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Most of us learn about the human anatomy in our early teens. Things get real awkward and uncomfortable in biology class during that time, but they’re things we have to know or else we risk embarrassing ourselves big time as adults.

Despite that, many people have knowledge gaps in human anatomy, especially when it comes to the opposite gender. Men specifically often come under fire for being hilariously wrong about how women’s bodies work. For example, in one poll of UK university students, 45% of males said they knew where the “nubis” is, completely unaware of the fact that it’s a made-up body part.

Bored Panda came across a few online threads where women were sharing the most absurd things they’ve heard men say about their bodies with their whole chests, despite being completely wrong. Here are some of the funniest and most shocking answers we found, and it seems men should really step up their female anatomy game.

#1

A man helping a woman leaning over a hospital bed. That a woman’s body is “designed” to give birth therefore it’s easy. Bruh we traded in easier birth for upright walking and the birthing process is one of the biggest k**lers of women/people who give birth. Why is there so much b******t still around “d**g free/intervention free birth”? Saving your body from years of complications and/or your mental health from trauma is a perfectly fine reason to choose painkillers/medical intervention.

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Corvus
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24 minutes ago

We walk upright, but our necks and backs are still *mostly* designed for walking on 4 legs... which is a major reason for neck/back pain. Lovely :)

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    #2

    A man lying closely beside a smiling woman on a white bed. They think once they're in you must be in an euphoric state. It don't always work that way....

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    P0rn has a lot to answer for for this nonsense. And TV and movies tbh, women reaching O within ten seconds with zero foreplay beyond stumbling through the house kissing and undressing eachother is... Somewhat unrealistic.

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    #3

    A close up shot of a woman's legs showing body hair related to misconceptions about women's bodies. That somehow body hair makes you more unhygienic (even if you bathe/shower just as much as someone who does shave or wax) but that logic never applies to men.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    10 minutes ago

    This isn't just men. I've been told this as much by women as men while dating. In fact I'd hazard maybe more by women, due to the nature of the typical bedroom activities.

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    #4

    A close up view of a person holding toilet paper regarding myths about women's bodies. During the height of the early covid toilet paper shortage, a guy I was seeing wouldn't give me toilet paper to p*e after we had s*x. He asked me, "what do you need to p**p?" He truly did not understand that women need to wipe after peeing, nor did he understand women needed to p*e after s*x.

    I tried explaining how important it was to, and eventually, he relented and gave me... a f*****g paper towel. He had just gotten a 12-pack of TP that he refused to open (he lived alone).

    Today, to say the least, we are not together.

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    Ace
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    35 minutes ago

    Men too should use TP after peeing. Anyone relying on their underwear to catch the drips is just gross.

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    #5

    A close-up of a pregnant belly, highlighting common myths about women's bodies. If a woman is 'truly' r***d, her body won't let her become pregnant. What in the seven depths....?

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago (edited)

    Who was that Republican d*********y who said this publicly?

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    #6

    A low angle view of someone on a toilet holding paper discussing myths about women's bodies. My friend was telling us a story of her male colleague who was down playing menstruation as being difficult for women etc. It turns out he thought that menstrual blood worked more like urine.

    When she explained to him that it was more passive and that women didn't have control over the flow etc, he was appalled "Wait, so it just keeps flowing... You can't turn it off?"

    I guess he was way more sympathetic once he understood it.

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    Lauren Caswell
    Community Member
    3 hours ago

    I wonder how many of them think it's like pee 🤔 Learned recently that up until a study published in Aug 2023 pads etc had only been studied with saline solution. First tested with actual human blood cells etc. How tf did it take so long to realise saline solution in no way resembles menstruation in terms of absorption. 😐

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    #7

    An athletic woman running outside, showcasing fitness and understanding of women's bodies. I’m a bloke:

    A few years ago I was fairly unfit. I decided to exercise by going for a run.
    And that’s when I first felt my manboobs bounce up and down:(

    I finally understood after that. Sorry ladies.

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    Bored Retsuko
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    You do not. Women's breasts have breast tissue that can hurt especially in certain phases of the menstrual cycle, not just fat that's annoying when it moves.

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    #8

    A close-up shot of a person's ribcage and midsection, illustrating misconceptions about women's bodies. i….. am just now finding out that men and women don’t have different amounts of ribs. raised in a christian cult. genuinely thought that was true until i read this post. i am constantly shocked by the amount of completely stupid things i believed.

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    CP
    Community Member
    11 minutes ago

    It amazes me two people, so far, have lied to defend that silly myth. Why? And yes you are both pathetically lying.

