17 Struggles Only Girls Who Think Like Guys Understand

Surprisingly, the challenges don't even involve beer or boobs.

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Being a girl is hard enough, but being a girl who "thinks like a guy" is even harder. Why?

Take friendship, for example: Your girlfriends expect you to understand them, and your guy friends expect you to think like your girlfriends — and will treat you accordingly.

Dating becomes a challenge because everyone is usually so enmeshed in his or her traditional gender role that any tiny stray from the norm can lead a once-promising relationship off-course.

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That whole "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" trope of men approaching life and conversations with logic, and women taking a more emotional approach is — as stereotypical and corny as it sounds — usually true. So, when you're an exception to it, it's either really refreshing or completely baffling to people.

Here are just a few of the struggles that a woman who thinks like a man (and not in the Steve Harvey sense) can face.

1.When your girlfriends go off on tangents and can't tell a short, linear story, you're completely and totally lost.

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2.You don't see what the big deal is about gas.

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3.In fact, you think farts are pretty hilarious.

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4.But all your girlfriends are like ...

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5.And guys, who always laugh when they do it, are somehow extra grossed out when you do. Jerks.

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6.You're sure that Nicholas Sparks movies are playing in the ninth circle of Hell.

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7.You think strip clubs are a fun way to unwind and bond with your buddies, and everyone judges you for it.

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8.If your friends want you to go to the mall with them, they have to take you by force.

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9.You lack the maternal instincts necessary to pretend your friends' troll children are cute.

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10.Maneuvering a curling iron baffles you.

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11.But you know exactly what happens when you hit down, down-forward, forward then punch.

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12.You can identify every single person in this GIF, and know exactly what they do and why.

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13.But The Bachelorette — and its appeal — is unfathomable to you.

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14.Texting isn't important to you. In fact, it's kind of annoying.

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15.You've had to have this conversation plenty of times.

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16.Your girlfriends and guy friends take precedence over your boyfriends. Always.

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17.You have a ton of friends because girls get your advice on guys, and guys get your advice on girls. And sometimes, that causes problems in your friendships and relationships, because, well ...

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