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40 Very Dumb Statements About Women By Men Who Have No Clue How Women Work, As Shared In This Viral Twitter Thread
Being humble enough to accept when you’ve been wrong, and being curious enough to keep learning new things (even when your ego wants to get in the way) are two very good qualities to have as a human being.
It’s important to know the basics of life on Earth. Sadly, one area of knowledge that seems to be very much neglected is what some men know about women’s bodies and reproduction. In some cases, the misinformation they take as fact is simply staggering. You've been warned.
Sabrina Fonfeder, a development executive, noted that men should not make any decisions about women’s bodies, and gave an example of how little about biology some men know. One of her exes, for example, thought that all women got their period on the 15th of the month. The tweet quickly went viral and other women pitched in with similar horror stories.
Sabrina, who created the viral thread, was kind enough to answer Bored Panda's questions. She believes that men having major misconceptions about women is a problem with education.
"We're not taught anything about women because we're supposed to be these beautiful specimens. Get rid of your body hair, periods are gross, and don't get me started on pregnancy and labor and all the things women aren't taught their own bodies until they've given birth," she told Bored Panda. "There is so much shame about just existing as a woman that we don't ever talk about anything that makes us look like less than a supermodel."
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Ellie McGrath 4 years ago
None of us are going to have faces or palms left by the end of this list
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Lovencaress 4 years ago
My ex boyfriend asked did I need winter or summer pads because it was in the spring time he thought bigger pads were for winter and smaller size for summer like the bigger they we're they kept you warm
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adiiantryx 4 years ago
periods came before calendars would be a small hint to some on this list
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GFSTaylor 4 years ago
I was aged about 13 or 14 when our general science teacher (not one of the biology teachers) told the mixed class that the pill was something that needed to be taken every day. "If a boy offers you a single pill and tells you that's all you need to be safe, then he's lying." I can't remember how the topic came up (this was back in the early 80's), but it was sound advice.
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Poultry Geist 4 years ago
We like to drag it out so we can be a bit€h longer ! I use to push it all out at once but not anymore sometimes I make it last up to 10 day just so I can be mean for a 3rd of the month ! Good times
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ScrupulousScribbler 4 years ago
I don't agree with the third sentence, but I can understand where the miscommunication about the second sentence came from. I'm a girl, yet I was never told by my parents, family, or even my health teacher when I asked her about what times of the month can a woman not get pregnant. It's not really excusable, but it's slightly understandable, seeing as no one explained it to me despite me asking them.
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Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
I can see his train of thought, though. Some children do go through prodigious puberty, and my guess is that he's clinging on to any last hope that your kid's okay.
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
For anyone who may be confused as to how that works, you have to take it every day at the exact same time, or its effectiveness will be greatly reduced or completely removed. Doesn't matter if you're doing the deed or not.
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Sina 4 years ago
It is possible to have periods throughout the pregnancy - however not get pregnant skip a month and then have normal periods like the guy believed O_O - I had an aunt who didn't even realize she was pregnant with her 9th kid (back in the day, no TV, greek village) until she went into labor. She was obese so she didn't have a visible baby bump, and had periods throughout the pregnancy, maybe not completely regular because she was over 40 by that point, so she took it as it being signs of menopause. When she went into labor, her hubby rushed her to the hospital because of the pain she was experiencing, and it was the doctor at the ER that told them that the woman is in labor. When later we asked her like, how did you miss being pregnant, didn't you even feel the baby all these months? She told us that every time the baby was kicking or whatnot, she thought that she had indigestion, or something she ate messed up her tummy.
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Laura Edwards 4 years ago
That's pretty common. The other one is hymen. Hymen don't just magically disappear because you had sex. Your grandma who had 9 children still has her hymen.
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NsG 4 years ago
You *can* take an extremely wonky train of thought where he could be right. If you did exercise (not just push ups) and diet which results in weight loss, your boobs may shrink along with the rest of you. Not to a more manageable size (because I have no idea what is meant by that!), but by around half a cup - plus any band size reduction. Unfortunately you cannot specify where weight loss happens on your body (wouldn't that be amazing! Shrink the thighs instead of making my face look even more gaunt!).
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Izzy Curer 4 years ago (edited)
Well... But wait a minute. There ARE signs that it's coming. I usually know the day before because of specific things my body does. And I can usually tell the week before that it's on it's way. I'm not at all regular, so I've always just had to be aware of my body to know where I am in my cycle. Not just for my period, either, but what's going on with me for the whole month.
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DuchessDegu 4 years ago
You should kick him in the nuts every month and say the same if he complains
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Mal 4 years ago
Although this list is a horror story of ignorance and societal failings, I AM please to see that many started out with "My ex -...." or "I once had..." Good on ya, ladies.
martin734 4 years ago
I think that these shameful examples are more of an indictment of your education system than they are of men in general. Maybe if you were given a more modern and comprehensive sex ed these could be avoided. You need to become less prudish and more practical about sex ed and biology and I am sorry to say ladies that you are often just as much to blame as the guys are. If you don't talk about things like periods and your bodies to your sons, brothers and partners and they aren't taught about it at school, how are they going to learn?
Sue 4 years ago
Then guys need to stop grossing out about talking about it. I had no problem talking about sex, but my daughter was a lot more nervous about it with her son, but she did it anyway. Although periods didn't bother her to talk about. And the fundies won't let the schools really educate kids about sex. You'd think guys would be dying to get the most information about the place where their d**k spends the most free time. But, hey, it's always the women's fault.
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Mal 4 years ago
Although this list is a horror story of ignorance and societal failings, I AM please to see that many started out with "My ex -...." or "I once had..." Good on ya, ladies.
martin734 4 years ago
I think that these shameful examples are more of an indictment of your education system than they are of men in general. Maybe if you were given a more modern and comprehensive sex ed these could be avoided. You need to become less prudish and more practical about sex ed and biology and I am sorry to say ladies that you are often just as much to blame as the guys are. If you don't talk about things like periods and your bodies to your sons, brothers and partners and they aren't taught about it at school, how are they going to learn?
Sue 4 years ago
Then guys need to stop grossing out about talking about it. I had no problem talking about sex, but my daughter was a lot more nervous about it with her son, but she did it anyway. Although periods didn't bother her to talk about. And the fundies won't let the schools really educate kids about sex. You'd think guys would be dying to get the most information about the place where their d**k spends the most free time. But, hey, it's always the women's fault.
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