10 Things We Thought We Knew About Women
As part of our anniversary month BWNG are teaming up with some of our favourite bloggers around the world for special guest posts. Today we team up with Slim Jackson, editor of Single Black Male and The Real Slim Jackson.
From the time we’re little boys to grown ass men, there are things we’re told about women that shape our views and determine the course of our actions for years to come. Once we get to the teenage years we tend to think that we know everything. But as we acquire experience, we realize that many of the preconceived and often poorly conceived notions about women’s thoughts and actions simply ain’t true. Some of the realizations are funny. Some are serious. Some are even tasty. But more importantly, they’re real. They help us become better fathers, brothers, and husbands (RIP to a portion of our souls). For today, we wanted to share a few of the things we thought we know about women that turned out to be a lot different than we expected.
All Women Can Cook
Growing up in a family of unofficial female chefs and locked into cliched images of men watching TV at big dinners while the women cooked; my natural thought process was that every woman knew how to throw down in the kitchen. Fast forward University, moments of unseasoned chicken, a girlfriend who ALWAYS wanted to go out to eat and a housemate’s fear of oil, I now know better.
If a Woman Is Being Mean, It’s Because It’s That Time of The Month
The truth is some are just mean period. They don’t need to bloat or cramp to have a reason to assault you with the evil eye, shred you with words, bust the windows out your car, or throw sausage down the drain and turn the garbage disposal on. Alright fine, we do sometimes give women a good reason to be mean. But those situations aside, mean girls are just mean girls. We try to stay away from those unless we’re gluttons for punishment or the most elite of hunters.
All Women Want Relationships
Not all women want relationships. Some just want their itch scratched. Given the rampant rate that STIs are spreading, that’s probably not the best analogy but you get the drift. This is a hard concept for some men to grasp. Put more simply, some women just want to be grasped, not held. A lot of us don’t know what to do when we realize we’ve been used for sex. So we tell ourselves something like “she a hoe” to make ourselves feel better about being 1-uped. And for those of us that understand that it’s possible for a women to have no-strings-attached sex, we win…repeatedly.
Listening to Women Will Get You a Golden Ticket into Her Box Seat
Listening will get you on her good side, but if you can’t converse, make her laugh, and appeal to her carnal side then you will be destined for dry nuts as far as she’s concerned. You might as well be the gay friend. Not that there’s anything wrong with this. It just is what it is. Listening does work for sometimes. If we’re around right after break up and while the vulnerability quotient is high, we might slyly claim a prize.
They Don’t have Sex Drives as High as Men
In our younger days most guys dedicated their spare time (when not playing sport) to the pursuit of having teenage sex. Day and Night boys would talk about which girls would “get it” and we assumed women were more passive when it came to sex; more concerned with other aspects of relationships. While we were on 24/7 booty alert, it was a conception that women had less sexual desires than men, what a myth!! In my younger days thoughts of grown women with sex toys were not a possibilty barring a dvd of big booty **** vol. 7; now it happens every Saturday in the bed at 11:30pm. Many women have more sex drive and enthusiasm than you can imagine.
Women Are the Only Ones That Get Emotional
Most of us don’t learn this until a woman bypasses our security code and unlocks the safe to our heart…and then things go awry. Men handle heartbreak worse than women. It’s obvious in how long it takes us to recover and the path of bodily destruction that we walk in the aftermath. Men don’t fear love because of commitment. We fear it because of heartbreak.
Women Are the Only Ones with Daddy Issues
We all know this ain’t true. It’s painfully obvious.
Men Shouldn’t Celebrate the Feast of St. Cooch
When we’re young, we think women have cooties. Nobody can ever tell you what the effects of cooties were other than making kids say “eww.” And once we get past cooties and into some arbitrarily determined grown-man-ness, we’re told that going down to bring joy to the love below with a little facial recognition is gross. For years, we go around thinking we’ll end up with fish face or turn into a walking vaj. But eventually, for many men who do decide to sample the goods, they often are quietly surprised. Men also learn that some women have the ability to climb the wall when we acquire immaculate technique.
Women Don’t Cheat As Much As Men
Here’s a funny statistic, one of you brothers reading this is getting cheated on now…ok that’s not funny. But the whole idea that men are the only ones who cheat regularly is a lie, the truth is both men and women who do cheat, will do it for a similar set of reasons but the difference is women are more likely to do it with someone they consider an upgrade.
Flowers Solve Everything
Getting a woman flowers doesn’t solve everything. It won’t get a man out of cheating, but it’ll get him beat over the head with the bouquet.
These are just a few of the things we thought we knew about women until reality hit. What are some of the notions you had about the opposite sex that turned out not to be true or a lot different than you expected in the younger years? Share the wisdom in the comments.
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BWNG
22 comments on “10 Things We Thought We Knew About Women”
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I’m glad you all figured out the sex drive thing… and of course the love below… it helps, lol.
I think something I’ve learned is that men actually do care about women, and the last thing they want to do is intentionally hurt them. At first I just assumed that this was true only of the men responsible to you (daddies, husbands) It took me a long time to understand the seriousness of crying in front of a man. I thought they didn’t care one way or the other about the crying, lol. I cry easily, so it never seemed like a big deal to me, but I’ve learned that this is a big deal to men- they don’t want to cause it, like ever.
I’ve also learned that the superficial stuff is less important to them than we think it is. Men care a whole lot more about a whole slew of other stuff than we ever give them credit for.
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This is beyond excellent! This parttime Femi-Nazi approves! And just when i was about to swear off all male-written relationship heavy blogs lol.
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Funny thing this, as I was discussing with a friend the concept of men ‘not actually being afraid of commitment but actually being afraid of heart break’ hence why patience level amoungst the male specie is quite low in comparison to our female counter parts when in the initial stages..For example when we approach a woman we expect her to respond/reciprocate her interest ASAP because we’ve opened up abit and dont feel at ease in her knowing you like her without you not knowing whether she likes you or not…Cus it means we then pursue a situation where we potentially have to open up even further to an unkown so to speak which naturally stimulates a subconscious fear of possible heartbreak … Hence why if she don’t respond as soon as, we then brand her as ‘being long’ and move on from that situation cus the game is to be played but not with the heart of a man…
When it comes to the matter of the heart men are both conscious and subconsciously prepared to take risks..
Great post ..and on an equally great platform (BWNG website)
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Too true and too funny! What made this so great as a woman was that we know these were all misconceptions but we also knew that they were a strongly held consensus from the male contingent so I’m glad we are on the same page…just for a moment, until the next time your girl is moody (period) or not in the mood (low sex drive) lol
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LOL.
this post was pretty much gospel!
but this –
“A lot of us don’t know what to do when we realize we’ve been used for sex. So we tell ourselves something like “she a hoe” to make ourselves feel better about being 1-uped.”IS THE GAT-DAMB TRUTH.COM/ineedthisonafittedtshirt
and this?
Men handle heartbreak worse than women. It’s obvious in how long it takes us to recover and the path of bodily destruction that we walk in the aftermathyou are now going to be my official wikipedia reference when a man tried to tell me that this is a lie made up by women.
i feel like i should pay you or something..
So this will shock The BWNG but I agree with every point. You get my feminist co-sign on the myths ‘all women can cook’, and ‘the feast of cooch’ in particular. Great read.