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100 Stupid Things to Google About Men
Top 10 Male Stereotypes
What are the 100 dumbest Google questions about male stereotypes?
Or better yet...
How does modern society define what "being male" is?
Below is a tiny snippet of some of the google entries people have searched for regarding males today.
- Are men and women equal
- Are men stronger than women
- Are men better than women
- Can men and women be friends
- Can men be feminists
- Is a man allowed to hit a woman
- Is a man born gay
- Is a man crying a sign of weakness
- Is a man cheating
- Is a man happy if he cheats
Are any of these questions shocking to read?
Unlikely, but it's mind blowing how stereotypes from 40-60 years ago still apply today. Society wants men to "man up", be strong, cheat happily, and be superior to women.
Want to hear more?
Then continue on and read 90 more dumb Google questions people have searched online about the male species.
11.
| Should a man pay for the first date
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12.
| Should a man pay for vacation
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13.
| Should a man support a woman financially
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14.
| Should a man tell a woman how he feels
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15.
| Should a man always pay
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16.
| Should a man wear cologne everyday
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17.
| Should a man own a tuxedo
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18.
| Should a man know how to fight
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19.
| Should a man wear jewelry
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20.
| Should a man leave his family
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Men and Money
Here we have a few fair questions about males paying for dates and supporting women financially.
So why are they viewed as "Dumb Google Questions"?
The problem is that they continue to support labels regarding masculinity. If we want to support equality and see ourselves as human beings, then there shouldn't be any labels regarding gender roles.
People shouldn't be restrained and looked down upon because they want equality, however; many of those search queries do just that.
21.
| Should a man take vitamins
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22.
| Should a man argue with a woman
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23.
| Should a man be a provider
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24.
| Should a man move for a woman
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25.
| Should a man open the car door for a woman
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26.
| Should a man order for a woman at a restaurant
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27.
| Should a man moisturize
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28.
| Should a man extend his hand to a woman
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29.
| Should a man control his wife
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30.
| Should a man ever ask a woman for money
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Men vs Gender Equality
Ah so many commonalities are appearing with each new question. We have the "opening the door for a woman argument" and the "men assumed to be the main providers" statement.
Opening and holding the door for anyone is a nice gesture and shows courtesy, but herein lies the problem. Why should a man only be doing this for a woman and why can't it be the other way around.
And what's the deal with male dominance...
Yes men should be providers but so could women; it's how society should work but people don't see it that way yet.
31.
| Can men breastfeed
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32.
| Can men have babies
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33.
| Can a man carry a baby
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34.
| Can a man nurse a baby
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35.
| Is a man period real
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36.
| Is a man crying a turn off
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37.
| Is a man ever justified in hitting a woman
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38.
| Should men shave their legs
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39.
| Is a man flirting with me
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40.
| Is a man getting a pedicure gay
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41.
| Is a man gay if he likes
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42.
| Is a good man hard to find
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43.
| Is a man still wrong
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44.
| Is a man the head of the household
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45.
| What is a man truck
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46.
| What is a man thing
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47.
| What is a man up
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48.
| Is a man who is tall happy
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49.
| Can a man buy the morning after pill
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50.
| Is a man using you
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Masculinity vs Toxic Masculinity
There's a multitude of entries about men and babies and how a man should act. The questions about babies are dumb and uneducated. They're dumb from a medical and social standpoint.
If someone asked me what it meant to be a man based on Google queries, then I would say that men can't be emotional, can only be tough, and never do anything "unmanly" otherwise they'd be called gay.
So sorry guys I guess getting pedicures and being sensitive is out.
51.
| Can a man do a split
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52.
| Can a man donate hair
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53.
| Can a man divorce his wife
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54.
| Can a man enter his mother's womb
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55.
| Can a man fall in love in a month
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56.
| Can a man impregnate a dog
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57.
| Can a man kill a lion
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58.
| Can a man kill a wolf
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59.
| Can a man kill a bear with bare hands
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60.
| Can a man marry his widow's sister
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61.
| Can a man not pay child support
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62.
| Can a man outrun a bear
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63.
| Can a man only want one woman
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64.
| Can a man rob god
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65.
| Can a man really change
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66.
| Can a man use women's shaving cream
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67.
| Can a man wax his face
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68.
| Can a man work at hooters
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69.
| Can a man's vasectomy grow back
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70.
| Can a man wear an engagement ring
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The World's Strongest Man
Google says men have to be super strong no matter what. They must learn how to kill a massive animal with their bare hands and never be a victim.
Another question is "Can a man really change", which I'll respond rhetorically with "Can society really change". Our views on men remain pretty straight forward despite global social changes.
No matter how equal people say we are, there are things ingrained in our brains from childhood regarding each gender. Google has confirmed what I assumed about strength and dominance for the average male.
71.
| Can a man quit cheating
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72.
| Can a man stop abusing his wife
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73.
| Would a man date a pregnant woman
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74.
| Would a man date a married woman
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75.
| Is a man once a cheater always a cheater
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76.
| Would a man cheat if he was happy
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77.
| Would a man cheat if he loves you
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78.
| Would a christian man cheat
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79.
| Would a man date a woman with a child
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80.
| Would a man date an older woman
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81.
| Why would a man ever get married
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82.
| Why would a man feel insecure
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83.
| Would a man lie about loving you
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84.
| Would a man leave his wife for another woman
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85.
| Would a married man cheat
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86.
| Would a married man flirt
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87.
| Why would a man not want to sleep with you
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88.
| Why would a man only want to be friends
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89.
| Would a married man have an affair
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90.
| Would a man sleep with any woman
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Who Cheats More: Men or Women?
Talk about a hot Google topic!
When looking through the search engines about male stereotypes, the topic of cheating came out on top.
Does everyone automatically assume that all men are cheaters? Well I can tell you that online it would definitely seem that way.
There are multiple variations on the whole affair (no pun intended), and you'll have to see it for yourself or else take my word for it according to the questions that came up.
Oh and for all purposes men do cheat more than women, but the statistics remain vague and transparent on the issue.
91.
| Would you date a man with no car
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92.
| Should a man blow dry his hair
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93.
| Should a man be older than a woman
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94.
| Should a man carry a bag
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95.
| Should a man help with housework
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96.
| Should a man remove his pubic hair
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97.
| Should a man see a male therapist
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98.
| Should a man remove his body hair
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99.
| Why would a man blush
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100.
| Is a man responsible for his wife debts
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What It Means to Man Up
God forbid a man carries a bag or helps out with the housework. He should be the head of the household and always be fixing something with tools right?
I'm actually surprised more common male stereotypes didn't show up on Google, but I'm not complaining. Perhaps we have moved forward somewhat since the 1950's (one can wish).
However the struggles of being a man and acting like a man continue to haunt the male species. They are still told to man up at the very slight hint of weakness and non-masculine (feminine) behavior.
Women still have it much tougher over the world, but it's definitely not easy being a boy in today's culture. One can argue that growing young boys have it even tougher because of the societal pressures being placed on them.
Often if they fail to live up to the stereotypes, then the world says they fail at "being male" and then what are they going to do (to be).
And finally what does that say about us?