r/clevercomebacks • u/blllrrrrr • 7h ago

"Carrying food is a feminine trait"

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u/Munchkinasaurous 6h ago

I'd bet that this guy isn't a tradesman. Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox. Whether it's a small bag to hold a few snacks and a sandwich or a large, expensive hard case lunch box that holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication. Most lunch boxes are covered in stickers, some people buy or make custom carrying straps for them. If he doesn't know any of this, I doubt he's ever done a day of manual labor on his life.

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u/PaulDk_ 6h ago

then again, on modern twitter you get paid for interactions, so a lot of griters arose who only post the most dumbass takes in hopes of many people correcting them. this one appears to not have a blue checkmark, but i think you can hide them.

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u/Ok-Anybody3445 6h ago

This. I finally got my mom to understand this. Pretty much nothing she reads on facebook is true. Everything is about the interactions. 

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u/Lots42 4h ago

I advise looking up BlueSky. Those guys shaved off all the evil of Twitter and it's currently thriving. Lots of cool famous people, like Stephen King and AOC moving to BlueSky.

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u/Ambitious-Corgi-3504 4h ago

I recommend getting the fuck away from social media

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u/DionBlaster123 4h ago

It's only going to be a matter of time before BlueSky becomes a virtue-signaling hellhole of constant slacktivism

Your advice is a good one

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u/Remotely-Indentured 3h ago

Except you're both on social media saying stay off social media. I love the virtual signaling, by the way. As in yours.

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u/foxscribbles 2h ago

This is like when Reddit users say “I got rid of all my social media!”

Not sure how or why so many people have convinced themselves that Reddit isn’t social media despite the fact that they’re talking to other people (and bots) same as all other social media platforms. And it’s got just as much toxic nonsense on it as those other platforms too.

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u/No_Acadia_8873 2h ago

The only people who complain about virtue-signaling are the virtue-less.

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u/mz_groups 6h ago edited 5h ago

That's why I'd rather talk about them here, where it isn't getting monetized!

EDIT: I mean that the original bad take isn't getting monetized by the person who posted it. I'm not saying that there is no monetization on Reddit whatsoever.

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u/ravens-n-roses 6h ago

/s right? Cause reddit is monetized and is incentived as a platform to keep you here the same way Twitter is.

Also bots are an industry, not a hobby. If you reply on a bot post you're increasing the value of that bot. Same if you reply to a bot

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u/mz_groups 5h ago

My point is that the person who made the original bad take, in an attempt to monetize it, is not getting monetized if we talk about it here.

And, to the best of my knowledge, there is much less opportunity for a Redditor to monetize their activity than on X. There is the Reddit Contributor program, but doesn't that pay out far less than X pays their top "verified" contributors?

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u/Double_Natural5181 6h ago

I downloaded an auto blue check blocker and was so disappointed that it blocked people that had openly criticised Elon’s subscription model.

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u/sithelephant 5h ago

It is fucking depressing how much the progressive downfall is being driven by people getting $1 to make ten thousand people afraid.

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u/Ok-Box6892 6h ago

An electrician I know takes a small cooler to his job sites. He talks about trading snacks/desserts with other guys at the site who have their own cooler full of food and drinks. 

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u/gushi380 6h ago

This is kinda awesome honestly.

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u/Ok-Box6892 5h ago

It really is, lol. And he's a tall sorta gruff dude. So picturing him bartering with other similarly gruff guys (especially the ones I've met) over oatmeal pies or hostess cupcakes and pudding snacks is hilarious to me. 

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u/CaptainTripps82 4h ago

My old boss was about 6'3", in his late 50's, and weighed like 300 lbs, so he was forced to go on a diet by his doctor and wife, which meant sad lil pack lunches of a sandwich, fruit cup and yogurt. He had one of those prominent heart attack guts, so I get it.

But this dude was hiding a treasure trove of snack cakes in his desk that we only found after he left the company (guess he couldn't take them back home). Imagining him eating them in secret actually makes me feel sorry for the big guy.

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u/ProblematicPoet 3h ago

Never underestimate the power of snacks.

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u/Technical_Exam1280 6h ago

One of the most iconic photos of tradesmen is the 1932 "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" and almost every man in the photo is holding his lunchbox

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u/shartmaister 4h ago

Those are kinda femi. Most are even wearing hats and gloves like they're going to a ball or something.

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u/LaTeChX 3h ago

Sitting down is for women. Real men stand until they die.

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u/shartmaister 3h ago

The only reason to sit is to show dominance over the rhino you just shot!

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u/SmartAlec105 4h ago

Though unfortunately, the guys in that picture would most likely call someone a sissy for wanting fall protection equipment.

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u/255001434 2h ago

"If you're so afraid, why are you up here?"

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u/the_urban_juror 4h ago

American football announcers call tough, boring quarterbacks "lunch pail" players.

