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50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them

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If there’s one thing women love, it’s men assuming they know everything! Whether the topic at hand is period cramps or astrophysics, nobody knows better than a guy who’s seen a few YouTube videos… Right?

Mansplaining is obviously not something that all men do, but it is, unfortunately, a habit that’s become a trademark of some. So, to call out all of the condescending dudes who believe they’re authorities on anything and everything, women on Reddit have recently been sharing the most ridiculous things they’ve had mansplained to them. The mansplaining meme has become a popular way to highlight these absurd moments.

Keep reading to find a conversation with award-winning mental agility coach Anna Levesque, and be sure to upvote the stories that make you want to say, "Well, actually!"

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#1

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A male coworker tried to tell me what a certain computer program did. I interrupted with “I’m very familiar with that program, considering that I wrote it.”

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#2

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A guy once said that women can only orgasm after the man has, because he needs to 'transfer his energy' Lost his mind when we told him women masturbate alone.

rae_gun_ , priscilladupreez Report

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To gain more insight on this topic, we reached out to Anna Levesque, an award winning mental agility and white water kayak coach who's passionate about helping others build courage and confidence on and off the water. Anna was kind enough to answer a few questions for Bored Panda about mansplaining she's experienced.

"It doesn't happen that often, but it does happen more often that I would like," the coach shared. She's actually written about this exact topic on her blog before, noting that it happens the most often when she posts about a mistake she made on the river.

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"In these posts, I'm not asking for advice, but sharing as a way to be vulnerable and relatable to my audience, and let my followers know that even former pro athletes who have been paddling for 30 years mess up," Anna explained.

#3

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My brother in law try explaining to me how the pain of being kicked in the balls is way worse than child birth or any other pain a woman could go through. His mom told him to shut the f**k up.

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#4

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I once had a primary physician tell me that he knew how painful childbirth was because he watched his wife give birth. Then he asked me to rate my concussion pain on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being childbirth. I looked at him in disbelief and said, “well in that case I rate my concussion at .002” He didn’t like my answer and tried to explain that he’s trying to judge my pain level. I told him I was in labor for 14 hours. Annnd this is why women don’t get the right pain meds.

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"Dudes always seem to jump on the opportunity to point out everything I did wrong and how they think I could do better, when I'm more skilled than they are," Anna added. "It's obvious that I know I messed up and understand what happened, and most importantly, I didn't ask for advice!"

She even had an example to share from just last month "I posted on social media a paddling fail that I caught on my GoPro. I posted it because it was an obvious fail that I thought was funny," she told Bored Panda. "The caption was 'So there I was about to do something cool… [with a few laughing emojis] I don’t recommend recreating this.'"

"The very first person who commented was a male paddler telling me why my technique didn't work, and how I should do it if I want to be successful," Anna continued. "And then there were other comments from men pontificating on what they would do or how they do it."

#5

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them ‘Maybe you don’t know what good sex is’. Well, I know what it isn’t.

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#6

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them This guy tried to tell me that ALL women LACTATE when they’re near a baby. I said that’s not f*****g true. He began to “explain” to me how I don’t understand biology. What the f**k lmao

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Anna said she initially ignored the comments, but then she replied with a comment about how it's important to not take ourselves too seriously. "Then they kept going so I responded with: 'Wow, y’all’s mansplain game is strong! If I want advice, I’ll ask my hubby, who by the way, kicks all of your [butts]. Just sayin,'" she shared.

"Then one of the guys responded with this: 'I’m sorry, I forgot you’re very sensitive to all but the worship comments. It wasn't a criticism. It was actually more for other people watching, maybe someone who wants to try another technique,'" Anna continued.

"My takeaway is that some men not only feel empowered to mansplain to you, but they also feel empowered to tell you that you're being self-centered when you push back," the coach says. "And, some men who aren't as skilled as you feel empowered to critique your skill and ability, and try to use your platform to pontificate on their ideas."

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#7

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I once had somebody try to explain a software framework to me like I didn't know how to write a single line of code.

It was a framework I wrote.

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#8

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I was going into anaphylaxis and naturally called an ambulance. The EMT took a look in my throat and said, “you don’t look like you’re going into anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis is when…” and proceeded to explain it to me.

I couldn’t talk, felt like I was breathing through a straw. Blotchy skin. I would have yelled if I could.

When I got to the hospital, the doctor looked down my throat and said, “yep, get the epinephrine.”

sassafrass005 , Alex Green Report

Final score:

214points

Loverboy 1 year ago

Mf should've been fired, you could've died because he thought he knew what the f**k he was talking about

216points

Hugh Crawford 1 year ago

Yep, should probably also keep an epi pen handy

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Jennie Drake 1 year ago

Once had an EMT tell me from across a parking lot that I was having a panic attack not an asthma attack. Went to the hospital and had to get 4 breathing treatments and a shot of steroids. SMH.

7points

Cyber Returns 1 year ago (edited)

EMT's are supposed to make the patient comfortable, administer basic assistance to prevent the risk of life or harm and then take the patient to hospital if necessary. They are not doctors who have a lot more qualifications in diagnosis and care. Press charges against the EMT before he kills someone

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David 1 year ago

UGH! I once had a nurse say something sort of similar but for a slightly less serious situation. I got stung by several hornets on the back of my neck. Did not call an ambulance because I did not have insurance and could still breathe. Instead had a friend come babysit me in case it got worse. But I had a number of the symptoms short of closed airway. Low blood pressure, tachycardia, rash down the sides of my body, dizzy/light headed, very weak, etc. Basically got told by that one person that it couldn't be that because I didn't die. Then they did sting allergy testing and my scores in all four categories were quite high. Like if "17" was a serious danger, I had 57, 55 etc. Then they were like - "Here's your epipen, carry it with you or you might die!" LOL. PS - I think they were wrong and it was the quantity of stings / leftover venom in my system when tested. I have been stung six (single) times in the 10 years since and none of those were serious - just annoying.

