If you’ve been paying attention, then you know that this new generation of parents are trying their best to raise kids who have less (or no) harmful gender associations. That means boys can wear pink, girls can love Transformers, boys can hold tea parties and girls can host wrestling matches – and they can do any mixing and matching they want.
Basically, gender is a social construct and people should be allowed to enjoy what they enjoy regardless of their anatomy at birth.
These guys are ready to get with the program, and admit to the “girly” things that are actually pretty awesome no matter how you identify.
17. Men like to smell nice, too!
I use my wife’s shower gel. Men’s shower gel has silly names like “sport” or “arctic blast” and I don’t know what either of those things are meant to smell like.
But douse myself in pomegranate shower gel and I feel lovely all day.
16. This is a sad state of affairs.
Interacting with children in a positive way. I hate that people are suspicious of foul play from men more than women.
Nothing against anybody but i just want to play jump rope and hide and seek without being called a pedophile.
15. Give me a man who reads. Yum.
A blanket, a book, and a huge mug of tea or hot chocolate, or a cold or rainy day.
Also bath bombs.
14. Who doesn’t love one of those?
Bath bomb
Hell yeah
13. Confidence is important.
Using tinted moisturizer (bb cream) to cover up some moderately bad scarring I have from sunburns/acne. It’s basically simple makeup, but holy shit… It’s like using a cheat code when you have bad skin and is so fucking simple and easy.
I wish I’d been doing this back in my teens and twenties when I had even worse acne. I don’t bother with it all the time, but if I’m going to a job interview or out on a date or something, it’s a no brainer.
12. Everyone can take care of themselves!
Tending to my hair! Ever since quarantine began, I haven’t had a chance to get it cut, so I decided to let it grow, turns out I can grow a real viking-style waterfall of hair, and it’s thick as hell too, so now I make sure to never get the 3-in-1 or “Body hair and face” stuff, but use proper shampoos and conditioners.
I don’t towel-dry anymore (Where you hold it taught over your head and rub back and forth like a bowling ball), and I don’t use the hair dryer on hot. I’ve started getting into beard care products too.
11. It’s the best way to get cookies.
Baking cookies constantly.
F*ck you I want cookies.
10. Target knows.
I drink wine in the bathtub.
I also buy dark chocolate occasionally.
The latter probably doesn’t sound too “girly”, but Target prints me coupons for feminine hygiene products, so..
9. We should do more of this.
Have emotions and want female companionship in a purely platonic way.
This.
People find it so hard to understand that sometimes I want to just meet up with my female friends, go grab some cheesecake from Kaspa’s and just chat shit for hours WITHOUT looking for anything more than that.
8. It’s okay to like sugar.
Fruity drinks.
In the 80s there was a popular drink called a fuzzy navel.
Peach schnapps and whatever.
And they were really good, but being newly legal and of course immature, I felt like a total wuss ordering one.
7. One of life’s great joys.
I’m a guy with hair down to the bottom of my shoulder blades. One evening, I was hanging out with some friends when a (platonic) girl friend decided she wanted to braid my hair. Oh my God did it feel amazing! I absolutely love the feeling of someone else playing with my hair. I would feel really weird asking her to do it again, but if she ever does ask again, I’d tell her she should feel free to braid my hair whenever she wants.
Similarly, I have a really hard time just sitting still without at least having something for my hand to fidget with. So sometimes if I’m just like watching a movie or something, I’ll repeatedly braid and unbraid a small section of my hair. But I definitely prefer when someone else does it.
6. A better use for skirts I cannot imagine.
Wear my wife’s long skirts and pretend I’m a samurai.
I won’t be bothered to buy actual hakamas.
5. How can you go wrong?
Girly drinks are the best
I like fruit
I like juice
I like alcohol
Fruity drinks are the bomb
4. Why would she want to?
In a big enough hotel bath tub, my hubby LOVES a bubble bath and I will NEVER take that time away from him.
He deserves it 100% and some day I will buy a house that has a tub big enough for him to have that time any day he wants.
3. Is this…girly?
Crossing my legs, I understand it’s girly but it’s just a habit but i give enough space so i dont crush my balls.
2. You’ll be the one laughing when everyone is 60.
Yo skincare should be a must.
My older brother had acne and it wasn’t getting better because there were times he’d go to sleep without washing his face. I told him to follow a four-step skincare routine (cleanse-tone- moisturise- spot treatment) and his zits started to disappear. His skin is clearer now and he looks happy so yeah
I’m now convincing him to wear sunscreen before going out lol
1. More men do this please.
Cooking and baking is the shit.
F*ck it maybe I’ll make a chess or key lime pie tomorrow
I love to see this, honestly – my rough-and-tumble preschool boy also loves his pink shoes, and that’s just fine.
Tell me the things you love that are more typical of the opposite gender? Let’s start busting some stereotypes, people!
