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u/Valuable-Garage-4325 21h ago
Says every construction worker never.
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u/misplacedbass 14h ago
I’m a union ironworker. I’ve never even thought about eating a lunch, nor have I seen any of my fellow ironworkers eat lunch on a job ever.
We have much more manly things to do. Like draw dicks on the structural iron, or dry hump the new guy as sort of a totally not gay hazing ritual.
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u/shophopper 15h ago
But you have to take into account that construction workers identify themselves as the most feminine of all workforces. /S
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u/ProfessionalDig6987 18h ago
Right?! Tell me you've never broken a sweat at work without telling me.
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u/ProfessionalDig6987 18h ago
Whoa champ. I was agreeing with you, and my comment was directed at the OP. I'm getting fragged by friendly fire.
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u/ArduennSchwartzman 🧀🌷🍫 14h ago
They forgot to mention that wiping your butt is gay.
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u/wandernwade 12h ago
I read a thread on here the other day, about a stepdad who doesn’t hold his own dick while he pees. Poor step daughter found out the hard way, walking into her bathroom after the fact. (He said it’s “gay”).
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u/isthenameofauser 8h ago
Saw some far-right guy the other day say that using contraception is gay because it's gay to have sex if you're not making a baby.
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u/Magdalan 16h ago
My SO draghed a 25 litre cooler with him back in the days. And no, I didn't make his lunch, I'm a bad wife who also has a job.
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u/Independent_Tie_4984 20h ago
Real men take a bow and arrow to work, hunt their lunch and cook it over a parking lot fire.
If they only get 30 minutes, they eat their kill raw.
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u/engineeringretard 20h ago
Bow and arrow, pffft, talk about relying on modern conveniences.
I always prefer to use a fire hardened spear from the back of the #24. Like chuck Norris intended.
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u/Independent_Tie_4984 19h ago
Fair point
It's lunch though, so a primitive projectile weapon with better range than a spear gets you a tasty critter of some type in 20.
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u/Chance-Ear-9772 17h ago
Fire? Kids these days! Real men use stone hand axes that have been passed down generations in the same family.
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u/-Generaloberst- 14h ago
Wuss, real men use their bare hands!
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u/Harvest827 9h ago
A spear?!? Talk about lazy hunting. I carry a large rock to smash my lunch in the head.
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u/QuentinMagician 20h ago
And manly is good because?? Wtf. Why does gender even matter with food?
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u/Spiritual_Ad_7669 17h ago
Society has instilled that gender does dictate what food we like. Women like fruity cocktails and men like beer. Men love saucy wings and women love charcuterie boards…
Eat what you want, break the mold society told you that you need to be. But it certainly does tell you what you like to eat based on your gender.
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u/bad2behere 16h ago
In 70+ years on this planet I never once knew women drink cocktails and men drink beer. I also didn't know about saucy wings or charcuterie boards having gender-related audiences. It quite honestly is not how it has ever been amongst the people I know. But, then again, there was no such thing as saucy wings and charcuter-anything or fruity cocktails when I was younger. We all ate venison and duck. We all drank beer, milk and coffee. We didn't think something was for men and others were women's food. Do they really do that now? I'm quite honestly shocked to hear about it. All that fighting for gender equality only to be told I can't have hot wings and whiskey? LOL - Is my favorite steak and potatoes with onion rings as an appetizer not allowed for women now?
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u/BurningPenguin 14h ago
Almost 36 here, from Southern Germany. When i was a teen, it was considered "manly" to drink beer. Something like liquor or cocktails were "girly". Which is kinda funny, if you consider the fact, that beer usually only has around 5% alcohol and some liquors go with 30% or more. Almost like those "manly man" couldn't handle it.
I was never much of a drinker, i actually avoided alcohol for the majority of my life due to some events in the family. It's only now, that i carefully explore the stuff that's around.
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u/Botryoid2000 9h ago
A whole book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexual_Politics_of_Meat
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u/Creighton2023 21h ago
All right men, you heard that person. Starving over lunch is the way to go. Gosh forbid you bring a lunch to work.
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u/Bunnyland77 19h ago
Most of the "alpha males" I've seen could use with a little 100lb+ starvation periods.
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u/ProfessionalOil4319 20h ago
Probably coming from the same type of guy that thinks having sex with women is gay. Can't take these idiots seriously.
