It's 10 pm. Do you know where your paperclip is? This guy was able to prove the meme right with his personal paperclip awareness. It's stuff like this that go to show men are peculiar creatures. It's important to know where your paperclip is.
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It's annoying being told that you are default a bad parent or are always insensitive, among other things. Thanks to the oversimplification of gender roles in our culture, both men and women have to deal with this kind of stuff all the time. Here are some generalizations particular to men that they're tired hearing about. Sometimes men even have to get away from dangerous dates. And here are some ridiculous moments that go to show that men are complex creatures.
The general themes here seem to be: bring up something you have in common, actually listen to them, compliment them, talk about shared interests, give them food and offer to show them pictures of animals. Also don't ask them where they live right off the bat. Here are some pickup lines that actually worked for people.
For a twitter conversation about beef and gender roles, this was actually pretty civil. It even sort of has a happy ending! The number one takeaway we got from this conversation was that we are severely lacking in how much beef we make per year, and didn't realize how self conscious we should be about it.
Almost everyone has that moment when they're thinking about a time years ago someone asked them some obviously pointed question like "are you good at back rubs?" or "do you want to wash your pants at my house?" All you can really do is feel bad about not realizing it and move on. Here are some earth-shakingly obvious hints that guys missed. To be fair, sometimes "obvious hints" end up not being hints at all.
This woman decided to ask the people of Reddit whether she was in the wrong for wanting to leave an optometrist a negative review, because he allegedly said it was her job to make babies. It sounds like people are either in utter disbelief over the terrible comment, or they want to make sure she didn't mishear the statement.
With all the intensely creepy things men do, you kind of forget that there are some women out there who overstep people's boundaries as well. Sometimes it get really bad and guys have to escape from dangerous dates. Here are some things some women do that are sort of normalized that men still find creepy.
Women are sharing the various things that men don't know about women, in a trending Twitter hashtag. The resulting insights might serve as a kind of instruction manual for all the dudes out there that are having a hard time figuring out how to best co-exist with and please the women in their life.
This woman asked the people of Reddit if she was in the wrong for refusing to shave her legs, after her boss confronted her about the matter. Apparently her boss said that a few of her co-workers had complained about her lack of hygiene. She didn't want to discuss the matter any more without HR present, and can you blame her? Sounds like quite the touchy subject.