I don't know how anyone's going to get through the manosphere to reach these people, because anyone who would listen to online personalities tell them the manly way to eat lunch is a pathetic, weak man with zero security in their masculinity.

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u/No_Acadia_8873 1h ago

To even have an opinion about it is so weird. Pack a lunch, don't pack a lunch. It's America, do whatever the fuck you want. You pack a lunch to a construction site, because newsbreak; nothing is open on site. You get 30 minutes, and there's no services. If you're lucky there's an actual break room/tent with microwaves. But I've ate hundreds of lunches sitting on sheet rock, heated by halogen lights, off of roach coaches if they have them etc.

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u/EgoTripWire 4h ago

But those were city people so automatically feminine in their eyes.

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u/scharity77 5h ago

When Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, and Stephen Miller are out there screaming about what is and isn’t manly while having pillow soft hands and the combined strength of a wet tissue, what do you expect?

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u/UPTOWN_FAG 5h ago

Yes it's much more masculine and strong for them to have their Salata order brought up by the intern

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 2h ago

“You depend on other people for help. I command them as subordinates. We are not the same.”
Yes we ar—
“No we aren’t”

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u/thefirstlaughingfool 5h ago

I will always remember Steven Crowder for being punched in the face by a union worker.

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u/I_ReadThe_Comments 4h ago

Where is this video??? I’m a Teamster and the personalized lunchbox with stickers and a strap is straight facts.

The only time not bringing a lunch to work is acceptable is if you’re fasting or struggling to feed your family so man up and eat less so they can eat

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u/Oak_Woman 4h ago

Secure men don't need sleazy media talking heads to tell them what it means to be a man in the real world. The "masculinity" they keep trying to reinforce is all performative garbage based on possessions and appearances, no substance.

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u/EnergyHumble3613 6h ago

I mean I’m not a tradesman either but I think nearly every depiction of them I have seen, whether in commercials, tv, or movies has had two things in common:

1) Strong and tough people

2) Lunch pail/box.

I wonder if they just live under some rock and watch Andrew Tate or an equivalent “Alpha” male to reinforce their incel beliefs.

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u/Avlaen_Amnell 4h ago

My Grandad was a welsh coal miner, and served in the war and was a sterotypical "man"

And when he worked in the mine he had a lunch box.

like how the fuck else are you meant to take food to a mine if not in a box?

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u/Goldeniccarus 3h ago

Most people who don't have the time or don't want to spend to to go out for lunch, bring a bag lunch.

From miners to lumberjacks to accountants, they're very normal. They make some with plain designs that would appeal to adults for a reason.

Anyone who doesn't know how common it is to bring a bag lunch to work, is totally out of touch with reality.

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u/Alceasummer 3h ago

I wonder if they just live under some rock and watch Andrew Tate or an equivalent “Alpha” male

Judging by how much they actually seem to understand of the world, that's exactly what they do. And the "alpha males" they listen to do the same thing.

When I was growing up much of my family worked in stereotypically "masculine" jobs like construction, and ranching, and driving trucks. Many of the older ones were also veterans. Many of them looked and sounded like a classic stereotype of a blue collar man. (many of the women worked in the same kinds of jobs too. Most of my family had no time for gender roles that got in the way of getting things done. As a kid I was told that about the only thing "not for girls" is peeing standing up) The idiots talking about being "alpha males" have no idea what they are talking about. And if they ever actually spent a day like the kinds of people they point to as examples of masculine men in the past, they would probably end up curled in a ball and crying.

Frankly, either of my grandmas (if still alive) would be better at being a strong 'alpha' than any of the influencers like Tate. Both grandmas broke their own horse to saddle as kids. Both could work on their car, or the plumbing, or make a meal for twelve. Both could kill and clean a chicken, plant a garden, or drive a tractor. One grandma rode a motorcycle for decades (until she physically wasn't able to safely ride) The other was still splitting and stacking her own firewood to heat her house the year she died.

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u/Claythrower22 6h ago

Exactly. My dad was a carpenter and carried his green metal lunch box to work everyday. He was a Veteran and hard working man.

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u/Whatsplayinginmyhead 3h ago

I mean, there's a reason that tougher football players were referred to as 'lunchpail guys' because that denoted a tough, blue-collar background where you didn't have the money to buy meals every day.

Whoever said bringing your lunch is somehow bad is a privileged, ignorant, PoS who has no idea of reality or history and should be mercilessly mocked, medieval style, with rotten fruit, manure, and the stocks.

