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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.

My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy "helpfully" telling her that she was grabbing one "For Men™", that the ones "For Women™" were the pink ones.

I immediately looked at the guy like "lol what, who asked".

(My mom uses "men's" antiperspirants because she doesn't care about that, and they are usually cheaper than "women's")

Screenshot of a Twitter post from user Ron Iver (ronnui_ with an underscore at the end) as viewed through a Nitter instance. The post says:

Women get to smell like real things (vanilla, lavender) but men have to smell like concepts. What the fuck is "cool sport rush"?

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[–] 64 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

Cool sport rush smells like mint. The bottle is black and the sticker has a wave of some sorts printed on it(the added surfer is optional). The gel is blue if its a fancier brand.

You buy it because you are doing sports but manly and sweat really manly. Only a cool sport rush can help against that. Its pretty obvious idk

edit: the bottle can be dark blue with silver applications on the sticker too! ngl this shit is more complex than i thought!

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I've seen shaving cream in "sports edition" before. Can you explain that? Does it shave faster?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's for racing cyclists. There's nothing more aero than legs and face shaved with sports shaving cream.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    My favorite concept is Unscented.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I've found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It's kind of amazing to me. It smells like "nothing" and "existing" as a scent concept.

    Then there's a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    How tf would we know if something smells like after sex. That sounds like it smells awful, unless you are well, horny.

    Is there even an "after sex" smell that isn't just regular sweaty smell?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I gotta say, there is definitely an 'after sex' smell. I've cleaned up many a place, and it is obvious when folks have been humping. There's a distinct difference between a gym's sweaty smell and a bedroom/hotel room sweaty smell.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    That's not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah that's where my head went at lol, we get "fancy wood" scent.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we've managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I hate the fact that most (but not all fragrances) are shoehorned into male/female categories Its a smell! It doesn't have genitalia, if you love it wear it And as a fragrance nerd I have a lot of supposedly 'masculine' scents full of woods, spices, booze etc A (male) truck driver mentioned that he loved wearing Chanel no5 on one of the fragrance sites which I think is fantastic! A man comfortable with himself and wearing what he loves

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    I'm a man and my deodorants are either lemon or sage.

    Just stop buying shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, I love lemon, but I wouldn't rub one on my armpits...

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I washed my balls in 24% acetic acid once.

    They did get clean, in the sense that it burned the outermost layer of skin right off, yeah so but just letting you all know not to do that.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm a roasted chicken cooking in the sun and my deodorants are either olive oil or a sweet kiss from Nonna.

    Just stop buying shit. Also, if you didn't grow those lemons and sage yourself, you're part of the problem because you also could stop buying shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Its annoying that every mans product is "whiskey barrel" or "bourbon wood" or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic "guy scents" so they dont have to call it 'bergamot lavender neroli allspice'.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It doesnt even smell like the barrell...i have on my shelf right right now several fragrances with "whiskey" in the name. Granted, I like all of them, they are good smells, but they smell nothing like aged oak, scorched aged oak, or other whiskey-adjacent things.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    'Autumn Breeze' probably has a different vibe if you happen to live down wind from the municipal dump.

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Femininity is nouns (due to objectification), masculinity is verbs (due to the valorisation of action)

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  • [+] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Options are tree, cold tree, beach tree, and mystery menthol.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    I smell like Product The Supermarket Will Drop In Two Weeks.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    "Arctic Thunder"

    smells like detergent and piss

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hell yeah, Tropic Thunder sequel

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    "Who left the fridge open?"

    Have you seen the DVD commentary btw? You know in the film Lazarus says "I don't get out of character until the DVD commentary", well, he didn't drop character for the DVD commentary either he just stays Lincoln Osiris through the whole thing. It's like watching a whole extra level of the film. There is even some side stuff he did you can find on YT, like, a couple of skits with him just staying in character, it seems he really loved that one. :)

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because 'ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel' just isn't for me.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Nobody is stopping men from smelling line vanilla or lavender.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn't realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.

    The scent: Cypress & Grapevine

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    My go-tos are "fig" and "redwood"

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm a man and don't like most scents of the deodorants/antiperspirants "for men", so I just use one "for women". I smell fruity instead of some agressive chemical fragrance.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I was at the grocery store with my brother in law and saw some guys girlfriend giving him shit over the men’s scents for body wash.

    “Men’s stuff all smells like wood. Why?!”

    Without skipping a beat, I ran over, picked up a bottle and said “whoa, I want to smell like wood”

    Girlfriend glared daggers at me, as apparently I had just diffused the debate of the century, while her boyfriend was giving me thumbs up and smiling.

    For the rest of the day, my brother in law and I would respond to everything with “smells like wood”

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm male but I use women's/gender-neutral deodorant and hygiene products because men's tend to be more chemically and smell like dudes in the locker room who stand too close to you. They also dry my skin out.

    Like, why are all the good hygiene products marketed towards women? Of course men's are cheaper, because they're shit.

