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

[NoReturn]

Or using exclamation points correctly

Excitement is for women
Men only type like this
Men have no emotions
None allowed

 

[heisenbuug]

The amount of shedding we go through. My poor vacuum in college was always jammed from the amount of hair my roommates and I would shed during the summer. Hair somehow ends up everywhere

 

[PandaChai]

The amount of shedding we go through. My poor vacuum in college was always jammed from the amount of hair my roommates and I would shed during the summer. Hair somehow ends up everywhere

Is this not just a "long-haired person" problem? I don't anymore but I used to have long hair in my youth and my mum said it was "worse than livin' with a bloody dog!"

 

[heisenbuug]

Is this not just a "long-haited person" problem?

Maybe, but even after living with a boyfriend that had longer dark hair I swear our home only had blonde hair all over it. I think it might be because of the styling?

 

[seri0us]

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."

I just own a bidet but you do you

 

[Thé au lait]

I just own a bidet but you do you

Wouldn't that just wash the poop onto your nuts?

 

[seri0us]

Wouldn't that just wash the poop onto your nuts?

I haven't had problems with residue, plus the scrote has far more distance from the asshole than vaginas do.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

What is "feminine chat behavior"?

Chatting in a way that allows people to identify you as female. Typically, being less autistic, less direct and more flowery.

 

[Dysnomia]

I've never worn heels, but just looking at them gives me pain.

I can't wear them because I have a knee that likes to dislocate. But I think heels are fug anyway. If shoes aren't flat I can't walk. And I have to walk a lot so...

But there's women who walk around wearing these crazy heels like it's nothing. I have no idea how they do it. When I see high heeled winter boots I'm astounded. How do you walk in icy conditions like that? Crazy.

 

[mold]

you put all your weight on the ball of your foot, same way you walk over the subway grate in heels

 

[666 Derpina 666]

That it's not that unusually to start getting hit on by older guys when you are 10 or 11.

True. It's crazy to think about, but I was eleven years old the first time I experienced something like that. I was walking on the sidewalk past the college—which was super close to my house—and these two guys who looked like they were college-aged slowed down while passing me and yelled something about wanting my Snapchat lmao.

It's not even like I was a particularly mature-looking 11-year-old, either. I didn't even really have breasts yet.

 

[Sun Sucker]

I've looked around the thread and I couldn't see anything related to this, so rate me late if I am, but LinkedIn and its peculiar male population.

I have put the most unfriendly looking profile picture of me I have. No smile. Only lipstick as makeup. From the neck up. Looking down, neutral expression.

Men texting me about wanting to greet me because we're "peers in this profession". Men texting me about how they "appreciate me" (?) followed by a heart eye emoji. Men texting me about a start-now job interview with a Zoom link included (does that ever work at all?)

I have no idea how other women who dare to put up pretty pictures of themselves, usually taken on their graduation day, stand this platform.

 

[666 Derpina 666]

Speaking of BC, I have had the experience of many doctors wanting to prescribe BC as a band-aid solution rather than addressing the actual problem. Anemic? BC! Migraines? BC! Mentally closer to a rabid animal than a human for half of the month? BC!

In the anemia example, it isn't uncommon for doctors to just prescribe BC to stop women from having periods so their iron levels aren't further depleted. Without addressing why they may be having heavy periods or considering that the heavy period is a result of said anemia.

This is pretty much exactly how it went lmao. My primary doctor put me on the depo shot starting when I was 12 because I was anemic and having ridiculously heavy periods. Power level, but I was on that shit for 6 years, and it made me depressed, anxious, and overweight. The depression, in turn, resulted in me being put on antidepressants that I never would've fucking needed if they had just addressed the root of the problem instead of using BC as a cop-out.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I've never worn heels, but just looking at them gives me pain.

Interesting, how footwear that was once used to signal that you don't have to work at all in your life and not even walk much, that was supposed to be shown off from an open carriage on summer rides, became working class women's shoes who have to appear ''professional''. It became popular, because it lifts one's ass and alters the gait to appear ''sexy'', but why it's considered professional then when one's profession isn't being in showbusiness, being a model or doing sex work...? It's a scam and the fact it's one of the things libfems call ''empowering'' confirms that.

 

[Thé au lait]

It's a scam and the fact it's one of the things libfems call ''empowering'' confirms that.

Almost like libfems are controlled opposition

 

[Susanna]

I've looked around the thread and I couldn't see anything related to this, so rate me late if I am, but LinkedIn and its peculiar male population.

I have put the most unfriendly looking profile picture of me I have. No smile. Only lipstick as makeup. From the neck up. Looking down, neutral expression.

Men texting me about wanting to greet me because we're "peers in this profession". Men texting me about how they "appreciate me" (?) followed by a heart eye emoji. Men texting me about a start-now job interview with a Zoom link included (does that ever work at all?)

I have no idea how other women who dare to put up pretty pictures of themselves, usually taken on their graduation day, stand this platform.

I think most of us just never use it. I’ve got a profile, it’s got a good photo of me all glammed up for some event, and about a million unread messages. I guess some of them might be recruiters, but they vanish under a mountain of junk like what you described. I wonder if men actually do find the site useful either, mostly I see them complaining about how it’s just all scams.

 

[TinyTinyCleverCommander]

True. It's crazy to think about, but I was eleven years old the first time I experienced something like that. I was walking on the sidewalk past the college—which was super close to my house—and these two guys who looked like they were college-aged slowed down while passing me and yelled something about wanting my Snapchat lmao.

It's not even like I was a particularly mature-looking 11-year-old, either. I didn't even really have breasts yet.

Yeah. I've had grown men asking if they can see my pubes since before I was even old enough to HAVE pubes.

 

[Lithuophile]

Not this:

The average dude does not have skin that bad, and dudes never wear make up. How come every time the makeup question arises, women without makeup are always depicted as acne zombies?

Unless you live in a literal deep-fryer, most girls without makeup just look plain. Even the girl in that pic looks 6/10. Most of my exes looked 6/10 to 7/10 without makeup.

At most, makeup just makes a girl look slightly prettier. Ugly girls still look ugly caked up, and pretty girls don't get their looks from a bottle.

 

[oishii desu]

This is pretty much exactly how it went lmao. My primary doctor put me on the depo shot starting when I was 12 because I was anemic and having ridiculously heavy periods. Power level, but I was on that shit for 6 years, and it made me depressed, anxious, and overweight. The depression, in turn, resulted in me being put on antidepressants that I never would've fucking needed if they had just addressed the root of the problem instead of using BC as a cop-out.

I'm so sorry. It is not an uncommon experience and I genuinely hope things are changing in the medical field. The examples I mentioned previously were all experienced either by myself or friends, so I know it happens present day. I hope you're doing better and found a doctor who actually listened to you.

 

[crazedaze]

Women endure the fear that they'll get bulky if they lift weights, and weight-listing being heavily associated with masculinity. And all this negative talk around leggings and "being too sexy in the gym" (before widespread internet autism I feel like this was only an Islamic concern)
Everyone needs to carry things or squat sometimes, everyone gets older and will lose muscle mass, everyone's looks and daily calorie allowance are improved by weight-lifting.