Women Are Confessing The Things They Deal With Day-To-Day That Are Usually Considered "Men's Issues," And Oh My God, I Feel So Seen

Recently, I saw Reddit idiosyncratic llreddit-accountll station to the fashionable Ask Women Reddit leafage to ask, "What's thing that is stereotypically regarded arsenic a 'men's issue' that you importantly conflict with successful your day-to-day life?" and I was decidedly intrigued. Some people's answers were beauteous funny, but immoderate were much serious, and often focused connected intelligence health.

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Over the past fewer years, there's been overmuch much of a nationalist absorption connected men's intelligence health, which is awesome. But possibly the intelligence wellness situation shouldn't beryllium talked astir done a gendered lens at all; because, arsenic a batch of women are pointing out, a LOT of women woody with these "men's issues," too.

So, here's what radical had to say. Their comments scope from superior to funny, but are consistently beauteous interesting:

1. "Being incapable to speech astir feelings oregon acting similar everything’s good erstwhile you’re truly not fine."

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"I consciousness similar I always spot worldly astir however men vessel everything up and enactment good until it’s excessively late. I’ve ever done this and it’s been a, ‘Wow, we had nary idea!’ sorta thing, similar it is with men. I seldom spot immoderate posts of the benignant astir women being incapable to pass astir intelligence wellness issues."

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2. "The accent of being a provider. I’ve ne'er known a antheral who stayed around, and person been picking up the slack and providing for my household since I was a literal child. Now I’m moving 60+ hr weeks and seemingly inheriting my aging divorced parents."

3. "Loneliness (as successful a wide deficiency of connections), nary compliments from radical (not conscionable the other sex), affectional look is heavy discouraged, can't speech astir struggles, and a wide deficiency of support, and unit to marque decent money. There truly isn't overmuch that guys kick astir that I don't besides conflict with."

4. "Always wanting much sex."

5. "Loneliness. I can't adjacent ticker 'sisterhood champion friend' films without conscionable crying the full time."

6. "Feeling unit to ever 'be strong' and not amusement weakness. Even erstwhile I'm struggling, I enactment fine, similar I gotta clasp it each unneurotic nary substance what."

7. "I deliberation it’s hilarious whenever men speech astir however women 'can get laid whenever they want.' Like, yeah, if I eliminated each my standards and stopped caring astir my wellness and safety, past possibly that would beryllium true. But erstwhile it comes to decent enactment with radical I’m really attracted to, that is beauteous uncommon and hard to find."

8. "Facial hairsbreadth growth, and moving 60-hour weeks."

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9. "Porn addiction."

10. "Being capable to negociate and basal up for yourself successful nationalist oregon business. Men are bullied if they can’t bash this, but it’s a treble modular for women: we’re not expected to bash it astatine all, but endure if we can’t."

12. "Farting."

13. "I person gout. It's uncommon successful women and it's adjacent uncommon for my property (28). I conscionable drew a abbreviated straw successful a familial sense. My dada had it, and some his parents had flares."

15. "My menopausal mustache."

16. "Being single, and not wholly by choice, arsenic good arsenic lacking friends. I besides person SzPD, which is seemingly much communal successful men."

17. "I'm truly trying to max retired my enarthrosis property by doing progressive ladders, but I ever get stuck astatine 50 lbs adjacent with a spotter."

18. "Communicating. I consciousness similar women are stereotyped arsenic ever wanting to speech astir feelings and having to strong-arm their boyfriends into opening up, but successful relationships, I would alternatively ne'er unfastened up and conscionable beryllium mad, sad, and blessed connected my own."

19. "Men going connected astir however hard it is to get dates and however casual dating is for women erstwhile I was successful my 30s earlier I went connected my archetypal existent date, and I did each the asking and organizing of the day conscionable truthful I could yet accidental I'd been connected one."

20. And finally: "Excessive assemblage hairsbreadth and the information that I sweat similar a pig."

So, what'd you think? Tell maine successful the comments, and consciousness escaped to stock your ain anecdotes, too. This is simply a harmless space. Or, if you privation to constitute successful but similar to enactment anonymous, you tin cheque retired this anonymous form.