17 Struggles Only Girls Who Think Like Guys Understand
Surprisingly, the challenges don't even involve beer or boobs.
weheartit Being a girl is hard enough, but being a girl who "thinks like a guy" is even harder. Why?
Take friendship, for example: Your girlfriends expect you to understand them, and your guy friends expect you to think like your girlfriends — and will treat you accordingly.
Dating becomes a challenge because everyone is usually so enmeshed in his or her traditional gender role that any tiny stray from the norm can lead a once-promising relationship off-course.
That whole "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" trope of men approaching life and conversations with logic, and women taking a more emotional approach is — as stereotypical and corny as it sounds — usually true. So, when you're an exception to it, it's either really refreshing or completely baffling to people.
Here are just a few of the struggles that a woman who thinks like a man (and not in the Steve Harvey sense) can face.
1When your girlfriends go off on tangents and can't tell a short, linear story, you're completely and totally lost.
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2You don't see what the big deal is about gas.
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3In fact, you think farts are pretty hilarious.
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4But all your girlfriends are like ...
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5And guys, who always laugh when they do it, are somehow extra grossed out when you do. Jerks.
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6You're sure that Nicholas Sparks movies are playing in the ninth circle of Hell.
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7You think strip clubs are a fun way to unwind and bond with your buddies, and everyone judges you for it.
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8If your friends want you to go to the mall with them, they have to take you by force.
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9You lack the maternal instincts necessary to pretend your friends' troll children are cute.
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10Maneuvering a curling iron baffles you.
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11But you know exactly what happens when you hit down, down-forward, forward then punch.
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12You can identify every single person in this GIF, and know exactly what they do and why.
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13But The Bachelorette — and its appeal — is unfathomable to you.
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14Texting isn't important to you. In fact, it's kind of annoying.
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15You've had to have this conversation plenty of times.
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16Your girlfriends and guy friends take precedence over your boyfriends. Always.
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17You have a ton of friends because girls get your advice on guys, and guys get your advice on girls. And sometimes, that causes problems in your friendships and relationships, because, well ...
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