It’s no secret that the trope of creepiness is usually assigned to men. Catcalling on the streets, unsolicited touching at bars, not taking no for an answer—women indeed had their fair share of uncomfortable encounters with the opposite sex.
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I don’t get creeped out, because I’m not overly sensitive and not much worries me in general.That said, the thing that annoys me lately is more about word choice. It seems lately that (mostly women) are using (or misusing) quasi technical terms related to psychological or social issues in order to lend a bit more authority to whatever it is they’re saying.So instead of “my colleague acted like a douchebag and she left me feeling annoyed” they’ll offer “my colleague is a toxic narcissist and her abuse has left me with trauma”.On the one hand it’s just a dumb trend, but on the other hand those words actually do have real use for people experiencing actual (diagnosed) psychological issues or abuse, and throwing the terms around devalues the currency of the words for people who might really need them.
Bunch of moms staring at highschool boys swimming and comment on how hot they are. Non stop leering. I can’t imagine how they would have acted if there were dads looking at girls that way.
When they say “I have no filter.” - this always translates to me, I’m a cow and arrogant. Everyone has a filter, you’re just an a*sehole.
Even though we’ve been describing people as creepy for some time, there was no science to help us understand it—that is, until 2016, when Francis McAndrew and Sara Koehnke of Knox College in Illinoispublished the first empirical studyon the subject, wanting to better understand this difficult concept.“Creepinessis all about not being able to figure out whether there is a threat,” explained McAndrew, professor of psychology and author of the study.
Even though we’ve been describing people as creepy for some time, there was no science to help us understand it—that is, until 2016, when Francis McAndrew and Sara Koehnke of Knox College in Illinoispublished the first empirical studyon the subject, wanting to better understand this difficult concept.
“Creepinessis all about not being able to figure out whether there is a threat,” explained McAndrew, professor of psychology and author of the study.
When I was an Uber driver, I’d sometimes get a car full of girls say something like “You’re not gonna k*ll us, are you?”. I started replying with “Nah. When you’re as good at it as I am - you don’t do it for free.”
I’ve actually heard a couple women say, “If you can’t take me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”Thanks for making the red flag so obvious, much appreciated.
The research concluded that people ‘detect’creepinesswhen they encounter something unpredictable or outside the norm, like a person acting strangely, having an unusual physical appearance, or over- or under-expressing their emotions.
They also indicated certain professions they deemed more offsetting than others. A clown, taxidermist, sex shop owner, and funeral director were rated highest on the creepiness scale. Meanwhile, the meteorologist’s occupation evoked the most positive associations.
A woman I dated not only said but also had a fridge magnet with the phrase:“If I’m not happy, no one else will be.“I first thought it was a darkly humorous little trinket.Dear reader, it really, really wasn’t.
A girl once tried to seduce me with the immortal words “I’m as smooth down there as a 4-year-old”. This was almost 20 years ago and to this day I just can’t even.
Some lady I worked with once touched my stomach and asked me when I’m due. If the situation would have been reversed, I would have been fired.
“I want a gay best friend"No, I’m not a f*****g accessory.
“You’re well trained” whenever they see me do dishes, vacuum or laundy. Like I‘ve been trained as some manservant or they just expect husbands to be another child.
Here’s a tip: Asking a man what he has under his kilt is just as bad as asking a woman if she’s wearing anything under her skirt. Even worse are the women who feel entitled to check. Hasn’t happened to me, thankfully, but fellow kilt wearers have had pretty bad encounters before.pizzacatstattoost:Women asking me “ohh what’s under your kilt?” to which I reply “my wifey’s best friend” or “a perch for 8 golden eagles”. it usually ends there.honestly tho its mostly dudes who ask to which i say: “why is it always men who wanna know” and it usually ends there.
This is kinda specific to me and those in my situation, but I share the last name of a famous serial killer (VERY distantly related). some women get waaaaay to excited when they find out. The amount of true crime fans who ask me on a date/said yes when I asked because of that has meant I literally have taken it off facebook and don’t tell people at first. Even a few months in Ive gotten ‘haha lol I only dated you cause it would be wild to be Mrs serial killer’. Its creepy, it makes me feel worthless and yes, I know EVERY DETAIL of what he did, because of course I do everyone sends me the link anytime there is a new doco out. Please don’t add my last name to your FB just cause we are dating. No I wont f**k you while we watch a doco on him. Special shout out to women in psych 101.
