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To want to know what you're sick of about men !

360 replies

GingerPussInBoots · 27/05/2025 23:55

OK, OK its not all men

But this comment on another thread ade me laugh so much and I seriously related, anything else you'd like to add?

OP posts:
ShouldIEvenBother · 28/05/2025 12:47

I'm sick of their problematic personalities, which in turn, become the issue for the woman:

the porn addiction, the visiting of sex workers behind their partners backs, the alcoholism, the inability to be financially literate to at least budget appropriately, the cheating and lack of self-control in so many other areas such as refraining from being on dating apps whilst also in a relationship, the pedo's (christ, the statistics on the percentage of men who are sexually attracted to minors is utterly foul), the rapists, the violent men, the men who do fek all at home and with parenting (then complain about the dead bedroom), THE 70,000 MEN IN ONE CHAT ROOM ON TELEGRAM sharing ideas of how to drug and rape the women they live with... list goes on.

I find their ability to LIE SO EASILY gross, too. A lot of men seem to have little conscientiousness. Because of their entitlement, they don't just lie but also believe their lies, or at least believe they are entitled to lie!

Women have evolved; we're capable in all aspects. I find many men useless at best and utterly problematic at worst. And, like all the other women on this thread, I did not start out feeling this way as a young woman. My interaction and life experiences have shown me this

Sorry, fella's. You only have yourselves to blame.

ShowOfHands · 28/05/2025 12:52

I hate the way the only overwhelming emotion they're allowed to display is anger. I see it in the classroom and on the playground and I know that the 14yr old boy who objectifies me (a 44yr old woman) and judges me is a victim right now, but he's a few short years away from being a perpetrator and it's an epidemic.

Of course the brilliance and curiosity of adolescence abounds, but we have a serious problem still.

giddyauntie123 · 28/05/2025 12:55

The way they think any woman is a dumb accommodating audience for their boring fuckwit ramblings, be it which slipways are open and closed on the M25, how you get custom skirting boards made, (when they don't even do DIY), conspiracy theories, URGGGGH

neverbeenskiing · 28/05/2025 12:56

User32459 · 28/05/2025 12:18

So just white men then?

Men of colour still benefit from male privilege, even though there are levels of privilege white men have access to that they don't.

ShouldIEvenBother · 28/05/2025 12:57

I'm also sick of men who leave their wives and partners when the wife or partner gets sick because she is no longer useful as a sex doll, cleaner, or cook. And god forbid she needs to be shown some love and tenderness in a diabolical time. How utterly depressing for any woman in this situation to also realise she was never really loved by the man.

giddyauntie123 · 28/05/2025 12:59

@SamDeanCas yep, the absolute entitlement, what a fucking joker. Builders are particularly awful as they're in demand and think they're some sort of demi-gods, especially British ones

nomas · 28/05/2025 13:00

OtterlyMad · 28/05/2025 07:18

Expecting a pat on the head simply for contributing.
“I’ve unloaded the dishwasher”
“I’ll strip the bed for you”
“I just did the washing up”

Like …ok? What do you want, a medal?

(Yet I’m also grateful because there are so many women on Mumsnet with disgusting useless lumps for partners and mine is actually decent, even though this is a really annoying habit of his!)

“I’ve unloaded the dishwasher”
“I’ll strip the bed for you”
“I just did the washing up”

I've started doing this to DH. The dumb-founded look on his face was priceless.

TheaBrandt1 · 28/05/2025 13:00

The stats on which sex sticks around when the other spouse / partner becomes seriously ill are fucking depressing too. Think it was 1 in 6 men that stay - almost all the women do.

CookingFatCat · 28/05/2025 13:03

I just hate the fact that women are conditioned, no brainwashed from birth to want to be chosen by one. And no matter how awful the relationship, or you’ve won at life for getting one.
And the irony of everything @AnnieAzul
said.
Get a boyfriend whilst simultaneously avoid getting raped attacked murdered.

Gustavo77 · 28/05/2025 13:03

I am sick of women being anti men just because they are men. They have a much more difficult time of it these days than women and deserve to be supported not slated

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:03

neverbeenskiing · 28/05/2025 12:56

Men of colour still benefit from male privilege, even though there are levels of privilege white men have access to that they don't.

How do so many white men end up homeless given all the privilege they have?

White boys pretty much have the worst educational outcomes in the UK.

curlywurlymum · 28/05/2025 13:07

I love it when a short video pops up and there’s a douche bag advising women on how to do their make up/ how to dress to attract men. The ‘what men find attractive’ straight from the mouth of a man. Yum! Tell me more!

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:13

AnnieAzul · 28/05/2025 05:47

The fact all our daughter’s have to change their behaviour and adapt their movements in an attempt to keep themselves safe from the male sex class.

