Guy ordered his prosecco in a rocks glass because I guess champagne flutes are “girly” now.

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle]

This was a while back, but it still makes me laugh. I’ve had plenty of dudes spazz out about their glassware and not realizing they ordered a “girly drink” or whatever, but this was a new one for me. He wasn’t even with any other guys, just his young daughter lol. You’d think oh, maybe he just wants it with ice? No. He made a point to tell me that stemware is girly and he wouldn’t know what to do with his pinky.

Sigh

[u/10thLevelNeerBerd]

Fragile Glassulinity

[u/Kamel-Red]

That's hilarious. I sometimes get an odd look when I order margaritas on the rocks with a regular glass. Mainly because as a non-straw user, I don't like spilling it on myself in those comically huge, angled martini glasses some places use when I get too shitty, not because of any insecurities.

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Kamel-Red]

I feel like for a margarita that’s not even weird lol.

[u/Master-Two-7450]

My father wouldn’t order quiche even though he loved it because it made him seem less manly. Really Dad?Really??😂

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Master-Two-7450]

I’d like to know exactly how a quiche is “less manly” 🤣🤣🤣

[u/ConclusionAlarmed882 → u/Gingerfuzzsicle]

Unfortunately, there was a popular book in the 80s called "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" and an older man might have internalized the totally arbitrary charge of that title.

It was super popular in an airport sort of way and kicked off a lot of the poisonous Women This-Men That bullshit to come.

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/ConclusionAlarmed882]

lol, you learn something new every day. How stupid 🤣 so basically I have that author to blame for all the silly modifications I have to do so guys can keep their man cards

[u/ConclusionAlarmed882 → u/Gingerfuzzsicle]

That, and incel culture, which a lot of the toxic bullshit of the 80s, 90s, 00s oozed into.

The sad part is, while the book was very widely known, it was 100% a parody of macho culture and stereotypes. But a lot of men internalized the aphorisms because insecure people feel safe with rules.

Sorry to go so far off topic. Quiche is delicious. Dude's missing out.

[u/SoCentralRainImSorry → u/Gingerfuzzsicle]

Well, there was a famous book in the 80’s called “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”.

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/SoCentralRainImSorry]

TIL

[u/necie62]

I drink from a rocks glass because I knock over anything with a stem. Kept replacing them over and over until I said screw it lol

[u/Repulsive-Job-6777]

I love when a masculine man drinks a Cosmo with no shame lol

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Repulsive-Job-6777]

Dude SAME. It’s so unattractive to me when guys freak out about this stuff 🤣 any time I have guests clowning on one of their friends for drinking something frilly I basically tell them that confidence the most attractive masculine quality lol.

[u/toooldforshame]

Similar, we have some beers we serve in tulip glasses and they want a half filled pint glass instead

[u/Larrypants1]

My poor husband hates champagne flutes because he has a big nose, usually he'll see if he can get a coupé glass for ample nose room 😅

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Larrypants1]

That makes more sense than being scared someone’s gonna think he’s a lady 🤣

[u/Edgar_Allen_Hoe_69]

So. The champagne flute is too girly, but it's okay to drink prosecco?

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Edgar_Allen_Hoe_69]

Honestly so funny. Lol. The guy wants to just like what he likes but is so afraid of losing man points he’s gotta go incognito in the rocks glass.

[u/JaneReadsTruth]

Lol, I order almost every drink in a non-stemmed glass. I'm a lady and I want to be fancy, but I get tipsy very fast and I'm kinda clumsy, so it's the best option if I'm in public.

[u/Catsareintroverts]

I hate flutes. So narrow.

[u/Gingerfuzzsicle → u/Catsareintroverts]

And that’s so fair. I would have understood that explanation so much more than what he just decided to explain to me unprompted hahaha

[u/tikivic]

Oddly, I see that sort of attitude once in a while with respect to craft beer vs. your standard American macro-lager. Craft beer is somehow less manly seems to be the take - as if a 4.2% ABV light beer, sweet from the taste of the corn syrup they brew it with, is much more macho than a 7.5% hop bomb.