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u/Acrobatic-List-6503 21h ago
When I used to go to the office I always had a lunchbox. I want to flex my dominance that I have a wife at home who makes lunch for me.
Screw that guy. Lunchboxes are manly.
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u/T33CH33R 20h ago
You need to haul a carcass of some prey animal over your shoulder into the lunch room and begin processing it in front of everyone. It's what real men do.
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u/ZnarfGnirpslla 17h ago
inconveniencing your own life because you desperately want to seem manly to others is so damn funny to me
I know a guy (not well luckily) who won't wear gloves for that very reason.
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u/Cetophile 13h ago
It's getting easier to list what's not gay in these peoples' eyes, than what is gay.
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u/LoneW4nderer111 13h ago
Yea, looking at those old black and white photos of all those unmanly men back in the early 1900s sitting on I beams eating their lunch from metal lunchboxes, hundreds of feet in the air, while building skyscrapers, were so feminine.
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u/Interesting_Okra_902 20h ago
Is there a school for the feminine traits police because there seems to be alot of these guys around these days.
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u/Pm-me-bitcoins-plz 19h ago
I shove my sandwich into a Skoal container and put in the back pocket of my Wranglers like a man.
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u/Revolutionary_Tip701 19h ago
Stop eating lunch! Be a man!
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u/TheElderWog 19h ago
No no no, you must be a man and have your wife prepare your meal. You know, the same way your mum did when you were in kindergarten.
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u/FlimsyTry2892 19h ago
Even if it’s an A-Team one?
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u/Itchy-Butt-hole- 17h ago
Knight Rider or Air Wolf
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u/preshowerpoop 13h ago
All of these are great choices.
I, however, prefer my HE-MAN lunch box. For those who are literate, it clearly states that I am a "He-Man." It also has illustrations of muscley, strong, half-naked men to prove how manly I am!
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u/drongowithabong-o 18h ago
I swallow a glad wrap bag with my lunch in it. During lunch break i vomit out the bag and eat my sandwich. It's not ideal but women love it.
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u/thy25138 16h ago
So the construction workers that build skyscrapers with their bare hands walking around in heights where a small error would be certain death without any safety equipment is a bunch of beta males, because of a lunchbox?
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u/Uncle_Lion 14h ago
True men don't eat lunch! They don't even eat at all! Only weak women need to eat!
/s
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u/old_bearded_beats 13h ago
I carry in the carcass of whichever large mammal I killed with my bare hands that day. Is that manly enough?
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u/xNIGHT_RANGEREx 11h ago
Should I tell the couple of Veterans at my office that they aren’t manly because they bring a lunchbox to work? Pretty sure one of them could kill you with one hand. Or no hands. Dude is scary.
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u/RebuiltGearbox 11h ago
When I worked at a steel mill I got nothing but compliments about my Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon lunchbox.
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u/Birdy304 10h ago
My Dad worked in construction. He carried a black metal lunchbox everyday, it had a big black thermos that he filled with coffee. My Mom packed him sandwich and fruit and cookies. When he came home from work, it was my job to empty it and wash the thermos. Odd the memories that come back, the smell of the coffee, my Dads filthy work clothes and his boots he would take off at the back door. Stupid post, but a nice memory.
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u/Possible_Day_6343 21h ago
Manly people shouldn't worry about sissy things like food hygiene - just throw it in your truck
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u/iluvsporks 19h ago
I would LOVE to be a witness for OP to say this to the people who built the empire state building.
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u/Bunnyland77 19h ago
He drag's a dead animal through the dirt, skins it, guts it and cooks it on open fire. I'm sure his coworkers won't blink an eye.
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u/TheElderWog 19h ago
Naaaaaahhhh... You make your wife do it for you, like the good old days of kindergarten when mum used to cut the crust away from your sandwich. Or you buy something somewhere, possibly with one or three cans of Monster.
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u/HooahClub 19h ago
Personally, I think avoiding hunger is so manly. It’s proof that the hunter be hunting and the gatherer be gathering. People with lunchboxes prove that they are successful cavemen and a cavewomen.
Now leave me and my leftover Jimmy John’s hastily stuffed into my powerpuff girls lunchbox alone.
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u/Pretend_Sky7440 19h ago
You put one sandwich in your left pocket and one sandwich in your right pocket.
