunt or grandma to help instead. Well, my aunts all live at least ten hours away and grandma is even further. I began to realize over the years that there might actually be negative side effects to this “girls only” way of thinking. Sure, having another female assist you with those issues might be less awkward and embarrassing, but there’s already an inherent awkwardness and embarrassment associated with it. Learning to overcome the embarrassment is part of growing up and accepting your body. Furthermore, I have since grown up and began studying psychology, and done some research into this further for my studies. I’d have to do a more in depth and wide reaching survey and analysis to come to findings I’d be comfortable with being peer reviewed, but I have a theory that the “girls only” mentality causes relationship issues later in life. Young girls grow up thinking that there are some aspects of womanhood men not only don’t understand but can’t understand. It makes them not only less trusting of male partners, but also keeps them from seeing men as equals when it comes to parenting. Sure, if you’re a mom of a young girl there’s no reason for you to not continue helping her with all the complex feminine issues she’s going through. Just be careful not to make her think her dad doesn’t empathize or understand too. Don’t make him this distant third party who will never get it, or someone who should not be involved because he has a penis. That’s the same toxic female attitude that causes soccer moms to call the cops on a dad when he takes his daughter to the park to play. Men can parent too, and they’re surprisingly good at raising young girls on their own.
Niki4Fun Report
That all those rich white guys in Congress are looking out for me because I, too, am a white guy. They don’t give any more of a s**t about me than they do about you.
scottevil110 Report
Showing emotion is a weakness. It isn’t. We have just as many emotions as women, and our emotions are just as valid
abarua01 Report
I am not a male myself but i hope it is ok for me to comment, It really annoys me when people say that men can not be raped because if they got a hard on they must have wanted it. Shit like that causes men to not report rapes and makes them feel shit about themselves. ANYONE can be raped, no matter age, sex or if the rapist is married to them. No means no. It is as simple as that.
leftintheshaddows Report
We’re all unable to control our nature to have sex. Believe me if I couldn’t control myself you’d have noticed by now.
Darkmaster666666 Report
No, im not going to a strip club. no, that doesn’t mean I’m gay
GriffsWorkComputer Report
‘There are plenty of fish in the sea, just get over it.’ F**k you… I liked that fish. Even if it was kinda mean and cruel.
kidl33t Report
Only men can be sexist
Chisai_Sora Report
Man who works at daycare are phedophiles Every year there are people who complain I work there
SamLansNL Report
Get too close to a child and you are automatically branded a pedophile. I work as low tier manager in toy store, and even though I have company t-shirt and name tag. People still ask me if i work there, people still look at me weird when I am going around the store doing whatever. It’s sometimes hard to ignore. I just hope people will understand that working at my dream job doesn’t mean i want to do stuff to their kids. It hurts sometimes.
heilon2 Report
Erections mean we want sex. Even as adults, they can still be random.
libertyprime17 Report
That only women suffer from negative body sterotyping. Really? REALLY? I grew up in the 80s. Have not seen He-Man? Swartzenegger, Fabio, Jason Momoa…
varthalon Report
That if we like children but don’t have children of our own we’re automatically given at the very least a little grilling, if not straight out asked if we’re a pedophile. I like dogs too, for pretty similar reasons. Nobody ever asks me if I’m a dog fucker.
Jimmiejackson Report
That we miss signs that women give them because they are stupid. We see them, but we don’t want to be creepy/jump to conclusions.
Trevor-On-Reddit Report
That we can never NOT be in the mood and if we are we must be sick or cheating.
Jelz Report
The whole “Men think about sex every 7 seconds” thing. If you think that’s true, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
AreWeCowabunga Report
“All men are the same.” God, I wish. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to a stupid event with my girlfriend and she disappears and I’m left hanging out with the other boyfriends and husbands and there’s nothing for us to talk about. I’m not into car shit or sports or any other basic male activities. All men are not the same.
velour_manure Report
That men find it normal to cheat and brag about it.
istealpixels Report
“Men are threatened by independent women”
probosofo Report
That we cannot parent as well as a woman. That we need a random woman to come hold a man’s child because they’re crying. That we are “babysitting” when our spouse isn’t with our babies.
cantseemeatall Report
The whole s**t with " you are a man" when it comes to pain, lifting, sadness etc.
Archeronus Report
Men are worse communicators than women. Really depends on the man, and the woman!
sunlightFTW Report
If a woman physically assault a man, he somehow must have done something to deserve it. This gets even worse in those case where male victims of domestic abuse are getting arrested in case the police gets called, even though they are the victims and not the attacker.
TheBassMeister Report
That all we care about is sex Like bro we like to hug and cuddle too
ghostchlamydia Report
That men constantly need to be reminded to do particular jobs around the house, if i say i will do something i will. There is no need to remind me every 6 months.
Prawnleem Report
When women ask “what are you thinking about?”, and you reply with “nothing”, we actually are thinking about nothing. Wife never believed me until a family counselor brought it up. Made her realize I wasn’t the only one doing it. Or what we’re actually thinking about is so trivial and kinda stupid, the second we’re interrupted with the question, we immediately forget what it was. That or we just done feel like sharing if we do remember because it is kinda dumb.
KoJoDo77 Report
The phrase “man up”. Not a myth, but still fking pisses me off that just because I have a dk, I’m not allowed to feel bad.
