Slightly(NSFW) Why is this association so pervasive and is there an equal one for males?

Males are normally compared to rebar. So it could be worse.

Men are bananas

Stephen Hawking is more of a vegetable, a versatile, awesome one though, much like a potato.

@rosehips Maybe it’s because it is early in the morning and my T level is up, but this Q made me start to, um… salivate… yeah, that’s it. I started to salivate.
She’s smooth like butter
Juicy as a peach
(I’d better stop.)

He’s got 6 pack abs,
a rod of steel.

I like the female descriptions better. Much better.

Men have nuts, a couple of walnuts.

Fruits are part of the female part of the plant. They provide nourishment for the seed after it falls to the ground.

Also, they’re passive – You eat a fruit, the fruit falls from the tree, the fruit is picked… Fruit doesn’t do anything except be chosen by someone or something that is going to use it.

So, male dominant culture = references to females as objects of desire. After all, you only want the freshest, ripe peach. But not too ripe, or she goes sour.

@Seek_Kolinahr I’m with you on the “fruits are part of the female part of the plant” part, but fruits don’t nourish the seed; the seed contains all the nourishment for the embryo inside.

Fruits only entice others to eat the seed – they’re sexy on purpose. They’re designed to make things want.

@glacial If I’m not mistaken, I think it’s a bit of both, there.

Men are apples sometimes too. My husband calls that body type on a man a volkswagen, but I say apple. It is true though that fruit is associated more with women though, I never thought about it before. Does fruit just naturally seem femine to us? Women have a muffin top, while men have a tire around their midsection? Although, my husband seems to not discriminate there he has used the term Michelin for both men and women.

Men are pften compared to trees. Sturdy roots and trunks.

@marinelife That’s why so many women say “leaf me alone”.

I think that men are assigned the “toolbox” or “construction” metaphor:

- he’s as stiff as a ruler

- his muscles are like concrete blocks

- he is built like a tractor

- he pistoned her

- he is as thick as a sledgehammer

and so on

@zenvelo Groan! Good one.

Men are like bananas. When they’re young they’re firm. When they get old, they get mushy.

I do refer to my peaches as peaches.

But how does this metaphor fit in:

She’s built like a brick shithouse.

All too many men today want a belly like a six pack, but a six-pack a day leaves them with a belly like a watermelon.

@johnpowell Ribbed for her pleasure?

@YARNLADY I guess health class would be stuck using dildos without banana’s.

@ucme A potato? He is far too skeletal as frames go, and much less common, maybe an asparagus?

@LuckyGuy I thought it might be pleasant beginnings for hump day. I guess women better work on using more visually descriptive terms in reference to males. There seems a want of them.

@zenvelo True, or peanuts.. Any type of tree nuts maybe depending on the person.

@Seek_Kolinahr Your thoughts made me think of seasons. Debutante balls. Belles, Coming of age and the Marriage Market.

@JLeslie Funny I thought of those builds of men rottweilers or Pugs.
But the Michlin man thing is funny. I pictured the suit and rolling around like tires.
I guess nothing is as universal accepted even though it can be recognizable.

@marinelife Well I wouldn’t call every male a redwood but that is what aspen are for I suppose.

@zenvelo Apparently you failed to blow them away.

@elbanditoroso Ok those are truly terrible. And I think blue collar men are sexy.

@jca The mushier they are the sweeter?

@Yetanotheruser I guess there is a niche for even maggot and flies : P

@ETpro I can’t stop associating watermeon bodies with Pulp fiction and Bruce Wilis and the lady. If we were blind, then no one would want twiggy, we would all want the big rond soft bellies…. Paraphrase.

@glacial Great point.

Men are referred to as dogs, apes, neanderthals, horndogs, ( notice the canine theme again ) asses, a lot of animal themes. hahaha. Women lounge in bubble baths with rose petals floating around by candlelight, men go to their man caves. lol

@YAU

I think that analogy is an equal opportunity one as its used for boys and men as well. When my nephew was a baby/toddler he wasn’t fat at all but when you picked him up he weighed far more than his appearance would suggest. And he was always really steady, not lurching all around like some toddlers learning to walk.

So my sister, his mom, frequently would say “he’s built like a brick shithouse”.

It had nothing really to do with size or weight, per se. but just an overall sturdiness, wide stanced steadiness and looking like a Jr. Football player even at age 2.

When used referencing women, however, its not quite as complimentary and basically references them being overweight.

@Buttonstc It’s a compliment, rather a backhanded one to be sure, but a compliment. It essentially means built way better than is necessary, and is often applied to women.

They don’t call a thong bathing suit a banana hammock for nuthin’!

The saying cool as a cucumber is usually applied to men.

I love this question. That is all.

@ETpro

Thanks for that link Interesting. But I’m still wondering how many women would consider it to be a compliment if said to them directly :)

My hunch is that it might very well not be as many as Urban Dict. would think :)

Just a hunch.

@Buttonstc Maybe it was a regional thing, but in SE Virginia back in the 1960s, long before there was an urban dictionary or even an Internet for it to be on, the idiom meant a female who was seriously stacked.

We always said brick house, not brick shithouse, I never heard brick shithouse before. I still use brick house to decribe a woman with an unbelievable body.