Strange things women do/have/endure - That guys wouldn’t know about

[Rich Evans Simp]

I’ve genuinely never had an IRL male stranger or acquaintance expect me to listen to his problems or unload feelings on me. Where/when/how is this happening? Other than boys crushing when we’re teens/young adults, this is not a thing for me and my friends.

 

[crazedaze]

I’ve genuinely never had an IRL male stranger or acquaintance expect me to listen to his problems or unload feelings on me. Where/when/how is this happening? Other than boys crushing when we’re teens/young adults, this is not a thing for me and my friends.

I once had a male friend (not even once lmao) who regularly called me his "therapist" and told me all about his emotional issues from his mommy, who he refused not to cater to like a slave. I genuinely helped him and he said as much. When i would try to talk about my issues with him, like the real locing friends he SAID we were, he would look at me blankly. I felt really bad until I eventually understood the dynamic and dumped his ass. Men aren't friends.

 

[NoReturn]

The idea that women are "naturally more empathetic and emotional" always reminds me of "Women like to clean".
Both are wrong, but also both are concepts that advantage the opposite sex.
(Similarly, "Men are more naturally stoic" and "Men are tougher" are also wrong. I'll grant you biological differences, but baby boys aren't born with blunted emotions.)

"Oh I don't like doing the dishes, but my daughter does it all the time, I guess she doesn't mind it as much as I do. What a great setup."

 

[mold]

Another thing we as women have to endure is crayon eaters that never had and never will have a woman's body pretending they know women's bodies more than women who HAD their female bodies their ENTIRE LIFE.

I get an insane amount of this from women on this site about birth and postpartum. There's a retard consensus based in extremely regionally limited knowledge of ob/gyn.

I'm thinking about starting a birth thread over in self-sufficiency but I don't want to argue endlessly with people who think everyone who doesn't give birth in a hospital is doing so for ideological reasons.

 

[Lichen Bark]

Men know this, but don't think about it often: Wiping directionality.

Engage autism:
We don't think about it, because wiping direction is baked into the male design. In order for a man to wipe front to back he would have to hoist his twig and berries up out of the way with one hand, and then awkwardly reach around to the butt with the other. It's too cumbersome. Wiping front to back is the path of least resistance for men. You may not know this, but men have to hold the oscar-meyer wiener between the legs, before leaning ahead to wipe, lest it fall into the toilet bowl area, and depending on toilet geometry, could touch the very front of the bowl, under the lid. This causes a feeling of fear, and the subsequent picturing of toilet germs crawling up the urethra like Hitler marching on Poland. You then have to quickly abort everything, napalm the whole area with soap and water, then pray you got everything before you contract toilet leprosy. You really only make this mistake once (a year), but being half-asleep increases the risk factor. Men don't think about directionality, but we always think "Step 1: secure little buddy. Step two: wipe with confidence."

In the other thread they were talking about silicone period cups, and one that got "lost" up there, and until a very graphic (yet informative) post explained the mechanism, I didn't know that you have to "suction" it up onto the cervix, and that the canal can actually shrinks enough that you could even reach that. I had a reverse Seinfeld moment. Is that actually correct? Did I read that right? I thought the cups just sat up there somehow, and collected blood like you might scrape soup off the side of your mouth.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

It was like this until some random (allegedly fruity) Italian man aka Leonardo Da Vinci begun drawing detailed anatomical studies of female bodies that gave a better understanding of women's anatomy but even then, the Church wanted to label him as a heretic/blasphemer because these drawings were considered vulgar and immoral

Women have been perceived as untouchable and unclean for millennia. Women weren’t depicted anatomically because the church were not only prudes, they believed women were rightfully suffering from the sin of Eve, so their pain didn’t deserve to be taken seriously.

I’m guessing men thought we were sick because we menstruate. Seeing and hearing a woman experience a painful period while expelling clots of blood probably freaked men out, but instead of figuring out ways to alleviate the pain of menstruation and childbirth they thought the women deserved it. Very fucked up.

 

[NoReturn]

Women have been perceived as untouchable and unclean for millennia. Women weren’t depicted anatomically because the church were not only prudes, they believed women were rightfully suffering from the sin of Eve, so their pain didn’t deserve to be taken seriously.

I like too how some people say Mary didn't give birth to Jesus, that he just transported out of her womb and into her arms like something out of Star Trek.
"Fully god, fully man, except for the icky part."

 

[Major]

I like too how some people say Mary didn't give birth to Jesus, that he just transported out of her womb and into her arms like something out of Star Trek.
"Fully god, fully man, except for the icky part."

'beam me up, daddy'

 

[isalaide]

I’ve genuinely never had an IRL male stranger or acquaintance expect me to listen to his problems or unload feelings on me.

Please run a course or something, I mean that. I don't know if it is because I am short or something. There must be something about my resting face that invites bullshit. I can honestly say giving up business travel by plane and train at least ensured I would no longer be 100% guaranteed to be subjected to man feelings spray at least once per trip. You can't even get away from them on the plane. Not even headphones are guaranteed to work. Before I learnt to drive, bus journeys were fucking intolerable. Wall to wall moids.

You start to wonder what the fuck it is you do that suggests to literal strange men, 'please approach me and try to talk about your feelings'. Please do not approach me, ever. I have the temperament of a poorly socialised Jack Russell, it's not advisable to try and pet me. Is it written on my fucking forehead or something, "Please talk shite to me".

