In light of Sabrina Carpenter's new track "Manchild," where she cheekily laments the frustrations of dealing with emotionally — and maybe intellectually — underdeveloped men, a TikTok video on the topic has gone viral.
The responses were equal parts hilarious, exasperating, and painfully relatable. Naturally, I had to share some of the best:
1. "My ex had a superiority complex about his music taste and when he showed me a new super unique song he found it gave me so much joy to tell him it was actually the kardashian theme song."
2. "that Gnomeo and Juliet was actually based on a Shakespeare play and wasn't an original piece of media."
3. "That if you have twins you're not pregnant for 18 months 🧍♀️."
4. "That babies do not in fact grow in the stomach of a woman and instead there’s a whole organ for it called the uterus."
5. "That I can’t just 'hold it in' when I start my period."
6. "I taught my first boyfriend how to make a cheese toastie and he said 'you’ve changed my life.'"
7. "The difference between your and you’re. And guess what his major was? Journalism."
8. "That liquids can in fact have calories. He literally thought that juicing fruit removed the calories 🤦🏻♀️"
9. "that women don’t all have their periods at the same time every month ?? (he thought we all had it from the 1st to 7th of the month) 💀."
10. "He thought that me dying my hair was permanent. As in he thought it‘d keep coming out of my scalp as the dye color 💔 had to carefully explain to him that it grows out"
11. "That he did in fact need to attend a job interview to get a job. He said it’s fine because 'he knows he’s capable' — yeah okay but they don’t??"
12. "Which order to use shampoo and conditioner..."
13. "that bedsheets and towels aren’t self cleaning and do in fact need put in the washer… he didn’t realise his mum had been doing it for him for his whole life and moved out and let that shit rot for a YEAR…."
14. "to wash his hands after going to the toilet💕"
15. "I had to teach a man that the title of his own job was in fact not 'soup chef', but 'sous chef'…"
16. "he asked me if the eggs come out of the chicken with the shell or they put the shell around it in the egg factory.."
17. "That it’s 'out of the blue' and not 'out of the bloom' (while I was breaking up with him)."
18. "had to explain the concept of other people having emotions different than his step. by. step. with multiple examples ,,how would you feel in that situation?' ,,'i’m not in that situation, what do you mean?'"
19. "How to use a colander. He was washing the blueberries individually under the sink and laying them in the colander."
20. "boil water 😀"
21. "That you have to brush your teeth in the morning AND night (no doing it for twice as long one time a day is NOT THE SAME THING???)"
22. "what misogynistic meant, he said, and I quote, 'can you guys stop using such big words? i don't understand.'"
23. "That you should say hello to people who greet you at the door. How to cook pasta, how to spray cleaner on a table, how to have a basic conversation, basic words, how to stick food in an air fryer. my ex lol 💀"
24. "the word 'no.'"
25. "That the plural of woman is women…"
26. "said he knew the 'science stuff' behind periods, when I said about bleeding he was shocked and asked where we bleed from, do we just get loads of cuts on our skin that bleed... what?"
And lastly, amongst the many comments, someone asked, "where are y’all finding these social experiments bruh🙏." To which another replied, "They walk amongst us."
Le sigh, that might just be the scariest part. Sabrina Carpenter may have delivered the "Manchild" anthem, but clearly, we have provided the evidence. Now, I turn it over to you: What's the most bafflingly basic thing you've had to teach a man? Drop it in the comments or share anonymously via the form below.
No judgment, just solidarity (and maybe a laugh-cry!!!).