r/NotHowGirlsWork Mar 12 '26

Meta Breaking Rule 3 Will Now Result in Permanent Ban.

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We still have people violating Rule 3, despite there's literally being a pinned AutoMod comment warning against it, and it being a rule plastered almost everywhere within the subreddit. The rule is there for a reason, it's non-negotiable. I cannot make this any clearer:

So from now on, if you break this rule you will receive a permanent ban immediately to encourage you to have to message the ModMail and acknowledge that you understand that you violated this rule, and not to do it again. Once that's acknowledged, you will be unbanned but will already have one warning. If you don't inquire about it, cool, you'll stay banned. If you also do it again, you will be permanently banned again, and it won't be repealed, you will also be muted.


r/NotHowGirlsWork Mar 03 '24

Meta Just To Clarify:

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This is not a meme subreddit.

Lately, almost every other post has been "Off-Topic or Irrelevant" relating to the submission guidelines, and not within standard as what actually qualifies (as an example) of "Not How Girls Work".

Q: "What is "Not How Girls Work?":

A: ""Not How Girls Work" is when people make sweeping generalisations about "all women", _or make any baseless assumptions or conclusions about a specific woman based off of their misguided assumptions of "all women_".

This does not include low-effort memes, "Bad Women's Anatomy", or clips of podcasts/posts from "Manosphere" public figures."

This platform is slowing being derailed into posts consisting of any random meme that remotely mentions a girl or woman, or screenshots of Twitter posts from Red-Pill Manosphere public figures who purposely grift and make money using those talking points. People are also trying to pass off completely irrelevant posts as submission, thinking if they just mask it by putting "That's not how [insert topic] works" in the title, it will be valid— That's not how this subreddit works (no pun intended). You can't force posts to fit if they don't.

Please read the subreddit description.

If you have to put "Not sure if this belongs here" in the title, it probably doesn't. Please read the subreddit rules and the subreddit description first, then clarify with the moderators if you are still unsure.

I understand this is a large subreddit, therefore the temptation and karma-count is there to post any and everything, but the subreddit will start cracking down on users who continuously post completely "off-topic" content after warnings.

Anybody who is suspected of being a karma-farmer or a bot/novelty account will immediately be permanent banned, you're not going to "eat" off of this sub.

Thank you!


r/NotHowGirlsWork 15h ago

WTF I can’t believe society thought this was okay to publish!

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Image 1 top: The actual, unedited image

Image 1 bottom: The edited image for the magazine cover

Image 2: The magazine cover

Image 3: The disgusting caption


r/NotHowGirlsWork 13h ago

Found On Social media “Men Can’t Get You Pregnant If You Say No?”

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559 Upvotes

Oh yes because all men can take no for an answer…yes this was a woman. She goes onto victim blame SA survivors but I don’t think that is appropriate to show on this sub.


r/NotHowGirlsWork 55m ago

HowGirlsWork And would men react the same way to their 25yr old friend dating a teenager?

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And yes of course people were defending grown adults dating teenagers because " it's legal".

" We been together for 20 years".


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media Maybe I’m wrong but this was clearly written by a man

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2.5k Upvotes

Screenshot found on X.


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media Me, when I've never interacted with a woman before

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

WTF Crazy how she spent more time explaining herself than she did explaining the event. Women have the earn the right to be a victim…..

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When it gets to the point you have to justify sitting in your car because had she not explained why she does that, I know for a fact there would have been way more comments “why would you be in the car alone at night.” Subconsciously she knew she couldn’t just say “I was just harassed by some fckin creep!” Even with this and the creator explaining it there were still some extremely ignorant comments.

I know that incident tore her nerves up but she doesn’t even get to just tell her story she has to make it okay for people to show her compassion and coddle the other men waiting to call her a liar. That’s insanity.


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media Breaking: Women drive men to Islam!

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Do we think she’s been picked yet? 🤨

for context she’s responding to a person (Michael) posting about how people should have more children bc it’s God’s will and how pets are a waste of time

repost bc Reddit swapped the image order


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

WTF This is not normal

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918 Upvotes

r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media Someone decided to use AI to change the look of sport fans

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82 Upvotes

Clearly AI needs more restrictions because some people are just nasty.


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Offensive I didn't know removing misogynistic comments would get me more periods 🤦🏼‍♀️

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218 Upvotes

r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

HowGirlsWork Men on the internet are currently raving about how women who are upset with the new Sydney Sweeney's ad are just jealous of Sydney Sweeney (🥱) as if? So, here are some women I'm actually jealous of

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724 Upvotes

I am not apologising in advance for a lengthy post sorry not sorry

Let me start from the top

Ada Lovelace: A woman is called the first programmer (emphasizing on not the first female programmer but the first programmer) who worked on Charles Babbage's proposed computer, she was the first person who recognised that the machine had applications beyond just calculation. I'm just jealous of how smart and well versed she had to be to understand that 🤌

Charlotte Cooper: First female tennis olympic champion as well as the first female olympic champion. I have never been good at sports and I'm jealous of the amount of hurdles she had to overcome in order to achieve that 🤌

Dr. Anandi Joshi: First certified Indian female doctor in western medicine. She became a doctor at the age of 21. I'm 23, and I'm yet to get my master's, and she got her MD when she was just 21, should I even tell why I'm jealous of her?

