You will oftentimes hear guys making jokes about girls who cannot seem to say what's on their mind. And everyone laughs, of course, because it's funny and relateable and completely true of lots of girls.

"I'm fine."

There was this boy that I had went on a few dates with who fancied me a lot more than I fancied him. This was obvious from the fact that he would text me nonstop and I couldn't find the energy to respond, he annoyed me a little bit, etc.

I remember dropping this hint that I tire easily of people and that's why I don't go on many dates.

One night he asked me if I had grown tired of him.

And I felt obligated to tell him that I was simply tired in general and that I wasn't getting enough sleep.

Girls will always tell guys that they're fine.

From the moment we could form coherent thoughts, it has been drilled in us that feeling is bad, that having emotions are bad.

We have been the butt of jokes for centuries.

"You hit like a girl."

"You throw like a girl."

"Crying is for girls."

The patriarchy has told us that "girly" mannerisms are bad, that being a girl is bad.

Feeling and expressing emotions is something that has been deemed lame and uninteresting.

So girls will always tell guys that they're fine, even when they're not, even when something is very, very wrong.

This is not the guy's fault. They grew up in a society in which they are told that they deserve the attention of females, so how are they to know that it's wrong?

It's up to us to change things. It's up to us to help people out of this dirty mindset in which people feel embarrassed to be human.

It's up to us to tell people what's wrong so it can be fixed.