I don’t know about “women” but I had a female manager interviewing me for a job telling me they were PRO sexual harassment at the workplace, wink wink, nudge nudge. I was…22? She was 50, easily.That f*****g sucked.
I’m bald, and was the only man who worked a front facing position at a local clinic in a town with an aging population. The older/elderly women constantly wanted to rub my head, or be very inappropriate in general when speaking to me. The women in the office laughed about it until I pointed out how I would always step in and cover for them or drive off the creepy guys for them, and this was no different. Don’t get me wrong, the creepy men said and did far worse things to those women than the old women ever did/said to me, but they still made me uncomfortable. Last year or so I was there they started helping me hide from the worst of the harassment. That was nice.
Me and a date making out in a dark parking lot at night. Girl - starts laughing Me - what’s funny? Girl - It’s just that, if I were to call the police and tell them you sexually assaulted me right now, there’s not much you can do to prove you’re innocent. I’m a cute, white, tiny German girl, and you are a big, mean looking, medium dark skinned American man. You’d be screwed. Me - huh, yeah… Guess you’re right.
Bragging about how proficient they are at stalking people on social media. It’s creepy af.
When they proudly say they are crazy and want a guy who can handle that.Yeah, there is nothing okay about being proud of that and they should seriously consider getting help if they legitimately think they are unstable. There is too much liability being affiliated with a woman like this.
“Can you still get it up” like f**k you! This is the equivalent of a man asking a woman if she is tight or still gets wet.
I was bartending and there was a hen party who’s challenge in their game was to kiss the bartender. I said ok as long as it was on the cheek and turn my head, but she woman grabbed my face and tried to kiss me on the lips.Had to walk away and tell them I wouldn’t be serving them and all they could say was “aww come on don’t be frigid, you know you want to”
Happy wife, happy life. No b***h it’s not only about you.
My arms are heavily tattooed. Women will often say, “can I see your tattoos?” and then immediately start touching them. I have some pretty obvious self-harm scars on my forearms, so it’s super embarrassing and always makes me really uncomfortable. I know I have my own blame in the situation, but yeah— not a fan.
My aunt kissed me on the lips when I was a teenager. I said no. She didn’t care I hated it then. I still hate it now.
To “man up” when all you’re trying to do is chill.
I worked in an elementary school for many years and the amount of female teachers who openly talk about how “cute” the boys are or how they will be “total heartbreakers” was foul.
“Don’t throw the condom in the toilet. Don’t worry I won’t go fish it out of the trash hahaha.” I get from a plumbing standpoint why you want it in the trash, but once you add the second part…
As a boy who looked 19 at the age of 14, the number of women who have casually laughed off hitting on me and turned it into “come see me when you turn 18” (again while I’m 14) is a bit much.
Is it true what they say about Mexican d**k?Thay we don’t give it to ugly bitches? Sure is. Sorry.
