Gatekeeping is a particularly toxic form of sexism in which people limit access to things because “it’s not manly” or “it’s not girly”. Things like, I don’t know, enjoying video games. Or a band. Or keeping warm. Apparently? It’s flat-out dumb, but here we are, in a society in which certain things are denied to you because of your sex.
Honestly, every one of the images below should make you go: what the actual hell?
Check out some of the most sexist, cringe-y times the world closed the gate to people below.
1. Assuming women don’t like their bands
2. Real men don’t cry
3. Steak Doneness Is Apparently Very Telling
4. Drink Preferences?
5. What Women Can Wear
6. Beards? Seriously?
7. Trailer Hitches != Manliness
8. Yeah, Lil Nas!
9. Man Probably Don’t HAVE to Have instas
10. Men Can’t Enjoy Cartoons.
11. Is it Gay To Ski?
12. Is it Gay to Be Warm?
13. Seafood is …feminine?
14. Dessert.
15. What?
16. Is it Gay to See?
17. It’s gay to be straight.
