To get wound up by random men making stupid, rude comments when I’m visibly struggling in public?

Exactly this. Thankfully this hasn’t happened to me recently but when it did the most effective way to make them feel suitably stupid was to stop, turn and stare with no other reaction (sometimes an eyebrow raised involuntarily). They generally don’t know where to put themselves at that point.

I am visibly pregnant 🤰 I had a fall on the street and had men driving past beeping and laughing at me as I was trying to get up on my injured leg without hitting my bump.
I had them deliberately spray me with water waiting on a traffic light again while pregnant. I have had men making comments when I struggled to tie my shoe laces because of my belly… they are just idiots and hate women - nothing goes through their head!

I understand this they're thickos trying to be funny ... id get tired of that too.
Yes they're are some lovely men out there too shame the idiots dont take lessons from them .

A lot (not all) of men are twats and dicks that’s why. Have a lovely holiday 😊

I think some of these are people trying to be friendly/saying hello. Curious op are you southern living in a northern town perhaps?

Oh, thank GOD! A man has arrived to tell us all to chill!

I assure you that this isn't a popular hobby for the overwhelming majority of men, and most men would not look favourably on a man being a dick for no reason.

One of the only times I managed to come up with a retort, I was in a small hardware store, early months of pregnancy with very low bp and hg. I suddenly felt very faint and asked the owner if they had a chair I could sit on. They didn't have a chair but found a large paint pot so I could sit quietly in a corner and put my head down. I gradually began to feel OK and sat upright. Some middle aged bloke said in a sarcastic tone "Tiring day, is it?" To which I replied, "it is if you're 4 months pregnant!" He was so embarrassed, especially as other customers gave him filthy looks too.

My youngest daughter has a voice like a cross between a schoolma'am and a foghorn, and before now I have heard her bellow "Rude!" Or "rude man!" at comedians.

She is only 8 but I kind of like it!

I was filling up my motorhome with LPG at the fuel station and was waiting for the cashier to reset it from the last vehicle. As I was waiting the guy from the campervan behind me - doddering ole feller with his trousers pulled up so high they reached his armpits, who said "you have to press the button" it took a second for what he said to register (because of course you have to press the button, its how the bloody thing works) so I said "I'm sorry?" and he doddered up to me and LEANED RIGHT ACROSS ME right in my personal space and repeatedly pressed the button which of course didn't work because the cashier still hadn't given me the OK. I stood back and put my hands up in the air and said "I'm not touching another thing until you get back in your campervan" and he stormed off.. After i'd filled up I was taking the gas attachment out and I look up and hes right there again but by my bonnet pointing at the hose so I took my hands off again and said get back in your van.. The guy opposite me filling up said "is everything OK?" and I thought ooh a good one, and said "Yes thanks, I don't know whats wrong with the guy" and he said "no, do you not know what you're doing..?" I was FUMING.. I've been filling up with LPG for a decade! (not for an entire decade, if that was the case he'd have had a point..) I went inside to pay and the woman there said she was about to come out and check I was OK as she thought he was robbing me 😂 when I told her what happened she was livid too and said she would wait a little extra time to reset the pump for him 🤣. If he'd have asked me if I wanted help, not pushed himself into my personal space or stood watching me like a stalker I might have engaged and chatted away - Motorhomers are usually a lovely affable group but my god!!!! And it would never have been a woman!

Completely agree: annoying as hell OP. Just yesterday, I was walking up to my relative's house on a hot day carrying a huge platter of baklava for Eid and my bag (while trying my best to walk as well as I could in my high heels). We had to park quite far away as it's a busy area with very few parking spaces. A man standing outside his garage shouts "is that for me??" I just replied back, "actually, they're not even for me". His response then was "ah, no wonder you're not smiling!". Why does it always boil down to women having to walk around smiling?! Have been hearing it all my life and I'm just fed up to my tits!

I don't blame you for being annoyed by this sort of thing. Like most women, I've got a little list of my own. Quite a good one was the man a few years ago who stood and watched me heave some heavy luggage into a train, then when I was standing catching my breath, said "do you want some help with that, love? ". Clearly not, twit. 🤔

And I can still remember, from 65 years ago, carrying my cello to and from school, and the number of men, all individually convinced of their brilliant originality, saying "how do you get that under your chin, love?".

I'm now on my way to becoming a little old lady (80), so these days it's less of the veiled/ "humorous" put down and more of the patronising "speak loudly and slowly to the old dear". Oh, well.

Oh the give us a smile love dim wits. I always say my gran has just died you moron. I mean relatively speak she has, 6 yrs ago. They often bluster an apology, small and stupid.

Ugh, awful.

I used to do outdoor workouts occasionally.

I was doing some cool down stretches and breathing once, and this guy came up to me, bent over me and said "You look like you're asleep!"

Seriously, what possesses some people? (And yeah it pretty much always does seem to be men).

Have also had "cheer up love, might never happen", when I was 12. On my way to school.

Recently after having stood in a queue at passport control for over an hour the camera was taking its time scanning my face. Man behind me told me to take off my glasses. I wasn’t wearing glasses……

I was once, in my twenties, carrying a bunch of flowers and a middle-aged woman jumped in front of me and shouted 'You shouldn't have!'. I instinctively replied 'In your fucking dreams love'.

I felt a bit bad, but how about you just leave me the fuck alone?

Women can be just as bad with the unwanted comedy comments.

YANBU.

Men need to shut their mouths.

Random men do it to women - never other men, mind- because they know we won't walk up to them and smack them across the face. If it were legal, I would've done it already at least a few times this year.

You are not alone in finding this irritating, and yes, it’s always men.

Had one the other day when I was putting my son’s bike in the car (already an awkward/slightly annoying job) with my back to the road when a man walks past and shouts “not going to ride that bike are you? Hahaha…”

And it’s like, ok, you’re not trying to be rude or intimidating or anything. Probably just being friendly or trying to. But also, saying nothing is also an option? Why do I have to stop one of the ten thousand things I’m in the middle of doing to give you- a complete stranger- my attention when I’m already overstimulated and tired.

Women simply do not do this to others. Sure, maybe if I am in a queue or some other shared experience with a stranger where a brief, friendly interaction is not distracting. But women generally do not interrupt someone who is otherwise minding their own business.
It’s extremely irritating.