This is not limited to;
not wearing earphones when walking at night, ignoring the random men shouting at her when she runs in the park, taking a less enjoyable route nearer the main paths when running, hyper vigilance for men following when walking home, getting a taxi when she’d rather walk, looking for a train carriage with other women in when she returns late at night…….

☝🏾

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:14

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:03

How do so many white men end up homeless given all the privilege they have?

White boys pretty much have the worst educational outcomes in the UK.

Edited

What do you think causes this?

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:16

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:14

What do you think causes this?

Well it's not white male privilege is it?

Imbusytodaysorry · 28/05/2025 13:17

Jujujudo · 28/05/2025 09:02

I told my Narcissist (undiagnosed but he is) H last week that I couldn’t continue this way any longer. That I’m physically and emotionally exhausted, I can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t have a normal conversation, sick of always being in the wrong, sick of him putting his mother before his own children, sick of being a single married mother, desperate for some attention and empathy etc etc.
The very next day he says to me in a whiny voice (as though I’d not said any of those things the night before): why don’t you want to have sex with me anymore? I feel very offended that you don’t ever suggest it.

FUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

When is the divorce ?

Fizbosshoes · 28/05/2025 13:17

MidnightMeltdown · 28/05/2025 02:54

The way that they call women ‘crazy’ as a way to instantly discredit anything she says.

It’s no different from the way that men conveniently invented ‘Hysteria’ around the time that women started demanding equality.

Blaming hormones, time of the month or menopause before considering the woman might have a point, or be justified in being angry!

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:20

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:16

Well it's not white male privilege is it?

I don't know, hence the question.

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:23

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:20

I don't know, hence the question.

Well, it's the reality that privilege has always been for the elites. Men historically were sent off to war, sent off to work down the mines or in dangerous back-breaking jobs for poor pay and in a lot of cases didn't have the vote either.

Privilege is for the elites, most men have historically been downtrodden.

baffledpuzzledandconfused · 28/05/2025 13:26

JaneEyre40 · 28/05/2025 09:36

I'm actually jealous of their self esteem at times (obviously not all).

My gripe is the glancing...."seen my keys?" as he casts a quick eye over the room. "No, have you looked for them?", "no, that's why I'm asking you". 🙄

My response to the constant ‘have you seen?’ Or ‘Where’s?’ etc is. Please use your own brain instead of mine

ASweetSummerChild · 28/05/2025 13:27

“Mumsnet hate men” - oh bore off! Shock that people are talking about it on a thread called “To want to know what you're sick of about men !”
imagine threads called:
To want to know what you're sick of about:
driving?
cooking?
teenagers?
the toddler stage?

People responding to those questions does not equal their hate for the topic. You can have opinions without hating something. I am sixk of tailgaters and middle lane hoggers on the motorway: Yet, I enjoy driving.

How dare women have a discussion!

BitOutOfPractice · 28/05/2025 13:37

ItsBouqeeeet · 28/05/2025 09:00

This. Imagine the outrage if a man posted a similar thread about women?

You think that’s not happening? This is what I got for daring to comment on a fb page about football on Monday.

As you can see I haven’t bothered redacting his name. Hopefully a woman in his life sees this and is appalled.

Until the picture is approved, I’ll tell you that it says “get back in the kitchen you fat ugly cnut (sic)”.

There’s so much misogyny to unpack there in that short sentence.

And this is one of the many reasons I’m sick of men.

violence against women and girls, war, violence. All of it.

neverbeenskiing · 28/05/2025 13:40

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:03

How do so many white men end up homeless given all the privilege they have?

White boys pretty much have the worst educational outcomes in the UK.

Edited

A very quick google search shows it's well documented that black and mixed race people are up to 3 times more likely to be homeless and insecurely housed in the UK so not sure if you're just being goady for the sake of it.

Additionally, black boys and young men are more likely to be permanently excluded from education, are overrepresented in the youth justice system and young black male graduates are more likely to be unemployed than their white counterparts so what's your point? If you're seriously trying to argue that white male privilege doesn't exist then there's really no point in having this discussion as you're clearly not interested in facts or evidence.

Dweetfidilove · 28/05/2025 13:52

User32459 · 28/05/2025 13:23

Well, it's the reality that privilege has always been for the elites. Men historically were sent off to war, sent off to work down the mines or in dangerous back-breaking jobs for poor pay and in a lot of cases didn't have the vote either.

Privilege is for the elites, most men have historically been downtrodden.

It's interesting that black/brown boys have the same privilege as white boys in the same socio-economic backgrounds; yet they seem to be cast as enemies, instead of comrades in the fight against elitism.

It would be interesting to see how their outcomes would change if they used the vote they'd been granted over a hundred years ago wisely, engaged with education and training as the mines closed some decades ago and formed cohesive grassroots organisations that lobbied governments for vocational careers and apprenticeships; instead of being distracted by dog-whistle politics.

Caerulea · 28/05/2025 13:53

Yes.