This Woman Asked Her Boyfriend For A Paper Clip And Got A Lesson On Gender

Look, people are different, and there's no need to make generalizations based on gender. But sometimes it's fun to. Because let's face it, that age-old adage men are from Mars, women are from Venus has a little bit of truth to it. Social media is making it even clearer that men tend to be the complete opposite of women in a lot of areas of life — from how they caption their Instagram posts or how they seem to manage to live in organized chaos. Now, this doesn't mean that women aren't messy, or that a guy can't write a touching message on Instagram, but you get the picture. 

Luckily, there are plenty of examples to prove that some guys can be the so stereotypically male, it's actually funny.  

Like in this tweet about how men caption Instagram posts obscenely, while women seem to actually want to keep their partners:

Or this one, about how men are physically and psychically unprepared to pick out a simple pair of leggings:

But this tweet from Twitter user @CiaraTobin may be the simplest iteration of the genre ever. She shared text messages with her boyfriend Riley, in which she asks for a paper clip and ends up discovering more than she wants to know about his organizational habits:

I'm gonna be honest, this isn't that far off from how I store my office supplies, but I still find Tobin's loving exasperation with her man very funny.

And everyone else finds it extremely relatable, because they've lived it (both men and women):

At least one other person had a similar story saved and ready to go:

Maybe there are two:

Wherever you are on the gender spectrum, you know if this is you.

Now, where are my paper clips?