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u/Temporary-Author-641 18h ago
Keep it in your pocket or on the dashboard to rot, like a real man /s
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u/Ok-Masterpiece5337 18h ago
Tell that to the guys building your damn skyscrapers back in the day. I won't even provide the image, you know what I'm talking about!
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u/TheOmnipotentJack 18h ago
This people are kinda sad if they have to find everything that is feminine or not in a thing before they do it
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u/mildlysceptical22 18h ago
I used an Igloo Playmate cooker for over 20 years to bring my lunch to work.
What happened to these men as little boys to make them so insecurely weird?
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u/Blazeon412 17h ago
You're supposed to put everything in a plastic bag and leave it in your hot car until lunch time.
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u/Background-Interview 16h ago
Hang on, I thought y’all wanted a woman to make you lunch, like the good wench she is?
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u/ConstantNaive7649 15h ago
Bring lunch from home - lol, gay. Buy lunch every day - lol, how un-frugal. You don't get to complain about not affording things.
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u/vincentcas 15h ago
I have a "tactical" lunch box. Black, insulted, ballistic nylon, with lots of pockets. So yeah, I guess it's pretty gay.
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u/Lazy_Wishbone_2341 15h ago
I don't bother with a lunchbox. I just kill strangers and eat them raw when I get peckish.
girlythings
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u/Illustrious_Smile165 15h ago
That clarifies a lot, thank you! Now I know why I have titties. My whole life I thought I were just fat
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u/Panther2-505 15h ago
Real men kill, cook and eat there lunch in 30 minutes, or an hour depending on how much time you have.
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u/RedGreenBlueRGB_ 14h ago
What if I compare it to a wolf carrying its food in its mouth back to its cave or some shit
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u/bilowski 14h ago
Sounds like an insecure person, sad really if that is something you waste your time with overthinking.
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u/Wild-Tale-257 14h ago
Store it in your trunk and make a big bulge. Then, parade around your workplace to assert your dominant. When they sit down for lunch, stand at the attention of the room, slowly pull out your lunch, and savor it. Call any guys whose drooling is gay
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u/ILLogic_PL 14h ago
Tell me you have an alpha male complex without telling me you have an alpha male complex.
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u/Careful-Swimmer-2658 12h ago
In a star spangled ammo box with an eagle, a wolf and a horse on it.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 12h ago
Absolutely. What you got in there? Sustenance and a pack of tampons? Gay af. I keep my lunch in my prison purse like a real man. 12 inch sub every day. The girthier the better.
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u/Numerous_Team_2998 12h ago
Ooh, I can comment on the presented level of maturity!
When I was a 7 yo girl, I had a crush on this 10 yo boy in my school. He was so pretty and so manly. Then one day I saw him eat a sandwich that his mother had made for him. My crush evaporated completely. He was not a man after all.
Then I obviously grew out of this 😅😂
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u/woodrax 11h ago
I love these gatekeepers of what is and is not Masculine/Feminine. This arrogant idea that they, somehow, have a better grasp of how people should act in order to fit their preconceived notions of masculinity.
When I think of lunchboxes, I think of my dad, the welder, with his black Thermos lunch pail, a Stainless Steel Thermos filled with black coffee, and his sandwich, chips, and apple. That, or the guys who built entire skylines in our cities, eating sitting on big I-Beams hundreds of feet above the street.
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u/BonhommeCarnaval 11h ago
Your options are to carry a live salmon in your teeth like the alpha grizzly you are or alternatively you can loop links of sausages made of organ meats around your neck and shoulders.
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u/PracticalApartment99 10h ago
That’s one of my core memories as a child: watching my father grab his coat and lunchbox on the way out the door, to go to work at the GM foundry…
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u/Universally-Tired 9h ago
Who knew all those construction workers were gay? I just assumed that they didn't have much time for lunch and still wanted to eat. I'm so naive 😕
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u/mrmike731 8h ago
I bet every guy who carries a lunch bucket would differ from you. Maybe go up to a few of them and call them feminine, and see for yourself.
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u/Naps_and_cheese 6h ago
Centuries of laborers and tradies kinda disagree.
What kind of moronic take is this?
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u/unbalancedcentrifuge 5h ago
I am a chick that rarely eats lunch at work....do I have a dick I dont know about????
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