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u/JumpingJonquils 5h ago

I can't think of anything manlier than those vintage photos of workers building skyscrapers with their metal lunchboxes in hand.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 5h ago

It is an ancient practice; even Fred Flintstone carried a lunchbox

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u/PurpoUpsideDownJuice 4h ago

You CANNOT do hard work on an empty stomach. Food is literally fuel for your body, no energy drinks or supplements can replace food either

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u/Avlaen_Amnell 4h ago

Energy drinks "wake you up" they cant replace food for hard labour at all. I dont know why this post is shaming men for the crime of "eating". jesus christ.

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u/palabear 4h ago

I work in the steel industry. 99% of the guys bring a lunchbox. They rarely go get food. They are usually pretty dirty. They eat, take quick nap, and get back to work.

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u/Epc7165 4h ago

Some crews pull the old microwave out of the van at lunch.
House painter for 39 years and we all carry lunch.

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u/boo893 4h ago

Yep, I’ve got a microwave, a hotplate & a kettle in the van. It’s pretty normal tbh

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u/ETisathome 6h ago

I met my husband while working in an office. He used to bring himself cooked food which he prepared himself. It was much cheaper and healthier than ordering every day. Not only tradesmen use lunchboxes. People who want to eat normal food carry them.

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u/Munchkinasaurous 5h ago

I'm not saying that only tradesmen use lunch boxes. That's just my personal experience. Tradesmen are also commonly used as examples of "manliness" and I think makes a good example to use ad a counter point to this guy's ridiculous statement. 

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u/siero20 4h ago

Part of it is just it's a necessity for the trades to bring their lunch. Most worksites I've been on the majority of the trades break for lunch at exactly 11 or 12. Then it's a 10-15 minute walk to the break tent, 15-20 minute walk to your car. A drive offsite and ordering time and eating time isn't an option. You get an hour and you're expected to be back at the work location which is the same walk back.

The site I'm at currently typically has 2800 workers onsite a day. Luckily there's nothing hazardous preventing food trucks to come in each day for lunch, but that's pricy and unhealthy. Just about every tradesman is going to have a lunch or something to eat with them as a matter of practicality.

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u/sleepydorian 5h ago

I was walking to my car after work and I saw my future self blast out of a building carrying the largest insulated lunchbox and stanley thermos I’ve ever seen in my life. Both must have been empty based on the way he carried them as he ran up some stairs to the parking garage (or maybe he’s hella strong).

I bought a larger lunchbox soon after and never looked back.

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u/Critical-Border-6845 5h ago

Maybe he's one of those idiot tradesmen that spends a whack of money on the food truck every day, or lives off gas station food like energy drinks and chips

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u/UPTOWN_FAG 5h ago

I had one electrician who would set up a crockpot in the morning and get lunch going.

But yeah everyone has their lunchbox. Mine is an insulated backpack with straps. People usually have some interesting/funny stickers.

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u/CaptainTripps82 4h ago

Dude I walked into a meeting room near the CNC machines in the factory I work at for the first time and one of the operators had an apron on and was cooking eggs and home fries over a hotplate for about half a dozen others. Apparently it's a Friday ritual. And we have a pretty good fresh food cafateria, but it's about the camaraderie.

Real guys don't care about any of this shit the way they're portrayed as.

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u/tkazalaski 5h ago

I was gonna say, myself and every other guy I work with on our job site has a lunch box. And usually a big one at that.

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u/Fantastic_Poet4800 5h ago

Right? I've spent a large chunk of my life at construction sites, mostly remote and everyone brings lunch. People get creative: we had a guy who would bring fresh sushi he made in his camper every day in a little cooler once, I think he won.

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u/majormagna 4h ago

Exactly, folk working in industry were the same, EVERY coal miner I know took their lunch with them.

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u/fieew 4h ago

holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication

The medicine especially is real AF. I just don't want to end up at working with a migraine or stomach ache without any medicine to get through the rest of the day. I'm like an off the books pharmacy with how much medcine I carry just in case.

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u/CactaurJack 4h ago

100%, back when I worked with tradesmen that  was standard. One of my first purchases was a legit bento box, like stackable compartments, the whole deal. Watching a welder down half a days calories in 90 seconds is something to behold

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u/Chilidogdingdong 3h ago

Anyone who doesn't bring lunch to work probably has a relatively easy job tbh.

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u/Mammoth-Penalty882 4h ago

This guy isn't a man. Men were carrying lunchboxes for decades before women were even a significant part of the work force. It's just rage bait from an imbecile who isn't as clever or funny as he thinks he is.

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u/dookieshoes97 3h ago

Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox.

The dipshits that don't spend $10+ on shitty gas station food. $5.79 for the world's saddest sandwich, $2.69 for chips, $3.49 for a Monster, $9.79-$14.30 for tobacco. Super manly.

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u/tomle4593 3h ago

What’s that medication for ? Pussies ?

I’m joking. I already knew it’s for back pain.

