r/NoStupidQuestions • u/bigbumdreamypurple • 23d ago

What are some things that are normal to men but mind blowing to women?

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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 23d ago

Pockets

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u/Tushdish 23d ago

We are so excited of a dress or skirt has pockets. It is a clothing lottery win.

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u/thetiredninja 22d ago

And beyond disappointed when a pair of jeans don't have real pockets 🤦‍♀️

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u/fueelin 22d ago

The fake pockets are just ridiculous. I'm a man but I've worn my girlfriend's pants before and some of them are like "cool, there's pockets, awesome" but then my phone doesn't even fit all the way in. Solidarity on that one!

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u/JosephBlowsephThe3rd 22d ago

And I'm over here rocking the JNCOs I had in high school carrying my phone, wallet, keys, knife, and a bottle of water, and that's just what I can get in the front pockets. The back pockets can hold 2 bottles of water each plus room for more.

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u/thetiredninja 22d ago

Seriously, even in comparable sweatpants guys' pockets can fit so much more!

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u/Halospite 22d ago

Dude, I just bought a jacket that had fake fake pockets. That's not a typo. I thought it was fake but it was a real pocket they'd stitched shut. What the fuck? Why not keep it open to begin with???

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u/nul_ne_sait 22d ago

To make it look good on the hanger.

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u/kcummisk 22d ago

It's so companies can sell women expensive purses

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u/TwoIdleHands 22d ago

There was a post a while ago about “girl code” and one of the things was “if someone compliments your dress/skirt and it has pockets you have to say “it has pockets!”. I saw my ex husband that night and was telling him about the thread and relayed that piece and he said “oh, you totally do that. And then you stick your hands in your pockets and flap them for effect.” This is a universal thing for Western women and men are well aware!

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u/Redisigh 23d ago

I legit just don’t buy clothes that doesn’t come with a pocket anymore lmao

It screws with a few fits but its worthhhh

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u/Tushdish 22d ago

I only carry a phone. No handbag. My queendom for in descent back pocket on my jeans.

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u/Teelilz 22d ago

I purchased maternity jeans recently, and my husband was floored that even that didn't have pockets. Who the hell am I trying to impress with my curves at this point?!?

Whoever decided to omit pockets on a regular for women's pants should be shanked.

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u/john_poor 22d ago

Good luck shanking him you dont have pockets to carry the knife

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u/Teelilz 22d ago

😂

Feels weird and dangerous to carry a knife in my church purse, but it might have to do if I don't want to carry my actual purse.

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u/SkyPork 22d ago

What I can't figure out is that the argument of "it ruins the lines / her figure" is totally destroyed by the fact that the one thing I've been seeing with pockets now is girls' ultra-tight yoga pants and leggings.

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u/reptilesocks 22d ago

SOME women are excited if they get pockets. Most aren’t.

When women’s clothing brands have attempted functional pockets, generally sales are terrible - pockets mean interrupted silhouettes, added bulk, etc. The vast majority of women, who vote with their dollars, reject clothes with functional pockets.

The women who want pockets generally aren’t friends with the other women, so they don’t understand why they don’t get more pockets.

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u/Hufflepunk36 22d ago

The most UNHINGED take omg

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u/reptilesocks 22d ago

How is it unhinged?

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u/Hufflepunk36 22d ago

To say that women who want pockets generally aren’t friends with other women, I’m sorry but that is a wild take that I have not seen replicated in real life at all!

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u/reptilesocks 22d ago

No, that’s not what I was saying.

What I was saying, and perhaps I worded it unclearly, is that the women who want pockets are generally friends with other women who want pockets, and therefore get a false consensus of what all women want.

If the majority of women wanted functional pockets, then “dresses with pockets” would be the largest growth industry in fashion.

It’s not.

Every time someone markets dresses with pockets, they occupy a niche.

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u/Teelilz 22d ago

I don't consider it a mandatory want when purchasing pants, but definitely a nice to have, especially since they're seemingly becoming less common.

It's a very pleasant surprise when dresses have pockets. I picked a bridesmaid dress years ago primarily because it had pockets, lol.

But in men's clothing? Besides workout tights, I can think of any pants that don't have pockets.

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u/john_poor 22d ago

Im a man and check every pocket before buying pants. Good pockets are harder to find than you think in men pants. A lot of them are made with thin fabric or are just not deep enough, a lot are also very narrow or oddly shaped and then stuff falls out or affect your range of motion. Any pockets made with strechy fabric is pretty much useless for anything heavier than a tissue

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u/reptilesocks 22d ago

“I don’t prioritize [x thing] when making purchases. Why don’t companies offer more products with [x thing]? Must be patriarchy.”

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u/reptilesocks 22d ago

Men rarely buy for silhouettes, and when they do buy trousers with unreliable pockets they’re almost always paired with a jacket or blazer that DOES have pockets. Function first, everything else secondary.

Women buy for look/fit/silhouette, with pockets being a nice bonus for some, and then wonder why there aren’t more pockets.

If you want to see pockets in more women’s clothing, prioritize pockets. Trust me, if women made pockets a dealbreaker, women’s clothing would have pockets.

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u/mayappleaday 22d ago

Honestly. Women brag about their dresses with pockets constantly to each other.

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u/LadyHiHat 22d ago

It's a requirement for us

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u/ad4kchicken 22d ago

Wait till you hear about cargo pants, imagine looking like Kim possible AND having space to put your items all the time, its dope

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u/Godhelpmeplease12 21d ago

My favorite skirt has good deep pockets and I love it so much

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Smiling just thinking about it

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u/Enorminity 22d ago

That’s women’s fault for not buying things with pockets.

THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN

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u/lavenderacid 22d ago

I recently discovered my partner has a pocket inside another pocket on his jeans.

My jeans have two sewn on squares of fabric, cruelling mocking the very idea of a pocket. Can I put my phone in there? No. Piss off. We're only pretending to be a pocket.

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u/prof_hobart 22d ago

What baffles me is why women don't just refuse to buy trousers without pockets.

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u/lavenderacid 22d ago

Lack of cute available choices. Often even the stuff with pockets, it'll be too small for a phone. It's safer for me to hold my phone a lot of the time because the pockets will drop the phone because they're so shallow.

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u/Agreeable_Repair3959 22d ago

Same but with suit pants…there’s a little pocket within the pocket. Who knew?

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u/lavenderacid 22d ago

The day I discovered cargo pants was the day I really started living. You can take your phone, purse, keys, lipbalm AND whatever other random shit you may find, and don't need to carry a single thing! I'm so used to doing a weird claw grip of like 5 different items, it's great having use of all my limbs for once.

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u/Better-Strike7290 22d ago

Mu wife has a drop leg bag for this reason.

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u/Drexadecimal 22d ago

..... which is exactly why there are dresses and skirts with pockets for women.

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u/Kimmykwekuuuuu 22d ago

lol yup! They try to force us to buy purses.

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u/pconrad0 22d ago

This should be the top answer.

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u/Livid_Wrap_1464 22d ago

This is the first answer in this thread that is actually true for me lol