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50 Times Guys Humiliated Themselves By Mansplaining Things To Women
If you are a woman, the chances are you’ve experienced mansplaining at least once at some point in your life. Whether at work or university, with friends, at a gym, or while getting your car repaired, it seems like no place is free from overconfident and condescending men who think that they know things better than you. So they explain it without being asked to do so—hence the rise of the relatable mansplaining meme, which captures these moments with humor and accuracy.
Not only is it super annoying, but mansplaining is demeaning, too, so it is by no means an innocent practice. So this time, we’re taking a look into what mansplaining experiences women witness time and again, as shared in these online threads.
Scroll down through the stories below, and be sure to share your thoughts about delusional men talking down to women in the comments.
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#1
I was taking my car in to get the winter tires off. I was between services (and couldn't be bothered to do it myself) so I was getting it done at a one of those drive-thru places it might have been a Jiffy Lube.
One of the guys that works there comes out and tells me that he will drive the car in. Then slowly, like I'm an idiot, mansplains that I would have to drive my car just so to get it over the hydraulics and that there are big holes in the floor for getting under cars that aren't raised up. The jist his mansplaination being, that it would he hard for a little woman like me to drive my car into the shop.
So, they finish up with the guy ahead of me pretty quickly (we were the only two there). About ten minutes pass and they haven't brought my car in. I look out the waiting room window and see all six guys that are working there crowded around my car outside.
Now, I started to get really nervous thinking something is wrong with my car. But I opt not to bother them, figuring that they will come tell me what's wrong when they've got it figured out.
Another 15 minutes pass and someone pulls up behind my car. That's when the guy that originally explained to me how an auto shop works, finally comes into the waiting room. It's been 25 minutes since the guy before me left, so I brace myself for awful news delivered in a mansplaination.
But no, buddy politely asks me if I could drive my car onto the hydraulics for them. Turns out of all 6 dudes, not a single one knows how to drive a standard.
So, after mansplaining to me that it would be hard for me to drive my car into the shop, they waited almost a half an hour to tell me that not one guy in the shop could even drive my car.
over it already 3 years ago
Bought my standard last year. Salesperson couldn't drive stick, so I had to wiggle it out of the odd spot they had it parked on the lot. Only person at the dealership I encountered that could drive it confidently (1 guy revved the engine while trying badly & couldn't get it in reverse) was also the only woman working in the service department.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Ive driven manuals most of my life untill my wife and I started dating. The first time I drove her car,(an automatic) we pull up to the first stop sign and what do I do? Start panic stomping trying to find the clutch. Remember that there isn't one and relax. Muscle memory kicks in again, and just as we're stopping (but NOT fully stopped!) I shift this auto into PARK thinking it's first. We stop then...and oh man the look my future wife gave me...Ooohh, I got skeert.
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Insert long winded mansplained explanation here…… abridged version? Some of us are dumb as rocks. On occasions we are beyond help.
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JitkaBlitka 3 years ago
Something similar happened to ne, but vice versa. I drive an automat in a country, where it is not very common. They couldn't even start the car.
Jean Jacket 3 years ago
I would not have stayed at this place jfc. Go somewhere else. Mechanics that can't drive a stick shift is a red flag.
Bryan W. 3 years ago
In their defense, it might be a liability issue, not a "mansplain" thing. Likely a bit of both tho. However, I have had the same thing thing happen to me at a Jiffy Lube. The "techs" there are the lowest common denominator of mechanic and on top of failing the how to drive a manual test, they pulled out my pristine cabin filter and tried to convince me I needed a new one and then spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to put it back in. Kids: Find a real machanic and schedule some proper service if you can at all. These slap dash quickie shops are a roll of the dice that they do the job right and you don't end up emptying out your oil pan or losing a tire on the highway.
Cathy Jo Baker 3 years ago
Had a similar experience last winter getting a new windshield installed, albeit without the mansplaining. Guy at glass place asked if I could drive my truck into the bay because "nobody here is really comfortable driving a stick shift" 🤣
Ru Bee 3 years ago
Is this an American thing? In the UK everyone (read most) people learn to drive a manual because otherwise the cars you could purchase would be massively limited.
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#2
I was weeding stinging nettles at my work and this guy came up behind me and explained how you have to pull up the roots for it be effective (I am obviously already doing that and I was literally at work). So I asked him to show me and dumbass grabbed the biggest stinging nettle and got stings all over his arm and face. I was very happy.
Ivo H 3 years ago
No even need for karma. Stupidity is a b**ch in this case :)
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#3
One of my husband's friends explained PTSD to me. He is an IT dude. I am a therapist specializing in trauma.
Blackheart 3 years ago (edited)
I had a male industrial engineer explain photography to me. I am an art teacher with photography awards.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
WHY? Why do they have to explain everything? Do they explain as much to each other? Is it some obsessive compulsive thing?
Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
Yeah because his cousin's friend's girlfriend's brother has it and told him all about it I'm sure 😑
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
I had an ex-boyfriend explain English tenses to me... We were both studying to become teachers in Germany - I studied Latin and English, he studied Latin and history. I'd also just spent a year in England...
Bored Panda reached out to Nicole Froio, the feminist writer and researcher, who argues that mansplaining is one of many daily aggressions women go through in a sexist and misogynistic society. “It has to be understood as a part of a larger system of oppression rather than an isolated incident.”
According to Froio, mansplaining comes from the assumption that women and other non-men don't have the intelligence to understand the topic at hand, which is a sexist and misogynistic assumption. “The mansplainer will explain something that the woman probably knows already, usually in a condescending and infantilizing way,” Froio noted.
#4
This happened to my work wife, not me. On Facebook, she posted a link to an article about mansplaining. A man then commented on the post to clarify to her what mansplaining actually is, and how it actually works. He mansplained mansplaining.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
from wikipedia: A work spouse has been defined as “a special, platonic friendship with a work colleague characterized by a close emotional bond, high levels of disclosure and support, and mutual trust, honesty, loyalty, and respect”.
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
I had this happen to me! I asked a female coworker what mansplaining was, half way through her explanation a male coworker interrupted her to explain what mansplaining was.
#5
So this was quite a few years ago. I was at a party at someone's house and there were some guitars floating around. I wanted to play one and this guy started mansplaining to me about how to tune a guitar and how to hold a plectrum and how I should try Nirvana's Come As You Are as it's one of the easiest songs to play even though I hadn't asked how to tune a guitar or said I couldn't play. Then he started playing Under The Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, badly, just strumming some rough chords for the intro.
So I asked if I could have a go and proceeded to play an absolutely perfectly rendered version of Under the Bridge. His face was a picture.
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
I am so curious where this person is from that they call a pick a plectrum. I'm a musician in a family of musicians, and I have never heard this word in my life. Is it British? Like a bandaid and a plaster?? I am fascinated...
olx 3 years ago
might be british.. everyone in music over here calls it pick or plectrum, except my guitar teacher who only calls it a plectrum and has no idea what im talking about when i say pick lmao.
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Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
I wish I could see this IRL. lol. I play drums.. had many a man try to mansplain how to play to me without realizing I've been playing for 16+ years. They tried the whole "let me get behind you & show you how" BS.... then tried to tell me that I shouldn't worry about learning how to use the kick drum as it's "more advanced" for a beginner... the kit this dude was trying to mansplain to me... WAS MY OWN! It also had a double bass setup... I was in a metal band at the time.... he was there to see our little "battle of the bands" our friend group put together.. he wasn't even with one of the other bands. Just some douche canoe. This was in high school & I'll never forget the look on his face when our all woman band started to play & he saw me on drums. Such a beautiful moment. So I'd pay to see this one happen.
#6
A white dude explained Chinese New Year to me. I'm Chinese.
deanna woods 3 years ago
I have had African American culture explained to me by non African Americans. I am African American.
tara 3 years ago
I had been a vegetarian for 13 years when my friend explained the difference between vegan and vegetarian.
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
Just in case they didn't explain it correctly... /S/J
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BakedKahuna 3 years ago
I had someone mansplain to me how the romanized version of my Chinese name is written wrong. At the same time he was butchering the correct pronounciation so I didn't know at first what he was talking about.