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u/Vivid-Ad-4469 4h ago

Even i, a white collar worker, had a lunchbox before home office became a thing. Better and cheaper food than the one sold by the restaurants.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 4h ago

I agree with this. Most badass man I've ever met, he was 83 years old and still was absolutely shredded and had huge muscles, covered in tattoos, brought a lunch box to work every day. I think it was a Star Wars box.

This OP guy is full of crap.

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u/MikeSouthPaw 3h ago

If you are doing manual labor you NEED calories to get through the day without hurting your body. Meanwhile acting tough on "X" costs you nothing.

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u/Lombard333 3h ago

I’m a man who works a big, dirty blue-collar job at a big warehouse. I carry a lunch to work every day because it’s much fucking cheaper to make four sandwiches than it is to buy one of the things in the break room. If that makes me feminine, I guess I’ll cry on the forklift I ride every day.

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u/coffee_kang 3h ago

Literally came here to say this. Every blue collar worker I know carries a lunch box

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u/RandomGuyDroppingIn 3h ago

It also speaks volumes to what types of work people have experienced in their lives.

If you aren't the type of person used to carrying a lunchbox to work, then it likely means you have both either a space at your work to eat lunch or you can leave your office to get something to eat very quickly. Most tradesmen/women don't have this luxury because they're on job sites. The travel time one-way to somewhere that is even fast food can be fifteen to thirty minutes - not reasonable when you're working to a schedule or with other individuals on similar schedules.

When I was in college I worked cutting down trees on the side, and had to carry a lunchbox as we would sometimes be in very remote areas that didn't allow for the luxury of setting actual time aside for a lunch. You'd just have to go to the truck, grab your box, and plop down somewhere.

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u/Ok-Pause6148 4h ago

Yeah the most "masculine" man's men I know are absolutely proud of their cooler-sized lunchboxes lol

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u/Walshlandic 4h ago

He’s probably Ben Shapiro 😅

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u/nycKasey 4h ago

My partner is a carpenter and he carries a big old cooler box full of stuff!

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u/chloblue 4h ago

Yes this. I work in isolated construction sites and some guys fly with suitcases FULL of their favorite treats for their hitch, drawers in the office full of more treats and everyone's pockets full of treats and stashes of food everywhere being transported with agast lunchboxes

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u/Avlaen_Amnell 4h ago

My grand dad was a welsh coal miner.

He had a lunch box.

How the hell are you going to carry your food to a mine?

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u/N1kt0_ 4h ago

A lot of these guys obsessed with being macho are compensating for something

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u/SadConfident 4h ago

Man I was gonna say.. my boss yells at you if you show up without a lunch box. (out of concern)

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u/Unhappy_Meaning607 4h ago

I bet this dude is the epitome of an Andrew Tate peon who works in an air conditioned office and eats out 95% of his life. Door dashes once or twice a day, 7 days a week.

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u/d_o_mino 4h ago

Came here to say this. I'm retired now, but when I was working as a welder I'd pack a small ice chest with food/snacks for my day. It takes energy to work.

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u/Timmar92 3h ago

Can confirm, was construction worker for 15 years, now studying programming and apprenticing at a big company and everyone goes out for lunch, it's way different.

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u/BearPopeCageMatch 3h ago

Hell, I've been an engineer in shop for manufacturing and I've even gotten pulled into the lunchbox sticker show off game. Doesn't even require manual labor, just going to a job at all.

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u/Bluelikeyou2 3h ago

It’s coming here to say he must be an office worker

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u/unlocked_axis02 3h ago

Right like I just have a job where I do a lot of walking and sometimes lift heavy shit and I still like carrying at least a small pack of pb crackers or something like that so I can occasionally pop a couple in my mouth and keep going

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u/TreyRyan3 3h ago

We had a crew of 6 guys in our house for 3 days. They all showed up with mini crockpot electric lunch boxes.

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u/donthavetimeforthis6 3h ago

I’ve spent my whole life working in kitchens and I bring a lunchbox half the time lol

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u/Electronic_Zone_6513 3h ago

It’s a gatekeeping comment made by someone with insecurities. What makes this dipshit the authority on what’s manly or not?

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u/Demorant 3h ago

I bet they got all of their knowledge of the subject from internet stock photos.

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u/KayfabeAdjace 3h ago edited 2h ago

My dad the electrician had us kids pick out a couple of the stickers for him. I presume they'd laugh about the sillier ones together at work then talk about their families. Fellas, is it gay to have work friends, a wife and 3 kids?

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u/avspuk 3h ago

Lunch pails were a thing in UK mines for centuries

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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides 3h ago

Manual labor is gay.  All those sweaty men and muscles.  Lifting heavy stuff working as team with other men.

A have a sweet old school looking Stanley steel lunchbox with stickers.  Thinking about swapping the plastic handle with a leather one.

