It has been said a long time ago, and most people realize, that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. There are plenty of differences, both psychological and physical, between us. In order to understand each other, it's important to have an open conversation about some topics we may not have a clue about. However, these days, when everything is easily accessible and we can get an instant answer to pretty much any question we can possibly think of close at hand, some lack of basic information about the opposite sex may turn out to be ignorance.
We have collected an impressive list of stories shared online by women to shed light on many common experiences shared by women, sometimes on a daily basis, that men often find abstract. Let's spread awareness and gain some common knowledge about 'the female kind'!
#21

That my body isn't a set of buttons to mash in the right order to get the prize. The exact same thing may not turn me on every time, etc.
I have to believe there are men out there that this is also true for, but some guys decode they have figured out the pattern and refuse to vary.
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217points
#22

That we use toilet paper every time we go to the bathroom and therefore will go through more than men!
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215points
#23
Something that still hasn't settled in his head - the fact that when you give birth you can tear all the way to your a*****e, that you can (pretty commonly) get diastasis recti, or other conditions that can become lifelong.
When I told him these things he said "you love exaggerating these things just to justify that you don't want kids, no woman who's had a kid that I know has said these things"
... Besides his mom or whatever he had never spoken to a pregnant woman/new mom in his life, let alone about their vaginas
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206points
#25

As an adult - cervical fluid. The amount of men who have thought vaginas are either dry or WET from being turned on is truly alarming to me. No, I’m just OVULATING.
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203points
#26
How viscerally intimidating it is to have any male angry or yelling at you. I could be the strongest woman in the world, and even the most average guy would be able to physically dominate me. So doubly true that I am not very strong.
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203points
#27

That I have to have my keys out before I get to my front door so I’m not awkwardly fumbling for them and making myself vulnerable.
202points
#28
That his/my husband's presence will alter the way some people interact with me. Or rather, ignore me altogether.
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199points
#29

How little they know about periods. When I had been dating my boyfriend for a couple of months, I apologized for being upset and that it was just because of my period. He then asked, “didn’t you have your period last month?” He thought that women menstruated for an entire month, and then didn’t for the other 11 months of the year. He thought that periods were an annual thing. I was so shocked.
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193points
#31

Your bra size isn't only dependent on your cup size.
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184points
#32
That i could not, in fact, let my ex-boss (who's a man) drive me home.
Context: me and my ex-boss kinda live in the same area and he has a car, i take public transport. More than one time he was offered to drive me home after work. He didn't offer to drive anyone else home. And we end work at 9pm.
Im not F*****g taking that risk
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173points
#33
I think this is not exactly a thing only men do but I've encountered a lot of men who really believe the stereotypes/cliches of "how a woman acts or thinks" and that is like a "rule" that cannot change.
They'll say "a woman likes this" or "a woman always does that" and when I tell them is not true, they don't believe me or think I'm "not like the other girls". Then I have to start educating them in that yes, I'm like the other girls because we as humans are really complex and we can all like different things and we do not share a brain.
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170points
#34
That (at least for me and my friends) parents treat you different just because you're a woman. Less freedom, less independence, and its really all because of men and the dangers they raise to us. Its f*****g unfair. My boyfriend is always saying "ur parents didnt let you do x alone?" And they treat me totally different from my brother.
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168points
#35
Had to explain my bf a few times that if we are wrestling and I say stop and he doesn’t because I say it laughing that it’s a horrible feeling. I learned I was laughing because of nerves or I don’t know why, a reflex. And he learned that if I said stop, even if I laugh, he has to stop bc I’m not joking. If he doesn’t stop, he triggers something bc I’m not as strong as he is and I get scared/cry. Thank god he learned.
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162points
#36
The struggle of maintaining work life and the desire to not become pregnant, yet wanting a family but not wanting to sacrifice my career, and the simultaneous need to remain independent of a man.
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158points
#37

Periods aren’t actually monthly, as in January, February, March. They can be, but often that’s just coincidence. You can have two periods in one month and you can have no periods in one month.
Also, we don't bleed in a continuous stream all day. Some guys think we just sit there hemorrhaging.
153points
#39
That walking home late at night in the dark isn't a f*****g option.
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152points
#40

My bf thought that pads stick to your vagina like a bandaid.
147points



