What annoys you most about being a guy?

[Greg]

What are your minor niggles, or bigger agitations?
Not a negative topic but for all the great things about being a guy there are a couple of things that annoy me.

1. In every store that sells womens and mens clothes I have to go either upstairs or down to the basement to find the menswear. Womenswear gets the prime floorspace, grr.

2. Before I had short hair I could easily get away without having a haircut for around 3 or 4 months. Now if I don't cut my hair around once a month it looks absolutely ridiculous.

3. I feel like a douche if I look at the DVD section labelled "Chick Flicks"

[Elijah3291]

I agree with the hair thing.. and also, cool hair products are always targeted towards women, I want nice hair, but I dont want it to smell.. girlish.

I cant really think of anything else really.. I have way more complaints about being a girl.. WAYYY more

[Greg]

Exactly, I would be writing for days if I was to list my complaints about being a girl.

[Al James]

1 That my wife thinks its funny to make me carry her handbag

2 There's never any toilet roll in the cubicles

3 Why do they assume all blokes are 6 foot tall. It'd be nice if some things were my height i.e. short!!!

[tekla]

Being expected to defend people who can't defend themselves, or who let their stupidity get them into something they can't get out of.

[Chamillion]

Yeah I agree with the haircut thing, although that's not really a gender specific thing, anyone with short hair will need to get it cut more often

I dislike that if I pass by a woman on the street at night, she is more likely to be afraid of me

Besides that I can't think of anything 

[Brynn]

Women. They seem even more of a mystery now that I've finally started to embrace my gender identity.

[JakeDenver]

I am annoyed that once I changed my gender marker on my license to M my car insurance went up $50 a month. Thats ridiculous.

[Mr. Fox]

Most of these problems I avoid by having long hair, wearing women's clothes, etc.  But things like Kat mentioned (I feel like a suck-up today) are a concern, especially for a tiny little sissy like me.  I probably can't even defend myself, let alone anyone with me.   I also worry that people will expect me to lift heavy things.

What Chamillion mentions touches on a larger topic of women distrusting men more.  It's usually justified, sadly, but it doesn't make it any more pleasant for me.

[Aussie Jay]

1. Yeah the whole being expected to save a mate's ass/save a damsel in distress/ or help get a 'mouth' out of trouble sucks! I liked my face in one piece before - and now still!
2. Car insurance went up - definitely sucked!  Couldn't believe that!
3. People are more wary, especially chicks if you smile at them. Guys look at you funny! I've learned to just nod. And especially if you smile at a kid - people get really wary! 
4. I'm expected to know 'guy code'! Thank god there's a book lol!
5. I'm expected to all of a sudden know and love ALL sports (don't get me wrong I like some!) and to know ALL about cars and machines!
6. I am expected to lift the 'heavy end' of everything!
Jay

[tekla]

Yeah, but on the upside, using violence to solve interpersonal problems can be very rewarding.  Or at least cathartic.

[Aussie Jay]

Yeah, but on the upside, using violence to solve interpersonal problems can be very rewarding.  Or at least cathartic.

Satisfaction usually guarenteed! If the person is being a right tw&t! lol 

[CodyJess]

-People seem to take my violent sense of humor as something more threatening than it really is.

-Not all guys are 5'10"+ and 200 lbs. NOTHING is small enough to fit without making me really look like a little kid.

-Social Pain Tolerance. I don't bitch unless I'm seriously in some pain and it's relevant to the situation. (Example: "No, I can't help lift and carry that, I wrenched my knee") If a man mentions being in pain, he's probably gonna be called a wuss, or similar.

-Sex sex sex sex. Everyone assumes everything is always about sex all the time with guys. I'm a bit on the prudish side, so the constant sex-centric comments sort of get to me.

[Aussie Jay]

-Sex sex sex sex. Everyone assumes everything is always about sex all the time with guys. I'm a bit on the prudish side, so the constant sex-centric comments sort of get to me.

There is a distinct possibility Cody, that people's assumptions will be proven once T (I don't think you are??)! T is actually proven to make one feel - more boystrous in that regard... Not that every guy, myself included, goes around humping people legs lol!
It just makes you more open to the possibilities... Please correct me if I'm wrong?

[tekla]

1. if you are stopping their fist with your face you're doing it wrong

2. The big book of guys sez you have no obligation to protect some fool from their own fool mouth, you only have to stand by so that the fight stops by emergency room time, and doesn't go to intensive care land.

[Aussie Jay]

1. if you are stopping their fist with your face you're doing it wrong

2. The big book of guys sez you have no obligation to protect some fool from their own fool mouth, you only have to stand by so that the fight stops by emergency room time, and doesn't go to intensive care land.

LMFAO!

[GnomeKid]

-People seem to take my violent sense of humor as something more threatening than it really is.

-Not all guys are 5'10"+ and 200 lbs. NOTHING is small enough to fit without making me really look like a little kid.

-Sex sex sex sex. Everyone assumes everything is always about sex all the time with guys. I'm a bit on the prudish side, so the constant sex-centric comments sort of get to me.

i agree with all of these things
[although I love kids clothes... and would like to add I LOVE being  dude because I can buy cheaper clothes that fit me quite will in the kids department.... but I hate that I can't find nearly anything in "grown up" stores]

[Cowboi]

Wait... is there seriously a book about guy code? 

[Aussie Jay]

Google is your friend Cowboi!!
From the book...
If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever!
lol 
Enjoy!!
Jay

[Teknoir]

Our public toilets smell worse.

Diving face first into a block of milk chocolate is considered "girly".

I don't like being considered prissy just because I like my privacy and personal space.

I'm sick to death of people telling me I'm "not much of a real man" because I have a slightly different taste / opinion / way of doing things than they do. They hold themselves up as the "template of manhood" - and each way we differ is "proof" to them that I am not a "real man", as if they were the only variation of man in the world.

I have no problems with being a man, or the standards men are held to. What I have a real issue with is the double standard - I don't like being held to a much more rigid, stereotyped set of expectations than those my XY counterparts are held to.