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    #9

    A thoughtful woman sitting on a hospital bed, reflecting on misconceptions about women's bodies. That he has a say in how I seek and receive medical care.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Ruuuuun run run run

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    #10

    Hands holding a pile of tampons, representing misconceptions about women’s bodies. That women get off on using tampons.

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    Boo
    Community Member
    54 minutes ago

    Ummm....ewwwwheheeeewww! You fucknugget

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    #11

    A woman sitting on a couch with her hands on her head looking stressed, depicting women's bodies and health misconceptions. Virginity being a social concept.

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    CP
    Community Member
    11 minutes ago

    I will reiterate what I said above, if you care about virginity, you are by definition ignorant.

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    #12

    A smiling young woman sitting at a table looking at her smartphone, representing men wrong about women's bodies. It was some comment on an educational post that women don’t p*e out of their v**inas. The gentleman replied something to this effect, “so where do they p*e out of? It’s not like they have a third hole!”
    So close, buddy. So close to the truth.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago (edited)

    It's disturbing how many WOMEN don't realise there's a separate hole for urine, never mind men . Séx education in some places is abysmally poor.

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    #13

    A nanny of mine was convinced virgins shouldn’t used tampons because the tampon will “take their virginity”

    ….yea.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    A commonly held belief by ignorant people who think the hymen is any kind of indication of virginity (these are usually the same people who think women are worth less once they lose their virginity, so they're not really worth listening to!)

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    #14

    A woman in a blazer speaking to a man wearing glasses. Who it belongs to?

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    Zatetic
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    2 hours ago (edited)

    A woman's body belongs to the woman.

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    #15

    A woman sits on a toilet using a smartphone amidst misconceptions about women's bodies. We don’t pee out of our v**inas, fellas.

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    CP
    Community Member
    15 minutes ago

    That leaves the b**t or the mouth to pee out of, which is it? /s

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    #16

    A doctor showing an ultrasound scan on a tablet to a pregnant woman, related to misunderstandings of women's bodies. Mucous plugs, colostrum, cervical effacement, placenta attatchment location, and a billion other things about pregnancy and birth.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    To be fair, I'm a woman and I don't know jack about any of those things and will never need to. A man who has a pregnant wife or girlfriend should educate himself though, but I don't really see why an unattached or child free person should need this information.

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    #17

    Women have their periods one day per month.

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    Lee Gilliland
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    1 hour ago

    I wish.

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    #18

    A person showing arm hair highlighting natural facts about women's bodies a guy once went "eewww you've got the hairiest arms i've ever seen" i'm blonde so my arm hair is really fair, like b***h have you looked at a woman before???

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    #19

    A fit woman lifting weights at the gym illustrating women's bodies and strength I've had multiple men try to explain to me that an average man could beat up the strongest woman in the world. Like they genuinely believe that with no special training, they could beat the c**p out of a professional wrestler or athlete just because "men are stronger than women."

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    lenka
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Same goes for most professional athletes. There was a survey recently that faound most men beleived they could beat a female olympic runner with no or very limited training. They genuinely think sportswoman are just out there prancing around to look good and have no skill whatsoever.

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    #20

    A man holding a woman lovingly on a bed highlighting misconceptions about women's bodies. This was like 10 years ago and my boyfriend at the time 100% read it on Reddit, he claimed you could tell if a woman had had a v**inal org**m based on how her hips moved when she walked. Like it unlocked some sort of hip movement.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    Sounds more like the man has done it wrong and caused pain in the woman.

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    #21

    A female politician listening to a colleague, discussing healthcare and misconceptions about women's bodies. Apparently about half the US senate thinks women's bodies just have ways of blocking unwanted pregnancy from "legitimate r**e".

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    Bored Retsuko
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    Do they apply their logic to other forms of violence? If I "legitimately" poison your food, your body will know not to digest it?

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    #22

    A woman resting her hand on her chest, related to myths about women’s bodies. I think a lot of guys overestimate how sensitive the average woman's n**ples and b**bs are.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Or conversely, drastically underestimate and yank on those things like they're trying to get a prize to come out.

    #23

    I had a guy at school once ask me how I handled my breasts leaking all the time, apparently he thought that all women started producing milk as soon as they hit puberty and was wondering how our shirts weren't ever showing wet spots or anything. I tried to explain to him that women don't produce mile until after child birth (sometimes during the pregnancy too, I produced while I was pregnant)

    He just looked at me completely confused and claimed I was lying because the conversation was making me uncomfortable, declared he would ask his mother who wouldn't be embarrassed. I don't know if he ever did ask her but he never ran up to me telling me I was an idiot and I was wrong afterward, hopefully she set him straight.

