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To think most men are filthy losers

810 replies

fightbackorriseabove · 07/09/2025 18:05

I'm going through the menopause, so have a low libido at the moment, which might explain my disgust. I don't know. I didn't use to be a prude, but I'm feeling more and more annoyed these days by men and their general behaviour.

I have a few male friends who, to varying degrees, always manage to slip in an innuendo or even an outright sexual remark. And out of politeness, or not wanting to cause a scene, I smile or roll my eyes in jest. I can only think of one occasion when I told a bloke to stop, and he REALLY took the hump. This was a married man who pursued me, but then said he was just joking and that I took myself too seriously. In fact, he got very angry.

I have lots of personal issues at the moment. Mad stuff. One of these issues lead to me googling my ex.

Well, the filth I found was disturbing. Men, thousands of them, masturbating online. I can only think they're doing it in front of each other. Becsuse there can't be many women wanting to sit and watch them. Surely? My ex was one of them.

I'm not talking about Only Fans where people pay. I'm talking about sex webcam stuff where men seem to just be filming themselves wanking. And watching each other. I don't even think it's gay. These are heterosexual men doing it for free. All ages.

Maybe I'm naïve.

But it's been a real eye opener for me.

I always knew men watched porn. But sitting there filming themselves and watching each other. It's madness.

I really do think that we, as women, spend our time worrying, working, caring, thinking, planning... and men just do the stuff thry have to do and then go back to messing with themselves or pestering women. Including their wives. And they keep having to up the limit because they can't get excited uness it's something really vile.

How many of us have felt obliged to have sex with a man, a partner, to avoid his anger, sulking, grumpiness. We've chosen sex as the lesser of two evils when we didn't want it.

It's not a human right, is it? They need to calm the fuck down.

Maybe I'm being unreasonable and grumpy, but I just think most of them ming.

OP posts:
ISpyNoPlumPie · 08/09/2025 12:22

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:18

I have reported this thread. Some of the hateful statements about men are disgusting. I am a woman, wife and mother of two beautiful sons and a daughter. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for wearing your bigotry without an ounce of shame.

All of us or some of us?

I saw a huge numbers of accounts of abusive behaviour from men against women. Did you see that as well? Should the beautiful men be at all ashamed?

TheGodsOfTheCopybookHeadings · 08/09/2025 12:23

Unfortunately sometimes it's necessary to discuss how vile some men are. It does no good at all to try to gloss over it. And as I've said, all the men I know are decent, good, strong men. That doesn't change the fact that many men aren't. If it hurts you so much to think about it then maybe you ought to go elsewhere instead of trying to shut down discussion of the reality that many women experience.

In fact why don't you read back and report the specific comments instead.

ToutesetBonne · 08/09/2025 12:23

LovelyLuluu · 08/09/2025 08:33

OP, I think you need to look at why you are hanging out or attracting these men? I have many male friends and none of them behave like this. Maybe it’s your choice in friends/partners that is the problem?

^^This

You are the common denominator in all of this.

Maybe you're unable to filter men early on or you ignore red flags.

I've never known any men like this and none of my female friends are with men like this (and yes, I'd know.)

Forgive my being blunt, but this is ridiculous! Have neither of you read the rest of the posts? If the OP is so wrong, why does almost every contributor to the thread agree with her?

Caz101x · 08/09/2025 12:25

I haven't been able to read the whole thread but would say that from what I've observed over my lifetime that most men disgust me, sadly. I know my partner watches porn and most probably has done throughout our relationship even though he knows I disagree with it. He also told me about a mate of his who slept with another woman the night before his wedding..!! Men are so entitled it's mind boggling.

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:28

Imagine if the tables were turned and a man posted something similar about women. There would be an uproar.

TheStrawHasBeenObliterated · 08/09/2025 12:28

They are charming creatures, arent they. I once said as one, a brick shithouse on a bike shot past me with barely a piece of paper between us, to mind his distance.

