Toxic masculinity in the heartland

[Maeve]

I was in a small town in central Ohio this week, waiting to place an order in a Subway. In front of me were three large men who appeared to be friends/co-workers at some job that results in getting very dirty. The last of the three ordered a chicken & bacon ranch melt. "Woo-oo!" one of his buddies said. "Fancy! I bet you voted for Hillary Clinton!" The other guy laughed as the one who ordered turned red. "I'd bet $100 you did!" The orderer then asked for it with everything "except spinach", altho he changed that down a bit after his buddies went on out of the shop with their meals. The sandwich was incredibly sloppy and hard to wrap--I got the impression he regretted the order on several levels.

Yeah, you have to be some sort of girly-type to order something complicated...or to vote for a woman.

Me, I had the roast beef. With spinach.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Translation: "I'll bet you suck dick!"

[budkin]

10. And I'll bet they all think about sucking each other's dicks

It's always the same with these repressed cretins.

[RhodeIslandOne]

2. In what world is a chicken bacon ranch melt "fancy"?

Holy shit I hope they never go into a Panera.

[RKP5637]

3. I once knew a guy that only ate steak and potatoes, because vegetables

and salads were fag food, Seriously! Really was a WTF.

[unblock]

7. that world would be small town ohio.

where a special occasion calls for wendyburgers instead of just going to mcdonald's.

did i say "special"? i meant "spay-shul"

[Maeve]

11. And the go-to restaurant is Bob Evans.

Honestly, when my Mom dies, I will never, NEVER set foot in another Bob Evans.

[unblock]

12. bob evans, down on the farm!

bew-wew bew bow-bow bowow bow-bow bow bow!

[Aristus]

8. A world where they eat road-kill, I'm betting.

n/t

[WhiteTara]

4. I call it testosterone poisoning.

[Roland99]

5. Symptoms of a few things:

Education (or lack thereof)
Lack of travel to other cultures
Upbringing / home life
Tight cognitive group

[Alwaysna]

6. Lucky for that guy

They don't serve yogurt!

[2golddogs]

9. Reminds

Me of a movie, maybe "Heathers," where the bad guys scattered Perrier bottles around their dead victim so the mouth breathing townsfolk would assume victim killed himself in anguish about being gay. Satire ahead of its time.