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    Crystalwitch60
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    18 minutes ago

    If my son had ever asked me that question he would have fully expected me to crack up laughing before putting his right on his thinking lmao ,I’d love to know what lads mother did 🤣

    #24

    A woman lying in bed with a hot water bottle for period pain related to women's bodies As a response to me threatening an otherwise pretty smart (but extremely annoying) guy with a kick in the nuts:

    "If you do that, I'll punch you in the b***s" (assuming they are that sensitive that it would really hurt)

    I responded that they would most likely cushion the punch bc I'm 32F/G UK size.

    "Periods don't hurt that much that you need to be curled up on the chair" - my classmate, after my teacher noticed me sitting weird and me saying that I'm on my period and that the position helps with the pain. I literally puke from pain on the bad days.

    "You cannot faint from low blood pressure" B***h tell that to the scar on my lip I got from fainting and hitting a table with my lower lip (okay, that one isnt specifically woman's body but still).

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    Crystalwitch60
    Community Member
    25 minutes ago

    The bp one even men faint from that ,it’s a human medical thing not just a woman thing .

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    #25

    A thoughtful bride in a white shirt representing women's bodies Ex husband said he knew 100% that I cheated on him because......my v****a was hot.

    We were dating at the time and in hind sight it was a big ol red flag. Still married him and that fun continued until well after our divorce.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Was... Was he expecting it to be cold??

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    #26

    The idea that you can transfer an ectopic pregnancy from the fallopian tube to the uterus instead of terminating it. Not just ridiculous, but dangerous.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    And who would be suggesting this? I can hazard certain members of a political party trying to control women's bodies.

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    #27

    A woman sitting on a couch gesturing with her hands up in confusion. A guy once told me he was going to suck on my g-spot. He clearly had no clue what or where it is.

    An ex many years ago asked me why I didn't go for prostate checkups.

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    Khavrinen
    Community Member
    3 hours ago

    Not only didn't know women's bodies, didn't know men's either.

    #28

    A thoughtful woman sitting on a couch, reflecting on incorrect ideas about women’s bodies. That just because my stomach hurts or I’m having a bad day clearly I’m on my period. Women can be in pain or be upset/angry/etc without being on their period.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    So your not on your period? You must be pregnant then and all your hormones are acting up.

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    #29

    That our breast produce milk when we start our first periods...
    And the memory foam v****a.

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    #30

    On seeing me topless for the first time: "But... they're not perky!" (Gs don't tend to be, no...)

    Bonus, is he said that right after, "Wait, that's NOT a tan?" (I have a Mediterranean olive-gold complexion.)

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    Zatetic
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    And probably don't have bilateral symmetry.

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    #31

    A pregnant woman holding an exercise ball overhead, relating to men being wrong about women's bodies during pregnancy. If you raise your arms above your head while you're pregnant, it will make the cord strangle the baby.

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    Jeolas1
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    33 minutes ago

    I have a yoga book by a very promiment yoga teacher which says that in first trimester you are not supposed to lie on your back with your legs raised up in a right angle, because this might cause a miscarriage.

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    #32

    My SO actually, in all seriousness, thought that every time we have s*x, his d**k goes into my uterus.

    When I heard that from him, I knew why he didn't know that that "thing" at the top/end of my v****a is my cervix.

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    Reba
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    1 hour ago

    And.... You continue to sleep with this man? WHY??

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    #33

    You can't go swimming while pregnant or you'll drown the baby.

    You can get the baby girl pregnant if you have unprotected s*x while late term pregnant.

    You can swallow things and they'll end up in your uterus (cameras, pills, etc).

    Interracial couples have a harder time conceiving because the woman views his s***m as foreign invaders.

    You can get pregnant from watch too much p**n.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    Started off stupid, then got worse.

    #34

    That we store the dna of the first man we f**k (apparently only first) and that the kid that we will have in a future, however distant future, will have dna of the first lover and never be fully another man's.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    This is spectacularly stupid even for the Andrew Tate wannabes I assume are spewing this nonsense in the first place.

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    #35

    A tired woman taking off her glasses and rubbing her eyes at a desk. The hymen myth.

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    #36

    Lot of great answers here, boundaries and bodily autonomy are a right and not a luxury.

