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Men... are u okay? What is the problem?

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LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 15:02

I think this will be removed / deleted but i am not saying anything untrue. Or factually incorrect. But here goes...

Since having my little girl just over a year ago I have started resenting men. I dont know why as my partner isnt bad. I just see them in a whole new light.

Firstly, years ago women couldn't vote and it was the done thing that they would look after the children and home and men were the providers. But, many women (not all!) Now have careers, go to work, earn their own money. We can now vote. Aswell as have a career, many women still take on majority of the housework and childcare. Not because men always refuse but they just dont, we do things automatically. Men, just dont think.

The other day I was driving to visit family and saw a car with its hazards on in the slip road... they have broken down i thought. Nope. A man was standing behind his car pissing. It got me thinking, ive never seen a woman pissing at the side of the road. We just wouldn't, so how do men find themselves in this situation? My dog can hold its bladder until "walkies" so what's the issue?

I read that men commit like 91% of murders, most rapes are men and men mostly abuse their partners. Men are more likely to commit suicide, men dont open up and speak about their feelings.. some men transition to become "women" and fight to enter women spaces. I know women transition to men but you dont hear about them!

I just dont understand. Men.. what is the actual problem??? Apart from sperm, what is your actual purpose??

The posts on here today.. oh my man was messaging a coworker inappropriately and he cant get her moved as it'll be suspicious... WHAT!! Nah he has played his part, otherwise it would be as simple as, hey HR this person is being inappropriate and its making me uncomfortable, here are the messages 🤣🤣

Or the other one, my man spent lots of money on my credit card and refusing to pay up... WHAT🤣🤣

What the fuck, we all play our part to with enabling such shit behaviour.

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WeatherOrNothing · 20/05/2026 18:52

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 15:46

I just wonder why we arent asking what is wrong with men collectively? So everyone who thinks im wrong. Do you honestly think men are fine and its "some" men. I take it when you are raising your daughters you wont be warning them about men?

Yes of course it’s some men. And aren’t you a big fat hypocrite, hat on your dh so much but still married to him

Passingthrough123 · 20/05/2026 18:53

DogsandFlowers · 20/05/2026 18:01

I still don’t understand why pissy bare feet are preferable to pissy shoes 😂😂😂😂😂🙄

Presumably because it's easier to wash piss off feet than it is off shoes? Imagine if you're wearing espadrilles – you won't be washing out of the raffia. 😂

Featherhands · 20/05/2026 18:56

I piss outside regularly.

I like to sit on my tractor bucket or the forks. Gives me a nice comfy toilet type position without worrying I'll pass my knicks.

Thatsillymama · 20/05/2026 18:57

I remember my mother telling me when i was young that any man who describes himself as a nice or good guy never is and he'll likely be the worst of them.
I've found this to be very solid advice. I have some wonderful men in my life but have met some truely awful ones also, mostly through my job.

MoonWoman69 · 20/05/2026 18:59

@JLou08 Well said!

UnemployedNotRetired · 20/05/2026 18:59

Ninapertree · 20/05/2026 18:33

Women can do that too.

Shewees exist.

I wouldnt on the street cuz its disgusting. I stepped in a mans piss yesterday

How did you know it was from a man?

DogsandFlowers · 20/05/2026 18:59

Passingthrough123 · 20/05/2026 18:53

Presumably because it's easier to wash piss off feet than it is off shoes? Imagine if you're wearing espadrilles – you won't be washing out of the raffia. 😂

Oh god
i just cannot fathom taking shoes off for a wee
Maybe I’m the problem

Newrumpus · 20/05/2026 19:00

UniquePinkSwan · 20/05/2026 15:10

The man bashing on this site is getting worse. If men did this on petrolheads you’d all be frothing

I agree. It’s disgusting and pretty immature.

LeaderBee · 20/05/2026 19:01

CocoaTea · 20/05/2026 16:34

But you dismissed her argument with mentioning generations. You are the one who brought that up as a reason why she should forget about it.

It’s also interesting that you mention “teaching our kids to hate Germans and Japanese”.

What on earth makes you say that?

Knowing what happened in the past is nothing to do with “teaching hate” - it is about understanding the past so we can understand how certain imbalances occur or how some unfair structures came to be in place, and hopefully by talking about it honestly and accurately, we and the generations after us, can avoid making the same mistakes.

Interesting you skipped over colonialism which is actually still the blight of many, many countries even today. But you dont want to have that conversation.

Back to OP’s point, let’s say the Suffragettes gave us the right to work. Do you have anything to say about the gender-pay gap?

Although the OP’s references are out of date to you, the impact of them is what I believe she was referring to. Therefore it is in fact relevant.

Do i have anything to say about the gender pay gap?

Yes if it was real then every employer in the country would have a business run by women since they would save so much more money paying their staff less than men, but that's not the case, is it?

LeaderBee · 20/05/2026 19:03

Paganpentacle · 20/05/2026 16:41

87% of the NHS is female.

And you think its just hospitals society needs to run?

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 19:03

I feel like I should create a poll and find out who removes their shoes for a piss

It has never occurred to me to do that, I squat really low and have never pissed on my shoes.

