27 Times Men Embarrassed Themselves By Saying Something Cringey, As Shared By Women In This Online Community
The prime time for memories of embarrassing things you said or did to come is when your brain is shutting down and you are trying to fall asleep. At this point, not only can you not sleep, but you contemplate if it’s worth talking to people anymore and you try to calm yourself down by telling yourself that nobody even remembers what you said or did and it’s only a big deal for you.
In most cases, others really don’t care if you messed up or have been a bit awkward, but there are times when they really can’t forget. At least these women on Reddit can’t forget how men told them something embarrassing or even inappropriate.
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My manager looked at me and said with all of my male coworkers in the room, "I hope I can try you out in bed. You must be a freak."
I reported him and he was terminated.
Oh wow what a creep! I'm glad he was terminated.
This is the perfect scenario of 'Your mouth writing cheques that your a*s can't cash'. Now his sorry fired behind literally paid the price for the sins of his mouth.
He's sorry she "got him" fired. People like that are too dumb to see the truth
Load More Replies...What a piece of sh*t! I hope he never manages to get into a position of authority again.
That shitpile fucktard should never be allowed near innocent people or even animals ever again! shouldn't be allowed on any social site, either!
Load More Replies..."I hope I can try you out for nut-kicking target practice." Equally appropriate but one would deserve it.
Having him terminated might have been appropriate, but a little severe. Maybe they just should have fired him.
You had me going, with the first sentence, ngl. 😂
Load More Replies...An unstoppable android came back from the future and did him in? COOL!
It's kind of shocking that in this day and age someone thinks they'll get away with saying something like that.
Yet so many still get away with a vast number of things.
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My brother and I was in a car accident. The other drivers fault. It's kinda easy to see that my brother and I are siblings we keep out of eachothers space. Like we sit on opposite sides of a row of seats. They sued the insurance company and we had to go testify in court. The guy said loudly infront of the judge and lawyers that ofcourse I'd lie for my boyfriend I f**k him. The guys lawyer told him in not so quiet voice that we are siblings. He turned beet red and lost the case since the evidence clearly showed he was at fault. I had to wait till we left the court to laugh my a*s off.
Omg it is so hard in a court room to keep a straight face....that's something I've had to deal with before!
i would've had to cover my mouth shut to not laugh right then and there
I worked at dollar general for a short time after high school. I am biracial (black & white) and a white man I was ringing up winks at me and says “You know, I really like colored girls” and the guy behind him just said “DUDE?”
I'm flad that another person at least went "dude?" - I think the only way some people will act appropriately if the rest of society call out their bad behavior.
Um, what about uttering the phrase, ‘coloured?’ Stinks of xenophobia, sexism at its nauseating finest and racism. Pathetic too that he is such a pathetic, disgusting and desperate human being that he thinks it’s ok. to sexually harass and demean women. Absolutely people who are rude do need to be called out! Had an exchange several months ago in a grocery store. A Caribbean cashier I really like was being reamed out by an Asian Karen when I approached her lane. The customer was saying,’ you hardly speak any English, you are stupid.’ She was batshit because the sale was 2 for xx and she wanted only item for 1/2 price. I spoke up saying something like, ‘ she isn’t allowed to change it.’ The woman then says, ‘she’s stupid,’ gesturing at the cashier. I said she’s smarter than you and she speaks better English than you!!! The sh*r that people dish out and the sh*t that’s people have to put up with is unreal! I feel very sorry for those who are on the reviving end.
I can imagine he thought he was paying her a compliment and that there was nothing wrong with his words and actions. The guy calling him out did the right thing
This sound really tame. Slightly inappropriate due to moment, but not really disrespectful. I mean in comparison to "I bet you're a freak in the sheet" and "I hope I can try you out in the bed."
Dude I was talking to asked if I was looking to have kids. I said "not anytime soon" (I was 20!!) Proceeds to tell me my breasts would look great swollen with milk :)
"Well you know what? Now I do wanna have kids! What's your phone number?" Said no woman ever.
I can't imagine that working on a decent person.
