What is the worst case of someone not understanding women’s anatomy you have experienced?
What is the worst case of someone not understanding women’s anatomy you have experienced?
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What is the worst case of someone not understanding women’s anatomy you have experienced?
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I wanna give a funny one. It came from my sister.
She’s deaf, and a few years ago she got a cochlear implant.
She’s also a jogger. Post-implant, she was astonished that her breasts don’t make bouncing noises when she runs.
A former partner believed that more he played with a women’s boobs, larger it would grow. One of the worst myths out there.
I mean, I’ve had to explain to a grown man that the hole his dick has been in numerous times isn’t same one that I pee from.
I had a man ask me why women can hold in urine but not period blood
Personally? Probably the guy who asked in all seriousness how girls pee with a tampon in. I had to explain to a grown man who had done 12 years in the Australian school system that there’s three holes for different needs… (Pretty minor compared to some of the stuff you see here, bit that’s the worst I ever encountered irl)
I work in women’s service in the hospital. You would be astounded the number of men and women who are having babies who don’t know basic anatomy.
Reading that some men think women can control when their period blood comes out like you can when you pee
I used to work with teenagers. Sometimes they aged out of the program, but would still come in to say hi to me, as was the case with the following gentleman in his early 20s. To be fair, he was developmentally delayed, but high functioning enough that he had a job and went around by himself all day on public transit.
He told me his sister was going to have a baby. I guess his parents never really explained this to him, so I had the awkward privilege of being a public employee answering his questions about it. He knew a baby came from a woman’s belly, but he asked me how it got out, through her bellybutton or what? I told him it came out between her legs, near where she pees from, and he didn’t believe me. That was all I was willing to say, I told him to either ask his parents or look it up on the internet, I didn’t want to be accused of corrupting him.
My sweet husband thought having a tampon in felt like a penis inside! He gets women’s anatomy updates all the time now that I’m in my 50’s 🙂
I was on my period and I felt like crap. We were suppose to go to the pool that day. Told him I didn’t feel comfortable getting in the water and I had really bad cramps due to my period. He looks at me and says “can’t you just hold it in and make your period stop for like an hour so you can enjoy the water. You know like how you can hold in a sneeze?” I really thought he was being a smart ass but no I had to explain it to him.
I had an ex-boss who revealed over the course of two days:
Pregnant women can predict or control the date of their non-induced delivery. We learned this when he tried to write up a male coworker who “wouldn’t” tell him what day his paternity leave would start.
Once he learned the truth about #1, he tried to save face by saying he wished our office had a father’s room equivalent to the mother’s room. We pressed him on this; turned out he thought the room was for napping instead of pumping. “Dads need to nap too, right?”
Once he got corrected on #2, that’s when we figured out he was a hentai fan – he believed that all women were always lactating, all the time, regardless of pregnancy status. And the amount of lactation was directly proportional to the size of the breasts in question.
Then he points directly to my chest in particular – out of the women in the room I was the one with the largest size – and stated his surprise that I wasn’t out pumping all the time. I’ve never been pregnant.
Dude was fired within the hour.
Ok these are reminding me so much of my then 4 year old son being really curious about my c-section scar. I explained that they had to cut my belly to get him out, he then asked about his older siblings since there was only one scar so I explained that ladies have a hole the push babies out between their legs. He looked at me in horror and asked if I really pooped his brother out.
My step brother was surprised that his wife didn’t develop a new hole for milk to “leak out of” when she had their son.
When I was in my late teens, I was still living at home, and dating this guy who did not believe women have urethras. He thought everything came out of the same hole, and was very adamant about it.
Finally I brought up a picture of female anatomy online, to show him that women do in fact have urethras.
Two days later, my dad came downstairs, clearly disturbed about something. He sits next to me and says, “well, I have to have the sex talk with your little brother. He’s looking up porn-stuff online.” I was taken aback and asked how my dad knew this.