His response: "Suck my dick".

NAMALT. But huge percentage terms: pretty much always a MAN.

Speak up against them and draw their ire like a thermo-nuclear bomb.

TheGodsOfTheCopybookHeadings · 08/09/2025 12:30

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:28

Imagine if the tables were turned and a man posted something similar about women. There would be an uproar.

There's no equivalence so no, that doesn't hold any validity. Shut your eyes and shout lala but it doesn't change the reality that many men behave horrifically.

ThatWasJustANoise · 08/09/2025 12:30

If I think about the men I work with, I would say one is a creep and says inappropriate things which I just tell him to stop being a twat. My boss is a nice guy but can be misogynistic and old fashioned.

The rest I don't find offensive, awful or filthy. I get on really well with them. The youngest I did lecture him about why there should be women only spaces.

I've had an abusive ex when I was younger but I've ended up marrying my best friend. He is lovely.

My DH does have a high sex drive and has hinted in the past if he didn't think we were having sex much. He's never pressured me though and I still find him attractive. And enjoy it.

Maybe, I just got lucky.

ISpyNoPlumPie · 08/09/2025 12:31

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:28

Imagine if the tables were turned and a man posted something similar about women. There would be an uproar.

Imagine??? Imagine??? 🤣 Who needs to imagine. I see endless online abuse from men towards women. Have you somehow missed this? Also, to be clear, I don’t think this thread is abusive towards men. It’s a sad account of reality for many women.

I also think there would be uproar if women and girls perpetrated the same levels of violence including sexual violence against men as men do against women and girls. Can you fucking imagine that?

Edited to clarify my position on this thread.

TheJoyOfWriting · 08/09/2025 12:33

TrishM80 · 08/09/2025 06:46

"No men allowed" apart from tradesmen any time something needed to be built or fixed. Lasted for a few years until she sold it to some bloke.

Why don't you try resurrect it, since you hate men so much?! 😂

I don't hate men. I'm not the OP.

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 08/09/2025 12:35

Unpaidviewer · 08/09/2025 12:09

Or you could just speak for yourself and say "I am just turned off and disgusted by their sexual behaviour." Because i dont agree with your generalisation.

It's a given that individual posts on here are the opinion of the individual poster.

Welcome to forums on the internet.

TheGodsOfTheCopybookHeadings · 08/09/2025 12:36

BigFatLiar · 08/09/2025 12:07

Actually, married nearly 40 years and yes indeed my husband is one of the good ones.

Then you should thank your lucky stars. Not imply that women simply enjoying sex and talking about it and/ or their relationship experiences are disgusting or in any way equivalent to the sorts of horrific behaviours men indulge in.

Disgusting comment.

LovelyLuluu · 08/09/2025 12:37

Forgive my being blunt, but this is ridiculous! Have neither of you read the rest of the posts? If the OP is so wrong, why does almost every contributor to the thread agree with her?

Read it yes. Agree with her no- and neither do many other posters.
Have you indeed read all their posts?
Some actually say her whole thread ought to be deleted because it's so extreme and anti-men.

However, if you think that it's normal behaviour for a male neighbour to tell you he heard you masturbating or another keep referring to 'pussies' in messages to you, [that you don't block] you must live in a strange world.

WFHforevermore · 08/09/2025 12:40

There are some truly deranged and unstable women on this site.

MadinMarch · 08/09/2025 12:42

Muffinmam · 07/09/2025 21:14

”How many of us have felt obliged to have sex with a man, a partner, to avoid his anger, sulking, grumpiness. We've chosen sex as the lesser of two evils when we didn't want it.”

Yes, pretty much every time I have sex it’s so I can have a brief reprieve until his sulking starts again.

I used to be so in love with him but he has been abusive and manipulative so now I just fake that I’m content.

For years I wanted the security and the companionship of being in a relationship. Now I’m here I can understand why women prefer being single. All of the years I spent worrying about being rejected and not wanted by men was such an utter waste of my time.

