If you're a guy, chances are someone said you should "man up" or "boys don't cry" at some point in your life. The phrase that inspired this article is right up there among these classics.
A few months ago, Reddit user The_WereArcticFox submitted a question to the platform, where they asked: "Straight men of Reddit, what is the strangest thing you have been told not to do because 'that's gay?'" Sadly, it has received plenty of replies.
As of this article, there are over 38.5K comments under the post, proving that our society is still pretty messed up when it comes to masculinity and homosexuality.
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#41
At the age of 22, during Obama’s re-election, my dad told me voting for him was gay and would turn me into a homosexual.
Plot Twist: Dad is white, mom is black.
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68points
#43
At work I once complimented another man on his outfit. My male co-workers looked at me as if I had asked if he had naked photos of himself I could see.
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65points
#44
The time my female friend was wildly drunk and I wouldn't have sex with her. Both her and my male friends were all calling me gay that night!
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65points
#46
Hugging a friend that had lost his father, sad to see caring about others is also being hit by toxic masculinity.
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63points
#47
Work at Victoria's Secret for a summer. I was trynna speed up the girlfriend-getting process and decided to work at a female-rich environment but apparently that was gay.
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62points
#48
I was taking prescription strength pain killers after surgery. My friend had come over to check on me. Her boyfriend (ex) thought it was gay to take pain killers and told me to be a man.
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60points
#50
Using a loofah. Like bruh I can feel it's making me cleaner than just a bar of soap how TF is cleanliness gay.
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58points