Top things men who know nothing about women say about women

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There are just so many bad takes out there that you read by men that just tell you he just... doesn't know or talk to any women and is just saying stuff based on what he's told about women.

I think some of the top ones are:

• All women use social media to seek sexual attention and validation. Like, it's the only thing women use social media for. I think sometimes what they actually mean is 'a lot of men use women's social media accounts as an excuse to come on to them or make sexual comments'
• Women are all trying entrap men into marriage (funny that, almost all the people I ever hear being 'trapped into marriages' are women with abusive husbands)
• Women are constantly talking amongst themselves about how well endowed or not men they have slept with are in the trouser department. I think women are generally less interested in men's dicks than men are.

What are the other worst takes you've come across?

Another men bashing thread.

Get a life op.

That women just want to marry men then get divorced and run off with all their money.

That women enjoy unsolicited dick pics. Nah mate, dicks look like plucked turkey necks 😘 😂

That women aren't that much different from men and have the same thoughts, ambitions, fears and desires that men have and we get bored to death with cleaning just as much as men do.

Oh @ssd this is mumsnet, not only-saying-nice-things-about-men net! 🤗

Does anyone say anything nice about men on mumsnet? I've seen very little in the 19 years I've been here. Its mostly threads like yours.

OK, to not be facetious for a second, I am not calling out 'men', I am calling out a behaviour of some of them. And one that's actually quite harmful, for men as much as it is for women. It's partly lighthearted and eye-rolling, and partly, yes, quite angry because this sort of nonsense is harmful.

I have seen threads on MN about nice things partners do and so on and you are most welcome to go and start one if you don't like this one.

Bloody hell OP! What men are you hanging out with?! The first two are screaming misogyny!

Please get these fuckwits out of your life pronto.

Where are you finding these men OP? Are they several different men or one guy with several questionable opinions? Which mothers are raising their sons to be these men? So many questions 🤔
If I were a man I'd be offended to share my gender with anyone who had those opinions 🫠

I keep hearing/reading men calling women gold diggers in situations where if the women are gold diggers they’re absolutely terrible at it.

The last two were a man who wanted his date to go halves but she didn’t want to as he’d had beers and she’d had water and he’d had three courses and she’d had two - many men saying ‘women go on dates for free food’ - she didn’t want free food, she just didn’t want to subsidise a woman she had known an hour and a half.

The other was a man on judge Judy suing a woman for money for a holiday he’d arranged ‘for her’ (his words) and she’d dumped him before the holiday and wouldn’t give him half of the money for the holiday she didn’t want to go on in the first place. He told JJ, his ex was a gold digger and he ‘gave her everything, bought her everything and she took advantage’. Turns out he’d booked the holiday previously mentioned and bought her a housewarming gift of two hand towels from target. In a nearly three year relationship. That’s what her ‘gold digging got her’ two hand towels and a cancelled holiday that she didn’t want to go on.

That women find miming boob groping, farting and burping hilarious. That we will be flattered to be invited to have an affair with them just because we are single. That women are only competitive with each other.

Sorry, posted too soon. Instead of being cooperative and supportive.

Don't worry @iwontforgetyoumyfriendwhathappened , these, aren't friends of mine, it's stuff I see commented on by women online and sympathetic men! I see a lot of this stuff as I follow feminist (or apparently man-hating 😉) themes and contributors.

That women are naturally better parents.

A lovely one from my own dear brother: women monopolise NHS resources.

He's a woman hater, who doesn't seem to twig that his little sister is, in fact, a woman.

(Long story short, I'd have nothing to do with him, but it would break my mum's heart to think that we didn't get along, and she suffered enough at the hands of his dad, so I always show willing, which luckily I don't have to do very often.)

You need to change your social circle OP.

@MajorCarolDanvers - as I said above, these aren't from people I know!

Another 'classic' from a certain kind of guy is that women should take the blame for being sexually assaulted because 'I wouldn't go to a rough part of town and wave £1000 around' or something of that ilk. I saw a great rejoinder to this from a man (despite the fact I hate all men and am bashing them 😜 ) who pointed out that women can't exactly leave their bodies at home when they go out. Because what we're wearing is immaterial in these situations, of course.

@Cantbebothered90 - I'm not saying that having shitty opinions is an inherent trait of men - I am calling out the men who put out ideas they have pulled out of their arses about 'what women are like'. Jesus christ, the Mumsnetness straw... person energy is strong here!