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Despite us existing in the 21st century for quite some time now, there are still a number of actions that really all of us do, but that are only “normal” for members of one gender. Someone asked “what’s something that both genders do, but is only socially accepted when one gender does it?” and people share their best examples.

From crying in public, to just existing without a shirt, be sure to upvote your favorites and get comfortable as you scroll through. If you have some examples of your own that weren’t listed here, feel free to list them in the comments section below. 

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45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Forget public, I cried very briefly in front of an older woman in my family last year while discussing my concerns for the safety of some children in my family I care about, and recently found out she and other women in my family labeled me as “emotionally unstable” because of it and had discussed my crying as if I had lost my mind.


Ladies, if a man cries in front of you, it does not mean he is crazy or unstable. Sometimes things are just sad. 

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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Men, please cry. It is utterly weird when men don't cry. Lack of tears is not a sign of manliness, but of years of suppressing emotions.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Smiling at children. I'm a Dad, if a baby smiles at me I'll automatically smile back, and then inevitably get a glare from the parent because they think I'm some kind of creep (no, I just miss having small children!). My wife does it, it usually leads to a conversation about their children.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only In a non-sexual way, loving children. Women can always say out loud how much they love children and being around children. A guy does it and it's time to grill him about what he means.

    I saw a comedian (I think Phil Hanley...) doing some crowd work and asked this woman what she did. "I'm a teacher." "Oh, cool. What grade/age?" "Middle school. I like them younger." "Nice. You know, a guy could never say that. There would be some serious issues with that.".

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sons are fantastic with kids. There are a lot of littles in our life and they run and play with them and the kids adore my boys (late teens/early 20's). It makes me sad to think people would look down on them for it. They're going to be great fathers someday because they've had good relationships with the littles in their lives.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Crying in public. Women are seen as emotional while men are seen as weak. But let's be real, we all need a good cry sometimes.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Grow body hair.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Making jokes about domestic violence.


    If a girl says "If you cheat on me, I'll do x and y with your genitals", it's often laughed at and applauded, while if the reverse was said, the guy would be criminalized.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Sleeping around women are typically shamed for it but men are seen as lads for it.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always felt disgusted when other men try and brag to me. It's quality over quantity fellas.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Age! Men can age and still be desirable but a woman needs to try everything she can to stay looking 20 yrs. old. Which is impossible by the way.

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    R*pe

    Women can r*pe men too.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, under English and Welsh law, they can't. Rape specifically has to include the insertion of the penis into the vagina, a**s, or mouth. Women can sexually assault, they cannot rape (in England and Wales, at least).

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only >Being angry/screaming

    When a man gets angry, people assume that someone has wronged him.

    When a woman gets angry, people call her hysterical.

    >Being sad/crying

    When a woman cries, people sympathise with her.

    When a man cries, he is treated as a weirdo or a wimp.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I assume by "gets angry" the OP means yelling, cussing, etc. In which case, when I see a man doing that, I don't assume someone has wronged him, I think he's classless and never learned to control himself. There's a right and a wrong way to express your anger.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Be a full time parent.

    It's normal for women, but when men do it, they're either "babysitting" their own kids, emasculated for not being "real men" and "providers" or given the side eye and lots of distance at the playground from the clique of SAHMs who are all there with their kids as well.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    men are expected to be breadwinners even in Africa and women are expected to primarily be caregivers. I've never quite understood how this could be so international (international patriarchy).

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    Have full autonomy over their own bodies.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only If a women tells a 5 year old boy about handsome he is and of course jokingly calls him her boyfriend it’s looked at as cute/funny but reverse it to a grown man and 5 year old girl he’s a predator. Someone else pointed this out and I had to agree.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If a woman tells my 5 years old son that he's her boyfriend, she will not see him again anytime soon.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Battering the opposite gender. Y’all may say “nuh-uh” but it’s true. Women can casually slap, push, punch, elbow a man especially their partner and nothing happens. Let’s say the man cheats, and the woman with tears in her eyes slaps him in the face and walks away. Maybe sometimes consequences are faced, but more often than if the roles were reversed that woman just battered a man and gets off Scott free.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Use sex toys. Perfectly acceptable, or even considered hot/sexy for a woman. If a guy uses a sex toy: he's considered weird or creepy.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i dont understand why this is deemed wrong. we all have a "guilty" pleasure and its not right to shame others for it ( unless its creepy).

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Take off their shirt/top when they're working outside on a hot day. Men do it all the time, but when a girl does it, it's indecent exposure.