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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago (edited)

Sounds like he's super bad at his job, too.

2points

pep Ito 1 year ago

Health technicians, at least in Spain, have nothing to say about the condition of the patient they are transporting. By the way, this is not mansplaining. It is simply a loudmouthed health technician who would have said the same thing if the patient had been a man.

2points

Danish Susanne 1 year ago (edited)

My husband fell down the stair. My sister called an ambulance because she could see, that she had broken something, and when the ambulance came one of the men said, that he clearly hadn't broken anything. He was not quite right. My husband had broken 8 ribs and his collarbone. I am grateful for them taken him to hospital nevertheless.

1point

Miki 1 year ago

I wonder how it ended for this idiot.

1point

Seadog 1 year ago

Sadly, many EMTs have a God complex. Had one tell me the reason my head got cut in a wreck was because I wasn't belted. It was a side collision and piece of the guy grill cut my head. Nevermind that the belt mounting point was relocated in and back 18". Had I been belted the belt would've cut me in half. I didn't even bother trying to educate the idiot.

0points

Jaguarundi 1 year ago

I truly believe that if I was having an anaphylaxis episode and some male wing nut contradicted me as to what I was experiencing, I would have physically demonstrated my symptoms on him. He would have been breathless too.

0points

Cheshirecasss 1 year ago

We had the same thing happen with my daughter. She's had anaphylactic allergies for 14 years ffs.

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DinsdalePiranha 1 year ago

EMTs aren’t supposed to diagnose anything.

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C.O. Shea 1 year ago

This is why I did not wait for the ambulance. Drove my wife fücking quick to the ER.

0points

Givemeabreak101 1 year ago

EMT or Boy Scout with a merit badge.

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Nicholas Blanchard 1 year ago

EMTs carry epi don't they?

0points

Javelina Poppers 1 year ago

Where did he get his training, Lower Slovobia?

0points

UKGrandad 1 year ago

At the risk of being accused of mansplaining, I'm not sure that I believe this one happened. Both sufferers and medical professionals know that a person does not go into anaphylaxis: they go into anaphylactic shock. It's like saying that somebody having a heart attack is going into cardio rather than cardiac arrest.

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#9

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them Had a guy explain Color Theory to me. I'm a Color Specialist (hair) with over 20 years experience. He was a mechanic and red/green color blind.

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We were also curious about some of the impacts mansplaining can have. "That depends on how confident and experienced you are, and how experienced the mansplainer is," Anna says. "Typically when I get mansplained, it's by someone who isn't as skilled or accomplished as I am in paddling, and so it's more of a frustration and annoyance. I don't let the person affect my confidence or my ability to perform. I'm also surrounded by a high performing and supportive community, so I have learned to take in feedback only from people who have earned my trust and the right to give me feedback."

#10

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A man has no joke tried to explain that sexual trauma can be healed through having sex with the right person… barf.

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#11

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them The hymen. We had a guy living with us for a while, he used to be a friend, but after living with him, I would realize what a mistake that was lol. Anyways, we were watching the movie Taken, and spoiler alert: the main character's daughter gets kidnapped and sold into a sex slavery operation. At the very end, the guy who purchased her because she was 'pure' is taken out by the dad. Dude who lived with me said, out loud, "Ironic, her being a virgin saved her life!" When I tell you I threw him shade! He was genuinely confused. I told him there was no way to prove virginity, and that virginity itself is a construct. "The hymen is real!" I had to explain to a man, in his thirties, that hymens come in all different shapes, sizes, and thickness. I had to explain to him that it doesn't cover the vaginal opening totally because, if it did, how would we lose our menstrual blood. Again, to an adult man, that a hymen can rupture for many many reasons. He argued with me! I am a CIS woman. I have five children. He argued with me about the female reproductive system and the term 'loose women'. I had to look him in the face and tell him that that term described loose morals not a loose vagina. That's not a thing. No wonder he's still single.

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Anna also says mansplaining can erode confidence and curb growth potential in folks who are learning or feel less confident in their abilities. "If that person is surrounded by mansplainers and doesn't have a supportive community to turn to, it can lead to them giving up on the passion, job, hobby etc.," she explained. "Because it's no longer fun, and they are constantly being treated like they don't know what they're doing or what they're talking about."

#12

I designed a backup camera system. The manufacturer did not properly test the system upon sending us our first production units. I got a call from the first customers (mechanics). They spent the whole 5 minutes I was there under the vehicles telling me how they’ve done this for years and there’s no way a little girl who isn’t a mechanic could figure it out. The manufacturer mixed up the positive and negative cables. I switched them as they were explaining to me how the system I designed worked. Fixed before they could finish.

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#13

Someone who was never in the military was trying to explain marine boot camp to me.

….I’ve been in 7 years

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#14

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My ex husband tried to explain to me that pain in childbirth was something modern medicine invented to get women to take drugs and get them and thier children addicted. According to him childbirth isn't actually painful but medical professional convince women it is. Women use to be able to give birth then carry on with thier day without having to rest for days or weeks afterward.

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As far as what to do with mansplainers, Anna says she likes the bold approach of calling the person out, and doing so with humor if possible. "This summer, a good friend of mine started to mansplain a really simple kayak design concept to me. So I responded sarcastically with, 'Really?! Thanks for that very basic information. I've been paddling for 30 years, but had no idea!' He responded with, 'Too much?' and we had a good laugh about it. He got it, and we could move on," she shared.

"I'm also not afraid to flex when I need to and let folks know that they've overstepped and that I'm not asking for advice," Anna added. "I encourage women to stop being nice. It's okay to straight talk to someone who is mansplaining to you."

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However, the expert acknowledges that can be challenging if there is a power differential or the mansplainer becomes adversarial.

#15

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My dad tying to explain to me that my fear of men is sexist and I shouldn't have been worried. I was 16 and had been followed on the street, cat called, chased, had creeps on my Instagram and there where weird teachers at school. Also tried to tell me that my period pain couldn't have been as bad as it was because he knows about them... I've been having them for 6 years and have a condition.