It makes sense that women are the ones that most often instigate divorce. The thought of dealing with the mood swings, the silent treatment, the rages, the drama, the annoying interruptions and demands for attention just absolutely exhaust me!! Then there are his revolving attention seeking farts and his mind games!!

I’m sick of being prodded, grabbed and touched. I now go and sit on the stairs just to get away from him. If I go upstairs to the bedroom he demands I come back downstairs - so sitting on the stairs is a happy medium for me.

I’m in perimenopause right now - but I think I would feel this way regardless. I just want quiet. I want to be left alone.

@Muffinmam
Your post is really shocking. He sounds abusive and controlling and it sounds like an awful situation to be in.
I really hope you have the strength and wherewithal to make plans to separate from him. No one should experience living like this.
Wishing you better circumstances very soon.

fightbackorriseabove · 08/09/2025 12:42

LovelyLuluu · 08/09/2025 12:37

Forgive my being blunt, but this is ridiculous! Have neither of you read the rest of the posts? If the OP is so wrong, why does almost every contributor to the thread agree with her?

Read it yes. Agree with her no- and neither do many other posters.
Have you indeed read all their posts?
Some actually say her whole thread ought to be deleted because it's so extreme and anti-men.

However, if you think that it's normal behaviour for a male neighbour to tell you he heard you masturbating or another keep referring to 'pussies' in messages to you, [that you don't block] you must live in a strange world.

What do you want me to say? I'm pointing it out as being something that, indeed, shouldn't be normal behaviour. But these are real, genuine things that have happened to me. And this thread has a lot of posters describing similar and worse things?

I don't hate all men. I'm a heterosexual woman. I enjoy male company. I have a wonderful brother-in-law, male friends, and nephews. You're missing the point of my thread.

Women should be able to discuss their experiences without being called man-haters or being blamed for them.

All I'm doing is bringing up some concerns and asking other people if they agree or not. If you don't that's fine. That's the whole point, isn't it? We get to talk about these matters on an anonymous forum.

OP posts:
Katheclepto · 08/09/2025 12:43

SOME men not most men!
I know a few men (partners of friends who have had affairs) but I also know a couple of women who have. I also know three women aged 38-60 who just want sex from men and nothing else. They use tinder and only fans etc. If men want to take them on dates or form relationships, they’re rude to them!

My husband is lovely and caring and thoughtful as are many of my friends husbands and men in my family.

It’s not just men remember… it’s people!! Some are bloody weird! Let’s look at the likes of Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips. Sex obsessed. Taking advantage of 18 year old virgins whose brains can’t necessarily quite grasp the concept of the consequences down the line of filmed loveless sex with a random woman who shags anyone and anything who also can’t prove the STI status of all those she sleeps with!

TheGodsOfTheCopybookHeadings · 08/09/2025 12:43

I also think there would be uproar if women and girls perpetrated the same levels of violence including sexual violence against men as men do against women and girls. Can you fucking imagine that?

Yes, and rightly so, of course. The fact that there isn't is strongly indicative of how vanishingly rare it is for women to display such behaviours. It simply doesn't happen.

Mind you I'm not sure whether that will be the case for much longer. As I said, we're into a dark age for humanity and I think it will only get much, much worse.

GingerPower · 08/09/2025 12:46

TheSquashyHatofMrGnosspelius · 08/09/2025 11:38

It's not just about some men's sexuality though. It's about they way some of them live their lives with no genuine integrity.

So many men need a mother rather than a wife and their wives lives turn to utter misery because they thought they were marrying an equal when they end up with a manchild that can't even manage 10% of the household chores and the mental load.

PPs on this thread have mentioned that their DH goes to pieces if she gets sick and is scared if she got properly sick as opposed to being out of the game for a few days with just the flu or something, then everything would just be allowed by the man to fall apart rather than him make an effort to keep all the balls in the air and the plates spinning. Worse, some of them get the dressing gown of doom out to try and play 'illness top trumps'. It's bloody pathetic.