That one g i r l 3 years ago
Bro I have had so many korean things explained to me by koreaboos it's crazy
CultOfBambi 3 years ago (edited)
I'm curious whether mansplaining is as prevalent within other cultures or race groups. Are Asian , Hispanic or African men doing the same to the women within their societies? - or is it just white men that are doing all the 'splaining to everyone? Any thoughts, pandas from non-white cultures/countries?
“When this happens in a professional setting, this can result in the woman in a professional setting feeling disrespected and/or inept for doing their job, they could feel like they've been publicly humiliated in front of their colleagues and feeling a general loss of respect for her expertise,” she explained.
“What I usually say to men trying to not be mansplainers is that asking can go a long way—instead of assuming a person doesn't know about a certain topic, why not ask 'Do you know how this works?' or 'I'm not sure if you're familiar with this, but if you do, feel free to stop me?' These are simple ways to correct behavior that might accidentally harm someone.”
#7
Guess that was a debate I had with some colleagues on a project or something, I don't remember, it was about the Thai boys that got stuck in a cave. I voiced my opinion and said that there is only way to ensure the rescuers' safety, it's by knocking the boys unconscious, tying them up, strapping a mask around them and pulling them out like a bag of sand. I then got laughed at some dude started to explain how scuba diving with "oxygen bottles" (yes indeed) works and that it's so easy, boys can learn that, they are brave boys... Well, I am an advanced diver with close to 300 dives which he had no idea about. I know how panicked swimmers or divers react. Btw, the boys were rescued exactly as I had said.
Persephone 3 years ago (edited)
The absolute worst thing that can happen is the panic of an inexperienced person flailing and drowning themselves and their rescuer... then in addition to that tragedy, you have corpses blocking other rescue divers and the people they are rescuing... this is so much more dangerous in a flooded cave bc of the confinement. The divers already have so much to focus on with equipment and navigation; sedation was the safest option.
Limey 3 years ago
But … but… but… you are women. How can you possibly know that?.. (yes, that was sarcasm 😊)
Load More Replies... Deborah B 3 years ago
As someone who has dived once, and been in caves at least three times, I can confidantly tell you that in this situation, I would rather be sedated.
Persephone 3 years ago
I would want to be as well!!! Knock me out for that please!
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Laika-Mutton 3 years ago
I just saw a movie about this today (very good one, called Thirteen Lives).
Gemma Nunn 3 years ago
They made a movie about it called 13 lives, the reason they did it was because they had to scuba dive an adult only about 100m and he panicked and almost died.
Laura Pantazis 3 years ago
I think that part may have been added to the movie to show the audience the dangers of an inexperienced person diving in an emergency situation. I've been reading the autobiography of the diver who did the rescue and he didn't mention that part. I tried finding another source to say that happened, but haven't been able to. It may have happened, or it may have been added to help the audience understand.
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LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
He used it to defend the boys from "paedophiles".
Load More Replies... Silviu Leibovici 3 years ago
Well, they could have give high concentration oxigen, get them high, then out of there ... Or nitrogen/laughing gas ... But yeah, panic in the water makes a quick victim sure
Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
Mansplanation aside, that is horrifying. Cave diving is nuts. They've put up eerie signs near underwater caves with the grim reaper on them to discourage divers from going in. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkwjzltUUAEjHvV?format=jpg&name=medium
#8
During my first few months as a registered architect working for my dad, an engineer told me to call my daddy since he wasn't satisfied with my answer.
He literally said, "Call your daddy about it."
I took a deep breath, and tried not to clobber him. He was an old man, the same age as my dad.
I called my dad on loudspeaker, and he answered the same thing. He also told them to listen to me.
Hah.
VM37 3 years ago
We (baby boy mamas) are doing our Best to stave the male gender for the future. Wish me luck.
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John Bujold 3 years ago
I relate to this post from the dad's position. It makes me extremely prode when my daughter, who is an engineer, puts a dumbass in his place when they start to explain her job to her. She's one of the smartest, toughest and kindness people I know. The cultural upbringing of boys and girls needs to change and this only starts when everyone stops them when they say s**t like "ya but you're just a girl", it's all b******t. I admit openly I'm guilty of periodically mansplaning but I'm working really hard to stop it and apologize profusely when I do. Sorry to all those who I offended in the past
Silviu Leibovici 3 years ago
Well, could it be that a young unknown architect be the reason old guy didn't trusted the answer ? Happened to me in new jobs also ...
#9
A man once tried to tell me what women on tinder want. When I argued with him he told me I didn’t know what I was talking about then he linked me a YouTube video of another man saying what women on tinder want.
Asexual nope rope 3 years ago
I know what women want because I watched a youtube video on them. Even though The last time I was in a 6ft radius, I was with my mum.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I had men tell me that I’m going to be alone forever and that I’m narcissistic if I don’t use a dating app and find myself a partner by the time I’m in my mid thirties. Do pretty, intelligent, independent single women somehow threaten men’s masculinity? Cough cough, and why do they automatically assume that I just like men?
Rachael Sampson 3 years ago
Of course when an actual woman tells him what she would like he doesn't believe her. Has to hear it from a man instead. 🤮
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Ya know that "Feminism is the radical idea that women are people too". Guys like this one clearly don't see women as people like themselves. It's like people speculating about how Veela or Dementors (in Potterverse) act or think.
While Froio would not classify mansplaining as one of the worst things experienced by women in a patriarchal system, she would say that “it is wrong because it rectifies the gender structure on an interpersonal level.”
“For example, you might be a woman in a male-dominated industry where your expertise is already undervalued because that field is male-dominated, and then one of your colleagues mansplains a simple concept everyone in the office is familiar with.”
Froio argues that “this can lead to things like imposter syndrome and an unwelcome work environment for women, where people's suspicions about the woman's supposed lack of expertise is rectified by the mansplaining.”
#10
argued with my boyfriend that though it was discovered awhile ago, it was only recently discovered what clitoris does… he said, and i quote, “but it’s been around since the 1800s.” he deadass told me the clit had only been around since the 1800s.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Sooo it's only been around for the last 200 years and still half the male population still can't find it 😕
over it already 3 years ago
That's an understatement, especially when it comes to female anatomy and medical issues.
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J Baker 3 years ago
I will now be referring to the clitoris as "The West Indies."
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deanna woods 3 years ago
It's been there the whole time, some guys just don't know how to stimulate it. That's why they think it's brand new.
Electra Complex 3 years ago
The invention of the clitoris in 1802 was a big win for feminism, in my opinion
#11
A guy I was dating lost his work iPad. I told him to use the Find My app and he went on a tirade about how he couldn't use that. I rolled my eyes and though, "Fine. Have fun explaining to your boss that you lost a brand new iPad."
He calls me back later and tells me that Assistant Male Boss is a genius! It was Assistant Male Boss' idea to use Find My app and they found the iPad. What a miracle!
He then procceded to mansplain how the app works.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
It's like guys like this don't listen to women, but when a man says the same thing, it makes sense to them, because they recognize the thing they are talking about, even though they don't know where they heard about it, because (again) they don't listen to women.
Betsy Knox 3 years ago
Actually that is probably how this happens. Forgetting where the info came from happens in a lot of situations like this, not just between men and women. It happens with my mom and me as well.
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Glen MacLeod 3 years ago
I have a female coworker who does this. She explains things to me that I just explained to her. Did I mention I'm her boss?
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
Gee, do you think she's maybe trying to tell you something?
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#12
I had a man try to tell me that women's vaginas can't stretch to accommodate anything bigger than a strictly average sized penis, therefore it was a waste of time for any manufacturer to make any dildo bigger than 5 inches(!).
I think he might have had some insecurities going on in the trouser department.
Enea 3 years ago
That's a harsh judgement. He may have copied that from Sex and the City: There's this episode where they meet a dildo model in Los Angeles, and Miranda says something along the lines of "The average vagina is only 5 inches deep." (No idea whether that's true) Kind of strange how all comments refer to how babies are born. The vagina doesn't stretch in length during birth but in width.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago (edited)
Good point, he was referring to length, and a TV show may indeed have been his best chance at getting any sex ed
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H M 3 years ago
Who wants a gigantic thing shoved up there anyway, except...a man...who thinks this is the seat of pleasure. Not.
