“Who knows! Every woman’s different and things are always changing. Listen, I’m not sure what you’re trying to get out of me here. Again: I’m not a woman.”

Sure, he’s aware of that, he replies, but it’s important to him, especially as a cisgender heterosexual white man, to avoid placing the burden of educating him about women’s experiences on a woman, which is why it’s so great to have friends of other genders.

His friend says, “Yeah, I guess.”