I sent this post to my friend. His response:
As it turns out, spear fishing is indeed cool
He is correct, if only by a triviality:
There is probably nothing that only men like
Triviality? That is the main focus of the sentence.
Is there literally anything only men like?
There are male biased things, ie. gaming, woodworking, wingsuiting, cimbing etc.
but are there any things literally only males like?
Well, Joe Rogan
I know several women who listen to joe rogan unfortunately
I met a girl on tinder who believed and “teached” the goapel of andrew tate. So nothing is impossible.
U banged didn’t you lol
Let he/she/they who has never suppressed a political opinion to a hottie throw the first stone
Oh you bet I’m throwing some boulders
I kinda really wanted to. Not really for obvious reasons, but i was really wondering what a person like that was like. Or what her place looks like. But every sentence she wrote was like diarrhea
Nothing is absolute, of course
maybe some things so incredibly niche that only one or two people total like them, if those people happen to be men?
Yes, I and my brother invented a game that only we two know how to play.
But is it a good game?
Fortran
Nope. Even Fortran programers hate that vile language.
Hey I kinda like it :-(
That tracks, I like fortran because I never tried it.
Need a purge on the Fortran courses at my uni pls
They said men, not masochists
Of course not, absolutes don’t exist…
Is that absolutely true?
only a sith deals in absolutes
only
Hmmm
Name one (besides there not being absolutes🅰
Urinating standing up. Its so much messier when you’re a woman and writing half your friends name in snow with it is almost impossible.
She-Wee for the win!
When I started my transition, I always sat to pee, because standing made me dysphoric. Now I don’t really care at all :)
but are there any things literally only males like?
Andrew Tate
Some obscure math, and obscure programming languages. I dunno, but it feels like no women would be dumb enough to devote tons of effort into things like haskell-adjacent languages.
Learning that language is probably too much of a haskell for anyone really.
That doesn’t really stop people, though.
Yes there is:
Only men like nothing.
Explanation:
“Only XYZ like ABC” is equivalent to: “Everyone who likes ABC is also an XYZ.”
Since everybody likes at least something, there is no one who likes nothing. The statement: “Everyone who likes nothing is also a man” is true because the “Everyone who likes nothing” part results in 0 people. And it’s true to say that everyone in a group of 0 people is a man. It’s also true that everyone in a group of 0 people is not a man.
But other than vacuous truths, no sentence stating “Only man like XYZ” is true.
But only men like set theory, so…
This woman likes set theory because she was involved in a set theory workshop:
https://dmg.tuwien.ac.at/sandramueller/conferences/
But you’re kind of right that it’s not great that math is still a strongly male dominated field. There is not a single woman’s name in the Wikipedia article for set theory, where I first tried to find a counterexample.
Also, you don’t necessarily need set theory to arrive at vacuous truths. Logic is enough:
FALSE => [statement]
Still, I think vacuous truths are fun because they are meaningless. Especially because they have to be considered in math or else your carefully constructed proof becomes invalid.
I have no idea why you’re being downvoted. Perhaps it’s coming off as a bit rude to some?
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It is!
That’s the fun thing about vacous truths: They allow both a statement and its inverse to be true.
raping women I imagine
Women can rape women — although masculine rape culture is definetly the biggest culprit behind rapes.
yeah so am I wrong
Well, considering the question was, “is there anything that literally only males like”, and there are in fact women that sexually assault other women, then yes, you are wrong.
That’s just something like 0.01% though, so I’d say it’s negligible
While certainly a minority, they are not negligible. Especially so in prisons, where inmate-on-inmate SA can be over 3 times higher for women than for men.
where inmate-on-inmate SA can be over 3 times higher for women than for men.
You’re referring to the fact that women are 3 times as likely to be victim of SA, not the offender.
But my trainsssss
there’s girls who like trains, i’ve met them! reckon sometimes they’re less vocal bc mansplaining is upsettingly common in any male dominated hobby :/
Agree with the mansplaining angle. Passionate people like to explain, combine this with not being the most socially adept and voila you have mansplaining.
I think there’s a negative cycle also, where a male-dominated hobby where many people are not super socially skilled makes them more oblivious to some of the nuances that turn “explaining” into “mansplaining” (I.e. they are less likely to understand how their behaviour is making their hobby less welcoming for certain people), which makes the hobby more male dominated, both in appearance and actuality
Hi, I am the girl who likes trains :3
Check out Blondihacks on YouTube. She’s a hobby machinist who is currently building a working model Pennsylvania A3 Switcher.
That’s not really a specifically male thing.
My autistic aunt loves trains.
Germans had an obsession with them for a while too.
Do you really think they’re cool though?
I have hobbies that are very male-dominated, but I know they’re not cool, and that doesn’t bother me. I’m happy being uncool and enjoying my hobbies.
I think the difference is that some boys are unembarrassed about liking Joe Rogan, and make it their whole personality. You should feel a little embarrassed to admit that you listen to Joe Rogan. You should feel embarrassed that you’re obsessed about WWE or UFC. But, it’s not just male things. Niche interests, especially niche interests that are gender-specific are things that don’t make you cool. Like, a girl who is obsessed with makeup tutorials on TikTok shouldn’t think that makes her cool either.
Tomorrow’s the SuperbOwl. If some guys are super excited about that, it’s fine. They should just acknowledge that being obsessed with a sport played by other people isn’t cool. It’s as uncool as Warhammer 40k or… trains.
