| | "manly" vs. "unmanly" foodsPage 1 of 2 (1, 2) | To all you dudes out there who actually try to make healthy eating choices, do you ever get idiots poking fun at you for being “gay” or “girly” or whatever?
As an example, I was out with some colleagues from work recently and I ordered a salad instead of fries, and all three of the guys I was with made jokes about it. I eat yogurt and fruit every morning, always have vegetables like Brussels sprouts in my lunch. I’m the butt of jokes all the time because of it.
And what about you women—if you see a guy order a salad, does that look wimpy?
Don’t get me wrong—you can tell me it’s the gayest thing you’ve ever seen, and I’m still going to do it because a good diet keeps me feeling young and energetic, but I’m just curious.
I just can’t get over how absurd it is to make jokes about somebody who eats well. It’s like, oh you’re right, there is *nothing* more manly than a big fat gut and a jowly face. Go ahead and shovel those onion rings into your fat yap and see where it’ll get you in the long run.
Seriously, it’s just as stupid as making fun of somebody for not smoking. More, even. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 12:50:26 PM | I'm with you all the way. I'd much rather my boyfriend eat and be healthy and fit than stuff his face with manly foods.
Apparently his ex disagrees, though.
He had a meal out with her and the kids the other day, and I think he had a salad. She told him that he "eat[s] like a white girl."
Maybe she's jealous that he's so much hotter and more athletic now that he's 80 lbs. lighter. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 12:56:30 PM |
As an example, I was out with some colleagues from work recently and I ordered a salad instead of fries, and all three of the guys I was with made jokes about it. I eat yogurt and fruit every morning, always have vegetables like Brussels sprouts in my lunch. I’m the butt of jokes all the time because of it.
Dude, don't you think it's about time you came out of the closet and started buying panties instead of boxers ?
But seriously, how old are these dolts that bug you ?
I mean if they're just teasing you but don't really mean it, then whatever.
But if they do really mean it, then who cares what a dolt thinks ?
And no, I never get teased about what I eat.
However, I used to get teased when I'd eat a banana with chocolate pudding by dipping the banana in the pudding, but that's different. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 1:31:09 PM | all you dudes out there who actually try to make healthy eating choices, do you ever get idiots poking fun at you for being “gay” or “girly” or whatever? As an example, I was out with some colleagues from work recently and I ordered a salad
Did they punch you in the shoulder for emphasis?
What some guys do in attempting to seem "manly" or "macho" is poke fun at others who may appear different for many little things.
What is telling for them is how YOU respond.. Punch them back a bit harder on the shoulder or find something to "tease" them about is usually the way that may make you seem like "one of the guys",
instead of turning red or getting overly defensive of your particular "difference".  | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 4:05:20 PM | | I've had that...and also a work colleague poking fun at me because he's big and muscular and I'm quite slight. I invited him to join me for a 15 mile run the following sunday and we could see how strong he really is both physically and mentally. Needless to say I ran alone :) | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 6:59:35 PM |
Did they punch you in the shoulder for emphasis?
What some guys do in attempting to seem "manly" or "macho" is poke fun at others who may appear different for many little things.
What is telling for them is how YOU respond.. Punch them back a bit harder on the shoulder or find something to "tease" them about is usually the way that may make you seem like "one of the guys",
Haha, don't get me wrong, I understand "ball breaking" between men. I take part in it all day every day as both giver and receiver.
If these same guys make a joke about my shirt, the beer I chose to drink, my bald head, the folk music I'm listening to, or whatever, it doesn't bother me in the least. I'm not sure what it is about this particular thing that irritates me, but it does. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 7:00:42 PM |
He had a meal out with her and the kids the other day, and I think he had a salad. She told him that he "eat[s] like a white girl."
Maybe she's jealous that he's so much hotter and more athletic now that he's 80 lbs. lighter.
Good for him--that's awesome.
His ex is probably gunt city, no wonder she's bitter. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 8:02:27 PM | | Salads are for women and rabbits, want to eat healthy and still look manly? Order steamed green bean or asparagus ...Rookie mistake | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 8:28:52 PM | | If you gotta make fun of someone for their healthy food choices.... You obviously have no life.... General *you* | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 8:42:46 PM | I eat more than one salad every day; I love the variety of vegetables. People make little comments all the time but it's mostly in good fun.
Real men eat healthy and stay strong and fit.
The real "wussies" eat burgers and fries and get fatter every day. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 10:04:16 PM | | Move here to California and it would be the other guys teased for ordering fried foods. I always look to see how a guy eats. If he does not eat healthy it turns me off. How can I care about a guy when they don't care about himself. In a few years when your colleagues are having heart attacks you will be seeing their doctor lecturing them on a life time of bad food choices and they will be asking you how to make a healthy salad. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 10:39:03 PM | when I see a man eating healthy foods I think that he is educated about nutrition and that he cares about his body.
that is a good thing. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 12:03:05 AM | I think it's great that a person has that discipline period. I don't have it myself, but I don't see the humiliating part in in eating healthy really.
I laughed at that one commercial I saw about a manly diet. A diet for men who eat like men sort of nonsense. If you're diet works for you, who cares if it's considered manly or not? lol
Reading this, I was reminded of the show Seinfeld though; "just a salad, just a salad, just a salad". He was obsessing on how it made him look to have ordered "just a salad" on a date, lol | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 4:21:10 AM | If they think its "un manly" they are allowed to think what they like.
Men make fun of women eating veggies and salads out too .................so its not a gender thing.
Forbid if you ask whats actually in a dish/dressing
I think they probably wish they liked what YOU eat.
This is a common thing for people to scrutinize what others eat,do, say, mannerisms ect Most just are not rude enough to verbalize it.
Most healthy eaters get comments in some way.
