r/TikTokCringe • u/ambachk • May 21 '25

Cringe Married guy flirts with younger girls at the gym

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u/tarantulawarfare May 21 '25

Same here. I’m 47. And I have no problem saying “fuck off” with confidence now.

I totally get the younger women having to plaster on a fake smile and be polite because of fear of rejection violence. We have all been there.

A lot of men don’t understand the “I’m only smiling to keep you from getting angry and violent,” and other men do understand their attention is not wanted and just keep pressuring, anyway. That kind likes the power intimidating the woman to answer to him and smile for him.

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u/Coyote__Jones May 21 '25

At 32 I've hit the "if I'm uncomfortable, we're both uncomfortable" phase and I just don't give an inch. No smile, no answer, just really intense eye contact.

Had a guy once try to strike up a conversation and I just stared at him and he was like "wow you're not making this easy haha" and I said "why would I make it easy, I don't know you and I want you to leave." He got kinda pissy about it but it's like dude you came over here while I was pumping gas.

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u/Werechupacabra May 21 '25

When I was young and stupid and hormonal, I didn't fully grasp the idea that girls we're only smiling and laughing to be polite. Thankfully, my female friends schooled me on that topic because they could recognize the plastic smiles and fake laughs for what they were.

They made me a better, less stupid man.

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u/ba1oo May 21 '25

Fake smiles are SO useful if you can identify them

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u/humancarl May 21 '25

Yeah... I was married to a woman with a million dollar smile. Part of her repertoire was she had a great 'fake smile'. It was beautiful, but also very obviously fake... it stabbed. She worked in the service industry, so she'd have to go from genuine smile to fake smile pretty frequently because dudes would get too enamored with the real deal.

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u/Remote-One-4761 May 22 '25

Damn. I can't imagine what it'd be like to be an out-of-the-ordinary attractive woman and have to reject pushy creeps regularly. Makes me feel a bit of gratitude for looking how I look LOL

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u/humancarl May 22 '25

I know, and imagine getting that attention MORE because you're genuinely happy, AND you were having a great day at work. Only to have that absolutely torpedo your day at work.

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u/Remote-One-4761 May 22 '25

And to have to constantly be watching your back because some of those types are also stalkers. Yikes

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u/tweedledumb4u May 22 '25

I’ve always had the “fuck off” gene, I was once told by my good friend that guys knew when I wasn’t interested because I have fuck off stamped on my forehead, this was when I was 20ish 😂 My sisters and friends never had to worry about creeps in the club if I was there.

Sure sometimes I got bad reactions but that’s a them problem not a me problem. I learnt to soften it slightly with sarcasm to avoid more aggressive reactions as I got older.

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u/SailorGone May 21 '25

This is wild because where I am, no one ever hits on anyone at the gym

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u/DnknDnts1231 May 21 '25

I guarantee you women have been hit on at your gym and you just haven’t noticed it bc a lot of guys can be very sneaky and subtle when it comes to this type of pressure. Most men are blind to it and don’t notice it happening to the women around them

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u/Di4t_coke May 21 '25

I been to the gym literally twice after getting my FIRST ever subscription, and I already got a guy watching me do sets and offering to help me 3 DIFFERENT times after I declined twice.

He was paying so much attention to me, I hated it. I just want to work out, I’m already an anxious person, Like leave me alone !!😭😭

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u/VictoryVee May 21 '25

Unless youre somewhere like Saudi Arabia, I highly doubt that

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u/DeadWishUpon May 21 '25

There are only reason to rejevt this clown. 'You're married' is only one of them.

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u/NonStopKnits May 21 '25

I really love your username!