Company Creates Satirical T-Shirts That Intentionally Portray Men The Way Society Portrays Women (11 Pics)
Gerda BoredPanda staff
Imagine that the world as we know it was turned on its head, gender roles and stereotypes were flipped and men got to see life through the eyes of a woman’s experience. In this world, women are historically the dominant sex, taking lead roles in science, art, and exploration, while men are largely tasked with domestic duties, looking after the house and raising children.
Image credits: man who has it all
Facebook (and Twitter) account ‘Man Who Has It All’ regularly does this, cleverly revealing the ridiculousness of the discourse around gender expectations by reversing the sexes. “Just a little reminder to smile, boys! Because women like to see positive men. A smile costs nothing.”
Patronizing, isn’t it? These are the kinds of remarks that women are subjected to all the time, so by holding up a mirror to our biases in this way, the page reveals our outdated attitudes.
Image credits: man who has it all
Image credits: man who has it all
Now with almost 400k followers on Facebook, the popular page describes itself as “a satirical page that exposes the absurdity of the patriarchy by turning the tables,” and “highlights the sexism, stereotypes, and bias women experience every day by imagining a world where men are treated in the same way society treats women.”
Image credits: man who has it all
Image credits: man who has it all
The brains behind the parody account is an anonymous “working dad” who has taken matters beyond social media to include these amusing T-shirts, as well as a Book called ‘From Frazzled to Fabulous: How to Juggle a Successful Career, Fatherhood, ‘Me-Time’ and Looking Good.’
Image credits: man who has it all
Australian business owner Tania is a big fan of Man Who Has It All, finding many of the posts perfectly relatable to the situations she finds herself in daily. Having built up her own business from scratch, she unfortunately receives the odd condescending comment, and not just from men. “It’s something that really irritates me,” she told Bored Panda. “In the beginning, I got comments like ‘shouldn’t you be in the kitchen?’ from men, and often similar things from women too. The humor and insights of the ‘gender flip’ jokes seem to put my thoughts into words; it clearly shows what many of us have to deal with all the time.”
Image credits: man who has it all
Erica, from Sweden, also appreciates the ‘parallel universe’ that the page creates, and the opportunity to play along as a ‘man’ in the comments. “The comments I write are all made up of course,” she told us. But it’s still the way many men view women. I follow the page because I think it’s great at revealing hidden patterns in society.”
Image credits: man who has it all
“I do think that we are lucky in Sweden though, our society is more equal than most others and I think that in general, Swedish men are well educated in issues of gender equality. It’s partly down to the history of our country. For a woman, being a ‘housewife’ is not really a part of our culture. For a long time now, most of us have worked for our own living so we are traditionally much less ‘dependent’ on men.”
Image credits: man who has it all
“I do relate to many of the comments. I’m not much for makeup and stuff like that! However, I would never go outside in a pair of shorts without shaved legs. In that matter, when it comes to looks, I think Swedish women don’t differ that much. We still have a society that tells us we have to look good.”
Image credits: man who has it all
What does gender equality mean to you? Are we as a society making progress, or is there still much to be done? Scroll down below to see how the ‘Man Who Has It All’ gets his point across, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Image credits: man who has it all
Here are some examples of the man who has it all at work
Image credits: manwhohasitall
Image credits: manwhohasitall
Image credits: manwhohasitall
Image credits: manwhohasitall
Image credits: manwhohasitall
His fans love the Tshirts especially
Popular on Bored Panda
What do you think ?
In my language most words have a masculine and a feminine variant, so i never understood why using the feminine variant was suddenly offensive but now it clicked. In english speaking countries they take neutral forms and add woman to it, thats sexist as hell. Thanks a lot english :/
In my language as well, but it usually IS used in a very condescending tone...
THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY DONE IN ENGLISH. It's only done by people who think "Wow, it's weird that a woman is doing what I think is a 'man's job' ", it's not how English is meant to work grammatically. There is no masculine / feminine variant of "scientist" or "architect" or ANY of these words - they're gender-neutral. It's just that barring poet and author a lot of (usually "baby boomers"-era) people think of the jobs as "something men do".
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Actually it is Blond/Blonde
Yeah, I love how people who speak English talk like males are the norm and females are some weird mutation, even though it's biologically the other way around.
ahahahaha! thank you!
This comment has been deleted.
But in your language, when you have a group of females and one male (dog), they are all referred to as masculine: los... That’s one hell of an ego at work.
thats called language, language is something that forms over time, and will not just be changed eecause someone fainthearted feels offended
I'm Italian not spanish. Actually most group names related to humans like family, team and even brotherhood are feminine. It is true that in a group of males the spare female is omitted but if the majority is female we use the plural feminine and than list the odd male(s) on the side. It worked like you say once but nobody does that anymore, it's confusing.
Its even worse. Technically (I refuse to do it) if there is 99% female individuals in a group and only 1% males in spanish you are still required to use the masculine. Thats how fragile toxic masculine ego is...
And yet, somehow, having male and female variant words isn't sexist? That's sone twisted logic. In English those "sexist terms" I.E. male, female;e, etc.) are adjectives... simple descriptors. Remove the adjective, the "sexism" disappears. In those other languages, unless they have neutral words, that can't happen.
John Ashley. No it is not sexsit to have male and female variant of words. I think it is mean that language accepts female position of that job. And the communication is easier, you do not have to explain if you speak about man or woman. Also in my language you know if the person is a male or a female only by the name and there are no misunderstandings like in American movies . Every thing in my laguage is he, she or it. It is not sexist it is just as it is.
I don't think you understand gendered language, John. LOL
In my language, normally you would want to say "medic" if you wanted to be gender-neutral. "Doctor" is, for some antiquated reason, perceived as a masculine word. So when someone comes and says "the female doctor", you bet it's a +50 male who cannot fathom a woman succeeding in such an important position.
Lacking completely any kind of neutral form we have not much other options, we still use the masculine form if there is no feminine variant yet but it's grammatically weird.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Any language sexually grouping words for objects that have no sex organs is retarded. English rules!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I think its important to realize that the reason they do this is to call attention to breaking into a sector that is heavily dominated by a certain gender. Yes they do say this for some things to emphasize that its a woman but they also do it to men too. I dont think you will find a single man that gives 2 shits if they refer to them as a male nurse or a male Elementary teacher. My wife works in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and when someone makes the distinction that she is in fact a female, she said it gives her a boost in confidence because they realize that she can't be pushed around and she worked harder than normal to get to where she is. If the roles were reversed like they are in this post, you wont find many men that care. Stop getting bent out of shape and just be the best version of you.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I concur. Just a play for power, using victimhood and ID politics, backed with a socialist drive. The politics of Empathy. An aside, half the week I identify as human female, the rest is Human male and Avocado. We must abolish the patriarchal system!
Totally. It has nothing to do with wanting to change a reality that is actually happening. Sexism totally doesn’t exist anymore. Manipulative women have simply invented it. It’s a play for power. I mean, it’s not like women were oppressed for being women for centuries or anything. Centuries of sexism all gone within a few decades. Nothing to see here, folks.
The satirical "joke" dies very quickly, nothing new is done on each t-shirt. Pretty crap joke, just done to make money.
Who buys a shirt that just says their profession on it anyway?
I do as a cable installer, subcontracting. Because alot of customers dont belive we work for the main company
Who totally misunderstands when something is done as joke anyway?
Yes, one would have been quite enough to get the point across.
Maybe I should get one that says "Female Church Lady." (just trying to be funny)
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Keep trying...
If you really don't get it, go read the coverage of the black hole image and count how many times each story indicates the lead scientist is female. Then find yourself an article about Michael Mann's discovery of the "hockey stick" and see if they bother to point out he's a dude. I mean, yay! Women are finally a real force in science! But at the same time, sheesh!