Zwiebel Suppe 3 years ago
Some people like it and there's nothing wrong about that either.
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Moreover, mansplaining is one of the many social phenomena that work to rectify a system of subjugation, and Froio would say that's the reason it is wrong.
When asked about the best ways to react if you are being mansplained to, Froio said that personally, she finds being assertive quite important when responding to mansplaining.
“I usually respond by saying things like 'Thanks for explaining, but I already knew that' or even interrupting the mansplainer and saying 'Sorry to interrupt, but I already know that, so we can move onto the next topic instead of wasting time.'"According to the writer, your response doesn't need to be overtly about gendered dynamics.
“It can just be a gentle nudge to the fact that you are knowledgeable and that you don't need an explanation,” Froio concluded.
#13
I wrote a process that was used at our work. 25k people in this business. A guy explained my own process to me, showing it to me with my name written at the top.
He'd invited me to the meeting .....
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
TLDR: someone tried to explain a process to me, incorrectly, that I myself had written the notes for. / didn’t ask my boss just told me I had to go to a training meeting. Started talking through the process. Raised my hand and said I need to interject here sorry that’s not quite right. The person gets mad and said maybe you need to read the process notes, that’s why we’re here. I said rather annoyed now, ok then show me in the notes where it says to do that. The person starts going through them, can’t find it. I say if you turn to page x you’ll see it clearly says to (do it my way). The person looks confused and said that’s not what my notes said yesterday, how did you know that?. So I very happily replied with a big ol’ smile, “because I wrote them”. Needless to say my boss found out and was really annoyed this person took it upon themselves to train people on something they didn’t know about, and I ended up having to train people on it properly.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Always know your author. Had this bite a student in the behind when she was doing a presentation on an Archaeological study and kept saying "This guy..this author" as she tore the research apart. "This guy.." happened to be sitting a few feet away from her was the professor that was grading her on her presentation. Oopsie!
Mina Bear 3 years ago
I had a bloke open the presentation for my process, and he had replaced my name at the top with his. I changed it back. Another man denied we'd ever been discussing the project we'd planned with weekly meetings for 2 months. I smiled at him and offered to send his bosses (in the meeting) the minutes I'd made of our weekly meetings and our correspondence.
Michelle C 3 years ago
At least she had facts to back her up! I can only imagine what would’ve happened if he wasn’t able to get anything in writing for some reason! Some people can be awful when they think they know everything there is to know about something.
#14
I don't know if it counts as mansplaining, but sometimes I'll say something and a man will say the exact same thing back to me as if he's making a new point and when I say "that's literally what I just said" they just lose it. Just. Why.
Anna Erika Danielsson 3 years ago
Very relatable! 😄 "And how is that different from what I was saying?". "I don't know... I wasn't listening".
Pantea 3 years ago
Even worse: in a meeting, a woman makes a suggestion and nobody reacts, or they don't accept it. A male colleague makes the same suggestion few minutes later and everybody jumps on it. I've seen it happen to co-workers many times and it infurates me.
Deanna Crichley 3 years ago
That's when you just stop coming up with ideas at meetings. Let him come up with his own. Then, later back at your desk, you compose a thoughtful e-mail to the boss, saying you'd had some insights at the meeting, and here is your idea. CC whoever you think is appropriate.
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Erin Witzke 3 years ago
My hubs is notorious for this. I’m just assuming he’s not listening, as per usual.
veveve 3 years ago
same, it seems like every suggestion that came out of my mouth is inaudible to him
Load More Replies... Skeeter 3 years ago
My SO does this a lot. And if I press the point he starts yelling. "FINE. Have it your way. Whatever. You're so perfect! " To me, it's a combination of low self esteem, fragile ego and insecurity. Brace yourselves, ladies, we are in our mid 60s. He should have grown up by now.
Linda Lee 3 years ago
Yep, you're speaking the truth, Skeeter. I said, "No. I'm not going to argue with you. You'll just tell me I'm wrong". The next words out of his mouth, "You're wrong!".
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Eddie Castillo 3 years ago
Happened at work a couple of days ago when I was looking for my next order at the loading dock trying to do my own thing. Me: "Yeah I'm just looking for *insert code* order, it's up next. I can't find it so it's probably not here yet. Or they changed which order is next like they did yesterday." Him: "They don't do that." Me: "Yes they did, yesterday, with my order." Him, trying to help despite the fact that i already looked: So what are you looking for? Let me help you." Proceeds to not find it. "It's probably not here yet." Me: "Yeah, that's what I was thinking." *walks away*
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Like I sad on an earlier entry, it's like they don't listen to women. They still subconsciously hear what we say, and think "That's interesting, I don't know where I heard it, but this woman must be interested in what I have to say to her".
Linda Lee 3 years ago
It's testosterone poisoning. I learned that earlier in this post. It's my new favorite term.
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#15
You only want one example...? The most infuriating example was when my “supervisor” at BioLife tried to tell me that I could get over Endometriosis and chronic migraines with “the power of positive thinking”, and I looked him dead in the face, said “that may work for you, but I’ve had these issues since I was 12 years old. I have tried literally everything including “positive thinking”, which is a toxic thing to say to a sick person, btw, and I know exactly what works for me by now and what doesn’t, so don’t ever say that to me again. Are we clear?” And for some background info, we’d been discussing my issues, and he cut me off and said “I never even get a cold, you have to rely on the power of positive thinking”. Meanwhile I was on my way to a hysterectomy bc of endometriosis and cervical cancer, but I didn’t mention the cancer bc it was caught very early with routine screening, thankfully, and it wasn’t everyone’s business.
Rachknits 3 years ago
I'm sorry you went through this. Most of us with chronic health issues are well used to people making supposedly helpful suggestions that imply that if only we made more effort then we'd be cured. Like the time a male friend told me that I just needed to meditate in a certain way to heal my fibromyalgia and ME. When I was sceptical he went on to say I was ill because of my failure to take responsibility for getting better. Apparently he knew this one girl he met online who had used meditation so therefor he knew more about it than all the healthcare professionals and more than me, after being too ill to work for 10 years and have spent much of that time researching as much as I can.
Kyria Denton 3 years ago
"imply that if only we made more effort then we'd be cured" you nailed it I read once that health is a crown only the sick can see. People act like health is completely in their own control, they have no idea how little control they actually have.
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
My first long term partner suffered with endometriosis, it was hell on earth for her and it taught me a lot about how p**s poor womens healthcare can be. She tolerated all manner of prodding and poking, misdiagnosis and it broke her spirit on occasions. She was 10x tougher than I am and she came through stronger and more calmly than I’d ever have managed. My heart goes out to any woman suffering endometriosis, it’s a fecking rough ride.
Tamra 3 years ago
Yes, endo is one of those illnesses that is unseen and often misdiagnosed, and can cause unbelievable pain and trauma.
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Melanie Burlock 3 years ago
I would have gone straight to HR. A supervisor should not be saying things like this.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
I'm glad the cancer was caught early. A person who relied on "positive thinking" probably would not have gotten screened as early as you did and so faired badly.
Azolane 3 years ago
That's my soon to be ex-husband. I've been dealing with chronic illness, and long covid on top of that, and since he discovered all that "manifestation" BS he told me to "think positive". Told him to shut up and next time I hear this he can go through the front door and never come back. Unbelievable.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Good for you to put your foot down with that toxic guy. You deserve better.
