# What are the traits of a girlyman? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584 "2005-10-10T16:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/41 "2005-10-16T16:32:32Z")
> [@Ink a dink a dink](#): > > But that’s what my dermatologist said to do after the skin cancer. No, I’m not kidding. > > Inky Hey, only a girlyman would listen to what his doctor tells him, if it would interfere with any manly pursuits. A girlyman will admit he’s lost and ask for directions. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/42 "2005-10-16T19:47:40Z")
> [@Ink a dink a dink](#): > > But that’s what my dermatologist said to do after the skin cancer. No, I’m not kidding. Your dermatologist is a girlyman. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/43 "2005-10-16T19:57:11Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > A girlyman will admit he’s lost and ask for directions. You’ve probably even strayed into girlyman land if you give in to your wife’s demands to pull the car over so that _she_ can ask for directions. Oh, gawd, I’m a little bitch! :😭: ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/44 "2005-10-19T21:14:20Z")
> [@vl\_mungo](#): > > whatever the real world equivalent of chartreuse is. Pansy-ass yellow. Girlymen signal their lane changes. Girlymen use French words in normal conversation. Girlymen read the manual. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/45 "2005-10-19T23:16:38Z")
-you’ve ever gasped. -you’ve ever showered with shoes on. -you can name more than 1 show on the Food Network. -you’ve never spit indoors (brushing teeth doesn’t count). -you’ve never swung an axe. -you’ve never owned a pair of cleats. -you’ve ever started a sentence with a _tsk_. -you’ve ever said you’re “chilly.” -you own a stuffed animal that was never alive. -you pee sitting down. -you’ve ever shaved your gnarly jungle of pubic hair. -you’ve never wiped your ass with leaves. Present company excluded, as, well, I’m guilty of six of those. Happy ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/46 "2005-10-19T23:24:03Z")
One of Wellington’s threads lives on! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/47 "2005-10-20T03:54:01Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Your dermatologist is a girlyman. _Everyone’s_ dermatologist is a girlyman. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/48 "2005-10-20T05:07:35Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > _Everyone’s_ dermatologist is a girlyman. You got a dermatologist? Girlyman. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/49 "2005-10-20T05:24:45Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > - Enjoys shopping. > - Knows the names of at least 3 spices. > - Gets emotional for about a week, once a month. > - Medicine cabinet full of personal hygiene products. > - The living room is color coordinated. Are you saying all of the above, or ANY of the above. Because I have a good friend who is 1 and 2 and is the least girly man person I know. Of course, the shopping he likes to do is generally related to house building type stuff or tools and the like. But he talks WAY too much about planes, his time in the service and his partying days with the good ole boys in Kentucky of his youth just to name a few “manly” things, to ever be considered a girlyman. But the man is fun to go shopping with, and he can cook pretty well. Does his own gardening too. Come to think of it, my own darling granddad gardened and was anything but a girlyman. Nope, nope nope. As a girl, I can tell you all that a true girly man is that clingy, blames women for his non-layable status, zero-personalitied creature known as the “Self Proclaimed Nice Guy”. SPNG[sup]tm[/sup] NOT to be confused with a plain old “good man”, “decent man” or ordinary genuine nice guy. REPEAT, NOT to be confused with a good man, a decent man or the genuine nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/50 "2005-10-20T05:59:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you saying all of the above, or ANY of the above. Because I have a good friend who is 1 and 2 and is the least girly man person I know. Of course, the shopping he likes to do is generally related to house building type stuff or tools and the like. But he talks WAY too much about planes, his time in the service and his partying days with the good ole boys in Kentucky of his youth just to name a few “manly” things, to ever be considered a girlyman. Hm. Judges? Nope, sorry. He’s a girlyman. Unless he is known to free-base buffalo jerky, beef jerky, or some other red-meat-based jerky product, then I’m afraid the judges’ decision will stand. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/51 "2005-10-23T01:20:34Z")
Does peeing sitting down count if your wife makes you scrub the bathroom walls at gunpoint if you don’t? ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/52 "2005-10-23T02:18:05Z")
the only booze you drink is best described as a chocolate bar dipped in rum ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/53 "2005-10-23T04:05:33Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Hm. Judges? > > Nope, sorry. He’s a girlyman. > > Unless he is known to free-base buffalo jerky, beef jerky, or some other red-meat-based jerky product, then I’m afraid the judges’ decision will stand. Hmmm… Well then, based on the many descriptions of what a girlyman is SUPPOSED to be as described by the guys here in this thread, methinks I’ll be saving myself for a girlyman instead of a so-called “real man”… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/54 "2005-10-23T04:48:46Z")
_gasp_ My _people!_ ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/55 "2005-10-23T06:44:51Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Of course, the shopping he likes to do is generally related to house building type stuff or tools and the like. Buying tools does not count as shopping unless he takes his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Pan4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@Pan4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pan4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/56 "2005-10-24T00:37:47Z")
Okay, I read the replies, and as my self-esteem sinked ever lower on the testosterone-level with each post, I have come to the outright conclusion that I must be a girly-man. Case in point- 1. I shower every day and do have health/ skin products in my bathroom cabinet, though no woman currently lives with me. 2. I do not sustain my food intake on a strict diet of instant oatmeal, homemade canned chili nachos, and hot-dogs. I can and do actually cook. 3. At no time would a surprise inspection of my kitchen reveal dishes overflowing from the sink onto the counter covered in various stages of molding leftovers, in fact I actually put them in the dishwasher immediately…and (it’s horrible to admit publicly now) I pre-rinse them. 4. I do own a clothes hamper and place my clothes from that day into it. On that note I can’t bear to wear the same socks or underwear over and over like a real man would. Oh Godddd…it’s all too horrible now to see. Somebody save me, please. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584/57 "2005-10-24T02:30:05Z")
> [@Pan4Life](#): > > Okay, I read the replies, and as my self-esteem sinked ever lower on the testosterone-level with each post, I have come to the outright conclusion that I must be a girly-man. > Case in point- > > 1. I shower every day and do have health/ skin products in my bathroom cabinet, though no woman currently lives with me. > 2. I do not sustain my food intake on a strict diet of instant oatmeal, homemade canned chili nachos, and hot-dogs. I can and do actually cook. > 3. At no time would a surprise inspection of my kitchen reveal dishes overflowing from the sink onto the counter covered in various stages of molding leftovers, in fact I actually put them in the dishwasher immediately…and (it’s horrible to admit publicly now) I pre-rinse them. > 4. I do own a clothes hamper and place my clothes from that day into it. On that note I can’t bear to wear the same socks or underwear over and over like a real man would. Cheer up! I married a man like that–he’s not a girlyman. Then again, he’s been in dozens of bar brawls, broken every bone in his body (usually after saying “Hey watch this!”), and insists on CARRYING ALL THE GROCERIES HIMSELF THANK YOU VERY MUCH. So I don’t know how much he rates as a girlyman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-traits-of-a-girlyman/325584.md?page=2)