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#16

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I was once mansplained what mansplaining is.

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#17

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them How to start a car. It was my car. I drove there.

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157points

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"I think the most important thing for all of us to remember is to only take in feedback from folks who have earned your trust and earned the right to give you that feedback," Anna says. "Seek out those people, so you have folks in your life who support you and who will also advocate for you when a mansplainer comes around. None of us have to take in feedback that we didn't ask for."

If you'd like to hear more wise words from Anna, be sure to visit her website Mind Body Paddle!

#18

I was house shopping and the agent asked me if my current house has a garage. I said no and he proceeded to explain to me that if I had a garage I could park my car inside in the winter so it wouldn't get ice and snow on it. Thanks. I know how garages work.

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#19

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A friend I knew in college tried to mansplain lesbian sex to me… (I date women). I immediately shut him down by asking if he REALLY thought I didn’t know how women had sex with one another. Sometimes all you have to do to make them realize how ridiculous they’re being is to read back their b******t to them. Needless to say, he was embarrassed.

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#20

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I heard a guy trying to explain what PayPal is…. To a woman who worked at PayPal.

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#21

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A male friend once tried to mansplain feminism to me.
Let's say he didn't try that again, because my laughter was very hurtful to his ego.

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#22

Before a concert, chatting with people next to me, a man asks what my favorite song by the band is. I tell him “All Come True,” to which he says “They don’t have a song called All Come True.” I tell him the name of the album it’s on. He gives me the skeptical look. “Are you thinking of a different band?” No. “Do you go to concerts much?” Yes, twice a week, and All Come True is the eighth song in the set on this tour.

Right before I pushed to the front, at the opening chord of the eighth song, I tapped him and yelled “THIS IS ALL COME TRUE.”

When I got back to my spot they weren’t there anymore.

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#23

Last weekend I cracked a joke to my boyfriend. He laughed and then proceeded to explain my own joke back to me as to why it was funny.... It was my joke.

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#24

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them Scuba diving. By a guy who saw a YouTube video. I clocked like 400 dives so far.

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129points

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#25

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them A bartender explaining to me why alcohol is more expensive in hotels and restaurants as opposed to grocery stores. “Because it’s a business” is verbatim what he said to me.

I’m the Corporate Food & Beverage Manager. For the entire company.

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#26

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I sent an ex to the store to buy me tampons and I sent him a photo of the exact ones I needed.

he did not buy the right ones but it was “ok” according to him because “*all tampons are the same and do the exact same thing*”

for context I wanted U by Kotex Click REGULAR and he got me the OB Applicator Free SUPER PLUS.

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#27

Gay colleague who (maybe except for his mother) has never seen a woman naked tried to explain the female anatomy „down below“. Let’s just say it was very amusing to let him go on and begin to stutter once we began asking questions.

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125points

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#28

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them Mansplained woman shouldn’t have body hair and he can. He simply said “cause I’m a man” lmfao cringe till this day.

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#29

An ex confidently informing me that I masturbate "wrong" while also explaining that there's obviously something wrong with my vagina because OtHeR GiRLs cUm FrOm PeNeTrAtiOn and I did not.

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#30

Women’s rights in the United States were one mansplained to me—by a dude who wasn’t American and who never lived in America.

I read him the riot act for his arrogance.

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#31

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them BIL tried explaining to me that I didn’t know what it was like to be poor.

The man has never been really poor. Even when he was unemployed, his father was sending him money so he didn’t have to change his lifestyle.

I hit him back with, “Yeah, I know what it’s like to be poor. I was living out of my car in 2013.”

He then proceeded to explain why I have poor financial literacy. 🙄

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#32

I worked for the fire department as a firefighter and in administration. I was in charge of a lot of stuff including payment of voluntary firefighters. One of the volunteers complained about the payment method at length and then proceeded to explain to me how it's done. He was wrong. Very very wrong. When I told him and also told him I know because that's my job he didn't believe me and told me "let's agree to disagree". I laughed and told him no. The other guys were laughing at him too. That was three years ago and the man still avoids me and doesn't like me.

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#33

I was mansplained at the grocery store, and when I told my husband about the encounter, he mansplained to me how the first guy had been wrong. Mainsplainingception!

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#34

My ex tried to explain the difficulty of playing the trombone to me. He had no musical experience whatsoever. I had played 3 instruments, one of which being the trombone.

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#35

A coworker of mine had to have a quadruple bypass. His good friend (Peter) was telling me and two older male colleagues about what happened. Peter didn't look at me until he looked me in the eyes and said "quadruple means four" turned back to my male colleagues and continued talking.

I have a BS in math and computer science and worked in CS research at the time.

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#36

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My ex tried to tell me that if I *really* wanted to get rid of the pooch belly fat that is common for women to have, I could. He then proceeded to give me fitness and nutrition advice. It was laughable to hear his thoughts since it's not possible to target specific fat loss, especially fat that is specifically there to protect female organs.

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#37

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them One time I commented that a particular movie was terrible because the female lead was really dumb and made bad decisions. Some dude replied, 'It's not bad writing; you just don't understand female psychology.' And then proceeded to explain why the behavior was normal or common or whatever. The movie was My Father the Hero, for the curious. The lead was a teenage girl who lied and said her father was her lover because she was interested in another older man, and she thought it would make her seem sophisticated. Yeah, it was that terrible.

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#38

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them Told him I’ve been learning Japanese for three years and said ‘Have you heard of Katakana yet?’ ‘Yes’ Proceeds to explain to me what Katakana is which I learned on day one three years ago…

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#39

I went to my eye doctor for eye stuff and he mansplained my ear problem (Meniere’s disease) as a “garbage diagnosis” that probably wasn’t the cause of my balance issues (it is, because my right vestibular nerve doesn’t function). Again, was at the doctor for EYE STUFF. But me and my ear doctor had a good laugh about it later.

