Today’s Reddit question was posted in AskReddit – where a man asked the men of Reddit about the most ridiculous reasons why someone questioned their masculinity. Here are 13 of the best answers.
1. Middle-Eye2129 was just trying to read a book:
“I was reading a book on my lunch break while I was working construction, and got a bunch of shit about reading being for women. Which is easily one of the top 15 of the stupidest things I’ve heard said out loud”
2. masonsweats wore gloves:
“For wearing gloves while welding”
3. SparkAxolotl was just protecting himself from the cold weather:
“Being dressed for cold weather. Apparently wearing a men’s jacket is not manly”
4. Everyday_Im_Stedelen used pink paperclips:
“At work I gave a guy a report and it had a pink paperclip on it.”
“He asked me why I gave him a pink paperclip. I told him I just grabbed one. He then asked why I had a pink paperclip – I told him I had a rainbow pack.”
“Then he wanted to know why, when I saw it was pink, I didn’t throw it away. He told me I shouldn’t use pink paperclips ‘people might have questions.'”
“So anyway I spread that story to basically everyone at work and then everyone wanted some of my pink paperclips to use when they gave him stuff.”
5. PearSB wasn’t using the right deodorant:
“Somebody once told me I wasn’t applying deodorant manly enough”
6. Pepperfig_clover‘s husband was just getting some raspberries:
“My husband bought some of our homegrown raspberries into work to share and a guy he works with said they were ‘girl food’. It must be so exhausting to have to gender your food.”
7. tommykiddo said:
“My eyelashes were too long”
8. Jumafallout wanted a nice smelling bathroom:
“My dad, after I sprayed deodorant after he used the bathroom. Good times.”
9. D-Rez likes soup:
“Said online that I like soup, it’s one of my favourite things in life. Then some guy replied, assuming I must have been brought up on soup, which in turn meant I didn’t eat much ‘hard’ foods growing up and probably given me an unmasculine jaw.”
10. badmamathree‘s shared what someone said to her in front of her husband:
When I was pregnant, with a girl, someone said to me, in front of my husband, ‘a real man would’ve given you a boy.’
11. soyeahithrowaway‘s husband could sing:
“My aunt questioned if my husband was actually straight because he can sing well.”
12. BrickFlock was told off by a fellow forklift driver:
“I was taking a break from driving a forklift and a woman asked if she could drive it (she was qualified to drive it so this wasn’t just a random question from a random person.) I agreed and this one guy got so offended that I let a woman take over driving the forklift from me. This was back when ‘mancard’ was a thing so he of course said I needed to turn in my mancard for that.”
“Unsurprisingly, it turns out this guy got offended at all kinds of things all the time though. If he thought someone wasn’t doing something the “right” way, he would rant and whine about it.”
13. junait commented about scented candles:
“I like scented candles but because they smell good.”
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