Load More Replies... Brenda 3 years ago (edited)
I had cervical cancer 2x in my 20's, caught early. Severe estrogen deficiency. Breast cancer 3 years ago. Then there are the autoimmune diseases, degenerative disc, spinal stenosis, fibro, arthritis, chronic fatigue, CIPN (Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy) and a few others. Telling me i can't possibly hurt that much, positive thoughts will make it better, I'm not trying to get better etc. A$$HOLE, I have a TEAM of 7 Dr's working with me. If they can't fix me, I can't be fixed! I hope YOU never have a fraction of this stuff
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
I had someone do this with me about my anxiety and depression but with "vitamins" over my prescribed anti-depressants (that work). They were trying to persuade me that vitamins would do everything I needed and not have bad side effects. I just smiled and nodded b/c otherwise I wanted to explain how I was at my worst when only taking b-vitamins, St. John's Wort, other assorted "naturals" to keep me from losing my mind.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
I have had the experience of people treating me like I was abusing narcotics by taking antidepressants. I want to point out to these self-appointed "experts", who try to convince people to go off their meds, that what they are actually doing is killing people. Because suicide is often the result.
Load More Replies... Blackheart 3 years ago
Guess all those people who died of Covid should have had happier thoughts. Sorry you had to deal with this idiot.
We also spoke with Priscilla Kavanaugh, the writer, designer, and content creator who runs the blog “Bonjour Bitches Blog.” She previously went viral for this illuminating Twitter thread on mansplaining. Bored Panda wrote about it in this previous article, so you may want to check it out. According to Kavanaugh, we have a long way to go because “men are more threatened by women than ever.” She believes that it's going to take a long time to untie this knot and we have to be prepared for that.
#16
I was giving an informal speech at school and one of my classmates in the audience kept interrupting my speech to explain to me what I was talking about.
And I'm like "Thanks, I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm up here."
Id row 3 years ago
We had an all hands meeting at my corporate level workplace. The person heading the meeting was a woman and the number of times she was interrupted by the CFO was maddening. She'd say one sentence and he'd interrupt her and talk about something completely unrelated for 2 or 3 minutes simply because he outranked her and he could. This went on for the entire 2 hour meeting. I was so mad on her behalf it was all I could do to refrain from yelling, "WILL YOU STFU AND LET HER SPEAK?"
Denise Melek 3 years ago
German saying goes: if the cake talks, the crumbs shut up. So shut up, crumb.
Blackheart 3 years ago (edited)
I have to tell some students " I know what I'm talking about, and that is why I'm up here" every single day.
#17
The pronunciation of my own name.
TheEndIsNigh🇨🇦and🇬🇧in🇺🇲 3 years ago
This!!!! I had someone try to mansplain the origins of my own name to me and try to tell me the "X" makes a "Sh" sound and not a "Z" sound. No it does not buddy, no it does not.
All's Gravy 3 years ago
Mind you, I have come across many illiterate parents who have come up with their kids' names having only heard them and so spelled them phonetically or something equally bad. They have no choice then but to brazen it out; either insistence on the bizarre/wrong spelling, or a sudden change in the pronunciation of the kid's name to match the spelling.
Random Person 3 years ago
I swear to god I've seen this exact thing happen to one of my friends. This old dude was subbing for our class and during rolecall he mispronounced her name, she corrected him, and, I kid you not, he straight up told her it could be pronounced both ways. Lets just say that if the two of them find themselves in a back alley at night it's not going over well for him.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
No, I'm with the teacher on this one. But only if he was saying it as an apology / explanation. For example; Aliyah. Is it AH-li-a, a-LI-a? You gotta pick one, and if you get it wrong, you can explain you thought it was the other way. However if he's insisting he's right, and keeps saying it his way, he's a d**k.
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Catte West 3 years ago
At the pharmacy. Give my name, spell it. Pharmacist looks at me, slowly pronounces my name, adding an extra to letter at the beginning. No. I spell my name again. Still confused. Happened every single time.
#18
I was in the sprinkler aisle of the Home Depot looking for the correct replacement head for my system. And a dude just sidles up and starts explaining to me the different parts of a system and how water pressure is so important, and how complicated it is. I kept trying to cut him off telling him I knew and didn’t need his help, he just wouldn’t take a hint. I finally got shitty with him and told him I didn’t need his help because I was a plumbing engineer.
tara 3 years ago
I once walked into the kitchen at work to see the cook explaining how to stir properly, to the newest cook....the newest cook who had owned her own restaurant and was the (very good) cook there. Even took the spoon out of her hand to "show her" how to stir properly.
Renee 3 years ago
I used to work at Home Depot. A lot of men (and even some women) wouldn't take anything I said seriously and would ask if there was a man who could help them instead
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
So frustrating! I went to Home Depot for some red duct tape (because I made a little kids’ “photo booth” out of cardboard and needed to cover it with something that would hold up in the rain and reinforce the cardboard.) The guy that helped me find the tape went into a whole rant about why I should be using paint instead, and when I explained my reasoning, he rolled his eyes at me. I submitted a complaint - also, the duct tape worked wonderfully :)
Load More Replies... Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
Girl......: if I had a dollar for Every time I get mansplained To in a hardware store I'd have enough money to buy every single one of them. My dad was a contractor. I grew up playing with tools while my dad totally abused child labor laws. Stfu & leave me alone! I don't need a penis to know how to renovate my fucken house or to pick the right 2x4s!
norabest321 3 years ago
As a former Depot employee, weird people did this to us too. Like, I work in the power washer section. I know how power washers work, even though I'm a girl. Old white boomer men were the worst.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Not to excuse the guy’s boorishness, but everyone I’ve known who works in industry never bought retail when they can get them wholesale and reimburse their company.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Meanwhile, he's ignoring the customers who do need help and explanations.
Kavanaugh also doesn’t think that mansplainers understand that their behavior is damaging. She believes that in many cases, they don't particularly care. In order to fight mansplainers, Kavanaugh argues, we have to stop being afraid of making mansplainers uncomfortable.
“There are a lot of great articles about how to respond when you're being mansplained. Find an approach that's comfortable for you, whether it's making a joke or saying something more direct like ‘I just explained that, Jim,’ ‘I think my explanation was more than adequate,’ or ‘I don't think we need to further reiterate what I've been saying but thank you for chiming in.’”
#19
A mechanical engineer, my ex-boyfriend's brother, explained how medical genetics works to me. It's fine though, I'm only a medical geneticist who's been working in the field for 5 years.
Blackheart 3 years ago
What is it with these engineers? They are mansplaining all over these posts! Yeah they're smart, so are other people. Some are even smarter than the engineers.
Michelle C 3 years ago
The look on his face was probably priceless when he learned or remembered that!
#20
A dude went on to explain how i could hold in my period. He really believed you could do that
Berdarien Brown 3 years ago
I'm trying to find all the stuff about comma's first. I'll get to the periods later. They are confusing.
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Jessica Cain 3 years ago
Oh My God. Men and there thoughts about periods. One of my friends told that the best thing about being him was not getting a period.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
If this were possible, do you not think we would f*****g well know it?!
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
…people actually believe that? I thought that that was just an urban legend…
WonderWoman 3 years ago
For this very reason and many others, these things need to be taught in school from a very young age.
#21
Got in an argument with a dude who was suggesting that cellulite was rare, and that only overweight women have it (based on his experiences browsing Instagram and checking out women at the beach - literally, he said this). I pointed out that it was so common as to be a secondary sex characteristic for women. When he started fighting with anecdotal evidence, I in turn pointed out that I, a borderline underweight woman, had cellulite - and that a close friend of mine, who is literally a salaried model, also had cellulite. His closing argument was that, as a dude, he more closely examines women's bodies than I do (note: I hadn't divulged my sexuality at any point), and that I was invalidating his lived experiences as a man.
Shannon Mallory 3 years ago
I love how it's traumatic and tragic for MeN to have their "lived experiences invalidated" when that's literally the daily existence of every woman everywhere. But for us it's not tragic, oh no, it's something we're expected to live with quietly, and to be grateful to THEM for, because by invalidating OUR lived experiences they're "helping/educating" us. How kind of them 🙄
Shayda 3 years ago
I think I vomited a little bit in my mouth by the sudden exposure to harsh truth.
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Women's fat are stored as cellulite, whether we are thin or fat. We all have some fat, or we'd starve to death if our dinner is a bit late. I had it when I was borderline underweight, and I have it now when I'm obese.