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The guy who took my virginity told me that I was “scientifically altered” because he was my first and that my mind “had been rewired to be attached to him” and that’s why he wanted to break up.
I said , “sure thing”
Oh my god this is like those people who believe women can't get pregnant if they're raped because the body will magically stop it from happening since it isn't **true love**. And your dna changes with each person you have sex with which is why women who sleep around are whores but men are not. Ugh these people should be rounded up and shot into the sun.
First, HAHAHA, what a moron. Second, he didn’t take your virginity, he was just your first, and you ended your virginity with him.
I think 'ending your virginity with someone' is a FANTASTIC way to say it. I'm always going to say it like that from now on. I've always said 'losing your viriginity' is nonsense, you're not losing anything, you're gaining a new experience. But it is a significant moment in most people's lives, so it's good to have a phrase for it. 'Ending your virginity' is the best one I've heard so far. And I also like that it's not 'he ended it', but 'you ended it with him', because it's a thing you do together (if it's consensual obviously), so your phrase is so much better.
Load More Replies...Eeewwww! No One, not even a naive teenager, would sleep w/ BK on purpose. Hence, his propensity for date rape. We need more "Saint Lorenas", definitely.
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"Damn girl, are you as young as you look? Cuz I've got a white van just around the corner"
When I was 13 my friends and I were just walking down the street when a group of 16 year old boys across the street shouted to us that we looked old enough to take behind the bushes, we took off running and they followed us for a bit. It was terrifying!
Should have let out a Xena warrior cry and rushed them
Load More Replies...So either a pervert or a pedo either way that’s a f****d up thing to say to a young lady
This is so gross! Predatory, paedophilic overall disgusting! This man should be prosecuted.
“… but you’re not real asian-asian” a white dude explaining to me my being Indian isn’t asian
I'm going out on a limb and saying he's from the US. My fellow countrymen don't know or grasp geography very well so don't realize or grasp the fact that there are many countries in Asia
Load More Replies...This might not actually be as insidious as it seems. It happened to my Indian friend when she visited the US as well. Basically, in the US and most of Europe an Asian person is someone from China/Japan/Thailand, etc. while an Indian person would be described as Indian.
This may happen without the intention to be rude, but the fact that people will argue with someone about their personal experience/identity (something they would obviously know more about than anyone else) is still a problem.
Load More Replies...I can see the confusion. I mean, how often do you refer to Israelites or Russians as Asians?
I'm definitely referring to Russians as Asians from now on.
Load More Replies...He may have been talking anthropology, possibly dated anthropology. (It's not my field.) People from places like India or Iran have traditionally been classified as belonging to the Indo-Aryan race, sometimes known as the Caucasian race. People with roots native to China or Japan were considered to belong to the Oriental race. (Sorry, I forget the technical term.) That may have been, consciously or unconsciously, the distinction he was trying to make. (Why he was making the distinction at all is different question.)
oh, I get this wonderful remark all the time ~ I'm Albino but Japanese, so I get the "you cant be so white and be Japanese/Asian!" or "Asains have BLACK HAIR"
It makes no sense to me at all but I've seen too often "asain" just meaning Japanese, Chinese, Philippines, Lao and those countries with complete ignorance to the rest of Asia
I saw an interview with the British actor Riz Ahmed where he talked about how in the US people simply couldn't grasp him describing his ethnicity as Asian, they presumed he was Latino.
I'll admit, I was in the wrong for years about this too. I thought India and surrounding regions were part of Middle East in their own right, but Middle East is a geopolitical grouping and not a landmass. Asia was China, Japan, Taiwan, Philipine, North and South Korea. Actually, even Russia is Asian. Basically, I mixed geopolitical spheres and continents.
“I only like vulnerable girls. I want a girl who is reliant on me and will just cry on my shoulder.” That freaked me out, especially since I had mental health issues when we first started dating. Guess the mental state of his next girlfriend
He even transplanted the Hitler mustache (moustache?) onto his chin
Load More Replies...Worked with a young guy once who wanted a girlfriend straight out of a mental hospital so she would be dependent on him. He was also stalking another co-worker.
