Eye-Opening Facts About Men That Women Were Surprised To Learn
Despite spending most of our lives together, men and women still ignore many crucial aspects of each other. These aspects are rarely or never mentioned out loud, and each gender always thinks they are evident and don't deserve to get brought up.
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Of course, each person is unique and has personality traits and characteristics that distinguish them from others. However, some things are occasionally the same among most people who belong to a specific gender.
The more we know about each other, the easier it will be to interact and share our lives. Some seemingly insignificant facts that you never pay much attention to might be perceived as eye-opening by someone who doesn't belong to the same gender as you.
Communication is key, and it's always better to try to understand each before beginning to form strong opinions based on falsehoods. Some random and seemingly uninteresting details could sometimes be the key to the success of your relationships.
A Redditor who goes by the username u/Big-Contact-4204 made a post on the r/AskReddit subReddit with the following question: "Women, what is a surprising fact you discovered about men?" The user received many eye-opening replies to their question; scroll down to check them out!
1. "That men rarely ever receive compliments in their lives."
I purposely go out of my way to express even the smallest compliments in case they haven’t heard one for a long time.
2. "Many men get an erection in the morning."
Morning moves around the globe every 24 hours. This means that there is an erection wave that has been going around the globe without end since the beginning of any species with which this started.
3. "That they suffer from gender stereotyping too."
4. "That they are not criticizing women’s bodies as much as women are led to believe..."
...(maybe by themselves or whomever is driving this culture). They are far more acceptant of how women look like naturally than women themselves. This was such a game changer for me.
5. "Most men don’t actually know how to fix things. They just pull it apart and put it back together again and hope for the best."
6. "At my first job, I used to work mostly with women, then switched to IT and now it’s mostly men."
I was surprised to learn that guys don’t hold a grudge as much as the women I worked with did. We’d have an argument on Friday, I was worked up about it all weekend and worried how it would affect our future relationship, then come Monday and boom…nothing.
They genuinely seemed like they let it go. It’s a pretty sweet thing.
7. "That they want to be loved as badly as we do and they’re also mushy gushy"
8. "You guys can sit there and think about nothing"
9. "Not surprising but i’m shocked that some women genuinely don’t think men suffer from mental health problems."
I’ve heard “he’s lazy” or “he expects the woman to do everything” when 60% of the time it’s just him being depressed as s**t.
10. "The fact that men really are physically stronger."
I always assumed this was purely based on size but I'm a woman who works out every day (lifts weights, yoga, jogging/peloton.) My older brother doesn't exercise outside of an occasional hike.
He's 4inches taller than me and 10 lbs lighter than I am (I'm a dress size 0 or 2.) He's faster than me on a hike (including backpacking) and can lift up heavier things. It makes me SO angry.
11. "That most men don’t care that your stomach isn’t flat."
12. "When they say they don't know why they feel a certain way they ACTUALLY don't know. I find it crazy and I couldn't trust it the first times."
13. "That if you show them exactly how much you appreciate them they are more likely to be motivated to complete a task than if you nag them."
14. "They only pretend to not like gentle affection. Lay your head in my lap and let me pet you you know you like it you fall asleep within minutes."
15. "That they have a whole set of unsaid rules about where to pee in public bathrooms"
16. "I am constantly floored by how little some men know about their close friends’ lives!"
I know multiple men who speak to their best friends super regularly, but could not say with certainty if they’re single, what kind of work they do/where they work, etc. I don’t understand it at all, but I just keep meeting men like this.
17. "Some actually want a real relationship and not just f**k"
18. "That 80% of the time they concretely mean exactly what they say, which is why only 20% of the time they understand what I’m saying."
19. "They like being the little spoon too."
--avirusa
20. "When they wake up, they just sit down and stare at nothing for a good 5 minutes..."
21. "That when a guy is invested in a girl they are oblivious to other flirting women."
When my husband and I were still dating I saw women hitting on him so bad and he not realizing these women were hitting on him was jaw dropping.
Me: what do those 2 girls wanted? (All dressed up with drinks in their hand)
Edit2: girls were all smiling, giggling and doing the hair thing. And I kept an eye on those 2... they did not go to the restroom after talking to him.
My husband: they wanted to know where the bathrooms were.
Me: dude, these women knew where the bathrooms are, they just wanted to make small talk with you.
My husband: nah, i told the the bathrooms were over there.
Me:
--Envy0711
Men are not that complicated if you pay close attention to the things they do and say. Our biases always influence our decisions and actions, and it's always easy to paint a whole gender with the same brush than to try to figure them out.
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