Gender stereotypes and misconceptions are a real thing. Constantly, men think that they know everything about women, despite never talking a walk in their shoes a day in their lives. Men have no problem “man-splaining” womanhood to women, however, it’s quite shocking how little they know about us. More often than not men have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and instead, it becomes a great running joke for us ladies.
Recently, women on Reddit revealed some of the funniest misconceptions men have had about our gender. Buckle up, this one is going to be a wild ride.
Women have never seen “real blood”
“My male friend told me that I don’t necessarily know what blood looks like. And that when period blood gets soaked up by a pad or tampon it’s no longer visible and soaks into the product losing the blood colour. So pads are always white and dry,” shared sweetpotatonerd.
We can milk ourselves whenever we choose to
JustAnotherAviatrix shared that a male friend of hers believed that women can produce breast milk whenever they choose to — even if they aren’t pregnant or have never been pregnant. They think we can turn on the faucet of milk and let that bad boy spill out everywhere.
Women can stop their period whenever they please, too
“You can just turn your period off. Alternatives to this are ‘the big egg’ theory where you have a period in a toilet all at once and also pass an egg big enough to see and the ‘just hold it’ where they think you can squeeze your vaginal opening like a sphincter and just not bleed,” revealed Musikaravaa.
Look out for blue urine
Im_Prolly_Depressed shared that her ex-boyfriend saw a TikTok video that said when women are angry, their pee turns blue. He even asked the Reddit user if he can see it. When she revealed that it clearly was not true, he didn’t believe her at all.
Sexuality means a lot more than you think…right?
“A friend’s boyfriend thought that it was biologically impossible for lesbians to get pregnant. Like, once they realize they’re gay, their ovaries just shrivel up and quit, so they can never have kids. His reasoning was that he’d never met a lesbian couple with children (this was a one-horse town with like 2000 residents, he’d never met a lesbian couple, period),” wrote ArcadiaPlanitia.
It’s over for you older ladies
Another Reddit user confessed that her best friend’s boyfriend thought that when women go through menopause, their vaginas seal up forever — unable to ever be used again. I’m pretty sure that older women would be twice as upset if that were truly the case, not just over the hot flashes.
Cup sizes tell a story
“Oh god….so you may not believe this (because I certainly did not think he was serious either at first) but when I was a teen I knew a guy that legitimately thought that girls breast size had to do with how much blow jobs they give. I laughed, he did not, I asked him where the hell he got that idiotic idea(again teen so not very tactful). He got angry and left so I never did find out where in the world he got that idea or how he thought that worked,” wrote GoldDustWitchQueen.
Tampons are not sex toys
married_pineapple shared that she had to explain to a friend that women do not get pleasure out of using a tampon. In fact, most women hate using them and they can be quite painful and annoying. Who would enjoy having to insert those constantly — don’t forget changing them all of the time.
It’s not some magic juice
“I used to work with a guy who thought his wife’s, and I quote, ‘[expletive] juice’ speeded up healing. He was an auto mechanic so his hands always had cuts or scrapes. If he cut his finger he would talk about finger [expletive] his wife so the cut would heal faster,” shared WH1SKEYHANGOVER.
We don’t always bleed
idkwhatnametoput_ said that she was at her friend’s house — who happens to be a boy — and was spending the night. He ended up telling her she can’t sleep in the bed and had to sleep on the floor. Why? Because he thought that women have their periods all of the time. Every day. Every night.
That would make things complicated
“When my sister had her baby, they had collected the placenta in a container beside the hospital bed. Her boyfriend confidently said that it was her uterus. He believed that when women give birth, they push out their entire uterus and just grow a new one,” revealed unicorndanceparty.
Who would ever believe it?
Another Reddit user shared that her friend was pregnant and her friend’s husband said that they absolutely couldn’t have sex while she was pregnant because if they did, there wouldn’t be enough room for a second baby if she so happened to get pregnant again — while she was already pregnant with their first.
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Anatomy class exists
“My ex was thoroughly convinced that women have more ribs than men. You know. Because apparently Adam gave his rib to make Eve. Even after I went through med school and showed him countless images to the contrary,” Tofer02.
Well, I wouldn’t be mad if this were true
JournalistMobile3605 confessed she knew a guy who believed women had full control over how fast their hair grows. Basically, if a woman wanted longer hair, they can just think about it and they can grow it any time. If they wanted shorter hair, they can just cut it off — but, grow it back in light speed.
No wonder their relationships don’t last
“I used to work at an adult novelty & lingerie shop, and I was honestly shocked at the amount of men who would come in looking for something to help bring their woman to orgasm only to inform me the female orgasm was a myth and that I was just trying to take their money,” wrote LadyGenetics333.
Female anatomy must be like calculus
“Guy I knew insisted woman peed from their anuses ‘because there’s only one hole in the front. the sex and baby hole. The pee doesn’t go near that because it has to stay clean for penises and babies’ I was too scared to ask him about periods,” said MikoSkyns.