“I found a link to an image of the female anatomy in the browser history.” I died laughing and quickly explained that that was me.
Ben Shapiro telling the world that his wife told him that women don’t get wet… so embarrassing for him
Not too bad but I dated someone who thought women peed straight through their vaginas.
It’s so common that it’s run-of-the-mill but: guys who try to jump to any kind of vaginal penetration (even just with fingers) before they’ve spent any time on my clit. Like, lol, what? I’m not turned on enough for penetration yet, because you haven’t interacted with my main pleasure organ at all 😂
My bf thought women decide to have a 2nd child bc their vagina would be prepped from the 1st child so it would be easier 😭😭😭 he’s actually so smart so when he said this I was just- in awe….
Had a gym teacher tell the class on pool day that getting in the water stops your period, so there was no reason for any one to sit out.
My first ever boyfriend at 15 asked why my womb couldn’t just hold in all the period blood and only push it out on the last day of my period.
I wish I was joking.
It actually wasn’t me, but a decade or 2 ago a girlfriend of mine slept with a guy a few years older than her [I think he was 26 and she 21] and he finished inside of her, and when she said, “wtf, you said you’d pull out?!?” He replied with, “pft, what’s the big deal? You can just go pee it all out anyways.” 😑🤦♀️
My husband and I were the only married ones in our friend group for years and years. We want to have four kids, so we have a general time table of when we need to start trying for each one. All that to say – we had some goals in mind and were also saving for different house projects. We were out of sync with our friends who were going on lots of fun trips and doing drinking events every weekend.
Had a friend genuinely ask why we couldn’t just put it off and have kids much later (we’re in our thirties). He legitimately did not know what menopause was. We had to explain to him that if we want four kids we can’t start trying to have them at 50.
I thought that the hole I peed out of was my vagina until I was in 7th grade. Literally no clue that there was another hole back there. I already had my period for a couple years and I used to cry at the thought of tampons going into that tiny hole.
A woman my age (19 at the time) was in my Air Force technical school and was absolutely convinced that the umbilical cord carried SOLID FOOD to the baby, and refused to believe anyone and accused me of wanting to murder babies because I “believed in science”. Her evidence: “my niece and nephew pooped after being born, so you’re wrong.”
I have never met anyone so disarmingly stupid before in my life and still question how the fuck she managed to snag a job that (at the time) required one of the highest ASVAB scores to get across all military services.
Getting asked how far along I am or if I’m pregnant cos my bloating 😭😭😭
In real life? Gotta be the guy who thought women have a G spot in our throats and that we can cum from giving a blowjob because of it.
We were 19 when he said this and he was a player who hooked up with a new woman almost every weekend so it was fucking baffling that he thought that.
Sometimes I wonder if someone he knew had watched Deep Throat and somehow explained it to him as if it was a documentary or made a joke about it being real, and he fell for it. I’ll never know.
I didn’t experience it by I heard a story about a guy whose girlfriend was on her period. They went boating and he say the string of her tampon hanging outside her bathing suit bottoms and asked his friend if she could poop with that in? Come on n
I know I’ve commented this before but I’ll do it again since it still blows me away. I had to explain to my own husband how the absorbency of tampons has nothing to do with the size of the vaginal opening. He literally thought that super tampons meant the woman had a gigantic hole and that light tampons meant she had a tighter one.
A bf in high school thought that women pee from their butt. I laughed because I thought he was making a joke. He got defensive, and I gently explained that women have 3 holes.
It’s not really an anatomy related thing, but a guy I knew thought women felt sexual pleasure any time they used a tampon. Um.. no, dude.
Reading the Hereditary script and realising that the writer thought that a woman in her 60s who gave birth over 30 years ago would still have the capabilities to breast feed.
The scene describes a woman who just gave birth and her mother comes in opening her shirt so she can breastfeed the baby instead.
🫠🫠
I met my husband when he was 40.