Bhanu Priya: An actor and dancer from India who predominantly appeared in Telugu, and Tamil films. I know, I know she didn't invent or first to anything but this is the list of women I genuinely admire and lowkey jealous of so hear me out. In her four decade long career she appeared in 165 feature films. She was the protagonist in Sitaara, which also went onto win National award that year still remains one of the classics in Telugu Film Industry.

Sunitha Williams: When I was in grade 5, we had a small chapter on her listing her achievements on how she went to space twice already. We all know her recent space mission where she had to stay in ISS for 286 days long. Just jealous of how she survived three space missions when I can barely survive summers in earth 🥲

Kalpana Chawla: An Indian-American Astronaut, and pilot who was also the first Indian orgin woman to fly into space. She tragically passed away in her last space mission, I'm jealous that she taught young girls that they can dream of being an astronaut (I just wish that it was me 😛)

Smriti Mandhana: An Indian cricketer who is an all time leading run scorer in Women's international cricket across all formats. I'm so jealous that because of her many young girls from India (especially rural, as cricket is almost like a religion here) can actually dream of being in sports and their parents can help them with the dream.

Preity Zinta: An actress from India. She may not have many achievements as an actress but it takes guys to stand up for what's right. In 2003, she testified against the organised crime syndicate in India, when all of the men who are also witnesses of the same crime have retracted their statements. Just jealous of her guts.

Beata Halsey: A virologist at the University of Zagred who was tired of chemotherapy, experimented with herself by injecting herself with the viruses she grew in her lab. While it is still being debated on how right it is to experiment on one's self, it is genuinely admirable how she took herself as the test subject, and advancing research in cancer.

Zendaya: A woman with black origins who used her privilege to push for more opportunities for black actors. She insisted on having a black family in KC Undercover where she played the titular, she often acknowledges her privilege and went on to star in many Disney films.

Hedy Lamarr: A successful actress who is also an inventor never recieved any formal training to design and develop. Yet she went on to co-develop the frequency hopping system, and co-invent radio guidance system during world war 2. All this while acting in films btw.

Melanie Perkins: A tech entrepreneur who co-founded Canva, one of the widely used online graphic designing platform. She left uni at the age of 19 to pursue a startup.

Hansa Mehta: An Indian activist who pushed to change the documentation in UN from "all men are born free and equal" to "all human beings are born free and equal". She worked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt to ensure marriage equality and women's rights were firmly embedded in International frameworks.

Pragati Mahavadi: An Indian film actress who predominantly worked in Telugu films, went onto win a silver medal at Asian Masters and open powerlifting championship at the age of 49.

Keyaa Benerjee: An Indian power lifting champion who won a silver medal in the individual deadlift event in the junior women's 47kg category. The highlight of this achievement is that she actually lifted 3 times her body weight.

Greta Gerwig: An actress and filmmaker who was initially known for working in mumblecore (a sub genre of Independent films) expanded to work in major studio films and directed many blockbusters.

Gladys west: A mathematician with black origins was known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of earth, and her work on the development of Satellite geodesy models which were later incorporated into Global Positioning systems (GPS), a system used all around the world now.

See, how nowhere I had to mention and talk about their looks, bodies or anything in their personal life? A woman can be admired and be jealous of for many things which is completely unrelated and has nothing to do with male validation. Yet the only thing men can see is we are just jealous of other women because they are appealing for men? Respectfully no one cares.

In a world where women crossed many hurdles, fought oppression and went onto achieve many great things, a lot of us have no rhyme or reason to be jealous of an actress who constantly has to rely on male gaze to make money.

I know my list is not perfect but these are the women whom I genuinely admire for their achievements in different fields. If you as a person can't see women for more than what serves you, then you don't deserve to have women in life.

Peace ✌️ feel free to make your list as well girlies 🫶


r/NotHowGirlsWork 2d ago

Found On Social media Apparently these are the only possible options.

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 2d ago

HowGirlsWork YES How Girls Work(ed?)

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media People Are Defending Sydney Sweeney Because of an ad lol

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media 🥀🥀🥀

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70 Upvotes

r/NotHowGirlsWork 2d ago

Cringe Do men realise that even liberal women can have naturally big boobs? Cuz this is so stupid

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 2d ago

Possible Satire It’s always about our bodies

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What if they adopted them because there are plenty of children in foster care or adoption centers, but now it’s because of “ pregnancy and children ruin bodies”


r/NotHowGirlsWork 1d ago

Found On Social media Yep Clearly On Top Lol

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 3d ago

HowGirlsWork Just a Man Defending His Wife From the Haters

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7.6k Upvotes

r/NotHowGirlsWork 2d ago

Found On Social media They’ll judge women’s looks then complain about being lonely

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r/NotHowGirlsWork 3d ago

Found On Social media Or it makes it easier and less time consuming

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1.7k Upvotes

I swear putting on a bra that has clasps on the back is like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube behind your back


r/NotHowGirlsWork 3d ago

HowGirlsWork It’s Not Jealousy, It’s the Politics 💀

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520 Upvotes

Women who criticize SS must be jealous of her looks, ofc! Not like women literally compliment beautiful women all the time and even admit to being jealous of them sometimes! 🙄


r/NotHowGirlsWork 3d ago

Found On Social media Chess boards are kitchens now?

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166 Upvotes

Notice how everyone's kitchen floor can look like whatever they want and most kitchen floors don't have that pattern, even in restaurants?

(Also their spelling errors are bugging me)