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Following the conventional norms of manhood can bring social and professional rewards to some boys and men. But it's not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing.

So when people are telling everyone that real men don't express emotion openly, that they have to be "tough all the time", that anything other than that makes them "feminine" or weak, there's a problem. They're putting others in a box. Scratch that. They're putting half of this world's population in a box.

Showing just how often that happens online, the Twitter account Hot Masculinity Takes accepts submissions from folks who find the absolute worst opinions about men on the Internet and reshares them on its wall. Sadly, judging by the number of entries, there's no shortage of these instances.

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Mangrovee
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5 years ago

What the hell? If you want to be safe and not get arrested you are not a “man”?

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    Natalie Kudryashova
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    5 years ago

    Yep, he got her pregnant by being gay. That’s how being gay works

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    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Someone should tell him that car light are LED too.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    5 years ago (edited)

    Yet anyone can knock someone else out but not everyone can cook good food.

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    Adam C
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    5 years ago

    dumb dumb think push ups put food on the table.

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    N G
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Wha.....? This is even more stupid than the height obsession

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    A man who wants to have a lunch box. Who knew.

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    Gareth Graham
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Thats a lot of words for 'ive never satisfied a woman"

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    Roadkill The Brave
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Wait staff in the U.S. make less than minimum wage. Plus I'd love to see these people actually wait tables. Seriously. Lets see how long they last when they have to deal with other people like themselves and everything else wait staff has to deal with.

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    Hans
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    5 years ago

    Yes, real men only eat unhealthy food and die young!

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    Roadkill The Brave
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Oh dear sky daddy someones been reading too much paranormal romance novels.

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    Lauren Caswell
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    5 years ago

    Yeah, who wants a partner with self control, right?

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    Natalie Kudryashova
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    5 years ago

    Who said female can’t be dangerous

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    Nela Rothenbach
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I would think that a man who does not want to make me sick cares about me. Even if it's just as a human being who deserves their health protected.

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    GoodWolf
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Whoaw!

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    H Edwards
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    W H A T

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    SANNE
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Modern men beg for women's appreciation..and ancient men didn't? MUHAHAHA The Greek 'ancient man' Paris chose Aprodite as the winner of this beauty pageant because she promised him that if he did so, Helen of Troy (the most beautiful girl in the world) would love him. This started a 10 year war..10 YEARS!!!!

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    Joost van Leeuwen
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I think men with illegible handwriting have far more explaining to do...

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    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    News for you: gay men are, by definition, men.

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    Natalie Kudryashova
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Only women are born

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    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    A man drinking brewed coffee?? *Angry screeching noises*

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    N G
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    No, I kinda like this one. Sawdust gets abso-fricken-lutely everywhere, just like glitter. It's just as irritating. Statistically speaking, more men are going to generate sawdust than women. That's the trouble with absolutes though - men will use glitter (if they are an artist, for example, or a chef and it's the edible kind) and women will do woodworking and create sawdust. But lumping stereotypes together makes for a short, pithy joke.

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    Kristof De Smet
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Would be funny to pop up to a construction site wearing business attire.

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    Hans
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    5 years ago

    Real man rather feel miserable than warm!

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    Dave In MD
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    5 years ago

    Guess the overabundance of testosterone keeps them from typing. Or is that gay too?

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    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I hope this one gets eaten by his profile pic. Lion snack

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    Roadkill The Brave
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    5 years ago (edited)

    Ok depends on *how* frugal. Regular to moderate Frugal I can get behind, sure we'll probably need to triple coupon but saved money is security. Excessive frugalness to to the point of where you're issued 4 squares of TP a day, that's just insane and kind of scary. None of it's gay unless they're talking about how happy the Frugal man is to buy his car or house in cash.

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    N G
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I think I had a stroke reading that.

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    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Are you an endocrinologist? If not you better shut up.

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    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Eating t-bone steaks will help, right?

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    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Wow this level of sexism is legit Disney-villain-evil

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    René Kok
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Okay, i will start : Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson endorses Joe Biden

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    the annoying theatre kid
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    5 years ago

    damn brush YOU got pronouns turn in YOUR man card now. you f*****g idiot

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    Lilith the Demon Panda
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    5 years ago

    so she grew up with abusive dictator instead father, now she will seek exactly such man for herself and raise another generation of these... great

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    Nela Rothenbach
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Ewwww🤮

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    Natalie Kudryashova
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    5 years ago

    That’s not what gay is

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    Matt Du
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    5 years ago

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    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    A man that can aim? UNACCEPTABLE!! :P

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    Kristof De Smet
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What do you mean? He can't pay for the picture?

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    Hans
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    5 years ago

    I am sorry, I can't take a male, who's incabable of basic thinking, seriously. Grow up, idiot.

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    Ozacoter
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    To summarise: He only sees women as walking vaginas and not humans being. So he is uncapable of valuating them in a non sexual way.

    Maryam Siddiqui
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    not really its saying that if you have a friendship with the opposite gender there is a very large chance that you will end up developing feelings for each other, im rlly sure what the last part is saying lol.

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    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The stereotype of a guy having a second brain, which is in charge, located near the testicles, might have some truth to it.

    Michał Jastrzębski
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    and thats exactly why self-control and stoicism is the part of real masculinity.

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    Amy Pattie
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    5 years ago

    Damn his poor mother and sisters...

    Nevits Yibble
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Abrahamic religion. The gift that keeps on giving

    Kno
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    In a nutshell, I'm a perv and like to boast about it.

    Kraken
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    FYI in Islam the only women-friend you're supposed to have is your wife, so don't make fun :/

    Kraken
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    FYI in Islam the only woman-friend you're supposed to have is your wife, so don't make fun :/

    Shoddy
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What's b?

    Bill
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    This is the internal thoughts of a rapist

    Iggy
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What is the next option? Don't leave us hanging!

    Sally Prosser
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What even...?

    More!
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    So my best friend from 15 to 21, he was likely an alien?! Should I tell his wife and kids?

    Emerald
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Gonna go hang out with my guy friends who descended from another planet now

    Kelzbelz79
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    5 years ago

    You should also visit a doctor, a sick doctor....not that there's anything wrong with your sick.....you just are a massive sick!!.

    Dan Buczynski
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I'm a satanist from space then I guess

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    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I hope this is a joke

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    Kno
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Did he have it, though? I still think it was just for media.

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    Kristof De Smet
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    5 years ago

    the eighties called... they want their shorts back.

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    Vic 404
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    5 years ago

    Makes me wonder : is checking your spelling gay or feminin too ???

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    M O'Connell
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    5 years ago

    I don't talk about politics because I'm surrounded by redneck morons who probably all have guns. It's not worth it.

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    Ryan-James O'Driscoll
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    5 years ago

    I'm fairly sure she's thinking about Klingons

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    M O'Connell
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    5 years ago

    So this is technically true, though low testosterone level is merely a symptom of the actual problem, and not a problem unto itself. The "decline in average testosterone levels" is at least partially attributable to the meteoric rise in overall incidence of sedentary lifestyles, obesity, diabetes, depression, and medication use.

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