    On a less serious note, when I was younger I thought women didn't have a urethra. I hadn't really put the thought into it but I guess I just assumed their p*e came from their uterus or something, not that I knew much about that either.

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    #37

    I knew a guy who thought the term "f**ked her brains out" meant that a girl had too much rough s*x and "her v****a starts falling out and you have to push it back in" he literally thought long wavy labia minora were a f*****g v**inal prolapse.

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    #38

    At the stables I was told not to show up when I was on my period because the stallions would try to mate with me.

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    Jeolas1
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    23 minutes ago (edited)

    HOW?!?!?!!? I mean: why! What would be the logic behind this! On a slightly similar note: My friend's great-aunt forbid her to work in the vegetable garden while on her period, because according to her, it would make the vegetables díe. Apparently, this used to be quite a popular belief in parts of rural Austria.

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    #39

    A woman doing barbell squats showcasing misconceptions about women's bodies I work at a glass shop and a guy once tried to warn me that lifting heavy things is bad for women because it affects the uterus.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    Women should stop using their uterus to carry stuff about, use their arms instead.

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    #40

    Girls can’t p**p. They just have heavy p*e.

    From a college student who became a science teacher. He was brought up to speed regarding female anatomy and function by dorm life.

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    Jeolas1
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    15 minutes ago

    My motorbike instructor once said, after a very stressful, sweaty driving lesson in summerly city traffic: "Well, but at least women don't get stinky!" He was a really nice guy (in the actual sense of the word) and probably meant well. But I have noticed and do not like this idea some men have that women are somehow more pure. Like, women don't fart, don't sweat, don't p**p (although THAT I heard the first time!). I don't like this form of benevolent sexism, because it can only lead to disappointment and will then very likely result in unfairly harsh judgement of individual women who are discovered to sweat, fart, stink... after all.

    #41

    I was in the car with a few friends when a period related ad came on the radio. It said something like “the average woman will spend X number of months on their period in their lifetime.” My guy friend sounded annoyed and was like “that’s so dumb, like that’s obviously not true why do ads exaggerate so much!”

    Now Im not great at math, but I said that it sounded about right to me and he was very skeptical. So I broke it down like, “okay avg woman starts period by 12 probably and the avg period is like 4-6 days,” and he got very surprised and said “it lasts THAT long?!!” I said yes, in fact a lot of women have their period for a week, and what did he think was the average length?

    This man said that he thought if a woman was really efficient, she could squeeze it all out in 1 or 2 days. He said it in a joking tone but he definitely believed it to be true. We were in our late 20s at the time.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    You heard it here ladies, be more efficient with your periods.

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    #42

    A friend was visiting Hungary years ago. She was sitting on the ground and an older woman kept trying to get her to stand up, as she assured my friend through an interpreter that if she sat on the ground, her womb would never ripen and she would be barren for life. As my friend is a lesbian, she continued sitting on the ground.

    So far, it’s worked! /s.

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    Kristiina Männiste
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    3 hours ago

    Here its: "You cant sit on the ground before the first thunder storm, because you will get a bladder infection". The logic being ,that the ground is cold in winter/early spring, we usually get the first thunderstorms of the year in May, when the ground has warmed up enough to be "safe".

    #43

    That women don't get diarrhea because they get periods so it's like a biological trade off.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    WAIT until they hear about period poops.

    #44

    That women wear tampons as a plug that they remove once a month to drain their period blood and then put it back in.

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    #45

    A man explaining something in bed to a skeptical woman, illustrating men wrong about women's bodies. That we org**m after 5 mins of PIV.

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    Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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    3 hours ago

    I will admit manly ignorance here. What is PIV?

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    #46

    A man gesturing while talking to a woman, demonstrating men wrong about women’s bodies. There is a person inside.

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    Crystalwitch60
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    19 minutes ago

    Eh more info n needed on this one lol ,

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    #47

    A frustrated woman touching her face, reacting to claims about women’s bodies. I had a 55 yrs old man (who’s had his fair share of women in his life) tell me with his full chest that period blood (uterine lining) and the blood in my veins was the same thing.

    What was worse, I laughed about this on one of my USA women groups, and half of the replies were from women, arguing with me about it being the same.

    That was the day I realized how truly bad the USA education system can be.

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    Reba
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Uuuh... Who's going to tell her that period blood is absolutely just blood, the same blood as in the rest of your body? The secretions during your period are made up of about 20-50% good old fashioned blood. The REST is uterine lining and mucus. But the blood is just blood, we don't have magic coochie blood.

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    #48

    That the tongue needs to be inserted during or*l.

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