| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 2:55:50 PM | I've always had a serious phobia and/or disgust for****oaches. I don't think I'm afraid of them as much as they just make me physically ill to the point where I can't eat anything and I can't sleep until I've killed it. I don't even like to be in their proximity when I kill them so I go into the closet and get a gun so I can shoot them from 20 feet away. OK, not a gun, just a big-ass can of bug spray that can fire a good distance.
My mom usually makes fun of me for it because apparently it makes me less of a man to be freaked out by household pests. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 3:26:31 PM | Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
No. Well not to me at least. Although I admit I've been with more men who weren't afraid of insects, the last guy I dated was deathly afraid of spiders. So he'd come and get me to please get rid of them each time he encountered one.
And as far as roaches go...erm...shouldn't every man woman or child be scared or at least a little disgusted by the sight of c0ckroaches?? Ewww!
My ex being a floor installer/carpet layer had some pretty horrific stories about the roaches he came across in his job sometimes.
And even him who wasn't scared of insects or much of anything was pretty freaked out one day when he had to have his partner hold a blow torch to keep the roaches at bay while trying to lay some vinyl in some roach infested apartment.
Now maybe he embellished the story a bit for the sake of seeing my face go green at the corners... haha...but roaches are gross and I don't blame you one bit for being freaked out or scared my friend. 
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 3:34:05 PM | This is one of the few areas where we're allowed to impose the double standard on the guy. We're allowed to be afraid of bugs. Men aren't. Haha.
Really doesn't make up for the 'girls can't sleep around' thing though.
Most people will find it to be a delightful quirk. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 3:41:41 PM |
Don't EVER move to Florida.
You'd be useless to me, boy.
The main reason why I am on this site is to find me a man who'll deal with bugs.
*crosses OP from the list*
*shrugs*
Any REAL man around?
There's a plametto bug in the bathroom right now...
Hey, they go *crunch*.
He he... I call June Bugs - Crunchies... cuz they do go *crunch when you step on them.
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 3:42:58 PM | If your mom can laugh when there's a****oach around, make her kill it.
Me, I turn tail and run screaming into the night.
I don't think you're a wuss, OP. What sane person feels comfortable around cockroaches? | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 4:13:13 PM | | My ex and just about every man I've dated was afraid of wasps and hornets. I used to be until I had labor pains. No pain compares to that. I don't like bugs but I just kill the little or big baztardz when I see them, unless they're outside. Then I let them be. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 5:03:19 PM |
This is one of the few areas where we're allowed to impose the double standard on the guy. We're allowed to be afraid of bugs. Men aren't. Haha.
Yea but you have to deal with man flu. Which is worse? Putting up with man flu or maybe having to kill a bug (assuming he is home, not busy and it doesn't get you first)? | |
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~Kyn~
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 5:16:09 PM | Wussy? Nah.
Weird? Sure.
I'm a very odd woman. Bugs and spiders and rats and snakes don't bother me. I often feel like I'M the manly one in any romantic setting I'm in, and if I had to add the fact that I don't mind creepy crawly things to the list of things that make me feel like less of a girl I'd be weirded out.
They won't hurt you. You just step on them, pick up the remains, throw it in the trash, and wash your hands. It's easier than making a turkey sandwich. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 5:23:46 PM |
My mom usually makes fun of me for it because apparently it makes me less of a man to be freaked out by household pests.
To those that called the OP unmanly, allow me to state, that he has a point. There are more of them, than there are of us.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 5:42:47 PM | Liam, I know what you mean, I'm deathly afraid too, but I do, what I gotta do in times of needing to display a heroic act and KILL one, with or without bug spray, although I haven't had to in years. I suggest you find you a girl who is not frightened of bugs, so she can come to your rescue and be your hero. Just remember hun, to reward her properly. Tell us, what about muggers? Could you at least take on a mugger? I mean, since you can't kill a c0ckroach there has to be some sort of trade off there. Tell us Liam dear, do you scream when you see one?...jus' wondering~tilts head~
Oh, I FORGOT about the Palmetto bugs that are big enough to carry off ones furniture in Florida. ~shrugs~ Oh, well will have to resume hatred and squirmishness of killing bugs again. Have to brush up somehow on that. Ewwww!!
