ameancow

People who are obsessed with some physical quality about themselves always make whatever the issue is, like 1000% worse than if they just left it alone and lived normally.

I’m confused what they think they’re washing off.

A LOT of kitchen practices in families are passed-down traditions, with a lot of people not really knowing why they do the things they do.

My Filipino family-in-law washes their cuts of meat, which yeah is entirely unnecessary and I always wondered why they do it, then I traveled to the Philippines and saw the town where they lived, and most of the local butchers hang fresh cuts of meat up on hooks, uncovered, right next to busy roads and sidewalks.

I genuinely don't know how everyone there hasn't died of acute food poisoning from the unrefrigerated meats in high heat and humidity, but they at least like to wash off the road grime and dust.

Momentarily maybe, but seminal fluid proteins aren't like eggs, the structures fall apart fast and revert to liquid, did you even read the links?

Then it will come at the worst possible time.

I was watching Arcane on Netflix with wife and her family a couple nights ago. The very beginning, where it deals with loss of family, I just immediately lost it, like I had been shot. I don't even remember what the show was like, I just cried with my face buried in my hands the whole episode. Totally came out of nowhere, I was fine a moment before.

The room was dark, so nobody saw but my chest was heaving and I couldn't even try to move to excuse myself because I knew I was about to let out a loud screaming sob. I sat there for a full hour hyperventilating, worried someone was going to turn on a light or hear my breathing.

I have spent a lifetime being "the guy who takes care of everything" and the stoic fighter, always the one encouraging others. I couldn't deal with the fallout of freaking out everyone, they already know I have anxiety disorder and really, really don't understand mental health, so if I started acting erratic everyone in the family will start walking on eggshells around me.

So to those browsing down here: "Why do men keep everything inside?"

Because of how you react when we don't. Your ideas of what it looks like to express emotion as a male is not connected to reality.

It's nonsense bullshit, maybe bordering on fetish-bait.

The semen clogging the drain part is a dead giveaway, because that's not a thing.

It became an urban legend because of a college prank years and years ago, and since then many young guys with limited critical thinking or reading comprehension failed to connect with the part of the prank that made it a prank, IE: that it's not true.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/housing-violation-notice-in-college-bathroom-prank-resurfaces-idUSL1N2MY2GV/

There's STILL people who believe semen can clog showers because of a single prank at a campus years and years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/housing-violation-notice-in-college-bathroom-prank-resurfaces-idUSL1N2MY2GV/

https://deadspin.com/will-semen-destroy-your-shower-drain-1795434004/

I don't know how you can smell anything over that massive pile of bullshit.

The water in a shower is hot enough to cook it, so it can block the pipes.

100% untrue.

While you're right that proteins can caugulate a little, this is a common urban legend that was started with a prank note left in a dorm bathroom many years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/housing-violation-notice-in-college-bathroom-prank-resurfaces-idUSL1N2MY2GV/

https://deadspin.com/will-semen-destroy-your-shower-drain-1795434004/

"Abraham Morgentaler, an associate professor of urology at Harvard Medical School and the director of Men’s Health Boston, debunked the rumor for us once and for all. In an email to Slate, Morgentaler says that not only is semen never thick enough to clog a drain, but that 20 to 30 minutes after ejaculation, it will become a runny liquid and slide away:"

I can't understand how we got to the point with this that people have written thousands of articles about it and consulted with medical professionals. We really need better education in this country.

According to the little arrows on our comments, there were like, two people really angered by this thought that some people think the rest of people are stupid. It's amazing.

I'll add that I currently live in a house full of women, I'm the only male and women can absolutely fucking DESTROY bathrooms. I've never cleaned so much piss, beauty care debris, hair and blood in my whole life. Maybe lets chill on the gender bullshit before you get yourself so hyped up you have to retreat to your friendly discord server of mindless, performative people who support your every stupid idea.

Why do you put men in quotation marks? Almost seems like yer trying to stir up some trouble, pardner.

If the men around you can't aim or clean up after themselves, that's a them problem. And I guess a you problem if you have to deal with it, but even more so if you're too chickenshit to call it out. I've never left a bathroom less clean than when I went in, and a lot of people have this same attitude. A lot don't, but a lot do also.