What is with these fragile men?

[PashunFroot]

Went through a drive thru this evening, ordered at the speaker and then pulled forward as much as I could but as it was rammed I couldn’t pull forward anymore.

omg the tantrum that the tiny dicked Mercedes man had behind me. Screaming “you fucking cunt!” “I’ll smash your head you fucking whore!” Etc while aggressively slamming forwards as if he was going to ram the back of my car. I just laughed at him in my mirror which made him even angrier but Jesus Christ I’ve never seen anything like it! The men in the van next to us were also laughing at him and out of spite I just sat and let the next 3 cars go ahead of me.

What actually is wrong with people. I guarantee if I was a man, or had my hangry husband with me he wouldnt have done any of those things to me.

Because I had my kids with me I felt like I then couldn’t go and park up invade he approached the car. All that over not being able to a bloody burger straight away.

Nothing wrong with standing your ground but no need to wind these idiots up any further. I'd be concerned for the family they go home to that gets the brunt of their anger.

The classic one is when male drivers precede with the word "fat" when they are road raging you. "Fat slag/whore/bitch...delete as appropriate. You could be skinny but for some reason, fat is their go to word.

Yes, I always think about this.

Unless you look a bit foreign, in which case it's a racial slur. I get 'p*ki' quite a lot despite being Spanish.

'Fragile' is a polite word for that kind of behaviour.

@PashunFroot you acted so unbothered by it so why post? You’re lucky you and your children or your car weren’t harmed. You’re just as bad by goading him.

Blimey..pure ignorance. Nah, let's just call it being thick. These blokes aren't the brightest.

Yes I’m just as bad as an aggressive, abusive, foul mouth smack head that thought he could try and intimidate a lone woman with her kids in a busy McDonald’s drive thru.

@PashunFroot just saw your pp that you live in a rough area. Explains a lot 😂

@Louise0701 does it? You must be quite simple minded to extrapolate that view point. Am I supposed to apologise for not being scared of him?

Ridiculous thing for PP to have said to you. You did nothing wrong. I'd always love for a big burly bloke to be waiting to join us women in the cars, when these dicks think we were alone.

I had it in a car park recently. I was called out for everything by an aggressive bloke. I live near an RAF base and wished the guys were coming out the co op, opposite that day, on their lunch break.

I had this once. There was a zebra crossing, then a space for one car after it, then a big yellow box. A huge BMW behind me has been tailgating me all down the road. I stopped at the zebra crossing and he was hammering the horn to get me to drive on, despite the pedestrian WALKING in front of me. He tried to over take me but then I had driven over the ZC into the single car space on the road, right before the big yellow box. There was no space on the far side for him. He ended up stuck half on the ZC on the wrong side And was absolutely screaming at me as he was trying to reverse. His poor wife was curled up in the passenger seat and his kids were crying in the back. He was threatening to rape and murder me , I was a useless fat whore etc. I had picked my phone up and pretended to record the entire lot.

My sister was terrified. Anyway, the road works at the next junction meant that I managed to time it PERFECTLY so that I let some cars out from the left and then I went forward into the last single sized car space on the far side of the yellow box. So then he was stranded behind me, smack bang in the yellow box. I just locked my doors and turned the music up. He threw a box of shoes at my car out of his sunroof, was trying to climb out of it like a short red muscle bound gorilla. I was honestly thinking he might have a heart attack. Never seen so many red popping veins in my life. His wife was hanging into his leg and trying to drag him down through the Sun roof as he was trying to climb out. And this is in a city centre!!

Luckily I knew that the entire junction is fitted with cameras and they routinely ticket people for parking over the ZC and yellow box. Anyway, he begrudgingly climbed back in and over took me, on the wrong side of the road. Slowed down next to the car to scream and rant a bit more and I gave him my best smile , pointed to the cameras, then gave him two single fingers. He almost crashed into oncoming traffic speeding away.

I've spent far too much of my life being bullied by angry men that think they are hot shit.

@PashunFroot maybe I am but at least I can leave the house without being threatened in my local area.
Nothing to do with not being scared; more the fact the whole situation sounds completely fictional.

I would have been tempted to put my car into reverse - not actually reverse - just engage the reverse light. Might have made him crap his pants a bit. But yes, that would have been goady and one does not lower oneself to such baseness.

So it’s my own fault that an aggressive man threatened me because I live where I live. Wow, I know there are a lot of people that jest a out male violence against women and manage to twist it into the woman’s fault, but that’s nuts. I’ll sell my house immediately and move back to my very posh home town (where male violence also happens btw!)

if you think it’s fictional then move on to another thread. Or go cry to the Reddit saddos.

So women need to accept this treatment, silently and without reply, so these "men" don't hurt other women and children?

Maybe we should all dress modestly so they don't rape as well. Because that works SO well.

I will not modify or moderate my behaviour to "prevent* men from acting decently. Men acting decently should be the very least they could do.

Exactly. I’m not meekly going to cower and pretend to be afraid of some prick like that and give him the satisfaction of thinking he was right to do what he did.

I had this the other day with a bloke at the petrol station. He seemed to be angry that I didn't want to squeeze my car through a tiny gap and potentially run over another chap who was filling his car. Because I waited for the lady in front of me to move I am apparently'a selfish bitch' an 'entitled bitch' and a 'stupid pathetic woman who can't handle a big car'. He started by tooting his horn, then got out of the car and came to my window to explain I was all of the above.
I'm menopausal and up for taking no shit, I shouted back, informed him that he was the entitled one here, coming up to my car and demanding I move because he hadn't planned his journey. Then I wound the window up and waved him away with a disdainful look. And sat there and waited.
I don't think it's fragility I think it's angry men.

I once saw this happen in a traffic jam, man in car losing his shit because the black bmw wouldnt run a red light… lightly drove into the bmw… which turned out to be an unmarked police car 😂😂😂

It sounds like both you and he have some issues going on there, yes he started it but if you are winding up clearly angry people then you definitely have issues.
A healthy response would be along the lines of a sigh, reminding yourself it's his problem, and move on with your day. Then you'd at least be able to park up to have your lunch without having to leave!

There's a difference between "meekly cowering" and going out of your way to wind up an already agressive man. If you were on your own in the car I'd say if you want to take the risk of it escallating and you being attacked fine, but not when your children were in the car. Can you imagine how they'd feel if things had escallated and you'd been harmed. Traumatising. More sensible to ignore as much as possible, tempting as it is to wind these twats up. Better still, have front and back dash cams and send the footage to the police so they can deal with him.

They're just angry idiots. Try telling a school mum they shouldn't park where they have! You'll probably learn some new words.

I guarantee if I was a man, or had my hangry husband with me he wouldnt have done any of those things to me

I don't get why people always say this on these type of threads, I've seen loads of men lose their cool/abuse other men in road rage incidents. It's not a gender thing.

I don't get why people always say this on these type of threads, I've seen loads of men lose their cool/abuse other men in road rage incidents. It's not a gender thing

Also mn have the inaccurate misconception that the majority of male aggression is targeted at females, it's not. It's men attacking other men in most cases.

@SurfBox I disagree is quite often gender related and especially the degree (or not) that they take the verbal as opposed to physical level to. Used to annoy the shit out of me when someone would pipe down just because my exH turned up because a) I can fight my own battles...don't have that problem now as he is an ex b) why does it take a large man turning up for a man to pipe down