I think trains are cool? 😭
so being involved in man on man sex isn’t cool? That’s kinda homophobic.
edit: ‘but women like gay porn’ not gonna argue the semantics of ‘being involved’, or of any gay sex joke for that matter, with any of you 12 smartasses who wrote the exact same thing 👆👆🤓🤓🤓🤓
Gay porn is the second most popular genre among female pornhub visitors. Right behind lesbian porn.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/girls-like-boys-who-like-boys
Are you sure there are no women who find man on man sex cool?
Is there ANYTHING that at least a few women don’t like? I doubt it.
You could literally say that about any demographic and literally any thing. Here’s a Jewish person that thought the Holocaust was tops:
Edit: Second paragraph to be clear.
I could also figuratively say it. 🙃
nah there’s girls who like it
someone clearly has never seen a grown woman fangirling over their favorite yaoi pair becoming canon
/s
It’s not the men exclusive part that’s the problem. It’s the toxic masculinity. Most of the latter are also mostly men.
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Leather daddies (Tom of Finland style) are cool. So there’s some things about man-on-man sex that can be cool.
Several of my ex’s were very into that.
But do women like it?
Look, idk about you, but if you haven’t played soldiers and tanks with a bunch of grown ass men, get yourself to a WH40k group and learn what cool is.
I refuse to believe that there are no women who enjoy Warhammer 40k.
personally, the only person i’ve known who actually played wh40k was a woman (she played tyrannids). i’ve been wanting to get into it since they introduced leagues of votaan, but it is a pricey fuckin hobby to get into.
The price is daunting at first, but once you see people’s army’s and start seeing your own minis improve, it becomes a real hobby and you make it work.
I’ve probably spent way more money on paint, brushes, and practice minis before I started on my armies.
It’s worth it IMO.
I know a few women who enjoy 40k. But the ones I know enjoy it like how I enjoy it… Just painting figurines, making little dioramas, and pretending like we understand the rules while some smarter player gives up and just tells us what to do next.
I do too. I’ve never met them, but come on. Playing tanks with grown ups. What’s not to love.
Paint your army, roll a bucket of dice, shout funny things. Play combat patrol, or just do a good ol beer hammer at a local brewery.
And then you’re hanging out in your local shop looking at some Space Dwarfs and stroke up a conversation with a dude who starts talking about the Black Templars and how cool they are for defending the Imperium just like All of the Real Crusaders which is honestly kind of weird because the dude is fucking Asian?
That wasn’t your damage, bro.
There absolutely are women who like Warhammer.
Historicals though… I’ve never seen a woman excited about fielding an army of Burgundians against a bunch of English. It can get worse… Napoleonics, ancient stuff…
Rogan isn’t bad because a lot of guys like him (In addition to many women, mind you), Rogan is bad because he platforms right wing bullshit and conspiracy nutjobs.
Not just platforms them, but also outright approves or does little to challenge it/call them out.
“as a gay man…”
wait
no, women quite like us
Define only men like
Are we talking hobby scope or like alpha extroverted abusively insecure narcissistic misogynists with very small penis… rulehaving a small penis doesn’t make anyone a bad person, all your other terms are fair and objectively bad, but how do you bot realize you are potentially hurting perfectly decent people with the last one? I know its a widespread practice and that and I am not really mad about it, but it still amazes me how the insult is still used. If someone is an abusive, narcissistic misogynist then that’s bad enough, don’t gotta go there.
Think about your harmless bros with insecurity issues over this thing that doesn’t make them a lesser person.
End rant, again not mad at you just a thought.
I apologize if anything I said appears judgemental or degrading. It was intended as I personally view people that are concerned with size like someone handed a fine instrument that is concerned about the recycling value of the metal and wood. Or, someone that compares movies and songs where they focus on brevity as a primary measure of performance benchmark. I will try to avoid the comment in the future
Yeah you know what this is so much better than my comment.
There’s nothing wrong with a small penis, but misogynists usually disagree with that so it’s a jab to say they have a small penis. I’m not making fun of the penis, I’m making fun of the misogynist who cares so much in a bad way.
Although it does come across like you say, so maybe I should stop.
I think the key is not “small penis”, it’s “misogynist small penis”. You can’t decide your penis (and side note, sometimes a below average penis is sooo much better to handle for the othet party than an oversize log that poses so many problems), you can decide to be an asshole though
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As a man with a small penis, it’s the second.
I think you can answer your own question. Either men will like it and their will be other genders that see the appeal or it’s an assoholic male hobby.
I’ve met women who like the most assholish of hobbies, like rolling coal and crossfit. I don’t think this is a useful definition.
Unsupported by the logic at play. Just because some women like it doesn’t make it cool
Is there a critical mass of women where it becomes cool?
No, think about scentsy
Excellent example.
No, the only thing that makes anything cool is being different confidently; Popularity is coolness’ diagonal opposite.
men will like it and there will be other genders that see the appeal
I think there’s truth in it either way. Although I can’t think of many things only men like, expanding it to “anything dominated by an overwhelming proportion of men to woman” still works. I think they’re more cringe than uncool though.
Factually speaking he’s one of the top podcasts out there, which includes women viewers.
Naked Gun! :O
A lot of men I know like fatherhood.
Bladesmithing
The only people I know who are trained blacksmiths (all two of them) are both women
Well, we can safely cross that off the ever-decreasing list lol