Emmydearest 3 years ago
Meanwhile, some friends of mine, definitely on the heavier side, don't have cellulite. They are the definition of apple shape: thinner legs, no hips, no waistline, fat stored mostly in the stomach/love handles area. Their legs are not even that thin, they are still thick but zero cellulite in sight. On the other hand I got cellulite at 13 when I was underweight. Oh and stretchmarks, let's not forget stretchmarks...
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MelFunction 3 years ago
Well, girls on Instagram are famously known for taking photos of themselves that show their cellulite. /s
Moreover, we as a society need to rewrite the narrative from day one. “Instead of teaching girls to be polite and passive, we need to empower them and teach them that their input has value; and boys need to be taught that girls are their equals,” Kavanaugh concluded.
#22
How to breastfeed.... With my second child.
Heidi Nicholas 3 years ago
How the heck is he going to know how to breastfeed anyway? A) it's her second child. B) he's a guy, who DOES NOT have the ability to produce milk in order to breastfeed a child. Idiot.
Persephone 3 years ago (edited)
Well... if you gave him enough prolactin he could! Maybe he should try it! 😂 funny how none do!!! (Men can lactate if they have the right hormones)
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Lou Cam 3 years ago
Half the time it's the baby that needs to learn. They have an instinct but it's not fully tuned. You've got to help them latch and so on. Doesn't always work though. My first didn't (she had breathing difficulties so couldn't latch) but my second worked after a hard slog for the both of us.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Not to mention that each woman and each child is different. Breastfeeding can work perfectly fine with child one, but not at all with child two, or the other way around.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I've had 4 kids, all breastfed, I've spent a good 8yrs of my life breastfeeding - it's amazing how many people, both male and female, who have never experienced any form of breastfeeding to try to tell me how it's done - I mean, I think given the years of experience over multiple children who have never even drank from a bottle or tasted formula I think I know a few things about the process. Especially the "you don't want to have the baby too attached to you" crowd, as if having a secure bond with your child is a bad thing
#23
In my country an article about women in gaming was making a lot of noise at the time. It was about the sexism in every aspect of the community : female characters too sexy, women players & sexual harassment, babes in bikini at game cons etc. For me and my female gamer friends it was old news. We spoke about the article and added our own experience to it. Men decided to explain to us how the article was wrong because **they** never saw sexism in video games and cons, never. So we were lying and making up stories. Sure enough they finished by saying they were not sexist and never had been.... 🙄 Edit : conjugation. Sorry english isn't my first langage.
Rachknits 3 years ago (edited)
Great English, your grammar is better than many people who have English as their first language
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Maybe their girlfriends had never complained to them about it. ...Oh, wait. Never mind.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
**I** have never experienced racism, being a white woman living in Northern Europe. I still know that racism exists, and that many friends have experienced it first hand, almost every day. I also know that I am guilty of involuntary racism now and then, being (again) a white woman living in Northern Europe, who have grown up around other white people who have imprinted prejudices and stereotypes on me whether they wanted to or not.
Emmydearest 3 years ago
Exactly. Luckily I've never experienced sexual assault. Should I say that sexual violence doesn't exist because I've never experienced first hand? Like: the world goes around even when you are asleep, Steve...🤦
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zovjraar me 3 years ago
anyone remember the guy who asked why that chick in Horizon Zero Dawn had a beard when it was just facial peach fuzz?
Sara M 3 years ago
Omg yeah he made it very clear that he'd never, ever been in close proximity with an actual woman 😂
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Brigid Hannon 3 years ago
Yes, I agree. I can't find anything wrong with your English. Well done. And tell those jerks to STFU
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I was in a group of game testers, women were about 40% of this group. We got in a discussion of how unrealistic and distracting the boobs were. The male project managers didn't seem to like this talk and we got in trouble, mostly me because I was SOOO distracted by it. Literal watermelons on this chick's chest, hard nipples included!
#24
My boyfriend's colleague (in a completely non-medical job) told him I was not having a miscarriage while it was happening; boyfriend then explained it to me, believing every word. He didn't enjoy my response to that.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
A miscarriage is hard enough in itself (been there, done that). Having a supposed loved one not trusting your experience must be horrible! I feel for you. <3
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
I'd love to know what the colleague's mansplanation of your condition was.
#25
Man: it’s hailing.
Me: (looks around) huh, yeah.
Man: It’s frozen water falling from the sky.
Me: 👀🙄
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Erm, what? Isn't that something you ought to learn in kindergarten? Does he think it's her first day here on Earth, or what?
BookCrazyTeen 3 years ago
Tbf (not saying this isn’t mansplaining lol) this is something I would say. Not trying to inform someone of the fact, just as a random comment for no reason. This case is likely different though.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Not a mansplaining moment, but a great memory. An ex co-worker and I were outside having a smoke before work, early morning. We're facing south east. He points to the horizon and goes, "It's really bright over there." I had to explain to a man my father's age that it was the sunrise. He just went, "Oh." I think about that a lot.
zovjraar me 3 years ago
that's when i respond, "no s**t?? really?? is that what hail is? i thought it was giant pieces of fairy dust from Neverland!"
#26
The time when a data analyst explained to me, the main engineer on the project, that I wasn't qualified to comment on anything in the meeting because I was new and didn't know anything. His boss (who later became one of my good buddies) was STUNNED.
He also asked me to stay behind and "help" him on something after the meeting and after everyone left he started explaining to me how he hadn't wanted to ~intimidate me and he could tell he had (no, I hadn't been, his boss had actually told him to listen to me before I could calmly destroy his ego), and how he knows it's difficult to be a female engineer and how he wants to be supportive because he has daughters and he's afraid how the world will treat them in the future.
Hey! 3 years ago
This is exactly like getting a new position in a new company and everyone thinks you're new into this and those 20 years experience behind you don't count.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Then there is the opposite. My husbands company hired a guy with 15 years experience in Web Development only to find out he'd spent those 15 years doing the same coding with the same old programs and neglected to tell them he closed his own business was because he lost his customer base when he couldn't keep up with current trends.
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K W 3 years ago
Paternalism. Still sexism but honestly more annoying sometimes because it involves infantilizing women with a man's "good" intentions. I moved back to my rural state after living in a major metropolitan area and holy cow is it bad at times. It feels like I'm still living in the 90's.
Hey! 3 years ago
Welcome to the club. My brothers still think I'm 12 (I'm almost 60) and know nothing, even if I have multiple certifications and diplomas. They don't even check before saying it's not true. Five years ago, I decided I had enough. I only went back in February this year when my mother died while I was right there, and then in May for her funerals. I'm not going back for theirs.
Load More Replies... Glen MacLeod 3 years ago
He paternalized her like she was a child. I shudder to think how he talks to his daughters.
#27
A dude explained to me how dinosaurs are extinct. Thank god he did or otherwise I would've never found out.
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
I hope the guy at least gave an accurate explanation. Although it'd be funnier if his "explanation" for why dinosaurs are extinct was, "Because space aliens did it!"
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
If you guys weren't completely stoned while with took place..... it makes it even worse.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Did he explain about the dodo and the mammut as well, or are they still living? Whatever will we do if HE doesn't inform us?
#28
I had some white guy from Sweden tell me I'm wrong about my own language when he wanted me to translate something from a korean series that apparently wasn't translated in the subtitles that he watched on netflix.
He told me he's hearing 좋아 in some interaction in the series, I told him that sounds wrong because it doesn't make sense in that context.
I started the series on netflix myself and found the interaction he was talking about, the word he inquired about was 저하, not 좋아. I told him what they were actually were saying means. He insisted he was hearing 좋아 even though I told him he's wrong. They were saying 저하. He still insisted he was hearing 좋아 and said I was wrong.
Why? Because that's what it sounded like to him. Nooo, don't trust the person who actually speaks the language natively but think you are getting it right just by listening as a non-speaker of the language.
Pantea 3 years ago
The subtitles on netflix suck. I watch some English speaking shows and movies with English subtitles just in case I miss something, because the actors mumble or talk too fast... The subtitles are very often inaccurate.