 OMG *Kyn*, I have tears rolling from laughing so hard, I'm sorry, I truly am, but I'm just picturing your expression on your face of "WTF"??? | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 5:48:05 PM | | GO watch Andrew Zimmerman on the travel channel where he travels all over the world and goes to countries where roaches and many other bugs are a good source of protein and said to be rather nutty tasting . | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:12:54 PM |
Good frigging grief. Just put down some baking soda, bugs love the taste of it but it gives them gas...& they don't have the ability to fart........ so they explode Are you serious? If so, then coooooolllllllllll. I'll be looking to blow up some bugs. 
I don't care what the guy thinks of bugs. Personally, I really don't like****oaches and it sort of depresses me to be in the same place they are, but I don't expect the guy to take care of them.
For some reason spiders love me and always move into whatever location I live in and then they move into bed with me. I don't know where they get the stupid idea to make a web on me. I don't have bugs. My bed doesn't have bugs, except for the stupid spider. Oh, and the time it attached an egg sack to my leg while I was sleeping was just lovely. Stupid-assed spiders. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:17:14 PM | Oh boy. My guy and I would have to work out a trade system if we're both afraid of bugs. I've been run out of my apartment by a moth. I'm not proud of this fact. *lol*
I wouldn't say it makes you a whussy, but it may be disconcerting to some women. I find it endearing so long as he's not screaming at the top of his lungs running around in a circle. If killing things gives him the heebie-jeebies, then I'll take care of it. I'd want him to clean the shoe though. Seems only fair. | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:27:32 PM | Personally, I can either take a spider outside or squish it if I have to...but I'd rather die than hook a worm.
And I won't even go fishing anymore just so I don't have to see that poor thing fighting for his life at the end of a hook. Dang!
And don't even get me going on seeing the fishes wiggling and gasping for air at the bottom of a boat...double dang!
And no, I'm not a vegetarian so I guess I am a hypocrite, but I can't stand to see anything or anyone suffer.
Not even a worm or a fish. Not even a bug OR a roach for that matter. A quick squish is okay.
And even then I sometimes feel guilty for killing them. But definitely no torturous slow death for me. No thank you.
Anyway OP...fears and phobias are NOT a gender thing in *my* opinion. I have no fear of mice or snakes or bugs in general like "girls" are supposed to have. That's all hogwash as far as I'm concerned.
I also love thunderstorms and the bigger and louder they are, the more I like it. But I fear many other things. Some of those fears are rational and some are just plain stupid. And so what. To each their own fears.
JMO
\/ Edit: Yeah I guess you're right...of all the fears and phobias out there, I'd say that the fear or disdain of snakes is pretty universal and probably equal on both sides. I don't fear them...although I do NOT wish to come face to face with one when I'm swimming in a lake....yikes! Haha. | |
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~Kyn~
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:34:07 PM | Good frigging grief. Just put down some baking soda, bugs love the taste of it but it gives them gas...& they don't have the ability to fart........ so they explode
OMG!! Id be soooo in on that with strange too.
Dammit...I dunno if Ive got baking soda in the cupboard...or any bugs for that matter.
Whats a fricken chef without baking soda?  | |
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| Is it considered whussy for a guy to have a fear of bugs?
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:52:38 PM |
Dammit...I dunno if Ive got baking soda in the cupboard...or any bugs for that matter. Whats a fricken chef without baking soda? I have to again at ~Kyn~......no baking soda and a chef? What's wrong with that picture? In years past I have worked with a number of chef's, I think they had a box of baking soda tied around their necks! LOL.
Good frigging grief. Just put down some baking soda, bugs love the taste of it but it gives them gas...& they don't have the ability to fart........ so they explode ^^^REALLY??? That's great. I wanna watch, I wanna watch. ~going out to find bugs~ OP, could you "do" the baking soda bit? But that would possibly mean "bug guts" on the wall and floor. | |
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...he couldnt catch a spider and just abandoned me in traffic...but now there's cash involved...he can dress up like Ripley in the Alien movies and fight those suckers.
