Most men give me the ick!

[Ceriane]

Can anyone else relate or is it just me?

If you can’t see the difference between raising a son and not being attracted to adult men you’re not related to, then I seriously hope you are not a parent at all.

And how do you think lesbians deal with raising sons? Should they not because they’re not attracted to men? Can you even comprehend what you’re writing?

Oh, so your sons are lovely, it’s just others who disgust you?

Well that’s far more reasonable…

I hope you're teaching them not to mansplain, not to manspread, to do domestic work, to keep their hands and stares to themselves, to respect women's boundaries, to promote women at work and champion equal pay, to take paternity leave, to challenge their mates when they send porn round on WhatsApp, to not use misogynistic language and, well, you get the picture.

Or otherwise pander to them.

God forbid any woman who doesn’t treat them like the hottest shit that ever excisted.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

No dear, that usually encourages them.

Essentially this is all that's required x

Ok then.

I'm not sure I even give them enough thought to get the ick. I just think of them as being inferior because they seem to get ill more easily, most seem lazy or incompetent at work, many seem deviant and do the dirty at any opportunity. Just inferior and in 10000 years they won't exist! Believe it or not I'm married!

Can't have women discussing whatever they like eh

The getting I'll all the time is a whole 1000 post thread!

OMG yes. From when I was a teenager and right through to my early 30's I fancied so many men. I didn't act on it as I was in relationships but the physical lust feeling was there. Now I don't feel anything for any men at all. Not repulsed as such but all those feelings are utterly dead. I'm also not gay as I don't feel sexually attracted to women either. It's quite liberating not caring to be honest and I love living alone.

I am old and I can promise you that they get worse. Lots of old blokes are absolute stinkers with farts of rage coming out of their entitled misogynistic mouths. Thankfully I am bi-sexual.

I honestly have not known any good men in my life. Dad - drunken wife beater. Brothers who took me for granted and cruel. Boyfriends who all treated me badly. Current partner wants a mum not a women in his life.

I hear about good men in other peoples lives. I also hear about the lengths some women have to go to to keep these men. Mainly subsuming themselves.

I cannot recall the last man I fancied or crushed on. Even just for looks. No fanny gallops here 😂

@WhenPushComesToShove As the mother of boys, you should know feelings towards adult males have nothing to do with parenting your sons. You can try your best to raise them to not be useless arseholes, but it can be undone by the patriarchal society we live in. They realise they can get away with so much and women will put up with it.

Once you start to see all the sexism in this world its just breathtaking. No wonder males are so deficient, the positive discrimination they receive is not helping them, its making every generation weaker than the last. When I compare the men of today to my grandfather and his peers, its tragic. I'm also trying to raise my sons to be better than what society expects of them, for them as much as anything else. I hope I succeed, this porn addled, game obsessed, lazy pointless life so many seem to get drawn into does not make them truly happy. Its that age old truism, you get out of life, what you put in to it.

I’m just disappointed by men. Most of them are nice enough but they’re too comfortable in the system that benefits them to challenge the misogyny and sexism that they’re constantly party to.

@OhMerde - hear hear! And I’m a mother to two sons.

I’m in my late 50’s and it’s exceedingly rare that I find anyone over 50 (& not a lot under) attractive. For the most part it’s the air of entitlement that they give off, like I should be grateful they’re speaking to me. Also as a rule I think men lose their looks earlier.

Men don’t get ill more easily, they take fewer sick days from work than women do.

healthcare-digital.com/medical-devices-and-pharma/women-have-more-sick-days-men

@AnaïsM that's because they don't need to look after children who are sick more often than not. Thanks for reminding me that's another flaw!

It's not because they get I'll less! When they get I'll. We all bloody know about it too!

What a depressing and fascinating thread.

Have DS and DD. DD is forever challenging the DS about sexism (as do I) .

It's the talking at you the gets me. The 'let me tell you a thing or two about whatever' and then proceeding to talk bollocks. See it in my personal and work life. And I think I notice a lack of respect for women of a certain age. I am sure when I was younger I was listened to more even though I knew less than I know now.

Not sure if I would call it ick but I hear you.

Same here! I want tall dark and handsome and all the ones round here are short fat and ropey looking.

No, the report was about days off sick, not days caring for children.

Do you have any actual data suggesting that men are sick more?