Ads for women: Be thin, be thick, love your body, your boobs look bigger in this, dye your hair, embrace your grays, these pants are slimming, be feminine, wear makeup, look natural, hide your age…

Women: K.

Gillette: Men should be less shitty.

Men: Don’t tell us what to do!

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) January 15, 2019

No, it’s more like for men in ads or outside of them:

Be masculine and domineering, but also sensitive.

Be aggressive on command (or when I wish you to be), but not otherwise.

Be violent as needed, but not to me.

Show your feelings, except I also think it makes you weak (for many women).

Be financially sound but don’t spend any time doing this.

Don’t act “gay” in any way (mostly this is an expectation from other men, but many, many women have this too).

Be tall.

Note that I am not saying this is true of all women or men and their expectations of men, but as she was talking about general societal and social expectations, I chose to as well.

I know women don’t have it easy, but it’s hilarious how many women don’t realize what’s going on in the lives of men while believing they have perfect knowledge. This is why the MRA movement was born, in large part. (No, I am not an MRA as I don’t have any disdain or hatred of women, which is part of that movement’s DNA.)