I caught another live one in the supermarket last week, some dude approached me while I was in the cheese aisle angrily deciding between emmental and unhappy mozzarella, and starts unloading bullshit about struggling to know what to make for dinner for his kids because it was 'just him and them now' and it's so hard to think of things to cook, and my brain was like why are you asking a stranger this. I was polite and possibly helpful but why the fuck are you asking a strange woman this?? I figured out how to keep my own children alive without the assistance of strangers, do the fucking same?

The strangers are bad enough, the social acquaintances are worse. The standard bullshit seems in my experience to be some shite about not being able to understand women (as a class? idk?), and 'explain this to me'. I am not gay, how the fuck would I know how to successfully date women? And if I did, am I actually going to pass on helpful advice to the clown who is literally attempting to corner me at this fucking school fundraiser? Please go and boil your head, sir.

 

[Thé au lait]

Another thing we as women have to endure is crayon eaters that never had and never will have a woman's body pretending they know women's bodies more than women who HAD their female bodies their ENTIRE LIFE. Since dawn of time men couldn't be arsed to properly examine women's bodies in the same detailed way as they examined men's, giving excuses such as "Oh women's bodies are tainted by Satan, so it's not worth studying them" or "Umm akshually it's perfectly fine for a woman to die out of nowhere in her 20s because God willed it or something!".

It was like this until some random (allegedly fruity) Italian man aka Leonardo Da Vinci begun drawing detailed anatomical studies of female bodies that gave a better understanding of women's anatomy but even then, the Church wanted to label him as a heretic/blasphemer because these drawings were considered vulgar and immoral.

We haven't had a proper detailed anatomy model of a woman until very recently.

On this topic, who was the lady at the FDA who got pushed out for objecting to clinical trials being done on males only?

Women have been perceived as untouchable and unclean for millennia. Women weren’t depicted anatomically because the church were not only prudes, they believed women were rightfully suffering from the sin of Eve, so their pain didn’t deserve to be taken seriously.

I’m guessing men thought we were sick because we menstruate. Seeing and hearing a woman experience a painful period while expelling clots of blood probably freaked men out, but instead of figuring out ways to alleviate the pain of menstruation and childbirth they thought the women deserved it. Very fucked up.

This is one of the things that make me glad I was born to the culture I was

 

[PandaChai]

"Oh I don't like doing the dishes, but my daughter does it all the time, I guess she doesn't mind it as much as I do. What a great setup."

They're missing out, some of the best conversations (and let's be honest, family gossip) I've ever had were washing up with my mum drying. But that might be because of the

 

[Fapcop]

Please run a course or something, I mean that. I don't know if it is because I am short or something. There must be something about my resting face that invites bullshit. I can honestly say giving up business travel by plane and train at least ensured I would no longer be 100% guaranteed to be subjected to man feelings spray at least once per trip. You can't even get away from them on the plane.

Try smiling more.

Sounds like people see your RBF and figure they’ll either cheer you up, or are excited to see someone as miserable as them that they can commiserate with.

 

[isalaide]

Try smiling more.

No.

 

[crazedaze]

Try smiling more.

No.

On the contrary, smile less. Look like MORE of a bitch. When they start their yapping, stare at them blankly, sneer, and walk away. Glance at them disgustedly a few times afterwards.

 

[Susanna]

Smiling gives you wrinkles, it should be done as seldom as possible.

 

[Inside your walls]

Another thing I think that women have to put with is being often placed in the "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" type situations and
regardless the choices they make, they face judgement from the public for it more than their male counterparts do.

 

[Tablet County]

No.

You misunderstand. He's asking that you smile incessantly and horrifyingly that you might drive potential suitors away. Hit 'em with the ol' Gwynplaine.

Get yourself an Asian woman who looks beautiful with nothing on her face.

I wish I had that 4chan screencap where they call white people the niggers of asia. WHERE DA ASIAN WOMEN AT?

 

[Emo Supremo]

on the topic of things that are mostly just annoying: seatbelts. i don't know if this is consistent across all makes and models, but oh my god i cannot fucking stand how, if you have anything larger than an a-cup, the seatbelt slides up until it's right against your neck. no amount of adjusting keeps it from moving around either.

i'm sure the design that only considered male bodies worked great back in the fifties, but there's no reason not to change it in current year where almost every single woman i know has a driver's license that she uses on the regular.

 

[NoReturn]

on the topic of things that are mostly just annoying: seatbelts.

Seatbelts and other straps in general get weird above an A cup.
"Don't put it between the boobs, it looks sexual"
"Don't put it under the boobs, that's not safe."
"Don't put it over the boobs, it will choke you."

 

[LimeRikki]

Ok, I have to ask since I got curious; those of you who are afraid of getting poop on the tampon string, have you tried just pushing it up and in as well? Haven’t used a tampon since I switched to menstrual cups ~10 years ago, but that’s what I used to do.

Just gonna requote myself here:

InB4 "put the string up your vagina too": Shoving the string up into the vagina isn't an ideal option because the string gets slick with blood which makes it much harder to pull out quickly and mess free later on.

And you don't want your tampon to get stuck because that can lead to toxic shock syndrome which can be fatal.