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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.
My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy “helpfully” telling her that she was grabbing one “For Men™”, that the ones “For Women™” were the pink ones.
I immediately looked at the guy like “lol what, who asked”.
(My mom uses “men’s” antiperspirants because she doesn’t care about that, and they are usually cheaper than “women’s”)
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Femininity is nouns (due to objectification), masculinity is verbs (due to the valorisation of action)
Not true, naval supremacy is a noun.
That’s a really good way to summarise the problem actually.
Verbing weirds languages, but it’s apparently very masculining \s
It’s still better than nominalization.
Cool sport rush smells like mint. The bottle is black and the sticker has a wave of some sorts printed on it(the added surfer is optional). The gel is blue if its a fancier brand.
You buy it because you are doing sports but manly and sweat really manly. Only a cool sport rush can help against that. Its pretty obvious idk
edit: the bottle can be dark blue with silver applications on the sticker too! ngl this shit is more complex than i thought!
I’ve seen shaving cream in “sports edition” before. Can you explain that? Does it shave faster?
Uuuh,
probably because it isnt really that manly to shave anything but your face. But if its done for sports its even manlier.
dont @ me. I dont make the rules.
It’s for racing cyclists. There’s nothing more aero than legs and face shaved with sports shaving cream.
And regular shaving cream just won’t do the trick.
Visually you may not notice the difference, but the air flowing around you at 200m/s as you cycle up mnt Thor will.
Make sure that your micro plastic shower puff is blue, black, or silver.
Wouldn’t want your rubber ducky collection think you were gay.
Are you saying multiple brands use Cool Sport Rush?
My favorite concept is Unscented.
I’ve found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It’s kind of amazing to me. It smells like “nothing” and “existing” as a scent concept.
Then there’s a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.
How tf would we know if something smells like after sex. That sounds like it smells awful, unless you are well, horny.
Is there even an “after sex” smell that isn’t just regular sweaty smell?
Yeah, I gotta say, there is definitely an ‘after sex’ smell. I’ve cleaned up many a place, and it is obvious when folks have been humping. There’s a distinct difference between a gym’s sweaty smell and a bedroom/hotel room sweaty smell.
Sweat plus the scent of sexual fluids.
That reminds me of how the original Febreeze was an odor remover that didn’t smell like anything. It wasn’t very popular, so they started adding scents to them.
I’m a man and my deodorants are either lemon or sage.
Just stop buying shit.
I mean, I love lemon, but I wouldn’t rub one on my armpits…
Pfft. Coward.
I washed my balls in 24% acetic acid once.
They did get clean, in the sense that it burned the outermost layer of skin right off, yeah so but just letting you all know not to do that.
TIL to avoid washing my balls with concentrated vinegar.
It seemed like a reasonable thing to do at the time.
Wasn’t really planning on it, but thanks for the heads up.
You’re welcome!
Why not?
Lemon is an excellent body smell. Sage is toxic to dogs and perhaps cats fyi.
I’m a roasted chicken cooking in the sun and my deodorants are either olive oil or a sweet kiss from Nonna.
Just stop buying shit. Also, if you didn’t grow those lemons and sage yourself, you’re part of the problem because you also could stop buying shit.
Are you growing those olives and producing the olive oil or…
yes, my Nonna actually gave me an olive oil gland so I could squeeze out my own
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My deodorant is called “pungent sweat”.
Just stop buying shit.
That’s not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.
Carbon Jungle
Yeah that’s where my head went at lol, we get “fancy wood” scent.
As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we’ve managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.
Believe me, as a gay man, I am confident with the bouquet smell.
I hate the fact that most (but not all fragrances) are shoehorned into male/female categories Its a smell! It doesn’t have genitalia, if you love it wear it And as a fragrance nerd I have a lot of supposedly ‘masculine’ scents full of woods, spices, booze etc A (male) truck driver mentioned that he loved wearing Chanel no5 on one of the fragrance sites which I think is fantastic! A man comfortable with himself and wearing what he loves
Copper Bourbon cedar is my favorite
True or not… cant we get some outrage at the (gestures broadly) injustice?
I’d be more outraged if I used the stuff. I use scentless or when it comes to soaps I don’t buy the men’s scents. I’ll smell like vanilla after my shower if I want to!
I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn’t realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.
The scent: Cypress & Grapevine
Nobody is stopping men from smelling line vanilla or lavender.
I smell almost as fruity as I am. Not all of us smell like sandalwood.
Who says some of us don’t?
That’s like saying “Nobody is stopping men from wearing dresses”. You probably won’t get arrested for it, but there are definitely social pressures that strongly discourage it.
Nah, you could walk around smelling like vanilla or citrus and still smell masculine.
my preferred cologne has main notes of lavendar and black pepper.
Its annoying that every mans product is “whiskey barrel” or “bourbon wood” or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic “guy scents” so they dont have to call it ‘bergamot lavender neroli allspice’.
That’s a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.
It doesnt even smell like the barrell…i have on my shelf right right now several fragrances with “whiskey” in the name. Granted, I like all of them, they are good smells, but they smell nothing like aged oak, scorched aged oak, or other whiskey-adjacent things.
I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie’s. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie’s but thats not the point.
You would not like Tuscon Leather by Tom Ford. Though some say it smells like cocaine which may make it more appealing.
If we’re gonna have “guy scented” stuff, can we at least do “guy stuff” stuff smells I actually enjoy.
Campfire. Burnt gunpowder. Sawdust. Sizzling Steaks.
Why do we get locker room and sports bar?
I was at the grocery store with my brother in law and saw some guys girlfriend giving him shit over the men’s scents for body wash.
“Men’s stuff all smells like wood. Why?!”
Without skipping a beat, I ran over, picked up a bottle and said “whoa, I want to smell like wood”
Girlfriend glared daggers at me, as apparently I had just diffused the debate of the century, while her boyfriend was giving me thumbs up and smiling.
For the rest of the day, my brother in law and I would respond to everything with “smells like wood”
The ancient Egyptians used sandalwood to produce perfume oils. Smelling like wood isn’t ever going out of style.
wood smells good tho
Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because ‘ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel’ just isn’t for me.
As a large bearded man who uses Coconut and Vanilla body wash and deodorant. Along with lemon/sage + tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, I’m with you
I smell like Product The Supermarket Will Drop In Two Weeks.
Options are tree, cold tree, beach tree, and mystery menthol.
Wish I could smell like Hegelian dialectic or categorical imperative or something like that.
Personally I use Naval Supremacy soap in the shower and Saw Tooth Deodorant. And my aftershave is Lilac Vegetal. And my cuppa tea this morning is Lumber Slut.
**All real products. The soap and deodorant are Christmas gifts from my 2 of my Grandsons. I’ve used the after shave for years. And the tea is a ripe Pu Er that I really enjoy.
When it is a real thing is always like Tobacco, Bourbon, leather, or some kind of burnt wood.
The bourbon scent just smells like charred vanilla and tastes like shit.
Doesn’t even get you drunk.
Ah, I see you frequent the “for men” candle section at Bath and Body Works
