Why is playing with barbies such a "girl" thing and playing with cars such a "boy" thing? It's sad that it keeps otherwise passionate individuals from pursuing something they could really love for fear of being judged.
u/T-Spin_Triple asked:
Here were some of the answers.
It's Sad When We Shun Affection
GiphyIf it would be okay for me to be more affectionate to people without them thinking that I'm either gay or into them, because I say I love you a lot to my friends (because I care about them!) but some of them get uncomfortable so I don't.
No Good Choice
GiphyI mean the women in my life hate when I talk about feelings.
Happy=nothing to report
Sad=some sh-t I gotta deal with on my own
That only leaves anger, and considering the stereotype for men to be an angry sort... yeah. We only want to talk to you about feelings when it's something that's pissing us off, and after a while you just think we have anger problems so we don't do it too much.
More Floofy Hair
GiphyWhen I was 15-16 and I had long hair I was messing around with the 30 different hair things my mom had
I did something right cus I looked like Naruto for a week
So floofy
So ploofy
I'm pretty sure I looked like a paintbrush but the Combs couldn't comb it down at all...
Just Wanna Look Pretty
GiphyMani-pedi. I could really use one, but I'd have to go with someone, preferably a woman, because I just cannot handle that particular brand of social anxiety alone.
Why Are Leg Positions A Gender Thing?
GiphyI cross my legs sometimes when I sit. It's just more comfortable to me until I have to switch but it's pretty rare if I ever see any other guy sit in the same position. Usually it's the skinnier guys who are more likely to do it.
Sometimes I'll sit properly with both feet on the ground or cross my legs like a guy when I get conscious of other people around me even though it's less comfortable.
Danse La Femme
GiphyFunny story. Made a promise to my gf that if they couldn't find a male for the male part in their dance for the dance team (like art dance no cheerleading sh-t) that I'd join. 3 weeks later they didn't find anyone so I kept to my word and joined. I was the only guy with 15 girls and my friends couldn't believe it when I told them. To be honest, it was awesome. I got to experience something that I've never done close to in my life. It took emotion, execution, and some physical strength. I gained so much respect for dance as an art form from this experience and it is something I highly recommend guys to try out. Through six competitions, I only say like 6 guys. Don't be scared to jump into it even if you're a little bit interested
More Cooking Pleeaaaaase
GiphyIt's less that I don't do it, but more that I don't talk about it with most folk I know.
But I f-cking LOVE to cook and bake. Main dishes, side dishes, desserts (I REALLY like making desserts,) breads, muffins- f-ck, I've even made my own home-made donuts using an old recipe that called for LARD. I love cooking and baking. Love it.
Looking Fabulous Has No Gender
GiphyMakeup.
Not, like, blue eyeshadow and lipstick, but maybe some stuff to cover that annoying zit. Or stuff to make my beard look more full and thick
Maybe even a touch of eyeliner to make my eyes pop. Who knows.
Yas Smooth Skin
GiphyA few weeks back I was with my niece when we somehow got on the topic of razors and shaving and stuff. She only started shaving her legs in the fall, and mentioned how she hadn't done it all winter since, because she wears pants all the time in the cold, nobody would see and judge her for it. I said that's funny, because I only shave my legs in the winter since, because I wear pants all the time in the cold, nobody would see and judge me for it. She burst out laughing, she thought it was the funniest joke I've ever told.
I wasn't joking.
It Fits.
GiphyFor me I golf the women's tees. My favorite golf balls are "women" balls. Baseball, women's softball bat was always the best. Fit best in women's size shoes. The list goes on and on. My only problem is why do so many of them have to be pink or bright neon. Well it used to be, it is getting better.
"What is a fact or statistic that seems fake but is real?"
And You Thought Sharks Were Dangerous...
"Horses kill more people every year in Australia than all the other beasties combined."
"Everyone thinks it's the spiders and snakes that'll get you, but it's the horses you've really got to watch."- Gingerbread_Cat·
The Dangers Of Scientific Advancement
"It took us more time to go from bronze swords to iron swords than it did for us to go from iron swords to nuclear weapons."- IMJUSTABRIK
Frightening People For Generations!
"Sharks have existed longer than trees have."- Capital_Indication_4
Discovery Sharks GIF by Shark WeekGiphyThe Great Unknown
"I saw a scale model of the earth, moon and sun in a museum."
"The sun was about the size of a basketball, and the earth was on the opposite side of the room, the size of a small marble, I'd guess about 30 metres away."
"The moon was the size of a tiny pinhead, about 10cm away from the earth."
"On this scale, the nearest star to earth, Proxima Centauri, wouldn't be in the same building, or even in the same city."
"It would be 10,000km away."
"And that's just one star, the nearest one to us, in a galaxy containing billions of stars, which is just one of billions of galaxies."
"The scale of the universe really is mind bogglingly big."
"Far bigger than we can begin to comprehend."- Qabbalah
Zero Points To The Lost World For Authenticity...
"We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T Rex did to the Stegosaurus."- reiveroftheborder
stegosaurus GIFGiphyFrom Bad To Worse?
"After the British made head protection mandatory in WW1, the amount of head wounds increased."
"It's due to they were no longer KIA, but 'only' a head wound."- WouldUKindlyDMBoobs
Sarah Palin Can Confirm...
"USA is only 2.4 miles from Russia."
"2 islands in the Bering Strait, the body of water in the Pacific Ocean that separates Alaska from Russia, are 2.4 miles from each other at the narrowest point; one island is owned by Russia, the other is owned by USA."- Qabbalah
But Where Did "Ginger" Come From?