Tell me you're insecure in your masculinity without telling me you're insecure in your masculinity.
I hate guys that want a willing slave. It’s just messed up and especially after growing up with my mum be treated as an equal and respected by my dad so anything else is strange to me
My x was like this. He liked his girls damaged. On one of our early dates he grabbed my arm and asked where the scars were....they were on the other arm
Sure, a worthless person always see self-reliant people as a threat.
It was Juneteenth and this man looks me up and down and says "I'd buy you if you were a slave, you look...strong..."
Ok now I've said this to a friend as a joke because of the context of our conversation. We were working at a restaurant and he complained about feeling like a slave there and jokingly called me masta since I'm pale skinned and I went from there. We had a lot of good fun but always made sure our comments to each other weren't in earshot of people. I miss him. But other than that, totally inappropriate to say to someone
Half of these things I'm just like, "Nah! You can't be saying that, bro!"
is he insulting himself by saying that he's weak and needs help to carry stuff for him?
I was at church with my Dad and one of the old men came up. He pointed at me then looked at my Dad and said "I see you've brought your concubine with you."
This was after he had smacked my butt with a rolled up newspaper
I never went back there again
Can't help but laugh at what would of happened if somebody did that to one of my sisters. I can imagine my mom dragging my dad off the guy, finding out what he did and then beating him seven generations stupid. Mama Bear don't mess around. edit for auto-uncorrect.
This should be on this list twice: once for the creep and once for the dad who let it go unchallenged.
Or at least DID something....like shove that rolled up newspaper where the sun don't shine
Load More Replies...Churches like this makes this Christian happy there are such things as online sermons now smh...
In response I hope her dad hit him with something heftier than a newspaper.
a woman who lives and has sex with a man, and has lower status than his wife or wives.
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I was 19, married, pregnant with my second son, and working waiting tables and a guy that was sometimes a customer and sometimes a coworker told me I was obviously legal enough to not get him in trouble and looked young enough to please the “lover of young girls in him”…. Like what the actual f**k…
No, predator announcement! An alert only warns of a possibility. This guy removed all doubt from the get-go.
Load More Replies...Never ever be alone with that guy again I suggest getting a taser to defend you from him as it’s just a short journey from words to actions
"God. I hate being around all these betas." We were at the gym. He was also 29 and i was 18. That whole 6 months was an embarrassment.
If you have to tell people you are an alpha then.... you are not an alpha.
Also there's no such thing as an alpha, and the whole alpha/beta thing is based on one flawed study that the author subsequently retracted.
Load More Replies..."God, I hate being around those betas!" - an Unlikable Aquarium Visitor
If you believe in the alpha/beta thing I immediately think you're a roid-rager who has never had sex with a woman longer than 2 minutes. And it was a really bad 2 minutes.
Since never. It's a commonly-held belief amongst chumps.
Load More Replies..."I understand why you feel that way. But with enough hard work and determination, you can work your way up to that level. You got this!!!"
BeTaS oh wow what a big strong man he's makin my undies wet! /s
"YOU'RE JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER GIRLS... YOU TAKE MY PANCAKES AND LEAVE!!!!"
This was after he fought me for the bill despite the fact that I insisted on paying for myself and then I declined an offer for a second date.
He also said that he was so glad I wore a dress to the date because he thought that women who wear pants and don't have soft skin are overbearing feminists and he could not date someone like that. ANYWAY... I think you might see why I ended that fast.
What a raging edgelord. How did he manage to get a date in the first place?
"You take my pancakes and leave"??? Hahahahahahah----I would have laughed him right outta there in that line alone.
“You look like a clown with all that makeup on” ~my (now ex) husband on our wedding day
Well at least I can wash the clown makeup off. You'll always be an @#$%^*&×.
At my wedding, I looked like a painted porcelain doll, so different from my normal sans makeup approach (I should have declined to use my MIL suggested person, MIL puts her makeup on with a trowel) My husband merely said I looked good but I was prettier without makeup. No insults about my makeup on my wedding day, just a compliment about my everyday look.