Not to mention many of the articles included her age in the headline. How many article about male scientists include their age? "MIT Scientist Bob Smith, 32, discovers yada yada yada..."
Nora, I disagree with 'weak males tried to hold them back'. I agree that they should get more invoolved and I am happy that they do! However, I dislike when people try to portray the male sex as bad, greedy, weak, or lustful pigs.
Volker H, there were several women on that black hole team. The one whose photo went vital wrote the algorithm that filtered out the “everything else” data. Without that partake algorithm, it wouldn’t have been possible. The person who took the photo wrote one of the other algorithms, without which the project also wouldn’t have been possible. But, that man isn’t in danger of being overlooked, that woman was. The paper they published, the “main” person, has their name listed first, all contributing team members names get listed after. Hers is first, because the team knows who did what.
Clearly you have not worked in sciende before because I have a stron argument against yours. You actually make a compliment to your main argument against it. Her age. If it was a man, 32, then it would be there as well. Why? Because its a great accomplishment and more than that a great accomplishment of a young scientist, in this case a women. 32 is damn young to reach something like thsi. But all you see is the bad men, thanks for that. First check the facts (statistics), then make conclusions and then when you want to share that, keep your prejudice genderrasist emotions out of it
check out what I came across on 9gag: https://9gag.com/gag/av89pQO she did only like nothing and took the credit, nice equality
I seen that. A lot of women posting things like "woman scientist" and "#WomenInScience"
@NorAlMeida, good expample about what BlahBlah is talking about: "women are not THAT GREAT a force in science, really." And he is right. any emotions aside, check the statistics, moste technical, mechaniocal fields are dominated by men, mdeicine, design and aarchitecture are dominated by women. So where is the problem, you change his words so it fits in your propaganda, you make it to: "Women aren't that great in science?" He did not say that, thats what you read and before you read it correctly your rant started, blocked by personal (i guess emotional) prejudice. Evidence: weak males. Its 2019, not 1919 anymore, get over it and accept statistics even if you do not like them. Truth is more important than feelings. Example for that? Men are physically stronger than women, women are better with people skills. No sexism, just stats. And if you doubt that, I recommend you study what a bell-shaped curve is and how the extremes are different in women and men.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
But isn't that because of this propaganda? If they didn't write it was a female, they would get sued, etc.? Plus, well... women are not THAT GREAT a force in the science, really. Maybe this is why they added "female..."?
Marie Curie and Ida Lovelace would like a word. . .
@‘BlahBlah’— Women aren’t that great in science? More like for centuries, weak males tried to hold them back, to the point of even when women did get into science, they were treated in a disrespectful manner, and much of their achievements was stolen by the males around them. Google, “Underpaid women ‘computers’ mapped the universe in the 19th century” ; also google “List of female scientists before the 20th century” And google “List of female scientists in the 20th century”. Search also about the fact that the first programmers were women. Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you; you don’t want to be disrespected, so likewise treat others (females or males) with respect. And you were being quite disrespectful when you assumed that women aren’t great in science. Don’t let your ignorance let you disrespect an entire gender; that’s really low, and your parents ought to be ashamed of you for not raising you right. And @Max Harkins: I say ‘weak males’ to differentiate between them (the sexist males— and they are weak for trying to belittle women to hold them back— it isn’t a mark of strength to belittle others, and weak males do try to belittle women to hold them back and put them down) and actual men (who aren’t sexist lowlifes), because I know that [not] all males are lowlifes.
Yeah, BLahBlah, nothing to do with not even being ALLOWED to go to University until the mid 20th century.
In my language most words have a masculine and a feminine variant, so i never understood why using the feminine variant was suddenly offensive but now it clicked. In english speaking countries they take neutral forms and add woman to it, thats sexist as hell. Thanks a lot english :/
In my language as well, but it usually IS used in a very condescending tone...
THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY DONE IN ENGLISH. It's only done by people who think "Wow, it's weird that a woman is doing what I think is a 'man's job' ", it's not how English is meant to work grammatically. There is no masculine / feminine variant of "scientist" or "architect" or ANY of these words - they're gender-neutral. It's just that barring poet and author a lot of (usually "baby boomers"-era) people think of the jobs as "something men do".
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Actually it is Blond/Blonde
Yeah, I love how people who speak English talk like males are the norm and females are some weird mutation, even though it's biologically the other way around.
ahahahaha! thank you!
This comment has been deleted.
But in your language, when you have a group of females and one male (dog), they are all referred to as masculine: los... That’s one hell of an ego at work.
thats called language, language is something that forms over time, and will not just be changed eecause someone fainthearted feels offended
I'm Italian not spanish. Actually most group names related to humans like family, team and even brotherhood are feminine. It is true that in a group of males the spare female is omitted but if the majority is female we use the plural feminine and than list the odd male(s) on the side. It worked like you say once but nobody does that anymore, it's confusing.
Its even worse. Technically (I refuse to do it) if there is 99% female individuals in a group and only 1% males in spanish you are still required to use the masculine. Thats how fragile toxic masculine ego is...
And yet, somehow, having male and female variant words isn't sexist? That's sone twisted logic. In English those "sexist terms" I.E. male, female;e, etc.) are adjectives... simple descriptors. Remove the adjective, the "sexism" disappears. In those other languages, unless they have neutral words, that can't happen.
John Ashley. No it is not sexsit to have male and female variant of words. I think it is mean that language accepts female position of that job. And the communication is easier, you do not have to explain if you speak about man or woman. Also in my language you know if the person is a male or a female only by the name and there are no misunderstandings like in American movies . Every thing in my laguage is he, she or it. It is not sexist it is just as it is.
I don't think you understand gendered language, John. LOL
In my language, normally you would want to say "medic" if you wanted to be gender-neutral. "Doctor" is, for some antiquated reason, perceived as a masculine word. So when someone comes and says "the female doctor", you bet it's a +50 male who cannot fathom a woman succeeding in such an important position.
Lacking completely any kind of neutral form we have not much other options, we still use the masculine form if there is no feminine variant yet but it's grammatically weird.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Any language sexually grouping words for objects that have no sex organs is retarded. English rules!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I think its important to realize that the reason they do this is to call attention to breaking into a sector that is heavily dominated by a certain gender. Yes they do say this for some things to emphasize that its a woman but they also do it to men too. I dont think you will find a single man that gives 2 shits if they refer to them as a male nurse or a male Elementary teacher. My wife works in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and when someone makes the distinction that she is in fact a female, she said it gives her a boost in confidence because they realize that she can't be pushed around and she worked harder than normal to get to where she is. If the roles were reversed like they are in this post, you wont find many men that care. Stop getting bent out of shape and just be the best version of you.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I concur. Just a play for power, using victimhood and ID politics, backed with a socialist drive. The politics of Empathy. An aside, half the week I identify as human female, the rest is Human male and Avocado. We must abolish the patriarchal system!
Totally. It has nothing to do with wanting to change a reality that is actually happening. Sexism totally doesn’t exist anymore. Manipulative women have simply invented it. It’s a play for power. I mean, it’s not like women were oppressed for being women for centuries or anything. Centuries of sexism all gone within a few decades. Nothing to see here, folks.
The satirical "joke" dies very quickly, nothing new is done on each t-shirt. Pretty crap joke, just done to make money.
Who buys a shirt that just says their profession on it anyway?
I do as a cable installer, subcontracting. Because alot of customers dont belive we work for the main company
Who totally misunderstands when something is done as joke anyway?
Yes, one would have been quite enough to get the point across.
