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

[Ruined by the Rain]

I'm assuming you meant this in the sense of "you can stop at being a single mother, that's something guys don't understand having to go through"?

I mean you can stop at single mother and we all already know that they can do unimaginable damage to their offspring. It's better than putting the child for adoption but they tend to screw up their child.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

With regards to the poll, I once saw a cartoon (Dexter’s Lab) where the girl character (DeeDee) was wearing rabbit-shaped slippers that had squeakers in so hey squeaked each step she took.

I have searched everywhere for squeaky slippers and I cannot find any. I’m a sad keyboard. I need squeaky slippers in my life.

Not sure about a squeaky bra though. One with some sort of alarm would work better. And a klaxon for me pants.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Any other ladies here ever had to babysit kids whose father was home? Not working in the home office, not recovering from an illness or injury, literally just sitting in his room watching TV and napping. This has been on my mind recently, though it happened over a decade ago when I was a preteen. The mother didn't mention he was home and I only found out when he came downstairs to get lunch I made (for the kids).

Yes. It was weird as hell. I would arrive around 7 AM when the mom left for work. The father was in construction and looking back she might have assumed he was getting up and leaving later than her, but he would usually loiter around the house while I watched their toddler. The grandma would come take over for me around 1 or 2 PM. He never tried to come on to me, but even naïve younger me thought it was weird and was relieved on days where he did leave the house.

It concerns me how otherwise normal women obsess over true crime and serial killers. Can someone explain it to me why? Is it like the female equivalent of wanting a goth mommy? Where you know it’s toxic but lust after it anyway

There's no lust involved, at least not for all but the smallest subset of true crime enjoyers. I think it's a combination of several things. There's the gossip aspect of course. I believe women also find people more interesting than men do, so that means they are also interested in people who are psychologically abnormal. I think as well women are playing a bit of a mind game when they listen to this stuff. They're wondering, "Could I have spotted the signs? Could I have escaped?" Women have to consider these things and be prepared for the event someone snatches them or follows them down a hiking trail. A man will never get the Junko Furuta treatment.

That being said, I know a lot of men who are into true crime, so I don't think the split is as extreme as people say.

To throw my woman problems in the mix: doctors just not believing you sometimes. I didn't think it was a real phenomenon until it happened to me. I went through a period of persistent abdomen pain some years back, and every doc I saw was telling me to go on birth control. I went and saw a urologist because my family has had a history of kidney issues and even though my pain was in the lower abdomen I was starting to freak out. I've had kidney stones before and I was starting to worry that a stone was stuck lower down somewhere, maybe the bladder. This old fucking man asked me to show him where I was feeling pain and told me with the utmost disdain, "That's your uterus."

Now, I'm not a urologist, but the urinary system and the bladder are pretty close together, right? Is it feasible that as I was placing my hand over my bladder, I was also placing my hand over some of my uterus? I had to explain to this DOCTOR that I know when pain is coming from my uterus.

 

[PandaChai]

Women aren't actually human, but instead some sort of overgrown masochistic crustacean, which is why they take 4,000,000°C (7,200,000° in Freedom units) baths and showers and exit them looking like this

 

[Susanna]

Women aren't actually human, but instead some sort of overgrown masochistic crustacean, which is why they take 4,000,000°C (7,200,000° in Freedom units) baths and showers and exit them looking like this
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Always end your showers with cold water, to close your pores. Stops you from drying out.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

have any kiwettes tried period cups? if so, are they as uncomfortable as they look?

 

[nootnoot666]

have any kiwettes tried period cups? if so, are they as uncomfortable as they look?

Used to use the Diva cup, I enjoyed. It’s a little weird at first but if you place it right you can’t feel it. Gotta make sure to stick it up there far enough otherwise the end can kinda stick out and irritate the vaginal opening. The convenience of leaving it in all day is unmatched, then you can just dump it out during a shower. They can be difficult to remove though. Reaching in and breaking the seal on a slippery ass silicone cup takes some practice lol. Squatting helps. I’ve also tried the Flex Cup, which is designed to break the seal easier, but it is bulky as fuck.

 

[Otterly]

Any other ladies here ever had to babysit kids whose father was home? Not working in the home office, not recovering from an illness or injury, literally just sitting in his room watching TV and napping.

I haven’t and I wouldn’t but one of my pet peeves is men saying they’re babysitting when it’s their own kids. I always mock them for it

Also I just found out to tonight when talking to my girl that women have special disposable bras that are like stickers so their bra strap doesn’t show on their shoulders or back when wearing dresses. Not pasties, but two like two rubber kippas attached to eachother with a sticky end that go on the boobies. I feel like these would be hard to put on and hurt to take off.

We do! They are! If you rip them off at the end of a drunken night out they used to take skin with them ….

