What are some things that give you the ICK in men ? Here are mine.

[joseline]

1. A man who doesn’t have a passport and never travelled out of their country. You mean to tell me you never got out of the country ? Two possibilities. You are an extreme nationalist and think other countries are inferior. Or you simply boring. I am not into people who refuses to travel. People who refuses to travel are the grouchiest motherfuckers ever.
2. A man who drives a big ass oversized pick up truck or SUV. Not the F150s. Those are reasonable sized trucks. I am talking about those men who drive ford F250s or even Ford F650s and GMC sierras, Cadillac Escalade. You are not cool at all. You look stupid.
3. A self proclaimed passport bro. Women in the US and other western countries aren’t tolerating your bullshit so you go in the poorest areas in developing countries and seek desperate women seeking refuge and you taking advantage of that.
4. A man who is afraid to fly. Plane crashes are rare and there are millions of planes flying right now worldwide and 9 times out of 10 they land safely. They take the passengers from A to B without incidents. Even banned airlines from third world countries rarely have crashes. Lock in and face your fears fuck face 🙄.
5. A man who is a vegan or a climate activists. If you start lecturing me about how using AC or heat is damaging the planet or how eating meat is cruel you getting blocked 🚫.
6. A man who voted for trump. You supporting a predator if you voted for that orange dictator.
7. A man who does travels but only goes to all inclusive resort destinations or stick to the crowded touristic areas or even worst, uses travel agents to book trips. That’s what peasants do. Get out of my face. Say I am with a man and he says “oh let’s go spend a week in Montego Bay Jamaica at this nice all inclusive or let’s go to Punta Cana” it would be an instant turnoff. If a man invites me to a cruise or some all inclusive dystopia, I am breaking up with him through text message and I am blocking his number and I am blocking him on all social media pages.
8. a man who is rude to waiters and waitresses.
9. a man who is broke.
10. a man who has no female friends.

@joseline has spelt Suriname wrong too. 😂

Are you me OP? I ditto everything you said.
I could add a few more.. but just booked some flights for some sunshine.. just looking for a villa to rent.. away from the crowds..

Oh, OP, I’m embarrassed for you. You’re on a UK forum. People on here aren’t spending a week in Europe, they live within easy driving distance of many of these places. And listing Rennes, Nantes, Poitiers, Lourdes, St Malot etc as evidence of your cultural savvy is like excitedly asking Americans if they’ve ever been to Chicago or San Francisco, while others are like priding yourself on having been to Boise. Ménerbes is incredibly touristy!

It's true, Poitier and St Malot are not very well known.

Poitiers and St Malo, however, are both quite well known and very nice 😆

St Malo the ferry port? Pretty much anyone who's been on a Eurocamp holiday in Brittany will have been there.

This is perhaps the first post on this website that’s made me genuinely laugh loud.

Have you ever heard of (checks notes), er, France…

Aw we shouldn't laugh, Americans do like to brag about their superb knowledge of Europe and world travel.

Lourdes.? Lourdes not well known?! That top tier tourist spot that attracts millions of visitors annually?

You are on either a (amusing) wind up or are deluded.

Do you also tell people you’re not a tourist, you’re a traveller?

Um, yes?

Why do you think that travelling to those places makes you better than other people?

Weird.

I don't think so, as it doesn't exist. Our well-travelled and extremely worldly OP presumably means Suriname.

Well, this was an interesting read, to say the least.
Little word of advice - if you are trying to show off how many special countries you visited, maybe make sure you understand that not every entry on your list is actually a country...

I don't want to insinuate anything, just wondering, are you from the US, OP? I just have this feeling, you are...

And I know nobody asked me, but an "ick" a woman could potentially give me is probably butchering grammar consistently...I don't mean a typo, I make them, too... but for example, not knowing the difference between singular and plural.. Saying things like "People who refuses".
Another would be people who use the phrase "give me the ick", it's just such a condescending way to look at someone who for one reason or another is just not suitable for you...

a man who has no female friends

I can understand your reasoning about this, but I think it's batty. Just because a man doesn't have female friends, doesn't mean he's an automatic misogynist and just because he does, doesn't mean he's a nice guy. Lots of men adore circulating women around themselves to get female attention, validation AND collect some progressive points on the way! Bonus! LOTS of women fall for that. You'll find that out the hard way one day.

A tight man is just simply awful

Suriname is well-known to quizzers as being the only country in South America with Dutch as their main official language.

Maybe some men just haven't been able to afford to go abroad on holiday. Lots of people living on pay cheque to pay cheque. Doesn't make them a bad person. Same goes for broke men. There is nice guy who works in our local co-op always chatty and helpful. Doubt he's on great money so I'm not gonna have him down as a bad person.

A lot of the things you've written down are quite prejudice in a way. I'd be more likely to avoid someone who holds prejudices against other people without knowing their background.

Pornic(k) sounds like it should be high on the list!

After reading the op I was a bit baffled. After reading the whole thread I feel so happy, this has been the most uplifting read in a while 😂😂😂
Brilliant!

And most of them claim that they ARE European/have European blood - and ancestors. 😆

Of course.

😆😉😎
You are funny! I have no passport and have never been to another country. And at my age I probably never will. Nor do I go to resorts.
I have however seen a lot of remote places as part of my job. Lots of 4WD-ing in jungles and deserts, staying in 'interesting' accommodation and meeting interesting people, living unusual lifestyles. Esp remember the guy whose family have spent 100 years farming trees in rugged hill country and who used a tractor instead of a ute to get around. Only tractors could cope with the slopes and rough tracks. Our 4WD certainly struggled.
And the crocodiles, being careful getting too close to water because of all the crocs. And looney farmers with guns. Multiple shooting just up the road from where we were, 3 people dead.

OP sounds to me like English is not her first language. I'm thinking from a French speaking protectorate because of her focus on historically French connections to many of those listed locations.

Also sounds to me like she's touting for business, if you know what I mean.

Why would you think no one has heard of or been to those countries?? Is there something else going on with you?

OP can't even spell it.

@joseline are you from the USA? This is a UK forum and most people from the UK have a passport and have visited continental Europe at minimum.

You including Lourdes and St Malo on a list of ‘obscure’ places in France is like someone from the USA feeling superior because they’ve been to Houston or Charlottesville.

New Caledonia, French Guiana and Mayotte are not countries.
"Surinam" is a country but it's spelled "Suriname".
"Reunion island" is neither a country nor is it spelled correctly, so double points. It's called "Réunion" and is, like most of your special little adventurer list, a French territory.