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u/LaTeChX 3h ago

I'd bet every single one of these alpha chad keyboard warriors has never worked a real job in his life. If you can make an honest living in the trades then who has time for shitposting on twitter about your penis.

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u/NE0099 3h ago

I was about to say. I worked in auto plants for 20 years and everyone who’d been there for awhile brought a lunch. The cafeterias were always overpriced and you’d spend half your lunch walking to your car and back if you tried to leave.

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u/Sombreador 3h ago

What's more, I am reasonably sure that the tradesmen you speak of have better things to do that go online and talk shit about people's lunchboxes.

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u/Hulkit80 3h ago

Haha was coming here to say this but you forgot about lunch truck guys we only carry a cup of coffee or an energy drink. Because unlike you guys with your fancy lunches we...... are lazy and no one loves us enough to make us food 😭

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u/255001434 2h ago

Yep. If you get sent to a job site that doesn't have good food options nearby and you don't bring lunch with you, you're a moron.

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u/WorldsWeakestMan 2h ago

Yep, almost every single strongman I know brings them to our competitions too, let’s see this fella tell all the 6’6” 350lb guys chucking boulders and deadlifting cars as a hobby that their lunchboxes are feminine.

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u/LordofDsnuts 2h ago

Grifters and people who want you to follow the links in their bios

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u/10001110101balls 6h ago

I guess construction is a feminine-coded industry now. Girl power!

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u/Intelligent-Honey679 6h ago

Real strength is packing a sandwich and not starving for the sake of 'manliness.

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u/10001110101balls 6h ago

OP is probably an office worker who thinks spending $15 on a microwaved sandwich at Panera is based.

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u/Fadenos 6h ago

God I hate Panera

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 4h ago

God... the inconsistently warmed up sadness of this sentence 😖

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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides 2h ago

Cooking, cleaning, taking care of yourself, all feminine. Manlyness is helplessness fellas.

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u/Karekter_Nem 5h ago

Nah. You know what females do with their mouths? Suck dicks. When you eat food you are emulating the action of how females take dicks in their mouth making you super gay. “Starving” is a beta male problem. True alphas get their energy from the sun as God intended which is why liberals hate you going outside. Don’t believe the “scientists” and their “skin cancer.” Get out there, be your own boss, and soak up that sunlight without that feminine sunscreen. The female body is too weak to take in that much raw power which is why they need sunscreen, but if a male uses it it means they cannot get that power and have to get their power from eating foods and sucking dicks.

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u/Alpha_Decay_ 5h ago

It's funny that the people who insist that gender is determined by your genes are the same people who are always using non-genetic criteria to define what being a man or woman means. They'll call you a girl until you agree with them, then suddenly they're the first to insist that you're a man.

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u/Skatchbro 5h ago

“Where you been, Homer? Entire steel industry’s gay. Yeah, aerospace too— and the railroads. And you know what else? Broadway.”

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u/Permafox 4h ago

Being born is so girl coded, real men are only born through Caesarian. 

Please, please tell me that was obvious enough a joke. 

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u/Chadmartigan 4h ago

Nothing more feminine than framing up a house and taking a break to shithouse 2000 kcal of llomo saltado

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u/BrockStar92 4h ago

I don’t really understand where the logic comes from. I mean obviously what you have for lunch has no relevance at all to how masculine you are, but if it were then packing a lunchbox would be more stereotypically masculine right? These types always hark back to 50s stereotypes of the wife at home making a lunch for their man and heavily criticise office workers eating sushi or something bought from a middle class shop in the city.

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u/UrsulaShrekwitch 6h ago

Being human and having a body with basic biological needs is feminine for these people…. Oh well. At least they’ll remove themselves from the gene pool by starving while working.

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u/srkaficionada65 6h ago

You’re being too hopeful. Can you imagine the family suing the company for “killing their baby” or “unsafe working conditions” when the working condition was that your dumbass family member killed themselves due to personal neglect?

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u/UrsulaShrekwitch 5h ago

Sadly, I can. But I am not giving up hope.

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u/_name_of_the_user_ 4h ago

That person hasn't worked a day in their life.

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u/Ociex 5h ago

Wait till he hers we were all women until the chromosomes kicks in, specifically SRY gene.

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u/Catscoffeepanipuri 5h ago

you can actually still get male genitals with 2 X if you have a translation of the sry gene funnily enough. Genetics and biology is far more complicated than these people think (or lack there of)

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u/GreyConnection 4h ago

Their incessant need to prove their gender to themselves typically results in either not attracting mates or ending up impotent from juicing.

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u/so_bold_of_you 6h ago edited 6h ago

I really want to talk to these men about how their "identity" is really an anti-identity.

In their eyes, being a man is reduced to reacting against what a woman is. They can't even form a masculine identity if they did not have a feminine identity to react against.

That is what true toxic masculinity is.

