It’s wild how fragile masculinity makes basic life tasks sound like dangerous missions. Cooking, making the bed, keeping the house clean, grooming yourself, carrying a pastel-coloured umbrella when it’s pouring hard outside – all are so ‘womanly’, it is said.
“Cooking? Oh no, that’s for women!” says the man who can’t find the salt when it’s right in front of him. Or how about the classic “real men don’t cry”? Sir, you bawled like a baby because Messi scored a goal, and we all saw it.
Fragile masculinity is basically a never-ending comedy show of self-imposed rules. And honestly, we’re just here for the popcorn. Here’s another show.
A man took to X to share how carrying a lunchbox to work is a “feminine trait” and that there’s nothing “manly” about it. Sir, what do you do when you feel hungry at work? Depend on fast food? How’s your stomach behaving?
Carrying a lunchbox to work is a feminine trait. There’s absolutely nothing manly about that.
— Father (@Mpikanisi__) November 22, 2024
Ah yes, the audacity of a lunchbox. Clearly, a box holding roti-sabzi is a bigger threat to masculinity than unpaid bills or ironing your own clothes. If carrying a lunchbox is “feminine,” then congratulations to the dabbawallas of Mumbai for being honourary queens all this time!
Innumerable people couldn’t help but laugh at the face of this stupidity. How does a mere lunchbox threaten a person’s masculinity?
Yeah bro, my grandfather taking the same lunch to work everyday for 40 years as a plumber and pipe fitter was totally feminine 🙄
— WMMA Scene Now (@NowWmma) November 24, 2024
Majority of white men carry lunch box , even CEOs, intellactuals . There is nothing manly about your brain my boy
— truth-hurts (@MothusiSlyman1) November 23, 2024
Interesting take. I’m sure the construction industry would strongly disagree.
— Giraffic Park (@GirafficPark_) November 23, 2024
Tell me you’ve never met a construction worker without telling me you’ve never met a construction worker.
— MineYoBiscuits (@Oxfarm) November 24, 2024
I have never seen a man so hurt by a lunchbox. pic.twitter.com/kBlX4hIzNL
— Meredith Gay 🛋️✨ (@MerGarza) November 25, 2024
Ah yes, because masculinity is clearly defined by whether you pack your own lunch or rely on someone else to feed you.
— Victor (@toro__training) November 24, 2024
Maybe the real issue here is fragile masculinity, not lunchboxes.
— Sakshi Danej (@SakshiDanej) November 25, 2024
Yea bro eating lunch is for women only. Real Men starve themselves while working 12hrs straight.
— Ahmed (@theahmedjaffery) November 24, 2024
Meanwhile, the rest of us will keep carrying our food to work, because unlike fragile egos, hunger doesn’t discriminate.