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#40

My coworker at my last job mansplained VCRs, cord phones, and VHS tapes to me (I'm old enough to know and have used all of those things.) Then when I brought up Legend of Zelda, he said he didn't play newer games. Had to explain to him that the first game came out in the 80s then had him mansplain the video game industry to me.

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#41

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My period. A man was confusing menstruation with ovulation, basically trying to convince me they're the same thing.

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#42

Female anatomy. I’m a woman and a nurse.

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#43

I had a guy mansplain how to use & clear a spray paint cap as I was literally 6 hrs into spray painting a 45’ mural….I teach people about how to use spray paint.

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#44

The most recent one, some dude telling me what's a balanced nutrition. Ive been a dietitian for more than 10 years lmao

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#45

My boss telling me in great detail how I should wash my vagina. He didn't have a vagina.

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#46

That PMS is actually psychosomatic and it isn't actually real. That I will just not experience the symptoms if I don't think about them.

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#47

I was eating lunch at a cafe when I was told I shouldn't be eating salad because when you're pregnant you don't have an immune system and that it could kill me. He was a doctor. And no, when I asked if he meant to warn me about food borne illness he laughed and said no, it was the ranch dressing bacteria. He also tried to explain to me what pregnancy felt like.

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#48

Me ex tried to tell me a certain alcohol was safe for me to drink… I have celiac disease and it’s not a safe alcohol for me to drink and I repeatedly told him the reasons and he argued til he was blue in the face, even though even before diagnosis I didn’t like that alcohol anyways so even if I could drink it I wouldn’t. I’ve had celiac disease for 10 years now… he’d never even heard of it before meeting me. But yeah he attempted to mainsplain several aspects of my own disease to me throughout the relationship.

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#49

Had a partner at work attempt to explain lightning/electricity to me (in reference to defibrillation).

I was a physics major in college. He knew this. One of our first units in physics was electricity and magnetism.

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#50

What women like myself, actually want in a man despite telling them over and over.

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#51

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them My own mental illness that I've had for a decade.

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#52

Had the janitor at my old job mansplain colonization in canada to me. I'm native and was like ??? the whole time.

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#53

My ex told me I wasn’t walking properly and tried to teach me.

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#54

My FIL went into great details to explain endometriosis to me.

All I did was let him know that I was having a surgery done to help and it had a bit of a recovery time.

At that point I had been living with endo for a decade.

Yes please mansplain my own body to me.

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#55

A man once mansplained sexism to me. He even had the audacity to say that he thought “more feminine men” had an even harder time than actual women do. I was in so much shock, I didn’t even think to punch him in the face.

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#56

I once had a guy explain to me how oxygen perfusion works in the human body ... I'm a nurse.

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#57

I compared our reproductive system to that of chickens because we're both born with all of our eggs. He interrupted me to say that women actually make new eggs every month. 🙂

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#58

Told my bf what grandparents law was and days later he said “ i read somewhere about grandparents law ,, “ and started to explain it exactly how i did until i interrupted him and told him i was the somewhere.

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#59

My partner once explained to me how wifi and modems work… I’ve been in telecom for almost 20 years and was a journey person before moving to manage network engineers and architects. It was heartwarmingly cute when he put his foot in his mouth after about 5 minutes when he realized what he was doing.

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#60

I was wearing a company jacket with the shape of Ohio on the back. A random guy at the gas station kept yelling at me until I turned around. He proceeds to say "bet you don't know what state that is on your jacket, yeah it's Ohio..." and goes on to explain to me about why it's shaped that way.
Thanks guy. I had no idea where the company I work for is located. Like where my income is from. Glad he could clear it up for me.

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#61

Had a guy try to "educate" me about tracking my period and how it's essential to my health and well being on being up to date on it so i can give honest answers when sked. Like, let's forget it's a bad time in our history to use apps and tracking, but like... dude what? Like yes I know to keep track and an idea on it, why do you think you need to educate me on this topic to begin with...

Mind you this was a phone sales guy who was showing me new features on a smart watch, one being a period tracker, so it wasn't even someone important in my life, just some random dude.

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#62

My fiance and I have been on whiskey tours etc and tonight he explained to me that on the rocks means a drink has ice in it.

Sir.

(He was pretty drunk tbf)

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#63

On a first date, he asked if I knew what a urinal was. I took it as a one off thing… the next date, he asked if I knew what a multi tool was, and then said “really?” when I said yes.

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#64

I was telling my longtime pal (who knows me to be very mechanically minded and met me at our stupidly brainy college), that the auto-lock on my apartment door didn't work. Without examining the door, he insisted repeatedly this was impossible. He wasn't rude, I just thought it was wild that in his mind, a) "she is wrong about a simple observable fact" was more likely than b) "door is broken."

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#65

Cures for PMS. As if 1) he would know more than a 40+ year old woman about this topic, or 2) every woman has the same pain and gets relief from the same treatments.

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#66

The female orgasm. He watched a lot of p*rn, he said.

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#67

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them That my muscle pain from my thyroid disease was ackshually probably just overexertion, instead, because he (a healthy person) sometimes had muscle pain in the same place & that was what the cause was for him.

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#68

How to get a job. Literally employed, graduated grad school and made more than them.

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#69

I had a guy in one of my college classes explain to me the general concept of undergraduate research. I had published two papers at that point.

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#70

The explanation of what my feminizing HRT can do, specifically for uses unrelated to HRT. Thank you Mr. Man Doctor, I had no idea taking estrogen can increase my levels of estrogen. You've enlightened me.

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#71

Showers. I was telling a boomer man that my brothers hot water heater was dying and he mansplained that i just needed to wait for the water to warm up 1st. I was 40 at the time.

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#72

I was a beauty therapist for 9 years. I don't think his intent was to mansplain, but my dad would often try to explain to me the importance of eyebrow shape to flatter a face shape. I know, man. I got the diploma.