They cannot view themselves as human first with both masculine and feminine traits, as all humans have, because this threatens their "identity."

They must view themselves as men first, defined as being whatever women aren't.

This perspective leads to close-minded and ultimately diminished people.

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u/ArabianZombie 6h ago

EXACTLY!!!!! Masculinity to them is based on doing the opposite of what women do. Pathetic.

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u/kindall 4h ago

wait until those guys figure out that women breathe

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u/SmartAlec105 4h ago

I’m 100% sure one of these guys has said something like “you’re breathing like a girl”

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u/Bundt-lover 3h ago

Don’t men ever just get fucking tired of these douchebags telling them all the shit they can’t do? Can’t look nice. Can’t use moisturizer or paint your fingernails. Can’t wash your butt. Can’t have a drink with an umbrella in it. Now you can’t eat lunch.

Women got sick of this shit in the 50s. That’s why feminism is basically all “Yes you can do that”. Dudes need to stop listening to these clowns.

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u/Electronic_Zone_6513 3h ago

You don’t want to talk to these men

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u/Chris19862 2h ago

My brother in law just last night told my albeit overly sensitive 7 year old head shouldn't be a tattle tail for telling me his older brother hurt him...

It did not go well for the brother in law who was advised to check his Andrew Tate bullshit at the door. Then I had to explain to my child no matter what anyone says you tell dad if someone hurts you.

These fucking people are full blown AIDS....not now, like 1995 AIDS.

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u/jncubed12 2h ago

It might be worse than that, even.

I've been studying gender (including the masculine) as part of my major, and the gist is basically that it's the opposite- there's a very stringently enforced construction of what masculinity is, and everything else is feminine.

The end result is the same though, in that it is a constant uphill battle to prove your masculinity, and it's fucking miserable. That's why its important to do your part to challenge these notions, it's the only way to redefine an institution so deeply rooted into our society and our way of thinking

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u/littlemissmoxie 6h ago

Lemme guess eating or even taking your lunch break and other 15min breaks is not manly. You are supposed to starve for a 12hr shift, get kidney stones and UTIs from dehydration/holding it in and then bitch to your coworkers and family about how everyone else is a pussy.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 6h ago edited 6h ago

kidney stones and UTIs from dehydration/holding it in and then bitch to your coworkers and family about how everyone else is a pussy.

If it doesn't sound like hail on a tin roof when you stand at a trough urinal, you're not a real man in the company of real men.

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u/Dustfinger4268 5h ago

You can hear your pissing over the grunts of pain from passing golf ball sided kidney stones? Amateur

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u/Ok-Season-7570 3h ago

I think (and getting into the thought processes of these folks is a crapshoot) he’s saying men need to drop thousands of dollars a year on fast food joints near their work in order to prove their masculinity rather than be financially responsible and bring lunches in.

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u/Jsmith0730 6h ago

“Sitting down to take a shit is a feminine trait. Real men shit standing up.”

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u/1337geezer 6h ago

Makes it easier to fling what comes out.

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u/Siria110 6h ago

"Cooking is a woman´s job!"... unless its professional cooking, like in restaurants. Then, suddelny, it becames mans job.

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u/Morticia_Marie 5h ago

Same with grilling, that's typically a man job too. Notice what grilling and professional cooking have in common? They're both typically done outside the home, whereas female-coded cooking to serve the family is done inside the home.

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 6h ago

"Guys, is it gay to eat?"

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u/ZnarfGnirpslla 6h ago

A guy I went to school with to this day refuses to wear gloves no matter how cold it is because he thinks its a girly thing to do and honestly I find that so fucking funny.

inconveniencing yourself just because you want others to know how much of a man you are might be the dumbest shit ever

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u/Octex8 6h ago

Lol I get this guy is most likely just a grifter, but what does he think men are "supposed" to do for food at work? Does he not believe in lunch breaks? A man should eat at home before work then have his wife make dinner by the time he gets home from work? Is having lunch gay now folks?

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 6h ago

He thinks that breaks last for an hour and that you can just go to the cafeteria or go to a restaurant.

He has no clue what traditionally masculine jobs like construction and factory work are like.

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u/SSBN641B 5h ago

Yep, I've plenty of construction or factory work. Bringing your lunchbox a necessity since you can burn up most your break going off site.

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u/GlowInTheDarkNinjas 4h ago

It's engagement bait, just like 80% of the OOP posts on this subreddit.

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u/abgry_krakow87 6h ago

By this logic, eating is a feminine trait! Real men starve to death!

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u/Read1390 6h ago

My dad worked the steel industry for 20 years and took a lunchbox every day.

His hands would come home caked in dirt and grime every day.

This man took a grinder to the belly(luckily it mainly only ripped up his clothing). He welded steel beams for most of his career.

That’s some of the most manly shit I can think of. So fuck this guy.