I love a guy dressed in a tuxedo with a bowtie and maybe a cummerbund and or suspenders (I'm assuming) telling someone they look silly. If you think about it, the entirety of wedding wardrobes are silly. How are you telling your soon to be wife something like this? I'm guessing he's controlling.
"face look like she head butted a box of crayons" ohhh great line... Saying this to your Fn wife... Big mistake
wedding industry and what women are led to believe important on her wedding day is really gross to me. I think it's a huge con.
After a date he asked “could I use your card and pretend it’s mine… I left mine at home and don’t want to look like a loser” I laughed because I thought it was some kind of weird joke but nope. He was 100% serious. We did not have a second date
Who leaves their wallets at home when going out on a date with someone I’m glad you didn’t give him a second chance to be an a*****e
I did that. I offered to, because a waiter in a Greek restaurant said something about it, that I paid. Should have listened to the waiter.
Wouldn't you be more concerned about not looking like a loser to your date??
What's wrong with your face?
I was working at the time as a customer service representative, so I couldn't respond without repercussions. He was referring to my freckles. Apparently he'd never seen a ginger before.
Should have replied: "What's wrong with *your* face - it appears to be a giant a*s hole".
A lot of people have freckles and aren't ginger ::raises hand::. I've got them everywhere. How have you never seen freckles before and even if you haven't why would you ask it in that way?
And I'm ginger with no freckles! Maybe we got mixed up haha
Load More Replies...That is cute if we're talking about a 4 year old who has never seen freckles, but in no culture and in no social situation is it appropriate for an adult to say this to another adult.
1. They are alien markers from the planet Mzxjfkdss9925. 2..What''s wrong with your eyesight? 3.Have you looked in a mirror lately?
my mothe had huge red rashes from rosacea and she would have people asking what was on her face, or worse, to keep away cause they didn't want it, even tho its not catch able and genetic {brother had it and caused huge sores on his arms like bullet holes so he cant sho w them} she would yell at them for it
Resting b*tch face activate! Sometimes saying nothing is better.
My husband's first words to me were, 'I like toast'. Things did get better after that.
It's a good ice breaker. I'd feel more relaxed if I was nervous since it's silly and can lead to an easy conversation
I'm sorry, but this photograph is frightening me. Who eats toast with ketchup, sliced onions, and (squints) cucumber?
Some little kid walked up to my sister and said "I like sandwiches" then ran off, it's been almost 20 years, I wasn't even with her at the time and yet I still randomly say this to her.
“well if you’re going to move at least let me get you pregnant so you have a child to remember me with”
An no we were not dating and I wasn’t interested in him.
"Don't worry, my dear. I'll remember you every time I see my cat vomit, every time I hear a donkey bray and every time my indigestion makes my wish the ventilation in my bathroom was better."
Wow, that was the most hardcore burn I've read in years. I think I'm now slightly terrified of you.
Load More Replies...What? Lol. Can't you just go pee on something to mark your territory? If you're going to act like a dog I'll give you a chew toy and you can go pee on one of my old shirts or something that way you feel like the sad animal you are so desperate to be.
Let me saddle you with a financially draining, lifelong commitment so you never forget me!
Let's take a trip to the local PD as our first date so you'll always remember where we had our first and last date. I'll drive...
I brought a guy out with my friends once and we were talking about nicknames family/friends gave us and he goes “my friends call me silver back gorilla because they recognize my alpha vibe”. Obviously a damn lie
Gorilla's famously not very well endowed in a certain department, even though Gorilla's are larger than human's the manhood "gorillahood?) is smaller. Also the pic shows an Orang Utan, not a Gorilla..
Sing it with me now... They call me the Space Chow Boy... Some call me a Sorry-*** pud.
A white man once said to me, a black woman, he could be the marshmallows to my hot chocolate. Cute but I had second hand embarrassment
Cute...and sounds like he was suggesting he is sweet. But it depends how he might describe his perfect hot chocolate - if is he says it's got to be rich, walk.
When he was like 8, my friends brother was referred to as the marshmallow in a cup of hot chocolate by his friends in reference to their group of friends
“Your arms are huge” I will never forget it, and am still trying to stop being insecure to show my arms in public.
