r/comics • u/TheNectarineDiaries • Jun 19 '26

OC Why didn't you say so?

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Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

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u/JayRandom212 Jun 19 '26

Cis-het man here. Professionals (doctors, bankers, lawyers, consultants) will often just straight-up ignore women. But when I repeat what the woman says, they listen to me.

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u/RedEyeView Jun 19 '26

There's a great meme about a guy who likes to go to garages with his F1 engineer woman friend to watch them talk to him about her car and ignore her.

He knows fuck all about cars.

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u/applespicebetter Jun 19 '26

My ex wife is the handiest person I've ever met. Worked in her dad's garage, worked as a house painter, knows how to sweat copper pipe. You name it, she knows it or will work her ass off at learning it. And every time we were together at a hardware store, every single time, even when it was her own uncle's that I was meeting for the first time, all the questions and explanations came to me. Like dude, I don't know shit about plumbing and she's the one that asked for the left handed smoke shifter or whatever.

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u/boardofauthority Jun 19 '26

Left Handed Smoke Shifter is the name of my new cover band

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u/applespicebetter Jun 20 '26

Do it, I'll go to that live show!

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u/Woodworkingwino Jun 23 '26

I worked at a big box store through college. One of my coworkers was a woman that had worked in home construction for years. People would come find me to ask questions about tools or lumber. My answer would be, I’m not sure let me get someone that knows what’s they’re talking about. I would call her over and I would be told I already talked to her and I’m not sure she knows what she’s talking about. She would come over repeat what she said, I would agree and then they would believe her, but only after I agreed.

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u/Kirikomori Jun 20 '26

I remember one of the stories was the woman was alone and a guy walked up to her bragging the car on display was his. And she presses the button on her key fob to unlock it and he just walks away.