He thought women pee out of their vaginas. And he didn’t know what the clitoris was for. Scary, I know.
My ex thought a tampon “just sat there”. Like a hotdog in a bun.
A guy my freshman year CHEWED on my nipples! Like sir whaaaat? 🤦🏾♀️
I also remember a guy told me he thought that babies came out of our butt when he was a kid 🤣
🎶 100 tampons 🎶
one time, a date managed to pump/rub his penis exclusively on my labia—but he thought he was inside and having the best sex ever. i was so fucking second-hand embarrassed for him; i couldn’t even correct the man.
I had to explain basic female anatomy to my ex. Eg: he did not know the vagina and the urethra are different holes
Friend of mine used the word “beebop” to refer to her lady bits with her daughter. One day we’re driving and the topic comes up…her daughter says “ugh mom, I’m not a kid anymore… I know it’s called a bagina”
literally just saw on reddit today
a 47F realize she didn’t pee out of her clitoris.
I had to explain to a nursing student how the morning after pill worked.
My first boyfriend thought the clitoris was inside the vagina
A guy I dated suddenly became very conservative and pro-life. He was also really anti-birth control because, “It’s like getting an abortion every month.”
I tried to tell him that birth control keeps sperm from reaching the egg or stops the fertilized egg from implantation. However, he interrupted me to say, “That’s ridiculous. Women don’t have eggs. They’re not chickens.”
I then asked him how he thought human babies were made. He said, “The sperm goes up the vagina, into the ovary, and grows the baby.”
He could not answer what the uterus was or what it was for
When I was in high school, a bunch of girls in gym class were complaining about being forced to wear the school issued white shorts while on their period. A guy who was eavesdropping said, “Why don’t you just put in four tampons then?”
The number of men I’ve had to explain to that women don’t pee out of your vagina….
One of my boyfriends in high school didn’t understand why I had to take my birth control every single morning even though we 1) we were both virgins and had no plans to have sex anytime soon and 2) we definitely weren’t going to be having sex every day.
He thought hormonal birth control was like Plan B and you took it to prevent implantation. I had to explain how it actually worked and that I was on it to regulate my very irregular and heavy periods.
The only thing I can think of, is when my son asked where my penis was and asked if it fell off lol
My husband saw an ultrasound photo of my friends baby. In UT you could see the umbilical cord. He thought it was an intestine.
I actually forgot women also have a urethra mid-conversation, even though I already knew this for a long time. For a second, I seriously thought kidney stones weren’t as painful for women, thinking it would come out of the vagina. I already knew better, so that was extra embarrassing when I realized I said something really stupid.
I’m surprised I’ve not seen this one. I’ve known several guys who thought (when they were younger) that the vagina was at the front of a woman, somewhere underneath the bellybutton.
When we were in our early 20s, my friend’s boyfriend thought your vagina sealed up forever when you went through menopause. When we were in our teens, my other friend’s boyfriend thought you controlled period blood (similar to the way you control pee). So, he thought girls just went to the bathroom, stuck a tampon in for 30 seconds to soak up blood, and then flushed it down the toilet throughout the week. He didn’t realize you had to wear and change tampons throughout the day for the week.
My six year old son informed me today that girls per out of their butt, which is why we sit down when using the bathroom. We definitely had an educational talk after that one lol.
An employee of mine had concerns because the new building we were moving to only had unisex single bathrooms instead of mens’ and womens’ rooms. Turns out she’d never had sex ed and thought you could get pregnant from just sitting on the same toilet seat a guy had used.
When my now husband then boyfriend moved in together I had a night where I bled thru my pad onto the bed and he was like, can’t you hold it in? Smh, no, we can’t :/
When I was a preteen the first girl to get her period in our friend group was 10. She had three older sisters. None of the rest of us got it for more than 2 years so all we knew was what the nurse told us.
We used to go swimming at the Y and the high school pool for fun. “Sandy” was already wearing tampons, which we didn’t think was bad because the nurse had said it was fine in health class.