"In English, the color orange was named after the fruit."
"Before that, orange was just considered a shade of red."
"That's why gingers are called redheads."- I_might_be_weasel
redhead wink GIF by KobieGiphyAt Least We Can Be Sure He Didn't Lie About It
"George Washington didn’t know dinosaurs existed."- Silver34
But What Did They Want To Do With Those Cobras?
"New Delhi hired people to hunt cobra snakes which led to people having Cobra Farms to earn money, then the government stopped the project which led the Cobra Farmers to release their snakes, causing twice as many snakes than they first started."- cathabit
The Truth Lies Between The Lines...
"Barcode scanners scan the white lines, not the black ones."- the_blast_radius
Scream Bar Code GIF by joelremygifGiphyBut Does It Make It Easier To Avoid?
"Wombat poo is cube shaped, to stop it rolling away."
Perception Can Be Dangerously Misleading
"The Oxford University in England existed centuries before the rise and fall of the Aztec civilization."- RefrigeratorStatus96
"Time Is The Longest Distance Between Two Places..."
"A million seconds is 12 days."
"A billion seconds is 31 years. "
"A trillion seconds is 31,688 years."
"People have a lot of trouble comprehending numbers that big."- sunbearimon
Loop Time GIF by PsyklonGiphyOne thing that makes science so remarkable is how difficult it can be to believe.
And yet, scientists have been working since the beginning of time to prove that facts are, indeed, facts.
Do you have anything to add? Let us know in the comments below.
Redditor Jeffery_DahmerTV wanted to discuss the ideas that sound too crazy that they have to be true, so they asked:
"What is the most believable conspiracy Theory?"
In this day and age of alternative facts, it all seems like lies and truth.
Enlighten me.
Infection
Sick Computer Virus GIF by Achievement HunterGiphy"That computer viruses are made by antivirus companies to test their antivirus software."
astarisaslave
"Parents bought a new computer recently, the McAfee stuff was in there pretty deep to remove. The staff bogged it down, way faster afterward."
lt12765
War
"We are being goaded into waging culture wars that don't matter to keep us from waging class wars."
virgilreality
"Is this a conspiracy theory though? It would be if you assume it was engineered from the start, but this would also make it very unbelievable. But that existing conflicts had been fueled and taken advantage of by people in the position to for millennia is well evident I'd say."
Leseleff
Double Down
"Mattress Firm is a front for laundering money. There is no other reason for there to be so many. No one is ever even in there."
Free_Bingo
"Double down on this one! I have a Mattress Firm next to my job and I have never seen anyone in there ever. It’s been six years!"
cbcmama781
"I’m not convinced of this. Our local Mattress Firm is clearly baking $1k+ into their margins and then aggressively selling credit-based financing. Selling two or three a month probably covers everything."
Agloe_Dreams
Weather Issues
Climate Change Earth GIFGiphy"Those climate protestors that glue themselves to the road are hired by oil giants to make climate activists look stupid."
milanvlaman
"I feel this way about a lot of 'extremist' groups on both sides, that there are plants from the other side doing really stupid stuff just to discredit the idea."
Herr_Poopypants
The climate is changing. We have to come together. How is that a conspiracy?
That's All
Meryl Streep Pursed Lips GIF by 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentGiphy"That the fashion industry purposefully doesn’t put pockets in women’s clothing so they have to carry purses."
diceunodixon
Financial Clean Up
"That the only reason that the US government doesn’t do anything with student debt loans is because then people would stop signing up for the army."
Brotastic29
"That and healthcare.
"When you join up you get healthcare fully covered for you and your family, and you can get a full college education.
If the government started providing either of those for civilians, no one would need to join the military anymore."
redF5veStandingBy
"I think so too. I know and agree with what that dude was saying but when I see or hear people use 'Army' as a way to generalize the military, it usually means that what they said is something they’re just repeating what they heard."
chefboiortiz
The Commission
"There's definitely more to JFK's assassination than the Warren commission made it out to be. Whether or not LHO was the sole killer, I find it fishy that the CIA was so desperate to hide information from the public."
Bitter-Record-3831
"There is a very well-done documentary that concludes it was an accidental discharge from a Secret Service agent in one of the cars ahead of him."
Babstana
"CIA probably considered the assassination a declaration of war against Russia. They’re probably covering up that they were about to start WW3 over it."
tangcameo
Dairy Pounds
"The Great cheese conspiracy. Each year the US government buys more and more milk to make more and more cheese. The US government is sitting on something like 2 billion pounds of cheese. Just to artificially inflate milk prices."
worfhill
"Not even a conspiracy, just an example of the government controlling the economy in favor of dairy farmers."
Glass_Pies
"I watched a documentary about this. It's actually true."
PreferredSex_Yes
They're Listening
government agent GIF by South Park Giphy"That the CIA posts questions like this on Reddit to measure their past and current work, brainstorm for future projects."
ZRX1200R
Ominous
"I have a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories. I believe the governments and 'leaders' of the world are actually rather incompetent, so much so, that they require the illusion of them being an ominous all-powerful all-seeing entity in order to remain in power."
"And to accomplish this they allow conspiracy theories like the Illuminati and etc to spread around to add a bit of urban myth to how 'powerful' they are."
"It's probably all a bunch of garbage Europe can barely communicate within itself you expect there to be some secret global order??? Oh, stop it haha."
SparkNoJoyThrw01
Sifting through what could and could not be true, could take forever.
Life is full of mystery.