What The Opposite Sex Wishes The Other Knew About Certain Aspects Of Their Lives

Men used to be from Mars and women used to be from Venus. Now, men are from Pluto and women are from Alpha Centauri. The gender gap might be tightening in many ways but when it comes to understanding one another, we’re still a solar system apart. Perhaps if we could put together a sort of United Nations of the genders, get them in a room and allow them to anonymously make statements in order to set the record straight...

What do you wish the opposing gender knew? Let us know in the comments!

Men: We have emotions too. Just because we don’t always have the emotional intelligence to know when you all are feeling some type of way doesn’t mean that we don’t get deep feelings of our own. When we watch "Modern Family," and the voice over comes up at the end, we cry on the inside.

Men: Playing hard to get doesn’t work. Whoever propagated this idea amongst the female population has done a disservice to males and females. You don’t benefit from it and we don’t like it. Let’s just move beyond it.

Women: Surprise us . Surprises go a long way as far as the lady in your life is concerned. Men seem to think it’s a diamond ring or bust when in reality a pint of unexpected green tea ice cream is all it takes.

Men: Don’t talk about your ex. Regardless of what the conversation is about, we just don’t want to hear about him. It wounds us. We wonder about every aspect of him and the ways in which it might have been better than us.

Women: Chivalry is not old fashioned. You can find the biggest feminist amongst us and she’s not going to stop you from doing something gentlemanly. It’s not sexist, it’s just caring and kind. Heck, you could even start being chivalrous toward your guy friends, give them your coat if they’re cold. That’s not weird is it?

Men: We really don’t like the makeup. It seems like a never ending debate at this point. We say we don’t like the makeup, you say we just think we don’t like the makeup and we say “no, we really don’t like it.” The truth is, we really do prefer the lack of makeup. If we’re going to some special event, fine go nuts, but the bottom line is we like it better when your face feels like an actual face.

Women: Don’t talk about your ex. We pretend like we don’t care and maybe we’ll engage in a conversation about her, but we secretly hate it. Like, it ruins our day. So why not just avoid it.

Women: Be confident. Confidence is the key thing when it comes to keeping a woman attracted. We live in the age of the nerd and nerds can be hot too but that doesn’t mean we’re somehow put off by confidence. There’s a huge gap between confidence and arrogance.

Men: If you can’t listen, just say so. It’s infuriating when you’re passionately going in on somebody you hate at work and you’re boyfriend gets that glazed look in his eyes. However, we understand that you can’t listen all the time. We can’t either. We just need you let us know beforehand if you’re having one of those kinds of days.

Men: We’re pretty much always up for sex. The amount of times that we’d actually turn down sex if you just initiated it are very few and far between. Most of the time, we’ll put aside just about any ailment or feeling if you get us started. We hardly even have a choice in the matter.

Women: Listen. It’s not that hard to listen. We may talk about our feelings a little more than you’re used to but that’s how we work through them. You’d be surprised how quickly what seems like us being mad at you can evolve to something else in the span of a conversation.

Men: You need to embrace our friends. Even my friends you don’t really like, you should be happy to have. First, my friends keep me from being around you at all times which wouldn’t benefit either of us. Second, try having a partner with no friends. You’ll see that the very fact that he has no friends is a really bad sign.

Women: We don’t hate adult film. Stop trying to hide it or act like you don’t watch it. It’s not like we want to watch it with you or watch you do your thing to it, but you can be open about it. It just shows you're comfortable with yourself.

Women: experiment. Even if good girls like a little bit of kink in the bedroom, we just might not initiate it. Try something. The worst thing that happens is we’re not into it or don’t want to do it, but the possible rewards are endless.

Men: Our phones are private. Just because we hide our phones from you doesn’t mean we are cheating or that we have some terrible secret. There’s just a certain amount of privacy that we relish. We need our own domain and our phones are in that domain.