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

Women are just as bad, ive had some awful comments from women and im a woman.

"Who put 50p in the dick head?"

Last year I was trying to move someone's largeish dead dog out of the road as cars merrily drove past me. A man in his 70's lay on his horn whilst watching me move it! I told him when you die mate, which will be soon I hope someone treats you with the same dignity! Tossers the lot of them.

On a happier ( for me) note. As a student my course involved a term of cookery. I’d walk home the shortish distance from college with a whole variety of sometimes elaborate dishes. Having heard “ that looks tasty I’ll have some of that love” emanating from a building site once too many, I said “ sure” and walked into the site, dish held out. The guy suddenly looked scared as I approached him and went into reverse gear, anxiously looking at his mates who’d started laughing at him. It’s a lot about power.

To your kicking man, I would have just laughed, looked scornfully at him and said ‘At your age?! The only thing you’re getting close to kicking is the bucket’. Men get very upset when you suggest they’re getting on in age.

It is very much in the nature of men to form associations, ad hoc or more directed. Sports clubs, football fans (they even have their own camp followers), gangs, groups from a locality etc, etc. That plus alcohol is a strong source of misbehaviour.

Tangent but in answer to another pp's comment on service personnel and camaraderie, that actually is closer to the root origins of the word. Camara=room, to roommates= camaraderie (via Latinate languages).

Soldiers≈camaraderie

Anywhoo. As you were.

I'm not in the army. Very few men are.

And it'll serve them right 🙃

But no doubt it will appear in the AI answer to some innocent's enquiry?

Edit: not that that should stop us making humorous remarks. We are not the servants of AI, yet.

When I encounter one of these men I always think of Queenie’s response in Blackadder 2 when Nursie was talking some inane drivel: “Mouth is open, Nursie, should be shut.”

Men think they are funnier than they actually are 🙄

I am 60 years old and I go jogging around our local park. I get teenagers making comments ("run Forrest run"), and similar, and all sorts of men making comments. One man recently offered me unsolicited running advice about my running style. I think he was a bit shocked when I stopped, turned around and screamed at him to FUCK OFF. I didn't fucking know him, I was not interested in his fucking advice, I was not going to pay any fucking attention to it, who the fuck did he think he was and why didn't he just FUCK OFF and leave me alone. His parting shot? "Well at least you're enthusiastic!", which received another enthusiastic FUCK OFF from me. Now, I just stop running and shout at them all to FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE. The teenagers tend to be a bit surprised. I am so so so sick of it. I've been pestered and groped by men all my life, particularly as a young woman, why can't they just leave me alone to drag my aged carcase around the park in peace and quiet? Not one single woman has ever made similar remarks to me, not one. Will it ever stop?

I have been driving and parking successfully for years. Nothing winds me up like some oaf standing behind me and waving his arms around like a windmill. Would it actually be a crime to run them over?
I did actually stop once and say would you go away please you are actually getting in the way of me seeing where I need to go- but that was my dad

When you are old like me you learn to have weaponised deafness, short sightedness and general eccentricity. Nowadays I only see and notice what I want to. Randoms can go to hell.

I said ‘thank you’ and he was oblivious to my tone and looked really pleased with himself 😂

You what? Have you never spoken to serving or old soldiers?

This. I'm sick to the back teeth with men.

I'm old and men never used to be like this. They are assholes now.

Yep, it's always men.

A few years ago I was walking to the solicitors just after my dad died and I got some bellend telling me to "smile"- if I had had a knife on me at that moment I think I would have gutted him.

Then once, I was waiting in a shop queue and a short scruffy looking bloke joined behind me, looked me up and down scathingly and said "you're tall for a woman arent you?" (I'm 5'10") so I looked him up and down scathingly and then said "yes, and you're short for a man arent you?". Funnily enough he shut up then and didnt say another word 😂

It's always men saying these idiotic things and it baffles me how they seem to think anyone gives a toss about their opinion. Noone cares what some stupid middle aged man thinks

*caution. This is not actual fact.

Its etymological origins are from when genteel young ladies gather to embroider their camisoles together. Its a portmanteau. Camisole+embroidery. Therefore men cannot have camaraderie. 🧵

Both desperately seeking the approval of their mates 🙄 pathetic oiks.

@TheYorkshirePudding omg that would really make me see red!

Completely agree and so sorry about your mum.

What you said reminded me of a girl I knew in college who decided to shave her head very very close cropped. She also had a very high voice and was very thin. Apparently she had a boy laugh at her for her haircut on the bus so she turned round and told him "I've got cancer" - she said he cried. Totally deserved it IMO

One has to wonder quite how the word "camaraderie" came about then.

YANBU they're boring, unfunny nobs and I take comfort in men I'm actually close to being shocked when I tell stories like the one's on this thread