Things that are perceived as MANLY!!

[BluesDave]

Sheds. Sheds are manly because every man should have a shed. A man's shed is no place for a woman to go. Tools, chemicals and spiderwebs are in there.

 

[growingvegetables]

Never understood the football one, watching 22 over payed ******* in shorts running around a field, that can't be manly.

Especially when the English women's football team have won two World Cups, to the men's one

 

[Fab Foodie]

Poking a bonfire with a stick.
Sheds
Sawing wood.

 

[Black Sheep]

my wife and I went on holiday with another young couple

while out one day on a walk we found some rope, some logs and made a shelter, the girls happy to let me and the other bloke get on with building it.

felt quite manly building something for us all to sit in to have lunch

I'm sure the girls could have built something, but they chose to let us do it, and for that I'm grateful.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

- not washing. Come on, you stink. Thats not social, let alone manly.

Taking a shower in cool water and washing for the minimum amount of time possible. I'm sorry, but I like a HOT shower, and I want to actually enjoy it, thankyou very much.

- having sex. Not manly. Its lucky. Lets face it, you're no catch.

The amount of straight guys who suddenly feel all threatened when they learn that someone near to them is gay, and suddenly think that the gay person will automatically fancy them, before taking anything the gay person does as a perceived 'come on', regardless of what it is.

I'm sorry, but don't flatter yourself you greasy, ugly little runt

...cant stand them. Been bitten a couple of times too (no superpowers as yet).

You really have to be p*ssing off a house spider quite a lot before it will bite you!

I'm not into this whole gender binary way of looking at people.

Unfortunately, every generation seems to be taught the same stereotypes, so the world is just filled with sexist crap such as that

'Woman can't drive'

and

'Only Men can do DIY'.


You hear it time after time after time and is crap, utter, utter crap!!

And football - will ruffle a few feathers...Don't see the point.

Much prefer Rugby league myself - lots of fit guys running about in skimpy little shorts, bending over and generally groping each other. GREAT!!

 

[cookiemonster]

In this part of the world it's considered manly to go hunting. And get horribly drunk. And boast of your achievements. Dressed in hunting clothes or checked shirts and wear a baseball cap. Smoking or taking snus (a nicotine powder, or in a small bag) kept under the top lip for a nicotine kick.

Bollox.

Oh, and they all have to have big 4x4 trucks.

Bollox x 2.

Rant over

Similar to Finland when I was there. It seems that they are compensating for something.

 

[asterix]

- putting out the trash

 

[mac1]

My experience is that men who jealously guard their masculinity through what they'll drive, what they'll wear/colours, what pastime/sport in which they'll partake etc are utter wimps when it comes to real strength/endurance activities in which men will pretty much always beat women (he's beaten Andy Bolton's record - wow )



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Oh yeah...

 

[mac1]

The inverse of course is 'womanly'. Wearing pink and flowery stuff, childrearing*, and, alas, revelling in vapidity (*giggle* oh, I don't understand science and engines, I'm a girl).

Which I for one find just as irritating: last year had some free tickets (normally £35) to Farnborough Air Show - family day out for thousands of people: the women invited weren't interested as it wasn't "girly"

 

[XmisterIS]

I am a man and ...

I have a diary that has flowers on it,

I run round flapping and screaming at the sight of spiders,

When I go to the gym, I lift weights in silence, rather than strutting around, grunting and slapping my pectoral muscles,

I hate football and know nothing about it, not do I wish to know anything about it,

I have a particular hatred of golf and know ever less about that than I do about football,

I like going to art galleries and I really do have a gay friend called Julian.

... and yet I am perfectly confident in my masculinity and heterosexuality ... go figure!

 

[Simba]

Much prefer Rugby league myself - lots of fit guys running about in skimpy little shorts, bending over and generally groping each other. GREAT!!

Ah touché, whats your poison?

Saints here, we beat the pies good and proper yesterday.

 

[twobiker]

It seems popular to tell people to MTFU, but there is no WTFU, so obviously manning up is purely the domain of men. is that sexist.

 

[ttcycle]

It seems popular to tell people to MTFU, but there is no WTFU, so obviously manning up is purely the domain of men. is that sexist.

Yes, potentially as its assuming that to be a man that you need to be tough or tougher.
Not particularly helpful if you aren't that kind of person if you're male. Sexism works in both directions.

As for strength and endurance, you may well find mac1 that some women competitors out perform men in long, long distance events. However, I look at individuals and their ability as by lumping everyone into a can/can't based on their sex is limiting.

 

[Globalti]

Cutting down trees with a chainsaw is pretty much the most manly thing I do; a chainsaw is the noisiest garden tool, it's really dangerous so you can order people around and strike macho postures and cutting trees down is pretty destructive too.

Cycling up a hill standing on the pedals is manly because you can only make it look easy if you're pretty fit.


But for me the most manly thing in a more benign way is to sit quietly enjoying a pint of really good beer and yarning with a couple of friends. It has to be in the pub though, it's not the same at home.

 

[ianrauk]

Poking a bonfire with a stick.
Sheds
Sawing wood.

In the 5 years we have been living in our current house, Mrs Ian has never been inside the 2 sheds we have and refuses to.. "far too dusty and gawd know how many spiders"


Oh yes and that reminds me.... going into the loft.. she has never been up there either.. so that is a Manly thing.