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#73

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them I bought a six pack of beer one night from the liquor store and the man on the check out explained to me in great detail how I needed to hold the pack from underneath to stop the bottles falling out. Complete with instructional hand gestures. Thanks Newton, I know how gravity works.

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#74

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them One time I was looking at my phone while standing near a gas pump about to put gas in my car, because I was transferring money over in my bank account. This random guy walked up to me and started explaining to me how to put gas in my car. He was rightfully embarrassed when I was like, "I'm just transferring money to my checking account..." I was 24. I swear I don't look SO young that it would be reasonable to assume I don't know how to put gas in my car. I also know I didn't have a 'confused' expression or anything. It was honestly too funny for me to even feel insulted.

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#75

I once saw a film on a date in which some lava monster flung magma all over the place. I joked "I like the way they made fire scarier by making it goopier." Dude said, incredibly helpfully, "Um actually, that's called lava. It comes from volcanoes."

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#76

How to wash a cup.

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#77

That I cannot POSSIBLY have a cramp in my boob because there is no muscle tissue in boobs, just fat. No breasts have muscles, you see. Not even the ones on display at the Mr Muscle contests, apparently.

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#78

Had an ex explain to me what the eggplant emoji was used for….. -_-

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#79

50 Women Share The Dumbest Things That Have Ever Been Mansplained To Them Hormonal acne. I wash my face and don’t use make up often. I still struggle with it.

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#80

I work in biotech and I was mansplained what PowerPoint was for a team team activity to present an intro to our team to the entire department. Needless to say, this team activity had lots of arguments which also included dismissing everything our co op said. Obviously, our team presentation was boring as hell while other teams had fun and informative intros to their team like having parody intros to full house.

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Adelaide Ross

Howdy, I'm Adelaide! I'm originally from Texas, but after graduating from university with an acting degree, I relocated to sunny Los Angeles for a while. I then got a serious bite from the travel bug and found myself moving to Sweden and England before settling in Lithuania about two years ago. I'm passionate about animal welfare, sustainability and eating delicious food. But as you can see, I cover a wide range of topics including drama, internet trends and hilarious memes. I can easily be won over with a Seinfeld reference, vegan pastry or glass of fresh cold brew. And during my free time, I can usually be seen strolling through a park, playing tennis or baking something tasty.

Howdy, I'm Adelaide! I'm originally from Texas, but after graduating from university with an acting degree, I relocated to sunny Los Angeles for a while. I then got a serious bite from the travel bug and found myself moving to Sweden and England before settling in Lithuania about two years ago. I'm passionate about animal welfare, sustainability and eating delicious food. But as you can see, I cover a wide range of topics including drama, internet trends and hilarious memes. I can easily be won over with a Seinfeld reference, vegan pastry or glass of fresh cold brew. And during my free time, I can usually be seen strolling through a park, playing tennis or baking something tasty.

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Gabija is a photo editor at Bored Panda. Before joining the team, she achieved a Professional Bachelor degree in Photography and has been working as a freelance photographer since. She also has a special place in her heart for film photography, movies and nature.

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Kimberly Alison 1 year ago

All of this just scratches the surface and it’s still infuriating to read.

16points

The Chocolate Gecko 1 year ago

Christ, man, what's up with Barbra? Just straight up misandry from what I can tell.

12points

Julie S 1 year ago

Poor Barbara needs some serious therapy some man must have really hurt her!

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J 1 year ago

Trauma. I know the feeling. You’re so hurt and destroyed that anger overtakes all else. Barbara needs compassionate professional help to heal. Staying off the comments section is part of that journey.

8points

WindySwede 1 year ago

I'm guessing it's a teen dude who is out to anger people. 🤷‍♂️

3points

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Undercover 1 year ago

My dad once explained to me how to use a hot glue gun. He asked me beforehand to help him out on one of his projects because he had never used a hot glue gun before and knew I had plenty of experience 🤦🏻‍♀️

11points

Nerd Groupie 1 year ago

I had a friend mention a girl he started dating. He was "relieved she's not on the pill, that means she doesn't sleep around!" My lecture mode was ACTIVATED.

9points

Fenchurch 1 year ago

And that’s how babies get made

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Cass 1 year ago

I used to have a photo blog where I posted photos from my hometown and a dude explained to me that I was a fake. He spent 5 minutes on Google and "proved" that my Arctic hometown didn't have the "correct" architecture. His Google results were American and I'm from Europe.

8points

WindySwede 1 year ago

🤦‍♂️ probably also though Georgia just was a US state and not a country.. 🤷‍♂️

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Charl Marx 1 year ago

Had a former colleague try to explain the offside rule to me. I'm a fully qualified youth football coach and former qualified youth football referee.

7points

WindySwede 1 year ago

I have never been able to remember/understand it 😅

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June 1 year ago

Started a new job, few years ago. During lunch we (all programmers) are talking about random things, and some guy explains how they purify water in the military. I correct him nicely because he is wrong. He insists, I start to get amused as well as my manager who ends up telling him to stop embarrassing himself : "she was in the military" 😂

7points

Bec 1 year ago

Was asked if I knew where the f- word came from, I said I wasn't sure but the German word for strike/hit. In the most sneering condescending voice that comes with white male privilege was told it meant For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. I didn't think that sounded right, as acronyms are a newer construct, but I said ok. I researched it and I was correct, his source was a Van Halen record. The next time it came up I politely corrected him and he just shrugged it off like he was just joking - no you weren't and you didn't need to treat me like an idiot

6points

Hakunamawhatnow 1 year ago

So we are just randomly calling everything mansplaining now? As a girl: we dont hate you, men. Its just a few of us on BP.

6points

SeaJaySea 1 year ago

Can we thank Power Puff Scientist for their service?

5points

John L 1 year ago (edited)

Some of these are scant on context. Like the one's complaining about being the one who coded/created something. Did the "mansplainer" know that when the made the comment, or was it a sincere attempt to explain something.

