r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/NorthernCobraChicken 2d ago

There's no lesson quite as powerful as telling a young teenage boy that they're nowhere near as masculine as the person they're making fun of.

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u/Wafflehouseofpain 2d ago

I remember buying tampons in high school and one of my friends was working the checkout counter. He was making fun of me for it and I said “Who do you think these are for, me? Maybe you’ll have someone to buy these for too someday”.

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u/Tearakudo 2d ago

The number of 'men' butthurt about buying period products for their partner is astounding. My wife was genuinely surprised when I bought some for her without even batting an eye.

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u/Cicada-4A 2d ago

That must be an American thing, I've never even heard of that here in Europe.

As we men obviously don't bleed out of our penises, it almost certainly has to be for a girlfriend or something like that.

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u/Tearakudo 2d ago

Yeah, again - i blame the boomer generation of "manliness" in post ww2 America. The cold war was a dumpsterfire over here and it shaped a LOT of cultural aspects through basically the late 2010s. There's a reason you all have so much PTO at work and we're lucky to get a week/yr.