One that always annoyed me is when it is around the holidays, when stores advertise gifts for men. They always assume a guy is into toilet humor, beer humor, assuming they’re a lumberjack who needs to survive out in the wilderness, are into bbq-ing all of the time so gotta have those available all year around for some reason.
Even when I used to have identified myself as a guy, I never once fit into any of those traits. Just because guys grow beards, doesn’t always mean they’re chopping wood somewhere and always wearing plaid.
You know, I feel like they’re all up in the air more these days. When I was a kid the “stupid dad guy who loves BBQ” thing was so dominant. Now Timothee Chalamet is a hot item at one end, and there’s incels at the other.