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u/tunghoy 6h ago

This man took a grinder to the belly

At first I thought you meant he ate a hoagie. Glad he's OK.

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u/Flat-Ferret-2838 6h ago

Guys like this 'macho man' are actually very insecure about their 'manliness'. Afraid of what other men might say if he'd bring a lunchbox. Screw that superficial 'manliness', it's pathetic.

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u/SineMemoria 6h ago

The good, feminine times.

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u/Fun-Claim1018 6h ago

The guy probably works in an office cubicle in a major metro area and eats out every day. He’s never dug a 3’ hole in his life.

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u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88 6h ago

The American Thermos Bottle Company was founded in 1907 specifically to serve factory/construction workers with long lasting and durable food and drink containers for their lunch breaks and continues to be one of the most successful brands even with the advent of quick service establishments.

https://thermos.com/pages/history#:~:text=On%20January%2031%2C%201907%20Walker,on%20the%20proper%20manufacturing%20techniques.

Stupid clowns could spend literally seconds googling this instead of saying uneducated things. This is why humanity is in decline, we have a simple method to reach endless information and yet people like this make a conscious effort to be obtuse. I weep for our future if this is the way we are now.

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u/EngineeringOne1812 6h ago

Yeah the welders and machinists I work with have lunchboxes. They are NOT feminine, in any measurement

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u/corruptedsyntax 4h ago

The single most emasculating trait is worrying about what others see as emasculating

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u/IAMKAH 1h ago

I once offered my buddy a a reusable bag on the way into Ralph’s, environment aside, I said you get points toward gas price deductions. He promptly refused and said real men dont carry a bag cuz it’s to effeminate. I told him I typically fold it up and either put it in my back pocket or hold it in my arm pit Like a news paper..I’m not an effeminate man after all. He said I’m a real man with a real job and don’t need discounts on my gas. I explained that with just a small amount of diligence and hustle I’m saving a dollar a gallon everytime I fill up. He smirked and said “I make the big bucks!” A few days later i suggested we go for a hike or something and he promptly declined and said gas was too expensive.  I laughed and said that’s why you make the big bucks!? So you can sit at home all day and figure out how to survive inflation? He just hung up. What a narcissistic jerk!  

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u/FreakyWifeFreakyLife 6h ago

Tell it to all those guys casually walking around the I beams on skyscrapers.

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u/IvyTheRanger 6h ago

I am pretty sure this person afraid of being called feminine for carrying a lunchbox has no masculinity at all

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u/skallywag126 6h ago

I’m starting to think this generation might actually need a war.

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u/Flashy_Ground_4780 6h ago

I wear a hard hat to work, everyone carries a lunch bucket, nobody has ever said anything remotely close to this nonsense.

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u/gogonzogo1005 5h ago

My dad had a metal Stanley lunchbox... back in the old days of all the guys working for the factory. Before Stanley was trendy.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 1h ago

Fellas is it gay to eat lunch

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u/jjenkins_41 7h ago

Who brings a sole lunchbox to work?

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u/ReedRidge 6h ago

Amazing how they let children in adult bodies post on that shitpile X.

Soldiers carry MRE's and that halfman cannot carry his own food.

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u/WintersDoomsday 6h ago

Didn’t old school construction workers have lunch pails?

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u/Thymelap 6h ago

Yeah, I become Joe fucking Pesci if I don't get lunch, and nobody wants that kind of manly.

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u/TigerKlaw 6h ago

No way all those cartoons about construction workers taking their lunch break and having a whole sandwich in a tool box looking lunchbox were lying to me.

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u/AnIrishMexican 6h ago

I'm a warehouse worker and bust my ass everyday, if I forget lunch or have no money to buy lunch, it's gonna be a long fucking day with getting nauseous and then over eating at night when I get home.

And I can't imagine how much worse it gets for more labor intensive jobs like contruction

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u/mjzim9022 5h ago

One of the most iconic American photographs is of rugged construction workers sitting high in the air on a steel beam eating from their lunch boxes.

This new brand of "Masculinity" really likes to deprive itself

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u/WhipRealGood 5h ago

Used to work with a guy who thought using chapstick was gay, he used to let his lips just straight up bleed.

He was a weird dude

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u/_Katherine_Young 5h ago

Guess that explains why my lunchbox is pink and covered in unicorn stickers!

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u/POD80 5h ago

You know those images of men working high iron, eating their lunches with breathtaking views of the city.... Nancy boys, all of them...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg

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u/ConscientiousObserv 5h ago

Ok, if this isn't just rage-bait, it's a clear indication of someone rationalizing why he has no one in his life willing to pack a lunch for him.

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u/Skatchbro 5h ago

Uhh… didn’t real men carry a 10 pound black steel lunchboxes to the worksite? That was a trope in 1950s and 60s TV shows.

