If you thought women can’t be gross — think again. There’s a certain bias in society where we think men are the messy ones: stereotypes about their untidy rooms, poor hygiene, and lax attitude towards cleanliness pervade our society as much as popular culture.
But research shows that both men and women can be equally as messy. In fact, both genders agree on how urgently an untidy space needs to be cleaned and on their perceptions about how messy a room is. However, women are held to a higher standard of cleanliness — people can generally excuse an untidy man’s house, but a woman is judged for her untidy home.
That doesn’t mean that some ladies don’t treat their homes more like a pigsty than a sanctuary. In a recent online thread, one gentleman asked, “Guys, what's the most ‘nope’ thing you've seen when you went over to a woman's place for the first time?” And, unsurprisingly, fellas had plenty of stories that reeked of red flags.