I’m insecure abt my arms too, they are very hairy for a teen female, and a guy came up to me some time ago and said “dang, for a girl you have very hairy arms! You look like a bear!!” And proceeded to make growling noises and bear noises. He was really childish if you couldn’t tell, he also proceeded to point it out to everybody in the same classes as us for the rest of the week….
Don't allow this idiot to get to you. Hairy arms were stigmatised thanks to stupid ideas of evolutionary superiority and beauty. If you shave etc your forearms/arms or leave them au natural, to make sure it is your choice, something YOU will feel good about.
Load More Replies...I had a different thing said to me in my 20s by a much older, married, man. If I could go back I’d tell myself, he’s a loser who doesn’t deserve to be thought of ever again, let alone every time you look at your feet. Whoever said that doesn’t deserve to live in your head
i have the opposite problem, my arms are too thin and you can see the muscles when they pop out, won't even bother counting how many times iv'e been asked if i'm taking steroids or testosterone.
In all fairness anything looks big when compared to spaghetti.
I shaved my arms in grade school because they were so hairy. I HATED that and was made fun of. A few years later, they no longer seemed that hairy so I guess I grew into it. Lol
I hate my arms also, I gained weight in them, I am still trying to work on loving myself and if I ever put my trust into someone to meet them and they said this id be embarrassed.
That he refused to do skincare or even wash his face because it was "girly".
You can’t wash your privates, because touching them makes you gay. A can of Axe Body Spray a day should do the trick.
Load More Replies...These sound like the same type of men who don't wash their butts or wipe after using the toilet because anything going near the butt is considered "gay". (That was an actual study that was done about straight men)
That explains the state of my ex’s underwear. I worked in a path lab at the time and still found his undercrackers a bigger biohazard.
Load More Replies...So is that a necessity? I mean other than washing your face. Like I don't really know what skincare means other than washing
Cleaning, moisturizing, whatever you want. These days there are products for men too. But each to their own. At least basic hygiene will do.
Load More Replies...ah yes, having dry, red, bumpy, gross skin is sooooooOoOOOooo manly
Is tall, blonde, and has a beard. He keeps mentioning how he looks like a Viking whenever he comes into our work. Bro no one gives a f**k
I've knew an idiot exactly the same with a "Viking" hairstyle he saw in the show Vikings and a replica axe fae the show that liked to brag that he'd make a great beserker, this moron has cut himself more than once trying to butter toast and can't use a knife and fork properly yet somehow thinks he'd make it through a battle😂
Who the f*ck DOES that? That's like telling people "I look like Johnny Depp".
He just has self esteem issues. Someone probably told him that once and made his day. He's been chasing that dragon ever since.
Fun fact: extensive study of VIking bones has shown that they had much lower sexual dimorphism than most other surrounding ethnic groups. In layperson's terms - their men were more feminine than other European men... That can be attractive, but not in the He-Man way that Mr Douche who's quoted up there probably meant.
Viking was not an ethnic group, Viking was a JOB. They were Norse people.
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Are you a boy or a girl? Really Really hurt my feelings.
Hurts me too, cause A-some people are both/neither/partially/sometimes and B-cause it makes me think I don't pass.
My collegue was asked that and she said: You're not only dumb, but also blind.
Load More Replies...Had a similar thing happen at work but I was the one who couldn't tell the person was really a girl. Fortunately, her and her family laughed it off.
Hopefully if was a clumpsy attempt of "What is your prefered pronoun?"
I (afab and gender fluid) often have people assume I’m a dude when traveling… and I pretty much go along with it bc it makes me feel safer. However, I have delivered some truly epic burns to high school douchebags asking whether ‘it’ was a boy or a girl. Suffice to say it was on a public bus full of high schoolers, on the way home, and involved veiled threats of severe bodily harm. I may have solicited a collective “OOOOOOOOO!!” from most of the people on the bus. And yes, I am very smug about it.