    I like herbal scents and use the Arm & Hammer deodorant.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    To your point, womens razors are way better for shaving your balls (if that's your cup of tea). Mens razors are like taking a dagger to your nutsack in comparison.

    You may enjoy Versace Eros, very pleasant herbal opening.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Ans some women disposable razor were definitly dildos. (Make you fell like a godess brand)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I only use straight razors to shave my balls. /jk

    You may enjoy Versace Eros, very pleasant herbal opening.

    That's interesting. I don't usually use designer brands, but I looked it up and Dossier makes an off-brand dupe. I wonder how accurate it is.

    Top: Mint, Green Apple, Lemon

    Middle: Geranium, Cedarwood, Vetiver

    Base: Vanilla, Amber, Tonka bean

    It looks like it's only missing the oakmoss. And it substitutes amber for ambergris, and switches a couple middle and base notes.

    Seems nice though, I like the middle and base notes. Mint and lemon aren't really my cup of tea though. If it was sage and bergamot I'd be all about it!

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie's. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie's but thats not the point.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    If we're gonna have "guy scented" stuff, can we at least do "guy stuff" stuff smells I actually enjoy.

    Campfire. Burnt gunpowder. Sawdust. Sizzling Steaks.

    Why do we get locker room and sports bar?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wish I could smell like Hegelian dialectic or categorical imperative or something like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Personally I use Naval Supremacy soap in the shower and Saw Tooth Deodorant. And my aftershave is Lilac Vegetal. And my cuppa tea this morning is Lumber Slut.

    **All real products. The soap and deodorant are Christmas gifts from my 2 of my Grandsons. I've used the after shave for years. And the tea is a ripe Pu Er that I really enjoy.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I started using men's antiperspirant a few years ago and it was a game changer. It works so much better for me and doesn't bother my skin. I also love the dumb names the scents have

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I have lavender deodorant (as a man). It's pretty nice.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I use that nivea roll on one for women. It's pear scented and amazing.

    The male equivalent one is what I imagine hedgehogs smell like

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    Probably sandalwood and eucalyptus

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I don’t mind smelling like Swagger

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    It's often dumb too, there is nothing denoting plant smells as to one gender. The smell of flowers, of herbs, is not something one sex appreciates more than another.

    Only in the modern era with the advent of drugs and the destruction of small farmers and even most vegetable and herb gardens, with 99 percent of produce coming from factory farms, has it been seen as weak and womanly for men to use herbal medicines, and to appreciate flowers and herbs and the like.

    For thousands of years we used plants for medicine, and now it's seen as womanly, and of course the drug companies have campaigned to remove our rights to do it completely, for our own protection. We could hurt ourselves, leave it to the trained professionals that operate on the rules government stipulates. As if we could all get medical coverage and drug coverage in this medical hellscape even if we did surrender our rights to treat ourselves.

    I don't think I should have to get a permission slip from a doctor to do things all generations prior to the last few have.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    What a wild pivot from "flowers are for all genders" to 'bring back homeopathic medicine, I don't need no stinking doctors telling me what plants I should rub on my wounds!" lmao

    Edit: sorry for conflating homeopathic and herbal medicine, they was dumb of me. I was just trying to point out what I though was a funny swing from one topic to another pretty unrelated topic

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Herbal medicine is how we created aspirin, and is a mix of actually effective things that have become medicine over time and placebos. It generally has positive outcomes.

    Homeopathic 'medicine' is magic water that heals with vibrations. It is 100% bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Herbal medicine, to be free to use plants for medicine as we see fit as adults, and not need a permission slip from a doctor.

    Homeopathic medicine is something different.

    And doctors won't tell you anything on using plants because they can only prescribe things that have passed clinical trials and no one will pay billions of dollars to do that for a plant that they can't patent. In europe and elsewhere they do prescribe some plants but not here in the US.

    Maybe you should learn what you are talking about before taking a position condemning it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Where do you live that you need permission from a doctor to take herbal medicine? You can go pick some flowers and brew a tea any time you want. Every drug store in my country has a whole section of herbal remedies.

    Besides, I've had two psychs support my use of ashawaghanda, omega-3s and psilocybin mushrooms. One even gave me recommendations on where to get the good shit. However, I stopped doing both when I found a new anti-depressant more consistently effective, where continuing using products that effect the same brain chemicals would have bad side effects.

    No, they can't legally prescribe it, but they can advise me on it, just like they can't prescribe excercise but they still tell me about good places to hike.

    Naturopaths, nutritionists and dieticians are a thing, too. GPs just don't have that specific training, though nutrition is becoming more integrated into medicine.

    edit: a typo

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  • One more reason to become girl 😉

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I buy the bergamot or ceder one :3

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Fir and sandalwood come to mind immediately but I can tell this was written by a man who has never stepped into a bath and body works in their entire life. Wtf is "infinite radiance" "hello happiness" and "into the night" fragrance supposed to be. They been doing this to women for just as long.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    But deodorant for women is pH balanced for women! The commercials told me so!

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