DarkPasta Report
That dads are dopey morons barely capable of caring for themselves, let alone their kids
Juan_spicy_boi Report
That we are not afraid of walking alone through a dark car park at night. After a great deal of asking every one from police, to self defense instructors, to a green beret and a bunch of combat vets, to the most cracked out gun nuts. Not met a single person who had no fear.
Mostlyaverageish Report
All men are creeps. A few arseholes ruin it for the rest of us, and now some poor random guy is getting arrested for pedophilia because he was watching over his kids on the playground. The other one that bugs me is the assumption that men don’t care about their children. People see a guy with his children and are all like ‘Oh, Mommy must be busy, are you having fun babysitting?’ No, he’s spending time with his kids, like any good parent, you fucking arsewipe.
that_random_bi_twink Report
I’m not a man, but one thing that annoys me about men stereotypes is that they can’t be friends with girls without wanting a shag. Most of my friends are guys, and none of them have ever tried to get with me. Men can just be friends. It is possible.
Scally59 Report
When a guy buys a big truck, sports car, motorcycle, nice boat, or anything else that he’s been dreaming about and planning for since he was a child, it’s really about his penis and/or a midlife crisis.
AssholeIRL Report
That men have to be brave and strong all the time. I love being the little spoon in bed with my SO. Nothing makes me feel safer and calmer than having her wrap her arms around me and cuddle in.
PharmaGuy87 Report
That we’re all messy, disorganized, don’t clean or do chores well.
LordMandrews Report
All men that play video games are violent and/or anti social.
Indignation6 Report
LeanMeanWeenMachine Report
All men are perverted scum bags that only want sex
Woahhdude24 Report
I’ll never understand the very common belief that men can’t or refuse to care for children.
luckyhunterdude Report
The idea that being born a man is like playing a video game on ’easy mode’. Let’s just look at the U.S boys fare worse in education. Boys are less likely to graduate high school, and less likely to attend college. Boys earn lower grades in all subjects at all ages. Discrimination in grading is at play; studies show boys get lower grades for the same work. This was a study from MIT that broke it down and found very clear evidence of direct grading bias. men consistently have a higher unemployment rate men are more likely to be homeless men are more likely to be incarcerated men are punished more harshly in court for the same crime men die younger, but have proportionately less healthcare funding. These things are unlikely to be true for a ‘privileged’ social class, and certainly doesn’t make things easier.
BlueOrange22 Report
Not a man, but I’ve seen too many people say something along the lines of “men can’t get raped” or “it’s not as bad for them as it is for a woman”.
annamed Report
We are less mature then women, no exceptions
cheesecraft789 Report
This whole “be a man” schtick that leads guys to internalize their problems and marinate in their own issues and neglect their mental health drives me nuts. It took me a long time to find female friends just so id feel comfortable talking about my depression and get advice on how to get the help I need. If i did not, I would without a doubt be dead right now. I stamp this thinking out wherever I can find it. It was almost the death of me.
Simbaata Report
Me having big feet only means that I wear big shoes. And seriously, what makes girls think they can just come up to you and ask about it?
kangarooninjadonuts Report
I’m not sure if this applies, but any statement saying something like “all men are…” or “men are so…” as if men are the only ones with those personality traits. People get roped into stereotypes so quickly and it’s annoying.
Jamal_Solo Report
That we are rapists by default, and therefore being a good person is the part that takes effort.
Arvaci Report
“The only reason men exist is to meet the needs of my family.” In the span of 8 months I moved my family to their reservation, Bought a car and truck, restored a trailer, rebuilt the motor to my truck, bought my son a motorcycle, plus met every want my wife and son had. All while working six days a week. After seven months I snapped, my wife said “I had no idea that you felt this tired”. In that time I took one weekend off then some prick burned my house down. I going on a full year of not taking personal time because of the rebuild. At one point I was skipping showering for a week at a time because I would just drop without warning. Men have limits too. A family should take care of each other not a single person taking care of the family.
Reddit-C137 Report
Truthfully, guys don’t always want sex. There were times with my ex when she wanted sex and was confused or upset that I didn’t want it at that point. Sometimes cuddles are enough.
DM-ME-UR-BOOBS-GIRL Report
Not sure if it counts as a ‘myth’ but most TV portrayals; the guy’s a dumbass and depends on his wife for literally everything. It’s annoying and played out. I don’t know anyone close to my age that lives like that.
dfreinc Report
that men enjoy being raped. Wtf is wrong with people who think that?
MarcusofMenace Report
Just because I have a dick and you have a vagina doesnt mean I’m trying to get in your pants. I want friends just like anyone else. But when I try to talk to people like my guy friends they assume I’m trying to date them. No. I just like asking my friends how they were because I hate people who only talk to you when they want something. So I talk to everyone as a show of you are my friend, not the services you offer.
Vynstaros Report
That men are all sex-crazed maniacs deep down. Sometimes I don’t want to have sex. Not in the mood sometimes and I can’t just “turn it on” at will.
TriscuitCracker Report
I probably don’t want to f**k you. It’s usually a big decision with like some anxiety figuring out if I actually want to sleep with you even if I’m already interested. Although promoting ourselves as captain horndog makes us look cool to other guys so a lot of dudes do that, or they’re desperate.
FrankyStankbone Report
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