It's 2025, but some men are still grossly uninformed about the intricacies of womanhood. When it comes to periods, for example, only 41% of men can correctly identify what exactly menstruation is, according to a study by women's healthcare brand INTIMINA and YouGov. Yet periods aren't the only thing some men are clueless about.
The subreddit "Not How Girls Work" collects the most infuriating, embarrassing, and ridiculous takes that men online have had about women. Sound kind of misogynistic? Probably because it is. So, arm yourself with patience, Pandas, because these posts might not be for you if you have a short fuse.
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#1 Psa: Yes We All Have And The Worst Part Is How Young This Happens
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#2 I Get This Is A Kink But This Is No Way To Respond To Something Like This!!!
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#3 Creeps Everywhere
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If your blood pressure rises as you scroll through these screenshots, take solace in the fact that you're not alone. Sadly, misogyny is quite on the rise online at the moment. A recent report by UN Women has found that online content drives backlash against feminism and promotes retrograde and misogynistic ideas about men's and women's roles in society.
But online spaces aren't the only place where women's rights are experiencing a setback. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to abortion. Several European countries decided to pull out of the Istanbul Convention, a treaty on gender-based violence.
#4 Or Maybe Women’s Clothes Don’t Have Front Pockets…
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#5 How Dare You Eat?
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#6 Saw This Meme Earlier And Decided To Fix It Because This Is Actually How Girls Work :)
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Mexico and Central America are experiencing violent attacks against women's rights defenders and activists. Costa Rican feminist activist Lydia Alpizar told UN News that we're seeing a surge of attacks against feminists working on gender-based violence all over the world.
In Nicaragua, political prisoners include women, human rights defenders like Kenia Hernandez are imprisoned in Mexico, and so are women who protest for protection of nature in El Salvador. According to Alpizar, governments are shifting their focus "on gender equality to a broader focus on families and children," and that's how women's issues get sidelined.
#7 This Dudes Dating Profile Bio…
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#8 "Men Don't Trust Women And Women Feel Like Don't Even Need A Men Anymore"
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#9 Tampons Are A S*x Toy
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The deputy head of the research and data team at UN Women, Laura Turquet, also notes that the "manosphere" spaces online make it easier for misinformation and misogynistic sentiments to spread.
The 'manosphere,' according to her, is "an online ecosystem [of] extreme and outdated ideas, particularly about violence against women, but also related to a very narrow kind of idea of masculinity."
#10 Just Wow
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#11 Weirdos S*xualizing A Random Woman For No Apparent Reason
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#12 Why Are Some Women Like This
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In such spaces, 'feminism' has become quite a dirty word. Even young men's attitudes reflect that, as 16% of Gen Z men in the UK say that feminism has done more harm than good. Only 13% of UK men aged 60 and older hold the same belief. Experts say that this trend is worrying because usually, younger generations are more receptive to social change.
#13 Man Wonders If R*pe Victims Can Heal Their Trauma By Being Forced To Give Birth To Their R*pist's Child Under An Article About A 13 Y.o. Girl
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#14 Men Are Too Stupid To Realize It Or Women Are Too Smart?
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#15 Who Even Wants This?
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Let's face it, when we think of a person having regressive, misogynistic views, we probably have an image of a boomer in our minds. But the director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London, Professor Rosie Campbell, told The Guardian that this is because Gen Z is the first generation to derive most of their information from social media.
#16 Do Men Even Like Women?
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#17 Feel Like This Fits Here
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#18 Women "Lose Value" If Men Glimpse Their … Faces??
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"There has been a zeitgeist where young women feel they can own the idea of feminist identity … [Young men] hear a lot about girl power but don't, at this stage in their lives, understand the inequalities that we know are in the world when you hit work and childcare," Campbell explained.
#19 I Hope This Guys Trolling
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#20 Bombastic Side Eye
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#21 No Class
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The UK government is trying to balance the misinformation and misogynistic content many young men see online. Last year, the Labour Party planned to start training young male mentors to counterbalance the negativity many young men are exposed to online.