Not something said, but when I worked at a cafe for a bit, the accountant for the cafe pat me on the a*s and called me cutie. None of the owners saw, but customers and co workers saw.When I talked to the owners, the accountant was told to apologize and instead she said it was meant to be endearing and tbh how quickly it was let slide was 100% disturbing
I’ve had women in the workplace (I was 21, they were 23-33) very openly speculate about my sex life in front of me or comment about my (visible and clothed, or hypothesized) anatomy. I’m comfortable with my body because it does look good and I’m very nicely endowed, what I’m really not comfortable with is people I’m not fg trying to discuss it with me or other people especially while I’m in the room.That was the first time I was sexually harassed in the workplace. The second time was when I was working at a summer camp. I usually took my hour long break in my on-site dorm room because it was a 3 minute walk, I could sit on my bed and listen to a podcast, get some nicotine in my system, and walk back refreshed. Woman who was my supervisor was randomly showering around noonish (very, very weird for her, I hadn’t bumped into her or anyone else there ever before during the day, and she was on the wrong floor for the women’s showers). Saw her walking around the corner in a towel and to be polite and let there not be any room for misunderstanding, I covered my eyes completely and averted my head toward the ceiling. As I walked past her she kept telling me to “take a look” and taunting with “I know you want to”, and as much as I said “No thanks, I’m good!”, she kept pushing the issue and I finally let out a “I’m REALLY, REALLY not interested in looking at you” and made a bee-line back to my room to attempt to enjoy the remaining part of my break. I reported it to her supervisor and his supervisor, and essentially nothing happened but she repeatedly spent that summer and the following summer trying to retaliate against me. I loved that job but never worked there again and never will because they let her stay on payroll.I’ve had similar things happen outside the workplace. I’m happily married, I don’t watch porn, never have watched porn, I’ve got a healthy sex drive that I laser focus onto the love of my life. The insistence (often communicated in an angry and accusatory way) that I’m simultaneously, just because I’m a man, some kind of endlessly horny animal (and if I’m not I’m somehow lesser of a man or sexual being) fg sucks. I love looking at, loving, and f*****g my sexy wife, it’s not that weird.
Not that all women are like this, but I’m concerned for the women that talk about the healing powers of crystals bought from Esty.
If only I were 20 years younger…2_alarm_chili:I got this all the time when I worked food service at a hospital. It was really creepy when it was said in an elevator that was notorious for getting stuck for long periods of time.
I have large hands ring finger size is 16 and I had a lady tell me once that I had sausage fingers and that she wanted to sit on them.
Was in a bar. A girl comes up to me and asks if she could feel the size of my penis; I’m pretty tall so I get it a lot.What confuses me to this day is that it was in front of her boyfriend.
“I’m on birth control, we don’t need to use condoms.”
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I remember once at the gym, after I finished my chest workout, some lady just poked my chest and said “damn those are hard. Keep up the hard work. " and just walked away before I could comprehend.I was talking to my friend who was a trainer, and he looked at me confused and was like “bro who was that?” And I just said I dunno man.Imagine if after a girl was done doing her squats and I poked her a*s cheek and said, “That booty is getting hard. Keep up the good work.” I’d get f*****g jumped
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At work a candy striper who I knew had a crush on me(that I knew was super religious) came up to me without any prompt and in a monotone voice with to much eye contact stated, “I just turned 18 I’m legal now”. F***g creepy as st.
Had a girl at a bar tap me on the shoulder and say, “I love black guys, do you like white girls?” while grabbing my stomach before, so that was kinda creepy.
Married now but when dating I had a few women ask if I was a grower or a show-er. It just kinda seemed weird to ask over dinner on a date. While I was flirty back, it’s not like I’m gonna respond and say “hey what color are you tits are they more pink or brown?”
Random women grabbing my bicep and feeling it in an obvious “I am appraising you like a slave on the auction block” way.Usually this happens in a bar when the woman has had a drink or two, she say “hi there, me and my friend were just blah blah blah, and I said ooh, blah blah blah” … grabs bicep and feels it.Lady. I’m not interested. Go away.
I had a girl tell me to guess how many people she slept with. I refused, and after she insisted, I relented and guessed 15. She said “Higher” and made me keep guessing after refusing a second time. After 2 more wr0ng guesses, she eventually told me she slept with 45 men (60 people total, including the women). I had no interest in those details about her sexual history, and forcing me to participate in a guessing game about her kill count was a real turn-off.I certainly hope my experience is the outlier, but I doubt I’m the first to have had this happen.
I’ve had dates with two women recently that talked about “witches” and how their friends are “witches”. One told me she was writing a book about a group of feral women who kidnap naive men. I asked one “can a dude be a witch” lol But yeah. More I think about it- f*****g weird and creepy.
Having a co-worker run her hands through my hair and say “Don’t forget me”.Yes, this actually happened.
“I hate men” (casually/when they’re venting).
I have a couple female friends who think it’s ok to slap my a*s (mostly it has happened when they’re drunk). They think it’s funny. Like no, imagine if the roles were reversed.
