This one hits close to home because I'd always end up walking from school near this cute mousy latina girl and no matter how many detours I took we would always be walking the same route at the end of it. At least I got to ramble.
Where you guys live? You can't even be alone with a women without being afraid? Maybe I too stupid or autistic but I never had any of theses fears. Of course some of theses things are common sense but the rest, I don't get it.
Your husband is a pussy
I'm confused by this whole thing. So your brother's ex fucked some other dude, left him, and this would get your brother in trouble how?
She accused him of rape
It is insane hour of the night and I am trying to wake my ass up for work. Thanks, I am retarded.
If a woman is behind the counter at the store, does he just look down? Please tell me I wanna know, I've never heard this in my life before unless they're autistic.
the more westernized your country, the bigger your city, and the younger your peer group, the more real these concerns become.
He smiles and greets female workers, makes small talk, etc. Same with fast-food workers. He will also look co workers in the eyes and stuff just fine, it's specifically strangers in an environment that it cluld be taken as weird or creepy.
You can get weird looks and death glares if you smile at Russians, no matter the sex. I think it is funny.
The reason it can come across so alien to us is because its a self imposed standard. Its like watching someone hammer nails through their feet then try to walk around while they point at you and screech, "I'm doing this for YOU!!!!."
I think the most valuable thing to come out of the femoid thread was the admission that most of what they do is intrasexual posturing rather than intersexual signaling. They say they're doing it for you, but they're really doing it because they don't want to suffer the judgement of other women, which... I can kind of understand, like if your wife thinks you'd look better in a polo shirt but you know that being seen in a polo shirt will signal to other men that you'd tongue ass for a raise. I think a lot of grief would be avoided if more women were willing to admit that to their partners and themselves.
Depends on how you wear it and who’s wearing it. If it’s like a nice black one like Brock wears in venture bros then yes I’d agree.
That's my point though, they're an example of something in the male world that isn't intrinsically gay but carries an undesirable social connotation.
It's not a homo thing, in the blue collar world it signifies the divide between the people with real jobs who do real work versus salesmen, managers and other professional talkers. If you see someone in a machine shop or similar wearing a polo shirt, you can usually assume they don't know how to perform the tasks that are actually generating the revenue, and they're instead occupying some vestigial niche, and they know it, and the literal and figurative insecurity of their position usually compels them to brown nose their way up the corporate ladder.
You've got some weird hangups about shirts.
This all is true sometimes, but applies to varying degrees irl. The big issue I see is that innocent guys might act anxious in those scenarios, which draws suspicion to them (like if a guy said "I'm not here to look at the children, I'm just on my daily commute" it would be immediately concerning) even if they're fine guys.
Around here, wearing polo shirts is preppy, like golfing, being a member of the rowing team, being a member of the country club, or playing raquetball instead of tennis. Plus, having a bit of chest hair poking out is the guy equivalent of cleavage. Some ladies like it, but some ladies also like men with a bulge in their yoga pants. If I saw a guy like that I'd think he was a bit pervy.
I'm just trying to give a male corollary to women doing dumb shit to appease other women, it's the only example I could think of that wasn't just fear of looking gay or effeminate, because that itself is gay and effeminate.