4points

Vul Va 1 year ago (edited)

Part of mansplaining is not just the mansplanation in isolation (whether it was 'sincere' or not), it's the fact that it's usually an *unsolicited* explanation - it's not hard in a conversation to discover if someone's looking for an explanation or not, you just need to, you know, *listen* to the other person instead of broadcasting at them. The other issue is that mansplanations are often in- or only partly-correct, with no acknowledgement or awareness from the speaker that their understanding might be off - they're often delivered in an overly confident way. I do wonder if there's a particularly male insecurity about needing to have the answers to everything - when teaching music tech, asking the Q "do you know what this piece of equipment is/does?" to the class, many of the men would say 'yes' and confidently deliver terrible incorrect explanations (and when corrected, some would be all "well, I was basically correct..." Reader: they weren't. 🙄)

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Cjay 1 year ago

I could be wrong but… as a man people explain most of these things to me. I think people would just rather tell you something you already know then hang you out to dry. It feels like it’s only offensive if it’s a man. Obviously I don’t have personal experience with this so I could be dead wrong but… y’know

4points

Kimberly Alison 1 year ago

So you’re mansplaining mansplaining? And, yes, you are wrong.

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V 1 year ago

Think of it this way - imagine you unfortunately got diagnosed with prostate cancer. Then imagine a woman who had no prostate, cancer or any sort experience with oncology trying to explain your prostate cancer to you. Now imagine that happening with your career and any social experience you have, financial experience, health and reproductive health.

14points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Men explaining how a female body works to a female is mansplaining.

12points

Vuun 1 year ago

I decided to throw in my two cents and risk getting downvoted to oblivion. I'm pretty sure that 'mansplaining' is a real thing, because sexism is a real thing and is faced by women a lot more. However, I also think that every wrong tends get a disproportionate counterreaction. In this case it means ignoring when men do this to other men and when women do this to men (happens a looot with anything to do with traditional women's domains, e.g. children, plants, cooking). Also, as you point out, there are probably a lot of cases where people are just trying to make a conversation, and it's interpreted as mansplaining because it's talked about so much.

5points

Vul Va 1 year ago

"In this case it means ignoring when men do this to other men and when women do this to men" - calling out this kind of behaviour doesn't mean ignoring it when it happens man-to-man, or woman-to-man (though it may not be called 'mansplaining' in those situations), why would you think it would?

3points

Steve Hall 1 year ago

Some people are uninformed, some are uneducated and some people are just dumb, but most people just try to start a conversation with what ever topic is at hand. It goes both ways, mansplained or womantalked.

3points

Jeanette Thompson 1 year ago (edited)

Let me set the scene for you. Me, a dog walker. The dog: A reactive dog (barking, not aggression). A park. I literally turned the corner at the park and almost smack dab into a couple walking their, also reactive, dog. We apologize to each other and turn opposite directions. I redirect the dog I'm walking, turn her in circles a bit to break her attention. She was (and this is important to the story) sitting calmly in front of me, making eye contact. Some man walks over to me and, leans in like he's imparting one of the great secrets of the universe. "You know, you have to show them who's in charge." I point to the dog, while still maintaining eye contact with her, pointed to myself and said "boss". He got huffy. "I was only trying to help." No, sir, you were not trying to help. If you had been trying to help, you would have said something actually helpful while the dog was still going nuts. The comment was not only unhelpful, even if the dog had been still upset, but far too late as she was sitting calmly in front of me.

3points

Michael Largey 1 year ago

Then there's reverse mainsplaining - pretending to know less than the other person in order to avoid work. I once asked my younger sister to iron my pants for me. When she asked why I didn't do it myself, I told her I didn't know how. She looked me right in the eye and said "You taught me how to iron!" Oh, yeah, I did. Busted.

3points

Vul Va 1 year ago

Weaponised incompetence.

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Meldred Jay 1 year ago

Once had a male coworker explain to a table full adult cis women how to get blood out of clothing.

3points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

I'm waiting for the womansplaining article for balance...and we can include in that the number of times my wife reminds me to do things that I've already done...

3points

Jeanette Thompson 1 year ago

Oh women definitely do it, too. But there is a prevalence of men who decide to explain really basic c**p to women that they don't need explained to them because, obviously, we are idiots. If I catch myself doing something similar to someone, I apologize. I've never had a man offer me the same courtesy. They're 'only trying to help'. I don't hate men. In fact, I love my husband very much. I like the men in my life a lot. But this is a behavior that happens far too often and we're told we're being 'too sensitive'. Then we get told it can't be that bad because 'women do it, too'. *eyeroll*

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(っ◔◡◔)っ blush 1 year ago

Dude once I was drawing and the guy sitting next to me, pointed at the eye guidelines I sketched in and said "oh by the way, those are called guidelines"

3points

PK S 1 year ago

I find this post offensive. If this were about the dumb things women say then it would be shut down in a second.

2points

Toasted Applesauce 1 year ago

My ex once tried to mansplain how microwaves work. Also, his first language was not English (neither is mine) but he learned English around 4 years old and speaks it better than I do. I am currently learning his first language and at the time (as well as now) spoke it better than he did. He tried to explain the alphabet to me..

2points

JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

Whoever this Barb person is people keep talking about, if she was as downvoted as people say she was she should be banned (at least temporarily) by now. How was she allowed to keep posting?

1point

shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago

I've had multiple men mansplain my migraines and how to not have them. I suppose I don't know anything about chronic migraines, even though I've suffered from them for almost 50 years. "Drink more water!" "Take an Excedrin Migraine!" How about FU!

1point

John Harrison 1 year ago

Suggesting remedies is not mansplaining. That's perfectly normal human interaction, and women do it as well. This tendency to label everything as mansplaining is diluting the term, and lessening its impact in our discussions. (shankShaw tells me that I'M mansplaining in five ... four ... three ... )

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DinsdalePiranha 1 year ago

“He was explaining the _______ and I’m the inventor of the ________ and president of the company.”