We don't want them to be more like us. We want them to be a normal human being. Able to see what needs doing and do it rather than getting spiteful or sulky or 'depressed' when they are expected to do something another woman would do without thinking twice.

So many men want to have kids but can barely shift themselves off the settee if they need to actual put some effort in.

A Saturday lunchtime at Maccies and there are all the dreary separated men with their kids doing the same 'contact' things they have done for the last five years.

I think about the menfolk in my family and how they ran their lives. Servicing the car, decorating the house, growing veggies and building bird tables and nest boxes, cleaning the neighbours chimneys in exchange for a small box of black magic, polishing shoes, making fences, digging ponds, cutting down trees, creosoting things and varnishing things and mowing and taking the kids out fishing, camping or to watch the horses on the gallops at 5am. All as well as working full time and overtime as well.

Men have such limited abilities and interests by comparison and seem to have become toxic into the bargain.

It took me 40 years to find DH and whilst he is not perfect, we get each other and he understands women because he was raised by his mother with a sister. He is a good 'un but I am likely to lose him soon and there is not a cats chance I would consider having another man in my life as a result of what I see, what I hear and what I went through before I met him.

Yeah, but the flipside is greedy women on the take. There's a current thread in AIBU where the OP shares custody 50/50 with the father. She already gets both child benefit payments but has now decided to go for maintenance too having found out how much her ex-h is earning.

Custody is 50/50 and she admitted the father has had the kids for more days than her this year. He's put in a claim for child benefit (presumably to stop her presenting herself as the primary carer) and she's furiously indignant about it although he's done the majority of the childcare and never complained about her having both CB payments.

I see this shit from a lot of women. Even if marriage means assets are now shared, I think I'd feel grabby walking away with far more than I'd ever have earnt on my own.

GingerPower · 08/09/2025 12:47

Although I totally agree about lazy men. Would never entertain some fat lump kicking back on the sofa whilst I did all the housework. No fucking way!

Petitchat · 08/09/2025 12:47

JHound · 08/09/2025 11:11

I have a friend who is/was a FSSW (both with private clients and in a brothel). She would tell me a large chunk of her clients are married men / men in long term relationships.

And also she is very young looking. She would tell me when she wears her school uniform outfit is when she would get the most bookings.

Depressing....

JHound · 08/09/2025 12:51

GingerPower · 08/09/2025 12:46

Yeah, but the flipside is greedy women on the take. There's a current thread in AIBU where the OP shares custody 50/50 with the father. She already gets both child benefit payments but has now decided to go for maintenance too having found out how much her ex-h is earning.

Custody is 50/50 and she admitted the father has had the kids for more days than her this year. He's put in a claim for child benefit (presumably to stop her presenting herself as the primary carer) and she's furiously indignant about it although he's done the majority of the childcare and never complained about her having both CB payments.

I see this shit from a lot of women. Even if marriage means assets are now shared, I think I'd feel grabby walking away with far more than I'd ever have earnt on my own.

, I think I'd feel grabby walking away with far more than I'd ever have earnt on my own.

So those women who agree to step back from paid work for the benefit of the family should be penalised for it if the marriage ends?!

JHound · 08/09/2025 12:54

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:18

I have reported this thread. Some of the hateful statements about men are disgusting. I am a woman, wife and mother of two beautiful sons and a daughter. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for wearing your bigotry without an ounce of shame.

There is a delicious irony in your post…

AngryBird6122 · 08/09/2025 12:55

I've never known any men like this and none of my female friends are with men like this (and yes, I'd know.) @LovelyLuluu men can put on a show you know

JHound · 08/09/2025 12:55

estrogone · 08/09/2025 12:28

Imagine if the tables were turned and a man posted something similar about women. There would be an uproar.

They do. All the time. They even make podcasts on it and some make a name from themselves from misogyny.