One evening a few of us are getting dressed after getting out of the pool and were complaining about what a pain it is to get out of the pool when we had to pee, and how we missed being little kids who just peed in the pool (it was the seventies. We peed in the pool. My kids wouldn’t… it never occurred to them and I think they’re just a better generation, but I digress). Sandy pipes up with “I don’t need to get out, I just did it in the tampon.”
😳👀🤦♀️ no girl. No, you didn’t.
My friend, an educated woman in her mid 30s, was 37 weeks pregnant and thought a mucus plug was something like a menstrual cup that you stick up there in case your water breaks.
If you lift anything heavy at all as a young girl or young woman, it will negatively affect your ability to bear children.
I had a man tell me that if you had sex with a woman on her period, the smell would stay on the penis for 48 hours. And men couldn’t smell it but women could? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
He expected me not to have a brain, according to his advances
“You cannot eat rice at the same time you are breastfeeding because the baby can choke.”
I begged them to explain how.
An ex boyfriend accused me of cheating because he found discharge on my panties while doing laundry. He told me that only happens when a woman orgasms. That was a fun conversation/learning opportunity for him.
My 20 year old coworker said she won’t let her husband ejaculate on her stomach because sperm could “wiggle in” through her bellybutton and get her pregnant.
Women have shells on their eggs, right?
OOoooooo, I have a good one
When I was a child, I was a Girl Scout. One meeting was a sort of health class going over all kinds of stuff. My friend’s mom who was running the meeting (mind you she was not the troop leader but she was the type that cannot let anyone else lead when she is present) started talking about a few different types of cancer and the things you can do for early detection. She ended her spiel telling us that when we are older we will need to get our prostates checked to detect prostate cancer. I hadn’t been paying attention up until that point but I’m not a complete idiot so that piqued my attention. I looked around and thought to myself is no one going to call her out on her flub? So I raised my hand, she acknowledged me and I said “Women do not have prostates.“ She proceeded to argue with me for a good five minutes that women did have prostates after a while I just gave up. The gaslighting was so effective that I was almost convincing myself that I wasn’t correct.
When my mom came to pick me up, I told her “you’re never gonna believe what just happened” and we laugh to this day about this dumb woman trying to convince a room full of middle school Girl Scouts that we had prostates.
Military… In 2022, right after Dobbs, we were having a shop conversation about women’s reproductive rights. A couple of the dudes didn’t know what ovulation was, bless their hearts. Fortunately every single one of them including the “conservative” thought that outlawing abortion was idiotic and dangerous. And in his own words, he said that it would just cause women to obtain illegal abortions.
Speaking to my 13 year old about female anatomy as a boy had said something silly at school. I said most boys probably wonder how we pee with a tampon in! My husband pipes up “what do you do?” He was flabbergasted when I told him 😂.
My daughter was as shocked as I but point proven.
My sister is 13 years younger than me and when she was 14 her mom ask me to talk to her about sex because she didn’t feel comfortable doing it. I was telling her about a girl in high school who was being pressured by her adult boyfriend to have sex. He suggested they just do anal so she could still be a virgin and not get pregnant. My sister started laughing and said that that was dumb because you can still get pregnant from anal.🤦🏻♀️
I also had a conversation with an adult man when I worked in a warehouse. He wanted to debate abortion and at one point started talking about “ a natural abortion” “you know the ones women force their bodies to have.” I was so confused and then realized he was talking about a miscarriage! I explained that we have no control over a miscarriage and that most women don’t want to miscarry. I’m not sure he believed me 🤦🏻♀️
I offered a tampon to a guy friend because he had a bloody nose. I said “it’s a light one!” (Thinking it would fit better in his nostril). He freaked out and said “WOAHHH. I don’t need to know the size of your V!!”. Me: “… wait… what?”. Him: “you said you have a light tampon. I don’t need to know how big or small you are” 😅 bro was 25. He was educated.
