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Except it is true and still is in many cultures. Homophobic hate crimes have been and still are massive throughout society and thats statistic. Men taking on female traits have put their lives at risk and it the men against them (who think feminine equals week) that you SHOULD be scared of.

You have to be really blind to ignore it.

Through out the history of the world men have been beaten and killed for wearing dresses.

This is just not and never has been true. Men parodying women has always been indulged by other men for the most part.
And even if it were historically true (it's not) in the current climate it's DEFINITELY not the case. If anything, these days men who pop on a dress and wig and call themselves Sadie are fast becoming the most privileged demographic in the world.
Anything they ask for they immediately get and if women try to say "no" they are bigots!
Most marginalised my arse!

I think it is fair for you to say you would to find it creepy, @MistyGreenAndBlue, but I don’t think you can state unequivocally that it is not creepy, since other people clearly would find it so - and their feelings are just as valid as yours.

I would find it creepy, and I would be concerned that a man who would make such a personal comment to me might go on to make worse comments or do worse.

Yes. That's the one. Lace 2 is about a fairly ludicrous kidnap of the main character in the first one - "Lili" - and a lot of weird bitching at a beauty pageant.

When I was around 7 months pregnant with my first born and I was waiting outside a shop in town to meet my DH, an elderly woman walked up to me and said ' I told you what would happen if you didn't behave yourself ' then walked off again.
I'm still baffled by that to this day.

It wasn't creepy. It was just one of those random thoughts that really shouldn't have been said aloud.
I'd have thought the bloke an idiot, but I wouldn't have been offended or upset by that. But then, I've had plenty of genuinely and deliberately offensive remarks aimed at me.

Was she ordering an ice-cream and pickle sandwich, though?

@ludocris, that's a misrepresentation of what happened.....

I didn't see the first reply as it was deleted.
Still doesn't excuse the poster accusing anyone who doesn't agree with her of being men.
That's what's so high school, if you don't agree with me I won't be your friend... 😏.

Not everyone is going to agree and that's fine.

Let's not derail a good thread.
No more pee chat from me.

@Treesandsheepeverywhere that's a misrepresentation of what happened. The first poster to respond about the piss comment was quite rude (and I can see their comments have now been deleted), and a load of other people then saw the opportunity for a pile one and started making light of/mocking a situation that obviously made the PP feel uncomfortable.

I'll tell you what it was like. Remember in high school when a group of kids were talking and laughing at each others jokes, and one of them makes a joke just like everyone else's, only no one laughs, and some of them even snigger and eye each other as if to say 'well that was embarrassing!'. That's what it was like and it's so unpleasant and unnecessary.

The psychology of people on MN in particular is fascinating - it really gives people the opportunity to revert to their adolescent selves, or for others, the opportunity to vent their anger and rudeness in a way they wish they could in real life.

it wasnt really her business
and they were very young
3 and 18 months and No she didnt talk to them anyway

Could have been a perv, but could equally have been mentally not well. Seen a grown man pointing at my hair on the tube, saying on repeat 'nice hair, nice hair, nice hair' loudly and when I did not react, he poked my scull with his index finger. He was 20 years younger and unaccompanied. But with him it was obvious he was not very well. I did not mind in the least, only was really worried about him on his own, out and about.

Some lone women may not feel comfortable with workmen in their homes and may like to employ females to do the job, if possible.

I'm not sure why this is "WTF"? She asked because it might have been awkward if she'd said something to the kids about you marrying daddy if he wasn't their daddy.

What potential danger did the pee one cause?
He said it, walked past, the end.

Poster didn't find it funny, fair enough.

Others found it funny but clearly not fair enough as she then went on to hammer anyone who didn't agree as @Toenailz explained.
As you say, different people, different takes, so not being offended isn't wrong.

I say this as someone who's experienced abuse but don't take offence or think to sexualise every male interaction.
Others might, and that's ok too, still doesn't make my take wrong.

There's a few on here I wouldn't find funny, but
If somone came along and said they would, I'd think, oh we're so different and move on, not try and attack them for having a different opinion/sense of humour.

The poster wasn't wrong to be offended, but wrong to expect everyone else to feel the same and accuse them of being men for not agreeing.

having my hair cut, took my children with me, as usual, about to get married.
she asked if he was the father of the children.

then said, oh you can tell they have the same fathers, they are like peas in a pod

At a gig last night, one weird guy story....