I was an extra on a film set and I had to smoke a prop cigarette- I don't smoke but I was cool with it and had agreed prior to filming, thought it would be an interesting experience. I was doing a scene with an older (and incredibly attractive) Russian man. In between takes, I wasn't holding it between my fingers to give my hands a break, but there was also nowhere to put it so I was holding it differently. Dude snatches it from my hand, puts it between my fingers to show me the "correct way" and says "typical womans." I was immediately turned off.
Prior to shooting, I had noticed him and was low key crushing on him hard, so I was very excited to be picked doing the scene together. Well that took a complete 180.
After we wrapped around midnight, he approached and said ," It's very late, I could give you a ride home." I'm pretty sure it wasn't even offered as a question and more of a command, it made me uneasy. I guess it was more of a weird interaction, but the first thing was certainly embarrassing for me.
I would have lit another cigarette, looked at him and said "Typical man" and flicked the cigarette at him.
sounds like a normal Russian tho, altho the "typical woman" seems a$$hle it seems he was just trying to take you home, even Russian i know had that very "command" like speech, even a question nor thank you sounds like a command that you should take it lol
“Congratulations on your maternity leave!”
A regular customer said that to me. I am not pregnant…
I mean...it could have been he confused them with someone else who he'd heard had been on maternity leave, and he thought she'd lost the baby weight? But strange phrase, to congratulate them on maternity leave rather than a baby - unless are in a country where maternity leave is not an automatic entitlement, and something harder to get approved??
The rule says you never ever ask a woman if she's pregnant. Never. Unless you're in a hospital and her feet are in the stirrups, then maybe.
And never tell a woman that you don't like her perfume. She may not be wearing any.
Load More Replies...Being mistakenly asked if I were pregnant had me stress-dieting more than a few times in my life.
I had a guy tell me at the prescription counter "You'll probably pop out that kid before they get done filling out our orders." The pharmacist who was obviously overloaded looked annoyed, but smiled when I said "Thanks..but I'm not pregnant. This is all me." And the guy's face turned red.
Maybe the business you worked at just added that as an included benefit and he was congratulating the increase in compensation , if/when you take advantage of it.
I was getting McDonald's after a night out with some friends and we noticed this guy that looked very sad. My friend asked if he was okay, and he took it the wrong way. He then pointed out the hotel he was staying in and said "I have a lot of money". We left immediately.
I...what? How can anyone hear the question are you okay, and assume the person asking is soliciting?
Think McDonalds in the early hours - he probably took it to mean are you living on the street and do you need money.
Load More Replies...He thought they thought he was homeless or something? How sad to never have anyone care enough to ask if you’re okay and so believe anyone who did must assume you’re homeless
Okay. A couple of these reminded me of one from where I work. A white dude from way out in the country who among other things told two women we work with, one Chinese and one Puerto Rican, that they were “real pretty” and “they only had white girls” where he comes from. He wasn’t fired, but he was put on probation and had to repeat his diversity training.
Genuine question, I get this said to me a lot (I live in Au) because I'm Asian with long curly hair but I always took it as just a compliment, like oh maybe they grew up in a place that didn't have a lot of diversity? but now I feel really stupid. would you please explain why this is not ok?
Load More Replies...When I was TEN, at my grandmother's funeral, and older man (in his 70s I think?) told me I had "great child-bearing hips". What the actual fukc dude??
People like him should have a warning sticker on them. That's so creepy
Load More Replies...Okay. A couple of these reminded me of one from where I work. A white dude from way out in the country who among other things told two women we work with, one Chinese and one Puerto Rican, that they were “real pretty” and “they only had white girls” where he comes from. He wasn’t fired, but he was put on probation and had to repeat his diversity training.
Genuine question, I get this said to me a lot (I live in Au) because I'm Asian with long curly hair but I always took it as just a compliment, like oh maybe they grew up in a place that didn't have a lot of diversity? but now I feel really stupid. would you please explain why this is not ok?
Load More Replies...When I was TEN, at my grandmother's funeral, and older man (in his 70s I think?) told me I had "great child-bearing hips". What the actual fukc dude??
People like him should have a warning sticker on them. That's so creepy
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