Viral Reddit Thread Exposes the Strangest Things Male Coworkers Have Said to Women

A single question on r/AskReddit turned into one of the most talked-about threads of the week. User Aggressive_Moose3189 asked women to share the strangest thing a male coworker has ever said to them, and the response was massive: nearly 3,000 upvotes and more than 1,400 comments, each one a tiny window into somebody’s awkward, frustrating, or outright alarming workday.

The replies run the full spectrum. One woman described a coworker who was convinced he could smell menstruation and kept track of his female colleagues’cycles. Another was asked, casually, whether she’d fit in a coworker’s trunk. Someone else was asked if she was wearing a bra, and a pregnant employee was offered help to“practice breastfeeding”by a board member. Then there are the HR stories: a woman written up for“insufficient outrage”after a blonde joke, and an internship supervisor who only faced consequences once the interns escalated together.

What makes this thread stick isn’t shock value. It’s recognition. The weird comments are the headline, but the pattern underneath is the real story: women often stay quiet about inappropriate behavior because reporting it can cost them more than ignoring it. The comment section became less of a joke exchange and more of a shared archive of moments people had filed away and never talked about.

Have you ever dealt with something like this at work? Tell us your story in the comments.