1point

Joe Publique 1 year ago

Oh dear...

1point

ЛеснойКороль(they/he)🇺🇦🇷🇺 1 year ago

i was raised as a man and istg even I know most of this s**t (and not mansplain)

1point

Danish Susanne 1 year ago

This is fun, but also a bit unsettling. I have noticed that when a woman has trouble with her computer, she mostly assumes that she did something wrong, while most men will assume there is something wrong with the computer.

0points

Impasta (she/they) 1 year ago

Half of these are just people who just so happen to be guys trying to be helpful to another person who happens to be a girl.

0points

Aiden Brough 1 year ago

Could be just me, but I've never got bent out of shape having something explained to me (even if I now the concept) by anyone (regardless of what label you wish to attach). In fact there's been times I've appreciated the advice as I've either forgotten what to do or learnt something extra. Perhaps we need to not take ourselves so seriously?

0points

Fenchurch 1 year ago

Where’s Barb?

0points

Gavin Johnson 1 year ago

When will we ever learn? I’m a single Dad with a teenage daughter, pretty much every time we get into conversation about something that effects her I learn something new, I’m 49 with a 13 year old and i’m on the learning curve. I can share my wisdom about life (that’s kinda in my job description as Dad) but I’ve not walked in her shoes or lived her life, mansplaining is never on my ‘to do list’, she gets to daughtersplain and help me out!

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WindySwede 1 year ago

If someone think they are the smartest person in the room, they aren't! (not my downvote..)

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Kimberly Alison 1 year ago

All of this just scratches the surface and it’s still infuriating to read.

16points

The Chocolate Gecko 1 year ago

Christ, man, what's up with Barbra? Just straight up misandry from what I can tell.

12points

Julie S 1 year ago

Poor Barbara needs some serious therapy some man must have really hurt her!

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J 1 year ago

Trauma. I know the feeling. You’re so hurt and destroyed that anger overtakes all else. Barbara needs compassionate professional help to heal. Staying off the comments section is part of that journey.

8points

WindySwede 1 year ago

I'm guessing it's a teen dude who is out to anger people. 🤷‍♂️

3points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)

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Undercover 1 year ago

My dad once explained to me how to use a hot glue gun. He asked me beforehand to help him out on one of his projects because he had never used a hot glue gun before and knew I had plenty of experience 🤦🏻‍♀️

11points

Nerd Groupie 1 year ago

I had a friend mention a girl he started dating. He was "relieved she's not on the pill, that means she doesn't sleep around!" My lecture mode was ACTIVATED.

9points

Fenchurch 1 year ago

And that’s how babies get made

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Cass 1 year ago

I used to have a photo blog where I posted photos from my hometown and a dude explained to me that I was a fake. He spent 5 minutes on Google and "proved" that my Arctic hometown didn't have the "correct" architecture. His Google results were American and I'm from Europe.

8points

WindySwede 1 year ago

🤦‍♂️ probably also though Georgia just was a US state and not a country.. 🤷‍♂️

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Charl Marx 1 year ago

Had a former colleague try to explain the offside rule to me. I'm a fully qualified youth football coach and former qualified youth football referee.

7points

WindySwede 1 year ago

I have never been able to remember/understand it 😅

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June 1 year ago

Started a new job, few years ago. During lunch we (all programmers) are talking about random things, and some guy explains how they purify water in the military. I correct him nicely because he is wrong. He insists, I start to get amused as well as my manager who ends up telling him to stop embarrassing himself : "she was in the military" 😂

7points

Bec 1 year ago

Was asked if I knew where the f- word came from, I said I wasn't sure but the German word for strike/hit. In the most sneering condescending voice that comes with white male privilege was told it meant For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. I didn't think that sounded right, as acronyms are a newer construct, but I said ok. I researched it and I was correct, his source was a Van Halen record. The next time it came up I politely corrected him and he just shrugged it off like he was just joking - no you weren't and you didn't need to treat me like an idiot

6points

Hakunamawhatnow 1 year ago

So we are just randomly calling everything mansplaining now? As a girl: we dont hate you, men. Its just a few of us on BP.

6points

SeaJaySea 1 year ago

Can we thank Power Puff Scientist for their service?

5points

John L 1 year ago (edited)

Some of these are scant on context. Like the one's complaining about being the one who coded/created something. Did the "mansplainer" know that when the made the comment, or was it a sincere attempt to explain something.

4points

Vul Va 1 year ago (edited)

Part of mansplaining is not just the mansplanation in isolation (whether it was 'sincere' or not), it's the fact that it's usually an *unsolicited* explanation - it's not hard in a conversation to discover if someone's looking for an explanation or not, you just need to, you know, *listen* to the other person instead of broadcasting at them. The other issue is that mansplanations are often in- or only partly-correct, with no acknowledgement or awareness from the speaker that their understanding might be off - they're often delivered in an overly confident way. I do wonder if there's a particularly male insecurity about needing to have the answers to everything - when teaching music tech, asking the Q "do you know what this piece of equipment is/does?" to the class, many of the men would say 'yes' and confidently deliver terrible incorrect explanations (and when corrected, some would be all "well, I was basically correct..." Reader: they weren't. 🙄)

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Cjay 1 year ago

I could be wrong but… as a man people explain most of these things to me. I think people would just rather tell you something you already know then hang you out to dry. It feels like it’s only offensive if it’s a man. Obviously I don’t have personal experience with this so I could be dead wrong but… y’know

4points

Kimberly Alison 1 year ago

So you’re mansplaining mansplaining? And, yes, you are wrong.

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V 1 year ago

Think of it this way - imagine you unfortunately got diagnosed with prostate cancer. Then imagine a woman who had no prostate, cancer or any sort experience with oncology trying to explain your prostate cancer to you. Now imagine that happening with your career and any social experience you have, financial experience, health and reproductive health.

14points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Men explaining how a female body works to a female is mansplaining.