YOU make fun of unhealthy eaters
Go ahead and shovel those onion rings into your fat yap and see where it’ll get you in the long run.
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You can't win..get over it and laugh with them.
Make it more "girly" or "silly"
Put an umbrella in your tofu..
Tell them you had a seaweed burrito with raw tuna and nut butter for dinner and OMG it was so gooooooood you almost came.
I actually had my rare basket of fries last night out with a GF..She almost fainted.
I say join in and joke too.
Tell them "Get back with you on their secrets to looking good and being fit..You are keeping a dairy" | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 8:24:19 AM | | It's different where I live....a somewhat educated population. My girlfriend, friends, etc. tend to eat healthy. Natural foods, whole foods are the norm. Rarely does anyone bring out a candy bar, bag of chips, pop,etc. when hiking. If we drop into a fast food place it's for a cup of coffee. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 9:08:38 AM | I live in the south home of the fried everything and I don't date wimpy, whiny, girlie men. My family is full of military and law enforcement macho red necks and I was raised to expect a man to be a man.
Health conscience women like myself in their 40's know that obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes etc. can and will effect a man's ability to preform in the bedroom. A man like yourself, healthy looking and in shape eating a salad sends the message your equipment works and will for some time to come, the obese guy eating chicken wings and beer does not send that same message. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 11:05:45 AM | | Meh...if anyone ever made fun of someone at my table for ordering the healthy meal, Id make sure to chime in thier defense. I get grossed out seeing all the fried food most people pig out on and find it refreshing to see a man actually know he needs a portion of fresh green food in his belly. To me food is unisex. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2012 11:29:35 PM |
Isn't Quiche supposed to be unmanly?
In Montpelier people ate quiche on Friday. No bacon but fish in it. We weren't Catholic but fish on Friday was cultural. My grandmother knew I didn't like it so she used to make me a special one without the fish and substitute apples or figs. I always thought it was our secret and we fooling my mother, but as I got older, I found out they both thought it was funny. | |
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Posted: 7/21/2012 6:29:53 AM | I do not feel there are manly or unmanly foods...I think people just seem to feel that anything that might * appear * healthy is something to make fun of, because the person making fun of someone for eating right is probably sitting there overweight with fried or poorly prepared choices.
When I am out I do not hear about it so much from who I am sitting with, as much as the server or tables around me. Not too many women sit and order a very rare steak, or a salmon salad, hold the croutons add veggies. I normally will not say a word unless someone is being down right rude.
Nothing wrong with asking what is in the dressing or sauces ; I myself avoid sugars, starches and such due to my Fitness nutrition. Some people ask about it due to allergies. Sadly, most food service workers do not even know what is in certain things.
I honestly do not care what other people order; I only worry about what I order. I do not really have the time to be that concerned. And again, I only make a snide remark back if someone is just downright rude. However, it is normally over how muscular I am, vs. the food I am eating. That is when I point out to the rude person, why they perhaps need to put the breaded or battered food down and lift up a chicken leg :) | |
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Posted: 7/21/2012 7:02:04 AM | Sounds to me like you need to get smarter friends. So tell me are they all getting a lil’ pudgy in the face? Got a bit of love muffin blooming over the belt, do they? Gosh that's a long way to go to have to assert your masculinity, calling your friend a girly man for having a salad and some broccoli. OMG! Did you ask them why they feel so emotionally emasculated that they need to constantly question your manhood based on whatever you ate for lunch? They must be overcompensating for small penises!!!
Tee hee. I'm way overstating my case here, but young guys abuse each other like this allll the time. They’re probably just having a bit of fun at your expense and you look like an easy target. If they know it annoys you, well… that's damn near perfect as far as they're concerned. Find a way to let it roll off your back so it doesn't bug you so much. | |
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Posted: 7/22/2012 3:43:55 AM | I used to work with a lot of guys - and we had to have packed lunches;
I used to have all sorts of stuff, like sliced seered beef and veg, broccoli, quinoa salads with plenty meat - I generalyl go for higher calorie than a leaf salad, but dammit I like fresh tasting and quality food; If i've been working hard I'm not adversed to chips that are done well too - there is no reason not to be; but I'd rather keep clear of processed shit and yes I take flack for this too.
I'll order a tabouleh salad and slug oil all over it, but its tasty, and I'll jump at the chance to have steak and veg.
Being "manly" has totally taken a different turn these days, my generation are a bunch of..... I digress.
For health, satiety and taste reasons, if people have a problem with that, you can either ignore them or put them in their place.
Depending on how you like to interact with people :P | |
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Posted: 7/22/2012 8:25:58 AM | I have been working in the same establishment for 8 years and for 8 years when I sit down to eat I get comments on what I am eating.... They have ranged from 'ewww what's that?' to 'your food always looks so colourful' The only time I don't get comments is if I am the only one in the staff room.
It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant a lot of people are about food as I have been asked on numerous occasions what the veg is that I am eating. Just this past thursday evening I was asked what was in my mutton stew and when I replied radishes it stopped them in their tracks :) One fella had never seen an avocado before!
So there you go it isn't just a man thing and OP, good on you for not allowing them to sabotage your daily diet. | |
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Posted: 7/22/2012 1:16:13 PM | I think it's from the stereo type that women need to watch their weight, but men don't. And once upon a time, that seemed more the case, but nowadays, excess weight isn't so gender defined- but the stereotypes still exist.
I prefer a guy who eats healthy. I do prefer the archetypical alpha male in general, but I'd still rather he eat healthy. (What can I say, I don't consider squishy men to be alpha males). | |
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Posted: 7/24/2012 7:44:36 AM | | While I was eating with co-workers one day they were taking bets on what I was eating. It was a mango and they had never seen one! | |
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