But if I did i dont think I would mind as its usually wheh dog walking and I am mostly wearing wellyboots

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AImportantMermaid · 20/05/2026 19:04

UniquePinkSwan · 20/05/2026 15:10

The man bashing on this site is getting worse. If men did this on petrolheads you’d all be frothing

Men literally do this all the time.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 20/05/2026 19:04

Feis123 · 20/05/2026 18:49

OP got in a car, invented by men, designed and assembled by men, made from metal cast by men, filled by petrol, made from oil extracted by men, drove along a road, built by men, saw a man urinating by the side of the road, then entered a house, built by men, from concrete, poured by men, switched on a computer, invented by men, went online, invented by men, using programmes, invented by men, and wrote in letters of the alphabet, invented by men 'What is the fucking point of men?'

Exactly.. let's not forget the legal system and criminal justice system developed by men and mostly populated by men whose purpose is to keep civilians safe from the small percentage of violent and dangerous men. It doesn't always work, but it is doing a damn good job.

auserna · 20/05/2026 19:05

Squirrel60 · 20/05/2026 15:08

I'm a woman, and at various times over the years, day and night, I've had to pull the car over and try to find some woods or behind a bush for a piss, getting my shoes and trousers off, piss, then back on as soon as I can, and a few times I've come dangerously close to being caught!

I know this is hardly the point of the thread, but why do you need to take your shoes off to have a pee??

Or trousers, for that matter.

LeaderBee · 20/05/2026 19:05

Ninapertree · 20/05/2026 18:33

Women can do that too.

Shewees exist.

I wouldnt on the street cuz its disgusting. I stepped in a mans piss yesterday

Well they can yes, but do you carry a shewee with you wherever you are?

grapesstrawberriespleass · 20/05/2026 19:06

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 18:22

You did. You defended her 🤣

No I didn’t???

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 19:08

grapesstrawberriespleass · 20/05/2026 19:06

No I didn’t???

Im joking. I was using their logic. I dont know why the other woman was mentioned in the context of this thread.

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HarryBlaster · 20/05/2026 19:08

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 18:38

My ex used to take a poo when I was running a bath.

Is that why he’s now your ex?

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 19:11

HarryBlaster · 20/05/2026 19:08

Is that why he’s now your ex?

No. There was lots of reasons. One reason was he was petty during and after arguments. He would do things to "get back" at me but then would tell me after time as he felt bad. One time he admitted to grinding down cat liter and putting it in my alpen

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beeautifullif3 · 20/05/2026 19:12

The problem is women 🤣
Being a man in 2026
Meet a nice lady , get married , have children , work hard while wifey stays home raising the kids.
Wife now has the husband , kids and house so can no longer be bothered to maintain a relationship with husband and yes ladies im talking about intimacy! Sex ! You know all that yucky stuff , coz now you got it all theres no point making the effort anymore right ? And let's not forget first time mums are practically useless these days aren't they , always posting on here , they cant cope , cant sleep, cant keep the house clean ect anyway moving on , it all then ends in divorce, man loses his house , his family and oooh yes wife then goes after his pension too because after all shes been staying at home raising the kids so she deserves whats hers ! Husband has been used , neglected , treated like a lodger for all those years and then loses it all and yet we wonder why men these days dont seem to want to settle down lol , oh and then theres the absolute toxic witches that will claim as much money as possible while destroying the mans relationship with his kids, alienation , false accusations, refusing contact . Shall I go in to the women who report false claims about abuse ? Man rejects woman's advances so she reports him for rape , gets caught out cheating oh no it wasnt it was rape , so not only destroying an innocent mans life but making it harder for women who have genuinely been abused to report and get justice. Yes I have my hard hat on , but its about time as women we started calling each other out on toxic behaviours. So there you have it 😏

VoiceFromThePit · 20/05/2026 19:13

it’s biology imho men ARE from mars

ThisCandidMintGoose · 20/05/2026 19:13

Weeellokthen · 20/05/2026 18:09

I am so surprised to read women sticking up for men, on this site 😮. Highly unusual

unusual on this site? possibly

In rea life? completely common. Most people manage to have perfectly normal interactions and lives

ThisCandidMintGoose · 20/05/2026 19:14

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 19:11

No. There was lots of reasons. One reason was he was petty during and after arguments. He would do things to "get back" at me but then would tell me after time as he felt bad. One time he admitted to grinding down cat liter and putting it in my alpen

surely you must realise that it's not normal? And that no normal man would act like that? It has nothing to do with being "male", he was just deranged.

Feis123 · 20/05/2026 19:15

Dontlletmedownbruce · 20/05/2026 19:04

Exactly.. let's not forget the legal system and criminal justice system developed by men and mostly populated by men whose purpose is to keep civilians safe from the small percentage of violent and dangerous men. It doesn't always work, but it is doing a damn good job.

Just did not want to go in the 'heavy' direction - how they die in the wars, pull people out of fires, etc.etc.

LavenderSkiesxo · 20/05/2026 19:15

ThisCandidMintGoose · 20/05/2026 19:14

surely you must realise that it's not normal? And that no normal man would act like that? It has nothing to do with being "male", he was just deranged.

Absolutely. He was fucking crackers.

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