Gender issues

Girl #1: Is that lady wearing tights, or is she just really pale?
Girl #2: Well, this is just a guess, but most men don’t wear tights.

–Roosevelt Island tram

Overheard by: Julia Kite

Guy: You can never underestimate the importance of cuticles.
Girl: Yeah, you can.

–108th & Amsterdam

Drunk girl: Is that the line for the bathroom?
Sober guy: No, that’s people who like looking at the bathrooms.

–Harry’s, Long Island City

Overheard by: Trix

Pretty boy: Man, I think I’m getting a migraine.
Southern chick: Guys don’t get migraines, they get cluster headaches.
Pretty boy: Go the fuck back to the prairie, Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman.

–Delancey & Orchard

Overheard by: dj wantwo

Guy #1: I just don’t like the taste of water.
Guy #2: Who doesn’t like water?
Guy #1: Me.

–Palladium, 14th Street

Overheard by: Brian

Chick: I swear to god, I don’t know how nothing has happened to me yet, either I am infertile or the cure for herpes is in my vagina.

–6 train

Overheard by: brynn

Man on cell: Hey, baby. It’s sure hot out today…you better get out those hot pants…I mean hot shorts…your pussy must be burning up.

–56th & Broadway

Businesswoman on cell: Aw, man. If only she were a hermaphrodite! Damn!

–7th & Perry

Korean dude: Are you suggesting that you have a super dope vagina?

–Camel, W. 33rd Street

Overheard by: Dave Min

Man: We’re going to have a tampon fondue!

–Duane Reade, Bay Ridge

Overheard by: molina1230

Girl #1: What’s wrong with you?
Girl #2: I am pissed at my roommate.
Girl #1: Why this time?
Girl #2: He had the nerve to wear my wig on a date again and when I asked him about it, the asshole lied.
Girl #1: How did you know he wore it?
Girl #2: It smelled like beer, cigarettes, and AnalEase again.

–6 train

Overheard by: Casey McKendrick

Lady: Ooh, is that a tampon in your bag?
Man: No, no, no. Come on, it’s a manpon.

–Tonic, Norfolk Street

Overheard by: Sarah

Chick #1: What is up with that dude?
Chick #2: You mean that little girl over there?
Chick #1: Yeah. Oh, OK.

–Tompkins Square Park

Tourist guy: Excuse me! Are you a New Yorker?
Woman: No!

–34th & 7th

Man: Do you want to go into any of these shops?
Woman: Um…
Man: Oh, that’s a yes. Whenever a woman responds with anything other than an emphatic “no”, it means yes.

–78th & Madison

amNew York guy: I wouldn’t mind having her as President. I just don’t want her to turn every building in New York pink. But I’m all for having a woman as President.

–Hoyt-Schemerhorn station

Girl: Well, Shakespeare thought women were more smart.

–19th & Broadway

Overheard by: nappytee

Girl high school senior: He's so very uncomfortable that he makes everyone else uncomfortable with his discomfortability.
Boy high school senior: He's very in possession of his femininity.
Girl high school senior: You have no idea how much time he's spent crying to me about that. “Everyone thinks I'm gay. I don't know what I am. No, I'm not gay! Definitely not!”

–Downtown 6 Train

Overheard by: Adam Nathan