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Women are stunned by all the things men never learned until they got a girlfriend

“it’s like raising a tamagotchi but he’s 6’2″ and thinks air fresheners are a scam.”

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Rachel Kiley

Left: Tweet reading 'my friend had to tell her boyfriend to use toothpaste, he thought the toothbrush alone was enough and that people just liked the flavour' Right: Tweet reading 'i got to inform my boyfriend that pickles are cucumbers. he assumed there was a pickle tree.'

Women have opened up new dating discourse as they share basic things men they’ve dated didn’t know until they got a girlfriend.

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@egeofanatolia kicked things off with a since-deleted tweet that read, “I can’t believe a guy tweeted ‘So many things you don’t know till you get a gf haha’ and his example was ‘She told me I could open the window to let a breeze in.’”

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Before it was deleted, that led to a flood of posts from people who had similar experiences they had found appalling.

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https://twitter.com/echochlo/status/1951767706795147543

The “joy of dating men”

Despite the many anecdotes of men being incompetent and women having to pick up the slack, one X user made waves when she insisted that, actually, getting to teach men basic things is actually the “joy” of dating them.

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The sentiment was not well-received, to say the least.

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Surely there must be more entertaining hobbies than teaching men how to be people, but to each their own, I guess!


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