K W 3 years ago
Netflix doesn't pay very well for people who create subtitles. They're more interested in volume vs quality. I also watch with the subtitles on a lot. Boy is it rough watching older movies. I watched 90's version of The Mummy and The Mask Of Zorro the other day and while the subtitles were accurate the timing was atrocious. I love that subtitles now do everything from sounds to describing the mood of music, to describing background talk, noises, and song names.
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enohPilivE 3 years ago
No surprise here. It is VERY RARE because Sweden is so awesome as a whole, but when someone from Sweden is a flying arrogant icehole, they are second to only New Zealanders in terms of jerk magnitude. It's almost like they take advantage of the fact that the world sees them as warm, inviting and welcoming to reach a whole new level of a-holery. Yes, Kiwi's are the worst. Again, I'd spend lots of time in both countries because the frequency of the jerks is so VERY RARE as opposed to say NYC or Philadelphia.
M Calad 3 years ago
I had a similar experience with mansplaining language that I posted before. Here I go again. I had a male engineer (speaks only english) claiming that my using gracias was incorrect, and that the right word in Spanish (my mothertongue) was grazie (italian, my second language). When I told him I master both languages, he even corrected me saying that I probably speak a spanish "dialect" who adopted the Italian word. He was dead serious. I was totally dumbfounded. I didn't argue more... what for?
F. Jeske 3 years ago
I like to bother people by falsly correcting their first language. Or to tell them that my (awful) pronunciation is the right way to say the word. I continue by telling them as a German, I am naturally right, because we are born to know it better. Then I know if people really have humor. Or if I am tho only one having a good time in that moment.
#29
Playing Overwatch.
I asked him what rating he was at, I couldn't queue with him on my main account because I was too high rating. I switched to a new account I was lvling at the time to just play some quick play with him instead.
He then started explaining to me what I have to do and so on.
He was silver, almost bronze. I was diamond on my main account, almost master.
He never asked to play with me again after I just destroyed the games.
KombatBunni 3 years ago
My daughter is a damn good player of Overwatch and has often given male players hell when they find out she’s a girl and they’ve complained. I’m a proud Mama :D Never a good idea to annoy the healer..
#30
Sometimes, I don't like to assume a man is "mansplaining" because he may be the type to over explain everything to everyone--men included. So I try to only assume it in situations where a man is telling me about LADY STUFF. My father has a tendency to tell me what women believe. He generalizes to a laughable degree and tells me, his Master's educated feminist daughter-- about women's overall opinions and flaws. So, not only is he being sexist, but his "mansplaining" is inaccurate.
deanna woods 3 years ago
My father has spent most of his life around mostly women and even he doesn't explain woman stuff to me.
actaeon cross 3 years ago
My dad has always been the one to avoid talking about anything to do with woman stuff (primarily menstrual cycle/periods). He went out of his way to tell us about period underwear the other day because he thought we might be interested. We thanked him for telling us but mentioned we had already known about and he scuttled off pretty quick to find something else to do.
Load More Replies... Dragonmonkey17 3 years ago
My childless male boss constantly mansplains raising kids to me (a mother of two under the age of 10)
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
Let him baby sit them for next two days, 24/7...
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 3 years ago
My father is wonderful. When my mother asked "What is endometriosis?" (we were watching something on TV together), I prepared to explain, but my father got there first, and explained it scientifically.
Douglas Turner 3 years ago
To be fair to your father, most mansplaining is inaccurate... wait, what did I just do? Oh damn, I am sorry!
MariaHanssel 3 years ago
Inaccurate?? All mansplaining is inaccurate. That's the nature of mansplaining.
Poly Amorous 3 years ago (edited)
Not necessarily, and I was in the middle of an explanation, before I realized that was 'splaining to you. Not a man though, so I don't know if it could be counted as mansplaining. I would
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#31
Earlier this year I had a man a few years younger than me explain how the female orgasm is achieved. I have had it figured out for about 25 years now, so I told him that and he kept going with his instructions. He also just can't understand why I have no interest in a sexual relationship with him. I also had one of my brothers explain how to change a diaper to me, while I was in the middle of changing my 3rd babies diaper.
James016 3 years ago
Should have asked your brother to demonstrate his nappy changing technique to you.
#32
I get a lot of guys trying to tell me "what women are like" and "what women want." Last time I checked, I was a woman. And they are always so, so wrong..
Amy S 3 years ago
How come some people have a hard time understanding that different women want different things? It's like the idea that we are unique individuals never occurred to them.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
But it's EVER so much easier if you can just treat everyone as one small part of a bigger group! Hence the "Black" vote, "Hispanic" culture, "White" society, etc, etc. Treating people as individuals requires... thinking, and that's just too darn much bother!
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
Men who definitely know what women want are usually what women definitely don't want.
Michelle C 3 years ago
If they think all women are crazy, they might have some issues getting along with women that they need to explore.
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Perhaps these man-boys think that all men want what they want, as well. They have no conception of different people wanting different things, at all. It's still baffling that they think they know better What Women Want, than actual women do.
enohPilivE 3 years ago
Anybody else see the double take near ambiguity on the third person pronouns as potential hilarity on this one?
KombatBunni 3 years ago
I was at a club with some male friends once and they actually asked me what women wanted when it came to dating, given that I was female and would know these things. Nice idea but a poor way of asking!
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
One of the last things Freud said was the lament, ""What do women *want*?" - If he couldn't get it right ...
#33
Dude I was on a date with started explaining why my office might be warm… 10 minutes after I told him I was an HVAC engineer. I just let him dig that hole, staring him down until he trailed off. Then he quietly added “uhh I guess you know all that”, to which I nodded.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
At least he had a hint of illumination at the end. Not always the case.
TheEndIsNigh🇨🇦and🇬🇧in🇺🇲 3 years ago
Meh, I could probably give this one a pass, especially if it was a first date. Ya' know, first date jitters causing verbal diarrhea and all that. Once spent an ungodly amount of time on a first date yammering on about my sock collection and how my hobby is recreating scenes from my favorite movies & TV shows out of Legos. 7 years later we're still together 😉❤️
Lena Flising 3 years ago
Funnily, I (a woman) googled HVAC first and then thought "She probably knows her stuff". We have complained about the office temperature now and then. One time, the schedule was wrong, it thought it was Saturday on Wednesday, and kept it cool as no-one was supposed to be in the office. Another time, we learned that the system was guided by - wait for it - PUNCH CARDS. In the 21st century! I guess that almost everyone below age 45 needed to google now...
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
I had a truck driver explain to me that the warehouse he was loading his truck from was so big that it "generated its own cold."
#34
I have a shirt with the constellations on it. It's not an accurate sky map by any means, but I like it. I wore it to the store one day and a man behind me started telling me that the stars were inaccurate and did not form a map of the sky. I turned back to him and explained that the front of the shirt was summer stars and the back of the shirt was winter stars so no, they do not form a continuous map. He stopped talking after that.
jennifer sterling 3 years ago
Idk about this one. I think that a large number of ppl could look at a shirt with stars on it and not know their correct placement. As a woman, I would've just assumed that he wanted to share something he knew about. I would've done the same thing if I had taken a class or studied astronomy as a hobby.
gingepanda 3 years ago
you would go up to a random stranger and tell them their shirt is wrong?
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Ok Picture the scene
I am best in my country at the sport I do, and top 20 in the world.
We have very specialized equipment requiring a lot of care.
I was taking a look at my best friends equipment (she is best in her country too), and feeling the edges, and talking about how the edges were really blunt. Like, REALLY blunt. (thats bad)
Dude walks up to us.
Dude has never done the sport before (this was his first day)
he feels my friends equipment without permission (HUGE no no)
"This is actually really sharp for <type of sled> edges."
My friend: Immediately bursts out laughing
Me: Too stunned for words.
Eventually I give him a bit of a berating for pulling that c**p, and told him to never touch someone else's equipment without permission. He was such a douche. Hes quit the sport now (luckily) don't have to see him ever again.