Maybe I should get one that says "Female Church Lady." (just trying to be funny)
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Keep trying...
If you really don't get it, go read the coverage of the black hole image and count how many times each story indicates the lead scientist is female. Then find yourself an article about Michael Mann's discovery of the "hockey stick" and see if they bother to point out he's a dude. I mean, yay! Women are finally a real force in science! But at the same time, sheesh!
Not to mention many of the articles included her age in the headline. How many article about male scientists include their age? "MIT Scientist Bob Smith, 32, discovers yada yada yada..."
Nora, I disagree with 'weak males tried to hold them back'. I agree that they should get more invoolved and I am happy that they do! However, I dislike when people try to portray the male sex as bad, greedy, weak, or lustful pigs.
Volker H, there were several women on that black hole team. The one whose photo went vital wrote the algorithm that filtered out the “everything else” data. Without that partake algorithm, it wouldn’t have been possible. The person who took the photo wrote one of the other algorithms, without which the project also wouldn’t have been possible. But, that man isn’t in danger of being overlooked, that woman was. The paper they published, the “main” person, has their name listed first, all contributing team members names get listed after. Hers is first, because the team knows who did what.
Clearly you have not worked in sciende before because I have a stron argument against yours. You actually make a compliment to your main argument against it. Her age. If it was a man, 32, then it would be there as well. Why? Because its a great accomplishment and more than that a great accomplishment of a young scientist, in this case a women. 32 is damn young to reach something like thsi. But all you see is the bad men, thanks for that. First check the facts (statistics), then make conclusions and then when you want to share that, keep your prejudice genderrasist emotions out of it
check out what I came across on 9gag: https://9gag.com/gag/av89pQO she did only like nothing and took the credit, nice equality
I seen that. A lot of women posting things like "woman scientist" and "#WomenInScience"
@NorAlMeida, good expample about what BlahBlah is talking about: "women are not THAT GREAT a force in science, really." And he is right. any emotions aside, check the statistics, moste technical, mechaniocal fields are dominated by men, mdeicine, design and aarchitecture are dominated by women. So where is the problem, you change his words so it fits in your propaganda, you make it to: "Women aren't that great in science?" He did not say that, thats what you read and before you read it correctly your rant started, blocked by personal (i guess emotional) prejudice. Evidence: weak males. Its 2019, not 1919 anymore, get over it and accept statistics even if you do not like them. Truth is more important than feelings. Example for that? Men are physically stronger than women, women are better with people skills. No sexism, just stats. And if you doubt that, I recommend you study what a bell-shaped curve is and how the extremes are different in women and men.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
But isn't that because of this propaganda? If they didn't write it was a female, they would get sued, etc.? Plus, well... women are not THAT GREAT a force in the science, really. Maybe this is why they added "female..."?
Marie Curie and Ida Lovelace would like a word. . .
@‘BlahBlah’— Women aren’t that great in science? More like for centuries, weak males tried to hold them back, to the point of even when women did get into science, they were treated in a disrespectful manner, and much of their achievements was stolen by the males around them. Google, “Underpaid women ‘computers’ mapped the universe in the 19th century” ; also google “List of female scientists before the 20th century” And google “List of female scientists in the 20th century”. Search also about the fact that the first programmers were women. Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you; you don’t want to be disrespected, so likewise treat others (females or males) with respect. And you were being quite disrespectful when you assumed that women aren’t great in science. Don’t let your ignorance let you disrespect an entire gender; that’s really low, and your parents ought to be ashamed of you for not raising you right. And @Max Harkins: I say ‘weak males’ to differentiate between them (the sexist males— and they are weak for trying to belittle women to hold them back— it isn’t a mark of strength to belittle others, and weak males do try to belittle women to hold them back and put them down) and actual men (who aren’t sexist lowlifes), because I know that [not] all males are lowlifes.
Yeah, BLahBlah, nothing to do with not even being ALLOWED to go to University until the mid 20th century.