    Also, breaking up by text. This is something that society thinks only women do, even though I have seen female friends get dumped by text. It's still a d**k move no matter who does it but it's so stereotypically women who are guilty of this. The actual split is probably pretty close to 50/50.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh this! I ran high school track and some afternoons it would be hot as Hades. The boys team would be running without shirts. A couple of us on the girls team also took off our shirts and were wearing sports bras/tanks. Move ahead 15 minutes and the boys coach comes over and says the girls need to be wearing shirts because we were too distracting. This has stuck with me for so many years for so many reasons.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the boys are distracted, then it is 100% a boy's problem. Teach them to remain focused.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well... as a woman myself its probably safer for us to not walk around shirtless anyway. Also I dont like the idea of my boobs bouncing around in public XD

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do your boobs hang low, do they wobble to & fro? Can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder? 😂😂

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think when they say a woman taking her shirt off they mean she still have a bra on or a sports bra. At the public high school in my area they make the kids run around town and guys are allowed to have their shirts off but women still have to wear a shirt. It also gets really hot here so sometimes the shirts are soaked in sweat

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I didn't see your comment. This exact happened to me in high school and I still think is total bs.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Breakup by text is cowardly. At least do a phone call if you don't feel safe to do it in person.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where I live, a woman went bare top and was charged with indecent expose. So she took it to court. Now women here can take off their shirts legally.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never heard of the second being gendered. Just.. immature I guess?

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was at the beach today with my 3 year old nephew, and he asked me to take his shirt off, which I did. Then he asked if I was going to take my shirt off. I’m a woman so I said no, but it made me think…why not? Because at some point in history, someone decided that boobs are taboo and must be covered? Kids who haven’t learned socially constructed gender norms have some pretty refreshing ideas.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think society needs to rip the bandage on this one. Just legalize and normalize anyone being without a top. It would be super weird for like 3 days, and then no one would even care anymore, and people can just wear (or not) whatever they want. Problem solved. Unless you're the type to blame other people for *your* wandering eyes and thoughts, but that's another problem.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again: female breasts are sexual signals marking the lady to be ready to bear children and form sexual relationships. It's deeply engraved in our genes. How we act upon it is depending on culture. In an experiment they showed nude pictures to people -men, women, gays, lesbians- laying in a CT. Straight men's brain immediately reacted seeing naked ladies while gay's showed similar interest only to naked men. Lesbians also "noticed" naked women as straight men. But the interesting thing is straight women also showed the same reaction. It's ingrained in us very deeply.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was stereotypically men who do this? As OP says, probably all parties are guilty of this.

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's strange that brèàst are seen as mens toys. They are for feeding babies that men like them is just a quirk of nature. Stop looking and all will be fine.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    depends where you live. Baltimore / New York and quite a few other cities have made it the same so anyone can walk around topless.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doing hard work at the zoo, I would often end up in just a tank top with bra underneath. No one gave a shlt, male or female - it was hot and the work exhausting, we all ended up without shirts on several occasions.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Breaking up by text is considered more acceptable for men? Or for women? I have never heard of this.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount of SAs that would happen if women just freely walked around without a top on

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure Victorians said much the same thing about women exposing their ankles in public. Human beings can adapt. Your comment reads like an extreme version of the old "She was asking for it because she dressed provocatively." No, men have to be reaponsible for their behaviour. There are topless/nude beaches around the world, there are still cultures in tropical climates where going topless is the norm for women. I've never seen any suggestion that s*xual violence rates are higher as a result.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only **Playing with toys.** Some toys are marketed towards one gender or the other, but there's no reason why anyone can't enjoy any kind of toy.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter drove her battery operated Dodge Ram. She was also wearing her sleeping beauty costume. You do you honey.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Choosing career over marrying - God forbid a woman wants to be left alone with her money.


    Being affectionate with friends - Men should be able to do this without fear of being labelled as weak every 5 minutes



    Promiscuity - I dont think it's good practice, but I mean it for both gender not just women


    Not knowing any household chores - It's a life skill, not a gendered one yet women tend to be on the harsher side of the stick


    Being financially dependent - Same with household chores except men to be on the harsher side this time.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having a wealthier/ and/ or / oldier partner for m'en: be seen as a gigolo. For women : wether gold digger or the man seen as a creep

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Office settings in my experience - middle aged women seem to get away with borderline, if-not-outright sexual harassment of younger colleagues.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They may be somehow getting away with it, but it’s not acceptable

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    Men can't wear women's clothes, meanwhile in reverse it's totally okay.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's men enforcing that. When I wear stuff that a woman might prefer, e.g. loose pants/egyptian cotton, it's literally only the men that seem perturbed. Women usually compliment and move on.

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    Talk about emotions.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Randomly touching ppl in public. For some reason its ok for women. My husband gets that often but if he says something hed probably be put up as the a*****e.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grabbing a boob is different from a high five or a handshake.

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    Getting bald.

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    Walking around shirtless.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either we should ALL be able to walk around shirtless or NO ONE be able to walk around shirtless.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Wearing a skirt!

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Hitting on strangers (in an unwelcome kind of way). Hitting on co-workers. I get this from both genders and it feels equally creepy, but women seem to think there's nothing wrong with it.

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    Invading peoples space and/or touching people in public. This goes for both children and adults.

    A man can’t just walk up to a child and rub their face or anything without people getting uncomfortable (Joe Biden for example). Women do this all the time. When my kids were little women would always just walk up and touch their fair, their cheeks, their chin.