12points

Vuun 1 year ago

I decided to throw in my two cents and risk getting downvoted to oblivion. I'm pretty sure that 'mansplaining' is a real thing, because sexism is a real thing and is faced by women a lot more. However, I also think that every wrong tends get a disproportionate counterreaction. In this case it means ignoring when men do this to other men and when women do this to men (happens a looot with anything to do with traditional women's domains, e.g. children, plants, cooking). Also, as you point out, there are probably a lot of cases where people are just trying to make a conversation, and it's interpreted as mansplaining because it's talked about so much.

5points

Vul Va 1 year ago

"In this case it means ignoring when men do this to other men and when women do this to men" - calling out this kind of behaviour doesn't mean ignoring it when it happens man-to-man, or woman-to-man (though it may not be called 'mansplaining' in those situations), why would you think it would?

3points

Steve Hall 1 year ago

Some people are uninformed, some are uneducated and some people are just dumb, but most people just try to start a conversation with what ever topic is at hand. It goes both ways, mansplained or womantalked.

3points

Jeanette Thompson 1 year ago (edited)

Let me set the scene for you. Me, a dog walker. The dog: A reactive dog (barking, not aggression). A park. I literally turned the corner at the park and almost smack dab into a couple walking their, also reactive, dog. We apologize to each other and turn opposite directions. I redirect the dog I'm walking, turn her in circles a bit to break her attention. She was (and this is important to the story) sitting calmly in front of me, making eye contact. Some man walks over to me and, leans in like he's imparting one of the great secrets of the universe. "You know, you have to show them who's in charge." I point to the dog, while still maintaining eye contact with her, pointed to myself and said "boss". He got huffy. "I was only trying to help." No, sir, you were not trying to help. If you had been trying to help, you would have said something actually helpful while the dog was still going nuts. The comment was not only unhelpful, even if the dog had been still upset, but far too late as she was sitting calmly in front of me.

3points

Michael Largey 1 year ago

Then there's reverse mainsplaining - pretending to know less than the other person in order to avoid work. I once asked my younger sister to iron my pants for me. When she asked why I didn't do it myself, I told her I didn't know how. She looked me right in the eye and said "You taught me how to iron!" Oh, yeah, I did. Busted.

3points

Vul Va 1 year ago

Weaponised incompetence.

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Meldred Jay 1 year ago

Once had a male coworker explain to a table full adult cis women how to get blood out of clothing.

3points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

I'm waiting for the womansplaining article for balance...and we can include in that the number of times my wife reminds me to do things that I've already done...

3points

Jeanette Thompson 1 year ago

Oh women definitely do it, too. But there is a prevalence of men who decide to explain really basic c**p to women that they don't need explained to them because, obviously, we are idiots. If I catch myself doing something similar to someone, I apologize. I've never had a man offer me the same courtesy. They're 'only trying to help'. I don't hate men. In fact, I love my husband very much. I like the men in my life a lot. But this is a behavior that happens far too often and we're told we're being 'too sensitive'. Then we get told it can't be that bad because 'women do it, too'. *eyeroll*

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(っ◔◡◔)っ blush 1 year ago

Dude once I was drawing and the guy sitting next to me, pointed at the eye guidelines I sketched in and said "oh by the way, those are called guidelines"

3points

PK S 1 year ago

I find this post offensive. If this were about the dumb things women say then it would be shut down in a second.

2points

Toasted Applesauce 1 year ago

My ex once tried to mansplain how microwaves work. Also, his first language was not English (neither is mine) but he learned English around 4 years old and speaks it better than I do. I am currently learning his first language and at the time (as well as now) spoke it better than he did. He tried to explain the alphabet to me..

2points

JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

Whoever this Barb person is people keep talking about, if she was as downvoted as people say she was she should be banned (at least temporarily) by now. How was she allowed to keep posting?

1point

shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago

I've had multiple men mansplain my migraines and how to not have them. I suppose I don't know anything about chronic migraines, even though I've suffered from them for almost 50 years. "Drink more water!" "Take an Excedrin Migraine!" How about FU!

1point

John Harrison 1 year ago

Suggesting remedies is not mansplaining. That's perfectly normal human interaction, and women do it as well. This tendency to label everything as mansplaining is diluting the term, and lessening its impact in our discussions. (shankShaw tells me that I'M mansplaining in five ... four ... three ... )

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DinsdalePiranha 1 year ago

“He was explaining the _______ and I’m the inventor of the ________ and president of the company.”

1point

Joe Publique 1 year ago

Oh dear...

1point

ЛеснойКороль(they/he)🇺🇦🇷🇺 1 year ago

i was raised as a man and istg even I know most of this s**t (and not mansplain)

1point

Danish Susanne 1 year ago

This is fun, but also a bit unsettling. I have noticed that when a woman has trouble with her computer, she mostly assumes that she did something wrong, while most men will assume there is something wrong with the computer.

0points

Impasta (she/they) 1 year ago

Half of these are just people who just so happen to be guys trying to be helpful to another person who happens to be a girl.

0points

Aiden Brough 1 year ago

Could be just me, but I've never got bent out of shape having something explained to me (even if I now the concept) by anyone (regardless of what label you wish to attach). In fact there's been times I've appreciated the advice as I've either forgotten what to do or learnt something extra. Perhaps we need to not take ourselves so seriously?

0points

Fenchurch 1 year ago

Where’s Barb?

0points

Gavin Johnson 1 year ago

When will we ever learn? I’m a single Dad with a teenage daughter, pretty much every time we get into conversation about something that effects her I learn something new, I’m 49 with a 13 year old and i’m on the learning curve. I can share my wisdom about life (that’s kinda in my job description as Dad) but I’ve not walked in her shoes or lived her life, mansplaining is never on my ‘to do list’, she gets to daughtersplain and help me out!

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WindySwede 1 year ago

If someone think they are the smartest person in the room, they aren't! (not my downvote..)

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