When I was really young and working in a coffee shop, a flirty older lady said “you look exotic,” to me.Naive and impressionable me thought it was somehow remotely appropriate to use this line on another cute customer and she did not smile when I said it.
“I’m not on birth control, but it’s okay, I have a standing appointment at the clinic”I actually heard this once. Word for word. 🤦♂️
“I don’t have time to train a man”. Imagine if a man said that about a woman.
My wife saying she has this fantasy of her and our daughter tricking wealthy men into some sort of marriage scam and getting a bunch of money.
When they and/or their friends threaten “if you hurt her, you better watch out” or whatever. It’s honestly annoying and imagine if my buddies told you, “if you do anything we don’t like, we’re gonna jump you”, we’d get thrown in a damn cell.Also it’s pretty demeaning and annoying.
A friend was talking about how she was going to get me really, really drunk… and left it at that.
A lot of women don’t believe they are capable of committing assault and so do things that would definitely be considered rpe if a man did it. I’ve had women refuse to leave my apartment unless I sleep with them. I’ve been bullied and made fun of for not wanting sx. I’ve been groped. It really sucks. Edit: I’ve also been body shamed a lot just for being uncircumcised. One time I was hooking up with a girl in college and when I took my pants off she said “what the fk is wrong with your dk” with a tone you would expect for someone with active breakouts of genital warts, herpes, and syphilis sores all at the same time, like absolute disgust and horror. I was/am completely std free tho, she had just never once in her life seen a natural dk before. Needless to say I kicked her the fk out after that. On the flip side I’ve also been fetishized and objectified a lot because I’m taller, muscular, well endowed, have a weirdly big round a*s for a guy, etc etc. Which while often flattering if im in the mood for it and enjoying the attention. Can also be really dehumanizing and degrading depending on the context.
I could stab you when you’re asleep.
Tell me about the love life of celebs they’ve never met.
“You make my ovaries flip!” Like hey I’m flattered but also that feels weird af
Ooo can I touch you abs, who tf are u random lady?
I had a woman talk about us getting married after the first time we had sx. We hadn’t even been on an official date yet. I would’ve bolted out of there, but it was my house. I told her that I had to work early in the morning, but she didn’t get the hint. She was intent on spending the night. To make matters worse, the sx was TERRIBLE.
Not necessarily creepy, but my girlfriend sometimes belittles men like its nothing. Typically she just blurts it out when we are visiting my family, its so embarrasing and makes me feel bad. Like hello, you are living with a straight white meat eating male, how can you say stuff like that? Its not often enough that i’d feel justified to start an argument about it, so I usually just ignore it since i dont know how to approach the subject. But every time it happens i just kinda shut down and start to doubt our relationship
Asking to see my phone.
It’s not a general thing, but its definitely the weirdest thing a woman has said to me. I was 17 and working the metal detectors at a concert venue. It was a country concert and we were told to pat down any cowboy boots (we only did body patdowns as a last resort to finding something). A lady was coming through with her friends, only she had boots on. I told her I had to check the boots, just pressing down on either side of the leg part to check for flasks. She said “aw, how many pretty girls have you tried this on?” While laughing with her friends. She was easily as old as my mother.
Talking about a man’s butt.I’ve had family members, colleagues, and random people comment on my a*s out in the open in ways that made me so uncomfortable and would never be okay if the roles were reversed.
When they talk about our bodies, not all of us are into that.
Usually not what they say, but what they do. Getting handsy/groping strangers and trying to sit on men’s laps in bars/casinos. Also, reading smut in public. Fine if you enjoy that in privacy, but really gross to do that in public. In terms of what they say, gossiping about their partner’s sexual prowess. That’s really gross and creepy.
I came back just to see you or I watch you sometimes walking to work.
“I googled you”
Astrology, superstition nonsense. Kinda gender neutral as I would think less of anyone who indulges in superstition. Though, IME, this is far more common among women.I have never met a man who discussed or believed in astrology or burned sage to purge bad vibes, etc.
Had a coworker lean in once and tell me I smelled good. I appreciated the compliment, but might not be the best thing to do with others.
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