After support act finishes, most people behind us seem to disappear. Weird guy comes and stands pretty much on top of my friend and keep leaning over her trying to look around the post I'm stood next to. He doesn't take the hint to move back into the acres of space behind him when I nearly punch him in the face taking a selfie. When I eventually snap and tell him he's making us extremely uncomfortable he seems super surprised (who doesn't want some random old guy draping himself over them for no reason?!?!). Then he was most put out that I wouldn't move so he could stand in front of me 'between the post and the barrier'. Pretty sure the woman who was stood there didn't want him either. Nutter.

However!!!! One sweet guy story to counter it....

The bass player threw me a plectrum at the end which ended up in no man's land between the barrier and stage. The nice guy next to me gave me his!!! (He did get a set list instead). Absolutely did not expect him to do that. Super sweet.

Is this the one with 'Which one of you bitches is my mother?' Or is that Lace 2?
I used to love a good bonkbuster.

Karen White.

An almost opposite to those "go back to your country" comments PPs have mentioned: I was doing a self guided tour of a stately home so there were assistants in most rooms to give more depth to the info cards. One started his spiel about the room being inspired by the owner's visits to China and I commented "shame I can't read Chinese" about a piece on display that was supposed to have a poem on it. He looked at me bemused and said, "but you're not Chinese though?"... I am. I am 100% Chinese so I can't look anything but. I didn't know how to respond except to say that I may have grown up in Britain but my heritage is certainly Chinese... He was still very baffled so I smiled politely and scuttled off into the next room.

I used to work in retail in my early 20s which was largely online but we could take phone orders if necessary. One woman called up and asked if we had the rose gold version in stock. I said yes and her very matter of fact reply was, "oh good because the fairies in the garden don't like yellow gold, they would have been very upset." I didn't know what to respond so just started the part about taking her payment details. She said, "ah give me a minute, my card had been cut up into pieces so let me just find them and put it together again..." I put myself on mute while she reassembled her card and alerted my manager because it felt wrong to take money off someone clearly vulnerable. We agreed I couldn't take her order over the phone like this but thought she probably wasn't going to take that well, so I had to pretend the card machine wasn't working.

I was at a bus stop with my younger, obviously mixed race cousin (approx 9yo) and my also 100% Chinese sister (approx 7yo). I can't have been more than 15 and can't have looked older than that because I still had train track braces and those hideous NHS kids' glasses. An old lady sat down at the bus stop with us, looked over and asked, "oh are these your twins?" 😵‍💫

This was my first thought too. In the book the fish in question was a live goldfish. It was one of the most ridiculous passages I have ever read in any book.

Nah, the poster was commenting on an old thread from way back when....don't think they were actually being serious...

It was the late 80s but I still remember it as clear as yesterday
Best friend and me walking back to college after our lunch break, Watford town centre
A woman comes running out of Holland & Barratt, holding cartons of soy milk aloft (as I recall, it really wasn't a mainstream thing then, but her reaction was akin to winning the lottery...)
Runs up to friend and me, yelling 'soya ! It's soya ! IT'S SOYA!!!! SOYA!'
I'd never seen a stranger so thrilled before or since.
For the next 2 decades or so, friend and me greeted each other with 'it's SOYA!'
I never tasted soya milk myself until the noughties , and was severely disappointed.

Pesky aliens. Trouble is with MN you can never say never because bet your bottom dollar it will have happened to someone ……. only it was quads.

Oh I know! And I actually meant, this being Mumsnet someone will be along in a minute someone will be saying "But she should have trailed all those babies out of the car, not left them alone for four minutes while she paid in case there was an alien invasion just at that moment".

This thread is mostly hilarious with all the stories, but also pretty annoying with the bickering—bore off, please, you make this forum unbearable sometimes.

I had an odd encounter on a train when I was in my late teens. I was lost in my own thoughts when I suddenly noticed the man in front of me had crouched down so he was at eye level with the view up my skirt! He gave such a sly look and didn't move, and I screamed because he scared me so much. A man was walking down the train at that moment and asked what was going on. After I explained, he told the man to leave the carriage, which he immediately did—so he was obviously up to no good. The helpful man told me to let him know if I had any more trouble. It was horrible, and I wish I had told someone more official on the train.

I had a sort of shoplifting incident too. I was at the checkout counter about to pack and pay when I pulled out a very wrinkled reusable shopping bag. The cashier insisted it was new and that I had to pay for it. It was honestly the scruffiest bag—which I pointed out. I ended up asking him to review the CCTV footage if he was so concerned. Thankfully, he dropped the imaginary issue after that.