Carrying food is a feminine trait
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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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.
I guess construction is a feminine-coded industry now. Girl power!
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.
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.
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.
“Sitting down to take a shit is a feminine trait. Real men shit standing up.”
“Guys, is it gay to eat?”
“Cooking is a woman´s job!”… unless its professional cooking, like in restaurants. Then, suddelny, it becames mans job.
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
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?
By this logic, eating is a feminine trait! Real men starve to death!
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.
The good, [feminine](https://imgur.com/a/xML5Oe0) times.
Yeah the welders and machinists I work with have lunchboxes. They are NOT feminine, in any measurement
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.
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.
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.
I’m starting to think this generation might actually need a war.
My dad had a metal Stanley lunchbox… back in the old days of all the guys working for the factory. Before Stanley was trendy.
The single most emasculating trait is worrying about what others see as emasculating
Who brings a sole lunchbox to work?
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.
Didn’t old school construction workers have lunch pails?
I am pretty sure this person afraid of being called feminine for carrying a lunchbox has no masculinity at all
Yeah, I become Joe fucking Pesci if I don’t get lunch, and nobody wants that kind of manly.
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.
I wear a hard hat to work, everyone carries a lunch bucket, nobody has ever said anything remotely close to this nonsense.
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
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
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
Guess that explains why my lunchbox is pink and covered in unicorn stickers!
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.
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.
Isn’t guys who bring their “lunch pail “ to work the epitome of masculinity? Like that’s the stereotype.
These people are incredibly miserable
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?
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.
Hello
Tell it to all those guys casually walking around the I beams on skyscrapers.
Guy obviously doesn’t do any hard labor jobs lol
Sometimes i wonder, or at the very least hope against hope, that the people who say dumb shit like this have a giggle at it afterwards.
The image of somebody saying something like this unironically with a straight face just makes me feel physically ill. It is malicious stupidity.
Dude, the lunch pail is like the definition of a manly job.
At this point we’re just drawing nonexistent lines in the sand ffs
Eating food is a trait of living things.
A man who *doesn’t* want to show off his lunchbox.
Yes, that’s what we call it in Britland.