81 Women Get Brutally Honest About The Things Men Just Don’t Get

This is mainly for dads of girls but it can apply to anyone with a teen girl around them: we don’t need you making remarks about us and being on our periods, it’s super humiliating, please just get the pads/tampons/dash whatever we need and leave it at that😭

Looking like someone on TV, even when they're doing a "natural" look, takes a lot of time and money.

Just how *much* our periods can affect. Headaches, cramps, cravings, leak throughs, sometimes tampons or other inserted things feel fine and sometimes they just feel *off*, and that’s only scratching the surface as well as ignoring the social stigmas and drop in self confidence.

Difference between feminism and misandry, and significance of feminism.
Some guys do exist who understand.
Some just understand the literal meaning but their actions don't depict it. A lot of them don't even realise it when they're contradicting what they're saying.
Then some other are there who would never wanna understand.

Not all women are golddiggers that will take away your money, house and kids and run away to a more wealthy "Chad". Also, most of us do not cheat and DO want to support you.

Cultural expectations. I'm expected to give my in-laws grand children. Cook. Clean. Scrub my SO's cuffs and collars. Put him on a pedestal. And don't forget to smile.

I'm a horrible cook, my SO can pick up after himself, and even after five years of failed fertility treatments, diagnosed with an auto-immune neurological disease that wipes my energy, there's still the usual "You should..." and "You have to..."

Why can't I just be me? The real me. Even though they are kind and generous people on other ways, I often feel the resentment whenever I'm around them.

Friendzoning happens to us too. And when we do the friendzoning, we did not manipulate you or intentionally want to cause you pain. We just platonically enjoy your company.

A lot of us actually really *hate* “dressing up”. We hate putting on shape-shifting underwear and dresses and high heels and putting our hair into ridiculous arrangements and spending an hour or more putting on makeup. It’s all so uncomfortable to wear, and I don’t feel “empowered” because I’m all prettied up at all whenever I have to do it. Just because I “look pretty” doesn’t mean I simply adore wearing that kind of [things]. I just want to not feel like a natural human body that’s been stuffed into a bud vase and balanced on stilts.

Any kind of manly chore. My boyfriend is 20 years younger than me and anytime I try to tell him how to do something that he's never done before, he ignores me and does it how he thinks it should be done. Example: we have a pool. Not my first pool. Told him to turn the pump off after it rained and was over the filter. He said it will be ok. I said it would blow up the pump. Next day, pump is blown. This is after I had spent 200$ on chemicals and repairs to the pump. So then HE had to pay $300 for a new pump and 200$ on more chemicals. Smdh.

How not being able to find something to wear gives me genuine anxiety and when I say I have nothing to wear it's actually based on the fact that I am not emotionally prepared or confident enough to wear the clothes that I own right now!

How careful we have been raised to be. Recently my guy half as a joke I think at first made a female avatar on a game and that has led to me saying welcome to womanhood so much when he encounters something he questions as is it always this way/it can't be like this for real/they only act like this because it's a game.

Woman are not here to be your emotional dumpster. Idc if you had a bad day your partner doesn't deserve you throwing all that emotional baggage at them.

If you want to discuss your bad day and share your feelings I'm all for it. But do not lash out at me and expect "I had a tough day" to be an acceptable excuse.

Every action has the capacity to be perceived as salacious or a proposition for a man who's social inept or who has a propensity to misconstrue peoples intentions. Wearing a dress and you drop something so you bend down to pick it up? You're orchestrating his seduction! Hold the door open and say an effusive 'Hello!'? You're obviously flirting. Sit next to him in the cafeteria because it's the only seat left? You're contriving interactions just to get close to him.

It's a very small minority of men but they certainly do think innocuous interactions are layered with coquetry. The implications!

When you fart and that stray bubble rolls forward to travel between your flaps.

When I was trying to get pregnant, I had to explain to my guy every single freaking month about ovulation and when is an optimal time and how the whole thing works. You can understand particle physics, but you can't fathom an egg traveling down a tube???

Sorry, that might've been me needing to vent.

That being conditioned your whole life to only express emotion in violent outbursts is [messed up], but it’s still your responsibility to act like an adult and learn to feel. Go to therapy stop, stop treating the women and femmes in your life like free therapy especially when you do not reciprocate the same emotional labor.

It is not flattering to be told that you look better without makeup. We do makeup that makes us feel confident. Being told that after all of that work, you look even worse, well, it’s pretty annoying.

When I’m upset or angry when PMSing, it’s not that the feelings or emotions are not real, it’s that I’m not able to censor very well.

We are not always defensive, it's being confident and voicing our opinions.

The casual cry: when you feel a little excess emotion and you just get it out of your system when you have some spare time.