I worked in a mostly male dominated environment years ago, and a coworker stated confidently that all women lactated during their periods.I really thought he was joking, but he was serious. When I informed him that I, as woman would know how periods worked,he became indignant and told me I should get checked out for it, and strolled away.I quit like a wk later so idk if he ever learned the truth.
*Edit-spelling
Not my personal experience but a news story that was reported when Todd Akin, running for Congress as a Republican said, “if it’s a legitimate rape, the body has ways of shutting that down.” Explaining why, in his alternate universe, a woman really cannot get pregnant during a rape (and so shouldn’t be allowed to terminate a rape induced pregnancy).
It still makes my jaw drop just thinking about it now.
My ex obviously never went through sex ed. He was 19 and knew absolutely nothing about the female anatomy. He had no idea what any of the parts were called, no idea where the urethra was. He actually argued with me about pee not coming from the vagina. He thought women could just push all the blood out at once when we’re on our periods and that we choose to make it last for days.
One of my classmates asked me if we really bleed blue. I was like, what. This dude thought women have blue periods because “in the pad commercials they pour some blue liquid and I figured that’s period blood” and I asked him why would some blood in our bodies be blue and some red?
But seriously, why do pad commercials show the blue liquid when movies are okay with showing blood guts and brains
In high school, I hurt my groin during an athletic tournament and had to drop out of it. When telling my teammates, one looked me dead in the eyes and was like “but that’s a man’s body part!”
Sixteen-year-old me was just absolutely astounded at the lack of knowledge of anatomy in general.
I’ve explained to lot of grown men that ‘Sanitary pads are not diapers and we can’t pee while wearing one’
My youngest daughter thought she had full sized ostrich eggs where her ovaries are. I remember looking at her thinking, well then, aren’t you worried about breaking your eggs whilst rough housing??
I once dated a guy with a master’s degree in physiotherapy, but he couldn’t locate the clitoris. Guess all that anatomy knowledge skipped a chapter. Needless to say, the relationship didn’t last long.
I had a man claim in an internet forum that women can ‘put their menstuation date in a tracking app, so they know exactly when the next one is coming’.
It was impossible to explain to him that bodies just don’t work like a clockwork.
Gave a man my satisfyer vibe to use on me … he put the handle end.. against my thigh
I had to explain to an 18 year old girl where her vagina is.
A guy rubbing my tummy flap thinking it’s my cl!t. I’m not even that fat… 🙄
I worked with a guy who only had brothers and rarely used the same bathroom as his mom. When he moved in with his first girlfriend he thought she had a problem because they went through toilet paper so fast. He didn’t know that women use toilet paper whether is #1 or #2 and he didn’t understand that having your period usually means more wiping. So he thought for six months (until he confronted her about it) that she was just pooping constantly. I know it’s not so much anatomy but to not realize girls wipe no matter what blew my mind.
Just recently I was with some friends and one of them said women’s voices get higher with puberty.
Had to make fun of him for that. As a woman with a lower voice I couldn’t help but imagine my childhood self sounding like a chain smoker.
I’m a veterinary nurse. Client brought their female dog in for possible UTI. We always ask clients to collect urine samples if they can. We tell them, no more than 8 hours old, fresh as possible. Client comes in and hands me container with urine in it. I ask when they collected this. Client says, “it’s from last night and this morning. I figured it would be fine since it came from the same vagina.” I was too stunned to speak. The kicker is the client was a woman! I knew what she meant, but not even animals pee from their vagina. They pee from their urethra. 🥲
My sister asked why women don’t get prostate cancer
A nurse I used to work with put a urinary catheter into their patient’s vagina instead of their urethra. TWICE.
Found out because they hadn’t been having any output for a while.
a guy I was seeing (who claims to have been with dozens of women) thought when a woman had her period, it looked like caviar with blood because her eggs would come out with her period