    As far as adult touching goes I have several guy friends that are extremely muscular. The amount of times random women grab their biceps and rub them is hilarious. If a guy did that he’d get kneed in the balls.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm very territorial about people touching my toddler. Many people think I'm rude when I tell them not to touch him.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only When a teacher sleeps with a student.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    look at news headlines when this happens if its woman teach it usually says teacher sleeps with student if its a man then it says assaults or raped student

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Stare at / openly check out others. Unless a girl/woman is doing it, everyone will call you a creep.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Having dating standards .

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this means that a woman can say she won't date small men and people think that's ok. However, when a man says that he only dates slim women, he will get hate for it.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Fart.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK. It's mostly funny, no matter who does it. However , it is a bit lowbrow.

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    Man over 30 who's successful, decent looking, and single: "there must be something wrong with him"


    Woman in the same situation: "she's strong and independent" Lol what?


    Well, that's in real life anyways. On the internet the woman is shamed for not being a concubine for incels.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Turn the tables - sometimes women are asked why they haven’t settled down, had a family etc. Even when I was 13 my grandparents are saying stuff to my parents “ have you married her off yet?” Or to me “ make sure you go out with that lad, I know you don’t like him like that but he will convince you to not be a career woman” “ that boy wants to be in the navy, marry young, avoid career” Not always this way but…

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Chatting with other people of the opposite sex when in a relationship. When a girl does it, she is just sociable and friendly and if her bf didn’t like it he’d be controlling and jealous.
    When I guy does it, he is a massive red flag, unfaithful and the girl should just dump him.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never heard about this one. Every person should be able to talk to the other sex and a partner who has a problem with that is delusional, no matter their gender.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Having casual sex.
    Being overweight/not conventionally attractive.
    Growing old naturally (grey hair, wrinkles).
    Abandoning your children.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have to agree with you as far as being overweight/not conventionally attractive. There have been countless TV shows and movies about shlubby men married to gorgeous women -- but you'd never see a show about a (for example) Melissa McCarthy or Kathy Bates married to a Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Wear a lace thong under your business attire.

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    Pedicure.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guys, seriously go get a pedicure! I take my husband and he loves it. I promise nobody is going to be anything but happy to see you. I tried so hard to get my dad to go because he had problems with his feet and I could tell he wanted to but didn't want his friends to think he was "soft" or whatever....it makes me angry he never got to enjoy that.

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    Hanging around in the park near the playground.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bit odd if you are watching the children. If you are just walking around the park or chilling on a beach then it's ok

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Gardening as a hobby

    Say what you will about how times have changed now but I remember back in high school one of the first days there we were doing some of those get to know you exercises and one of the first questions they asked was what extracurricular activities you wanted to get involved in

    Saw that the school had a gardening club and so happily announced my desire to join this and to my surprise a bunch of kids mostly guys in the class started laughing like I was telling a joke and later one of my friends told me something along the lines of wow that was a really funny joke you made about the clubs you wanted to join

    And I just kind of sadly nodded and agreed because I was too embarrassed to just admit that I actually genuinely wanted to join that club and found it interesting and fun

    Kind of crushed any desire I had to do gardening or anything until years later as an adult I finally started buying my own plants and learning how to properly care for them and stuff and even to this day I still kind of feel embarrassed admitting to people that I like to do this because of the social stigma around it. But at the same time feel immense pride in my plants.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't tell what the person's gender is, I am assuming a male? In my country (SA) most gardeners are male, like probably 99.99999%. I've only ever seen two women doing gardening: my mom and my mother in law. It seems to be a racial thing as well as a gender thing. It seems to be like this: heavy work - mowing, digging for trees = man's job. Delicate work: tending flowers or herbs: woman's job. That's at least my observation. My dad did both so I don't gender gardening myself. By "racial" thing I mean most gardeners here are African whereas the people doing the fussy work with flowers tend to be white.

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    Abandon their children.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Rejecting someone. If a woman does it you need to respect her decision but if a man does it he's treated like he just spat in her face.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The opposite can happen too... a woman rejects some "nice guy" and he suddenly starts calling her names.

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    #41

    Stripper work.

    It's hot when a woman does it.

    It's considered 'for the gay guys' if a guy does it.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, gay guys typically have less interest in female strippers than in male ones.

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    Hate and Insult the other gender.

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    45 Things That Are Socially Acceptable For 1 Gender Only Pee sitting down.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's not a social bias. Women just can't pee while standing (and not totally soil themselves).

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    Selfies. We know who does it.

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    Getting bumped while walking . That day a woman clashed into my shoulder and ran away without even acknowledging the incident . It was a mistake i understand, but if it was the other way round , if the woman wanted it she could have had me beaten too .

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In which country can a woman have a man beaten if he bumps into her? Plus, don't people bump into each other? If I see someone not looking where they're going I either step aside or say something to them to avoid a bump.

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