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
But he has a penis.... OF COURSE HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERY SPORT! It's genetics duh! When you're born with a penis you automatically know more about sports than every person with a vagina. Sorry trans men... but you are excluded from this... it's genetics. GENETICS! This was sarcasm 100%! It was actually mirrored from a real conversation I had with a person who was born with a penis once. Literally thought knowing about sports was genetics & that trans (FtoM) men can never be good at sports while trans (MtoF) women will always have that knowledge no matter what surgeries they have or hormones they take. I s**t you not. Dumbest s**t I have ever heard.
Brenda 3 years ago
I'm guessing you are a bobsledder. Don't know much about that, but as an ice skater, even what seems dull for skating can cut if you're not careful. And YOU NEVER TOUCH AN ATHLETE'S EQUIPMENT WITHOUT PERMISSION! And you better know them very well to even ask. My dad played semi-pro hockey, I grew up around it. Even mom wouldn't touch it! Manners & common sense
#36
My cousin and I were setting up the Find My Friends app and were told:
"You know you aren't actually tracking each other, you're tracking the phone?"
Ya we know.
Zuliaa️️ Panda 3 years ago
Wait, they said 5G trackers were included in every COVID vaccins. Did they lie to us!?!?!?! 😮😲😳😱
Blackheart 3 years ago
And women need to do that sometimes, because the world is not always our friend when we are out and about
Lee Kerr 3 years ago
I manage all the phones, tablets and computers in our house because my husband isn’t technically minded. Everyone knows this; one of his friends even had me over to set up his modem and set top box because he has similar problems. Despite this, another of his friends is forever “helping” him by making recommendations and printing out instructions for free security/cleaner downloads telling him he won’t have theses. Last time I checked there were 3 clean up apps and two anti-viruses which were slowing things down and had to be removed. We’ve been subscribed to very reliable security suite for about 20 years now and the friend has been told this umpteen times.
nooneimportant 3 years ago
countless people died, many hundreds of thousands more are sick and dying... Covid jokes are not funny
#37
My friend’s spouse tried to explain how stocks and options work to me at a party. I have a PhD in finance. He figured he still should tell me how financial markets work.
#38
About how the vagina gets enormously big and sloppy if you have sex with many penises, big dildos or have babies. Only 1 smallish penis is acceptable ever. Multiple men have mansplained this to me, and it's not even correct. A vagina is not made of memory foam! One sent along a photo of someone's vagina with a very severe prolapse, saying that is what happens to all women after they give birth (I am a mother and certainly did not have a prolapse). And then he asked me if the "carpet matches the curtains", like his type always do to redhead women.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago
I also like to explain to these types of guys that if men have too much sex their organs get "stretched out" like limp noodles. I mean, it's the same theory!
MoMcB 3 years ago
I had a man ask if my carpet matched my curtains, and asked him to explain exactly what he meant. He shut up.
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
Best possible response. If he tries to backpedal, there's no way to recover.
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Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
I wish this ended with you punching him in his tiny little wiener.
Annette Easton 3 years ago
My favourite response to the carpet/drapes question is to say "I don't have carpet, I have HARDWOOD" and let them think I'm actually a dude.
Random Person 3 years ago
Pretty sure the strongest muscle in the human body is able to handle much more than what's in his pants.
#39
A dude who had admittedly never ridden a horse before explained the theory behind modern day horseback riding to me at the bar. He was a stranger. I am a horse trainer
Shayda 3 years ago
Why is it typically when a woman is very knowledgeable and borderline expert, if not an expert in a certain field, that is the exact subject a man can't help himself but to educate her on?
ReggieTx 3 years ago
In all honesty, I think that, if they aware that the woman they're talking to has some knowledge of the subject, they are under the misguided assumption that they can impress her with the limited amount of info they've picked up from YouTube or some buddy. I have to believe that these guys don't realize how stupid they sound. I mean, they can't possibly, right? 😂
Load More Replies... Glen MacLeod 3 years ago
This entire article screams that men are insecure and don't know how to approach women.
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
Aaallllllll the time when I was still horseback riding. I swear every single show, some rando would try explaining show jumping to me. Like dude... I literally just won 5 blue ribbons and show champion.
#40
On one of my work calls, this male employee was explaining to a female manager what her subordinate was "intending". The manager replied saying "Yes, Dave. I know what she said. I asked her to convey it to you"
#41
A professor of my university, whose seminars I hadn't taken, as he had a reputation of dismissing women, and especially women in teacher's studies (here, the seminars are mixed, so if you are in a history seminar, you'll see aspiring historians and history teachers), tried to explain Robert Burns' gothic poems to me. I had just written a thesis about this. Which I had been asked to present in his seminar. By him. Who didn't know jacksh*t about Burns or his poetry, because he was focusing his research on American gothic literature and only wanted me to present Burns in a "yeah, and the British did it, too. Now you know." kind of way. Needless to say, I blatantly told him he was wrong and left. It was my last day at university anyways as I had just been given my diploma a few hours prior.
Hannah Hudson-Lee 3 years ago
I'd have sung the famous Robert Burns song "C*ck up yer beaver" as I strode out. Especially the line, "There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour," really loudly.
#42
One of my friend’s boyfriend explained how the GameStop stock market manipulation happened (and the general basics of the stock market). I graduated summa cum laude with a finance degree from one of the top business schools in our state. (With a few minors, including economics) He got a general business degree from that same college with much worse grades than I did, and I helped him with his homework. (So he knows that I have a degree in the field) I just absentmindedly nodded along until he stopped talking.
Joanna Breeze 3 years ago
Nah, that only encourages them. If they're ignorant enough to be doing this in the first place, it's unlikely the penny will drop. My mother ignored my brother's mansplaining for decades and it only made him worse.
Load More Replies... Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Sometimes the best thing to do. The agony is over quicker if you just let them get on with it
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
Atleast he eventually took the hint. lol. Probably took him a little bit longer than it should have though.
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
damned dirty apes, getting their stupid concepts mixed up with real finance.
#43
Some guy tried to explain the biology behind depression to me. My major is literally called psychobiology.
K W 3 years ago
So many of these women's specialities are so facinating. I'd be in heaven listening to a woman talk about psychobiology. I would too if it were a man it's more that I can't imagine needing to hear myself talk rather than taking the opportunity to listen to someone share their field if they were so inclined.
#44
When men find out I don't masturbate, they feel like they need to "fix" me and give some sort of advices. A man explained to me how a vibrator works. I know how a vibrator works. I just don't want it and frankly don't need it. A guy also tried to explain to me how a tampon works. I just don't use it cause I don't want it. I prefer pads.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
How the hell would this even come up in a conversation? How many men ? Good grief 😁
CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. Why is she talking to so many people about her masturbatory practices?
Load More Replies... Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
This is vile. Right up there with men who think they can "fix" lesbians.
Kurt Ramsey 3 years ago
Can BP make a post about "women splaining?" Like when my ex-wife interrupted my dad changing one of my son's diapers to teach him how, as if a man with two children and over a dozen of nieces and nephews and never done that before. Even after I pointed that fact out, she still insisted. Men differently talk down to women about certain topics, but women are just as bad, it's just different topics.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
I don’t think “women are just as bad” for it. I’m sure there are “womansplainers” out there, but I don’t think it’s as much a female problem as it is for males - people in general will occasionally over-explain things they don’t have to, regardless of their gender. The reason “mansplaining” is A Thing is because some very entitled men do it so often and to so many women that it’s become a cultural joke. (Not to mention, you have to understand how hundreds of years of unconscious ingrained sexism is still affecting our societies to really understand why mansplaining is annoying af!) Hope that helps!
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#45
I’m a licensed RN and my brother tried to explain to me what nursing was all about.
tara 3 years ago
My mom worked in a care home for the elderly for like....5 minutes, like....40 years ago. The other day she was telling me how to deal with people with dementia. I've worked in a care home for the past 14 years.
Heidi Nicholas 3 years ago (edited)
I would've smacked him. If any of my brothers tried to mansplain something to me that I know more about I'll smack them. They probably won't ever because they're actually pretty respectful of women, but they'd be smacked.