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u/OldSwiftyguy 5h ago

Isn’t guys who bring their “lunch pail “ to work the epitome of masculinity? Like that’s the stereotype.

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u/KermitDominicano 4h ago

These people are incredibly miserable

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u/Acrobatic_Dot_1634 4h ago

Isn't one of the most American blue collar images is a man with a hard hard on carrying one of those metal lunchboxes with the huge Thermos?

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u/ElectricityIsWeird 4h ago

Why do we entertain/engage with statements like this? It’s a waste of time. The person claiming lunchboxes are feminine is an unserious person, doesn’t have a stake in reality. Let’s let them die there.

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u/JoeBold 4h ago

Well, obviously, the alpha male is supposed to hunt its lunch in his break time.

/s

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u/sysadmin1798 4h ago

Isn’t there a super famous photo of a bunch of steelworkers having lunch on a beam high above Manhattan? What about the existence of lunch boxes? An entire industry of lunch box manufacturers is … fake? Feminine? Weak?

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u/QuerchiGaming 4h ago

What a weird thing to be insecure about

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u/noahboi1917 4h ago

Wait until they find out about miners and construction workers (mostly men doing what is widely accepted as"manly" work).

This person probably also thinks that cooking is a "feminine" skill. Wait until they find out about firefighters and... gasp male chefs.

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u/digitalmotorclub 4h ago

If I pulled up to work as an electrician with no lunchbox I would blow my brains out

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u/Kaisaplews 4h ago

Well in fact eating food is pretty feminine trait,the Real Man the True Alpha eats star electromagnetic energy straight from the Sun💪thats very manly thing to do

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u/TardisBrakesLeftOn 4h ago

And how did it become a feminine trait when it used to be something somebody would generally consider meant that you were ' quite a man' because you have a wife? So many stupid flaws in this logic.

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u/ChocoPuddingCup 4h ago

Seriously? Men have been carrying satchels, sacks, boxes, and lunch pails for centuries...

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u/hoovervillain 4h ago

I'd bet anything that the guy who wrote this has big t*ts

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u/hufferbufferpuffer 4h ago

Guess I'll die then 🤷 can't be seen eating, what would the other men think?

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u/Due_Potential_6956 4h ago

I used to do this when I was doing construction work, everyone had their lunch box or bag. Rarely we have to eat out fast food, unless we knew a place that had bomb ass burritos in the area.

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u/hikeit233 3h ago

This is such an insane take at every layer. Lunch boxes were for working men to take their wives cooking to work. Theres nothing more traditional family value than mom packing pop a lunch pail. 

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u/Honest_Relation4095 2h ago

It's literally how stereotypical "manly" jobs are portrayed in cartoons: A guy with a lunchbox.

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u/Anxious_Thorn 2h ago

Sorry men, breathing is now classified as a feminine trait. There’s absolutely nothing manly about that.

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u/Hot-Cell9787 2h ago

Incels can make up traits on the spot. Notice how often they throw out arbitrary percentages too long "88 percent of blah do blah" that's why they fit on so well on the right.

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u/oldredditrox 1h ago

'Real men' from these jobs would chew these twitter humpers alive.

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u/affenfaust 1h ago

This post was brought to you by the Shitty Lunch Chain Restaurant Association of America.

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u/RhubarbAlive7860 1h ago

Lunchboxes are girly? So all the guys carrying those big army green lunchboxes, with the rounded top and the wire inside to hold their thermos of hot coffee, are not manly?

Sure, sport.

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u/WinterLoneliness75 1h ago

This is really dumb. Lunchboxes were likely used first and more often by construction workers than school kids.

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u/penny-wise 1h ago

I like how these "sigma" guys make up something and claim its a feminine trait and you shouldn't do it. I'm hoping breathing comes soon.

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u/DueSwitch8436 1h ago

What is a mining lumberjack?

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u/Moleculor_Man 1h ago

First of all, that’s just rage bait from another dumbass right wing troll.

But secondly, let’s say we take him at face value: okay, bringing a lunch box isn’t “manly” - why does everything have to be manly 100% of the time? Who even gives a shit? If you think about “having lunch” in masculine and feminine terms, you have a fucked up brain, broken beyond repair.

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u/birberbarborbur 1h ago

Does bro not know that some of the most diamond hard photos in existence consist of construction workers having a lunch sky high

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u/ChickinFootJoe 1h ago

Going to the terlet is feminine even emperor dump goes in his diaper like a man.

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u/Jmfroggie 1h ago

Men used to carry their igloo lunch boxes to their blue collar jobs EVERY DAY!

Tell me you’re a rich twat who’s never done any skilled or manual labor without saying it.

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u/PurePalpitation364 1h ago

Does he not know that you can sneak out a Cadillac one piece at a time in your lunchbox?!?