Sorry, I wrote “usually,” but to be honest, “Otsubone” is a woman-only term in Japanese.

There isn’t really a male equivalent.

We do have words like pawahara (short for power harassment) and morahara (moral harassment), but those describe types of abusive behavior, not a specific kind of person.

They’re more like workplace concepts than character labels.

For men, it’s usually much vaguer— people would just say someone is “annoying” or “a pain.”

So yeah… the fact that only the female version has a specific label is kind of sexist 😭