As I've grown older, when it gets very cold, sometimes I get a stabbing pain in one nipple. Not always the same nipple and never both at the same time. It gets so bad I have to cover it with a warm towel or it hurts so much I risk crying

Ah! I may have some solution for you. Look up reynauds phenomenon/syndrome. Fingertips are the most common site but nipples can also do this and it hurts like a mofo. Next time you’re in the shower check to see if there’s a colour change when you hit hot water from pale to purple back to pink. If this is you, then warmth is your goal. You can buy nipple warmers for your bra. I have some possum wool ones from NZ.

I have searched everywhere for squeaky slippers and I cannot find any. I’m a sad keyboard. I need squeaky slippers in my life.

Purchase squeakers. Slit open slipper. Insert squeaker. Sew up

 

[She Beetle]

reynauds phenomenon/syndrome

I remember experiencing something like this in highschool a lot. My nipples would just randomly start getting hard and sore, and eventually would bleed. It was disgusting and I skipped a lot of school days just for this reason (because it somehow only happened while I was at school).

 

[Dawdler]

https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/what-you-need-to-know-about-runners-nipple

 

[a hapless toad]

On a further note, I have probably overlooked it but the whole field of medicine is made for men, tested for men and made safe for men. A man will not get a yeast infection from antibiotics 9 times out of 10. A man will not have to wait weeks until released from hospital to get it treated because the hospital won't call the gyn. A man won't endure searing pain from vaginal cream to treat said yeast infection for days. Men are not negatively affected by medicine, have less side effects or even none. Because the pharma industry bases everything on a male body, not female body, which would need different chemical compositions.

My previous GP (a woman) would always write a prescription for Diflucan/fluconazole at the same time she prescribed antibiotics, just in case. If I didn't need to take it, wonderful, but if I did it was a relief to already have it available.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Any other ladies here ever had to babysit kids whose father was home? Not working in the home office, not recovering from an illness or injury, literally just sitting in his room watching TV and napping. This has been on my mind recently, though it happened over a decade ago when I was a preteen. The mother didn't mention he was home and I only found out when he came downstairs to get lunch I made (for the kids).

What I would’ve given for a babysitter back in my married years. I worked nights and my tatty ex refused to look after the kids (even though he didn’t work), so I had to stay up with them in the day and get a nap in the afternoon and while they were eating dinner/in the bath when I could. All he did was sit up and watch tv, too.

Purchase squeakers. Slit open slipper. Insert squeaker. Sew up

I’m dumb as a newt and didn’t even think about buying squeakers. It’s the kind of thing I never think of unless it’s already installed in some sort of toy (and I think my dogs would object if I stole their toys and gutted them for their squeakers). To EBay!

 

[ATI Escapee]

Im 90% sure I got perved on at the gym today. Since Ive gotten older it pretty much quit happening, and I had finally gotten into a weekly gym routine. Did not think it would be an issue any more. If there was a woman working then I would have talked to her, but there was not. The dude has been there everyday I have, and I assumed he was the local high functioning autistic dude that just spends a lot of time doing weird exercises with weird body movement and never really getting stronger. Its a neighborhood rec center and I work within the network of people there too, so I feel weird bringing it up as a new-ish hire when this guy has likely been hanging out for years. It isnt wrong or against the rules to work out next to someone, or to say 'how are you'. There is not anything in particular I can point to that 'proves' he was creepin'. He was though. Dont really feel like getting into more detail. So I decide to leave, feeling more guilt that I am letting him 'win' by sacrificing my workout due to his behavior. But he would also 'win' if I stayed and he just kept on creeping. I am going to go back, and there are women that work the desk so I may bring it up with them next time. Idk. I also had been walking or biking there, but now I am anxious doing that. I wish that I had a better answer for these situations.

 

[NoReturn]

There is not anything in particular I can point to that 'proves' he was creepin'.

You aren't insane. There are a lot of memes and shit online about how "creep" means nothing and is just a cudgel women use against "unattractive men" but even that meme benefits guys like this. They know what they're doing, and they know how to behave in a way where you have nothing you can point to that explicitly crosses a line, but you know it, I know it, we all know it.

 

[PandaChai]

 

[Ruined by the Rain]

have any kiwettes tried period cups? if so, are they as uncomfortable as they look?

It's only uncomfortable while putting it in or removing it. Otherwise you can't really feel it.

 

[cybertoaster]

Periods, its hard to exagerate what a fucking pain in the ass and hindrance that is. If you ever had a gf (I know, asking too much) you know how disabling it can be, but you (well, she) still have to go to school/go to work, nobody is gonna give a damn if you (she) feel like shit since "its nature".

 

[She Beetle]

Periods, its hard to exagerate what a fucking pain in the ass and hindrance that is. If you ever had a gf (I know, asking too much) you know how disabling it can be, but you (well, she) still have to go to school/go to work, nobody is gonna give a damn if you (she) feel like shit since "its nature".

Null, is this your alternate account? There are easier ways to find love, you know.

 

[cybertoaster]

Null, is this your alternate account? There are easier ways to find love, you know.

Nah, in retrospective periods aren't strange to women nor unknown to men so IDK if it qualifies for the thread, tho it's still something women have to endure and it actually does suck.

 

[CornBogFitz]

Just found out titty hairs are a thing