#22 Breaking News: Joe And Sophie Are Getting A Divorce Because He’s Shorter Than Her 🤦🏼♀️
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#23 How About It's Not A Competition?
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#24 Ew Comments
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Minister for Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom, Bridget Philippson, told the Guardian that it's important to educate boys from a young age. "It also has to be young men and young women alike; we can't just leave it to young women to call out unacceptable behaviours or report issues that are happening."
"It's really powerful if men all step in and make clear that kind of sexist or misogynistic behaviour is not acceptable, and they don't tolerate it either."
#25 This Was About The 10 Year Old Girl Who Had To Go To Another State To Get An Ab*rtion
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#26 Yes Because How Dare Someone Want To Honor Their Mother
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#27 So Now We Cant Tell The Difference Between Peeing And Pooping?
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The situation in the U.S. is no better, either. After the 2024 election, researchers reported a surge in certain worrying terms used on the social platform X. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue reports they noticed a 4,600% increase in "Your body, my choice" and "Get back in the kitchen."
#28 Aita For Calling My Friend An Idiot For Waiting A Maternity Test?
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#29 Too Old And Too Stupid
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#30 How Dare She Call The Police On Me For Domestic Violence? Woke Destroyed Everything
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But which of these screenshots and hot takes did you find the most infuriating, Pandas? Do you have any good clapbacks to these misogynists? Let it rip in the comments, if you do. And if you'd like to see more men being clueless about women, check out our previous posts here and here!
#31 Reels Comments Are Sickening
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#32 Why Are They All White
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#33 Being Born A Woman In This World Is Horrific
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#34 "Breeding" Vomits
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#35 Yuck
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#36 Saw This Scrolling Instagram
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#37 Clearly Someone Didn’t Understand The Movie
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#38 I Love Being A Woman
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#39 Ah Yes The Subtle "She Was Askin For It" Narrative
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#40 What Did I Just Read? 😭
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#41 Found On R/Facepalm
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#42 Just…wow
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#43 There Is A Lot Going On Here
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#44 Saw This On My Feed And Can't Stop Wondering About What Is Keeping Them Away
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#45 Bruh
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#46 Disgusting
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#47 Found On Tiktok
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#48 Women Really Are Not Safe Anywhere
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#49 Not How Friends Nor Big People Work
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#50 Reponses That Men Made To Pearl Davis’s Claim That “16 Year Olds Are Hotter Than 26 Year Olds”
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#51 I Have No Words For This One. I Didn't Even Dare Open The Comment Section
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#52 Mr “I Can’t Make Women Cum, And It’s Women’s Fault” Has Some Thoughts
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#53 This!
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#54 I'm Sorry Wha-??
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#55 Not How Schooling Works
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#56 Her Labia Doesn’t Look Like What He Sees In Porn, Therefore Can’t Be Normal
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#57 A Post Which Mentioned A Girl Shaving Her Butt
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#58 There's So Much To Unpack With This One
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#59 Literal Reddit Moment. Women Can't Post Anything With These People
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#60 Op Made A Video About Normalising Flat Chests.. The Men In The Comment Section Had A Lot To Say
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#61 !!
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#62 Found This On Instagram
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#63 Oh, Is That What We're Designed For?
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#64 I Too Love Being Manhandled By Tsa /S
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#65 Title
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#66 I Have So Many Questions
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#67 Does This Actually Happen? Most Women I’ve Met Have Been Anti Circumcision
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#68 This Is Absolutely Disgusting But Same Ol’
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#69 Uh-Oh
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#70 What The F*ck
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#71 Found This Picture On Another Subreddit. I Hate It
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#72 "Working Women Bad"
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#73 Different Tweets; Same Message/Threat
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#74 Found Some More Crap On Xcrement
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#75 I Know This Is A Joke I Just Don't Really Care
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#76 This Fits As R/Terriblefacebookmeme Too
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#77 Horrifying
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#78 B-B-But… He Has Needs! (Tw: Miscarriages
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#79 It’s Starting To Happen Again —
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#80 Wtf
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#81 This Reply To This Obviously Fun Tweet Was 💀💀💀
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#82 What
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#83 “She Was Asking For It”
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