Straight guys of SG, what are some activities y’all would nvr do if you were not attached?
Question
I’ve my fair share of guy friends (mostly straight, some gay), and what I tend to notice is that straight guys tend to lead fairly simple lives & have very stereotypical hobbies unless they’re in a relationship.
Like most local straight guys i know have these same hobbies/activities they do if on their own or with their guy friends:
- gaming
- work out/sports
- surf internet
- go out eat (usually not cafe or more fancy restaurants)
Some of the activities I observe straight guys would never do/very unlikely to do unless attached & kena dragged by their gfs:
- cafe hopping
- picnics
- any workshop that involves painting/pottery/embroidery
- cooking/baking classes
- any of those festivals like iLight, XMas Wonderland
- *add on if you can think of any others
Is that because those activities are considered more feminine.. & so if you do it on your own or with your guy friends, it’s considered ‘gay’ or not masculine?
& if there’re straight guys out there who actually enjoy doing those things I mentioned above without having to be dragged by your gfs, pls prove my supposed misconceptions wrong too!
Netizens’ comments
- This is the most Singaporean thing I’ve read all day
- F here and I wouldn’t have done the same activities if no one drags me. Not interested in coffee or cafes. Workshops are expensive, rather follow youtube for free if I’m doing alone. I have male friends who like to go to festivals too, they go to the same festival twice if they are attached (once with group, once with partner).
- those activities you listed that straight guys would never is not limited to straight guys. other than “picnic”, which depends on execution, all of them are expensive af, esp compared to your list of “sterotypical hobbies”
- I’m a curious kind of person, so I’ll do almost any activity, even without a girlfriend/external pressure. For instance, I used to do Netball casually (it’s a supposed “feminine” sport) and when I was a kid, I’d enthusiastically help my mom sew stuff. I don’t feel less straight and if any of my friends were to judge me, I wouldn’t count them as my friends.
Life is too short to be picky or judgy about hobbies. I feel this is just social constructs, like for example: football (or soccer) is seen as a women’s sport in the US (usually school soccer teams are women only), but in SG it’s a sport that is stereotypically played by guys.