28 People Who Tried To Gatekeep Masculinity (And Proved How Fragile Theirs Is)

1.Apparently, men aren't allowed to have heated seats. Who knew!

"The fuck you want toasty ass cheeks for?"

2.Trailer = good. Woman = bad. Woman no understand truck. *Smashes head into brick wall*

"If your boyfriend can't spot the problem... you have a girlfriend"

3.Whoops, forgot to get any tattoos, how will people know my gender identity?????????

"as a man why do you not have tattoos????????"

4.If you don't like football, then you wear underwear marketed for women, which somehow makes a value statement about you. Life must be so complicated for these people!

"There are two types of guys: guys who like football and guys who wear your underwear when youre not home"

5.*Extremely SpongeBob face* Y'all respect men who...

"Y'all respect men who were raised by single moms ? I don't"

6.Y'know what, I'm gonna man bun even HARDER.

"That's how your grandpa feels when he sees your man bun."

7."Be a MAN. Build the Ikea cabinet WRONG the first time. Spend twice the amount of TIME because you refuse to READ."

A shirt that says, "Real men never read instructions"

8.Ladies, if your boyfriend doesn't annoy the whole neighborhood, you have...a decent and thoughtful boyfriend.

A man fixing a car

9.Gee whiz, better go kill some aquatic animals!

"What I see when guys say they don't fish!"

10.Will the Itty Bitty Masculinity Committee at least send me a self-addressed stamped envelope to mail my card in?

"If you're a male and cant drive a standard vehicle please turn in your man card & tell your father he failed in life."

11.If I have an Xbox AND a toolbox, am I at least 50% real? Because I'll get rid of the toolbox if I can be 100% imaginary.

"Real men don't have Xboxes..."

12.Best call me "boy" then because wingtips are super uncomfortable, my dude.

"Boys wear sneakers; men wear shoes"

13.Wait, so this one is actually saying that golf — the sports equivalent of a straight cis white man in cargo shorts — is not for men?

"Long range shooting is like golf ... but for men"

14.This is so specific that I really need to know exactly how long this person spent staring at the photo in question.

"That Dad is not a man."

15.I'm not even going to talk about the phone thing because it's already so hilarious to me that this person separated "men in relationships" from "real men." What an incredible self-own.

"IPhone is for girls and men in relationships and android is for real men"

16.Okay, I actually love the logical conclusion this comes to, though. Dads who don't have a full beard are moms, so Daniel Craig is a mom. Tom Brady is a mom. Denzel Washington is usually a mom, but sometimes not a mom. John Mulaney is a mom. Congrats, gents!

A onesie that says, "If your dad doesn't have a beard, you really have 2 moms"

17.You know what's manly? Traumatic brain injuries from your head slamming into your steering wheel at 40 MPH. Hell yeah, brother *air guitar*!

"No airbags. We die like real men"

18."Fellas, is it gay to break down cardboard?"

"Men don't recycle because they don't want people thinking they're gay, study finds"

19."1 Retweet".

"They need more guys like me around; beard, tattoos, broad shape... proper men."

20.How the fuck am I supposed to drink weights?

"A boy becomes a man when he..."

21.Oops, I'm a fictional man, guess I'll stick with Sweet Baby Ray's.

"For real men only"

22.I thought I needed a beard to be a real man, but it turns out I just needed a straight razor! Oh, you're wondering what all these pieces of bloody toilet paper stuck to my face are? Nothing, don't worry about it.

Free razor

23.Good thing I haven't been excited about anything since 1996! (It was Space Jam, I was giddy about Space Jam.)

"Being a grown man who says he's 'giddy' over something automatically disqualifies whatever you were saying."

24.What's this? Metal accents? Sleek, modern furniture? PLANTS?! Throw that shit away and get yourself a La-Z-Boy and an undersized TV stand you found on the curb!

A TV on a TV stand

25.Gas is, like, $5 a gallon here.

"As a man why are you driving a small car."

26.At least being blonde is slightly less important to her than not being a neo-Nazi.

"NO blonde 'men'"

27.This is why I wake up every morning and punch myself in the face.

"Men were born to fight."

28.And finally, there's so much going on here that I don't even know where to start. But I will say that my favorite Taylor Swift song is currently "Getaway Car."

"Hardware store employees ask me for help"

H/T to r/gatekeeping