#46
Oh and another one. Years ago when I had a different career, this guy was delivering some audiovisual equipment to my office for review. He asked if I knew where "they" wanted it and evidently missed me pointedly saying where I wanted it put. He then started trying to explain how to hook it up. I made a slightly obnoxiously knowing comment about cables and mentioned that I was the tech editor, which shut him up...
#47
Started at a gym recently, a man was showing me a baseball move but told me to pretend I was moving a laundry basket. Little did he know I played softball for 12 years…he ASSumed wrong :)!
#48
I posted a selfie on Instagram with a caption about the fact that I'd had a panic attack a few hours earlier. A man told me that actually I couldn't have had a panic attack if I was posting a selfie with lipstick and fancy editing, and I wouldn't have been able to type. Therefore, I was just looking for attention.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago (edited)
Douche. A doctor (luckily a specialist for physical issues) didn't believe I am on antidepressants because of my sense of humor.)
Brenda 3 years ago
I'm extremely extroverted. In-laws said I couldn't possibly be depressed because I was so talkative & outgoing. Told me that I just need to keep busy, concentrate on my family. Seriously? 18mo dd never slept longer than 4 hours, max. I had to quit school & working w/ my honor society projects. I was stuck at home by myself constantly. I was told I just wanted to have things my own way. I was literally exhausted, lost my identity/sense of self. Never wanted to be a SAHM but did what was best for kids. When I tried to explain all this (at the time that mother killed her 4 kids around 2000-2001) I was accused of seeking attention. Got up & left. Hubby reamed out his family "This is why we don't share w/ you!" When it was brought up again (apparently to apologize) I refused to discuss.
AnonymousApple 3 years ago
Tbh, when I have a panic attack it usually lasts about 24 hours and my hands shake too hard to type. I just assume different people experience them differently.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
To be fair, that does happen. Which is devastating for people who actually suffer.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
To be fair, people don't post to Instagram because they aren't looking for attention
Bored Batgirl 3 years ago
My former SIL told me the panic attacks I was having after being in an armed robbery were all in my head and I didn't need medication for them. "I could control and prevent them if I really tried."
Kathi Schäffer 3 years ago (edited)
I can still type even if I have a very intense panic attack. An does he think that just because she had a panic attack a couple of hours earlier, she can now never apply makeup again??? Also, looks can be deceiving. Sometimes, people assume I am completely relaxed when actually I'm losing it on the inside.
#49
Some random guy walking on a trail decided to tell me, a cyclist, that there was a hill ahead- okay sure, already knew that but whatever. He then, completely unprompted, started trying to explain that I should gear down for the hill and how to gear down. I told him I already knew and biked off, but what the f**k? All of that was completely unprompted. I had stopped my bike to ask a different person if she’d seen my cycling buddy up ahead, because I wasn’t sure if they’d gone left or right, and this random guy decided that that meant I didn’t know how to use my own goddamn bike.
Stephen Smith 3 years ago
Sorry I have to apologise for the male race, we do like explaining things, I've often had other men tell me how to do the job I'm qualified to do.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
It’s not all of you! You sound like a good egg, especially if you’re reading an article like this and not leaving any hateful comments :)
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#50
Oh god today I was mansplained too. My boyfriend was driving my car and drove it over a tall curb on accident. So we pulled over to a gas station and I got out to check my car for damage, got out and started looking at the undercarriage. A guy drove past me and yelled out his window, “The gas tank is on the side of the car!!!” ......... groundbreaking.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
I know you're joking and well- meaning, but please don't say this, it's not true and actually harmful (implies that people can just chose their sexuality). Lesbians are lesbians because they're lesbians.
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#51
My own asthma. Yeah, really. When I was in 7th grade I couldn't run during gym, and I still can't, because of my asthma. It's severe and something I was born with. My gym teacher apparently also had asthma when he was a kid and he grew out of it. I understand that some people can grow out of their asthma, but I can't. He thought I was pretending it was worse than it was so I wouldn't have to run, even though I had a note from my doctor and I was perfectly willing to do the other exercises that I could do. He told me that if I just ran every day, my asthma would go away. Like it would evaporate or some s**t This moron really spent like 3 hours arguing with me about MY asthma and was acting like he knew more about it than I did because he USED to have asthma that was nothing like mine. I'm still salty. (He also told me I wouldn't get away with pulling that c**p in high school and it literally took a 30 second conversation with my high school gym teacher and I was exempt from running for the entire year.)
Jessica Cain 3 years ago
Mate I am legitimately tired of being walked all over by these insecure babies who think that they are men.
Sandy D 3 years ago
I had a gym teacher in 6th or 7th grade, not long after I was first diagnosed and asthma first got bad pull similar c**p. When I showed him the note he rolled his eyes and said it would improve if I ran. I asked how me gasping for aid, turning blue, and ending up I. An ambulance to the hospital would improve an incurable condition/disease. He just walked away. He gave me like a C (or 70s catholic elemenraty school equivalent) because asthma prevented me from running. What an azzwhole
Learner Panda 1 year ago
I was diagnosed with migraine at about 12 years of age and was told - hopefully - I would grow out of it. I am still waiting, many years later.
#52
Not sure if this counts, but I hate the "circling back around" thing. Like, I'll say how I had a problem, and ended up doing X. The guy is like "Well why didn't you do Y instead?", so I explain. Then it's "Well then why didn't you do Z?", so I explain that too. Then it's "Well then why didn't you do A?". It goes all the way around the alphabet until he suggests I do X, and... I did. Like, me saying that I did X, and you thinking that you know better, is what started this.
#53
My husband is the kind of guy who loves to learn. He loves knowledge. I do not share his passion for constant learning about things, I need a break. I don't think he means to, but he explains some really obvious stuff to me sometimes and I'm like... yeah, I know. He'll explain things to me that he learned in college about my culture. He'll explain to me what I should do to calm down (I have an anxiety and panic disorder). He'll explain to me how female hormones work. He honestly doesn't realise he's doing it but it rags the tits off me sometimes.
KombatBunni 3 years ago
That’s the best expression ever. Imma steal it :D
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#54
I had a guy tell me and a client in the gym that he would "show us how to use the weights". I had on my personal trainer shirt and in session with a client.
And then he wanted us to believe he had some pull and could get us PT sessions for free.
#55
As a fat woman... Diets, yes I only drink water, yeah I know count calories and work out.
tara 3 years ago
I love it when people who started out as thin, tell you how to lose weight, even though they never lost anything. Losing weight isn't the same as being born with a slim body type.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
@DippittyDooDerp - Don’t make me mansplain this to you! ;) your genes actually do affect your appearance - you actually have genes specifically for that purpose. I come from a family of very tall, slender, small-boobed people. My best friend’s family are all quite short, large-breasted, and most of them are apple-shaped with cute lil bellies and slim legs. Your body is based on what you eat, how you exercise, medical conditions - and GENETICS :)
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LoudMansLover 3 years ago
If I hear "it's as easy as calories in, calories out" one more time I'm going to go insane. Yeah, we know. It's not a difficult *concept*. I'm fat not because I'm lazy or don't understand... it's a mental issue. That's not so easy to "fix" okay?
Lou Cam 3 years ago
Food addiction needs to be taken as seriously as other addictions. People use food as an emotional fix just as any other drug but unlike other drugs you can't go cold turkey or detox from it competely. Better mental health care for all and enter understanding of people with mental health is needed. (I've had ED for many years so understand).
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I had my bf try to mansplain something about Mars’ geology to me. I’m a geology major, who’s done research on Martian geology for three years now, and is about to go to grad school for planetary science. Wtf.
#57
We were watching Rome and my partner tried to (incorrectly) explain Roman Imperial cults to me. While sitting next to my DEGREE in classical history.
#58
A man very recently on reddit explained female masturbation to me…
#59
A guy explained to me how to go up the stairs while wearing a floor length dress without tripping, as if he had done that more often than I have.
Me Oh My 3 years ago
I mean, we can't make that assumption, can we? Maybe he did have more experience going up stairs in floor-length dresses. He might be a fabulous drag queen.
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I was new to a factory and hired for my forklift license +5years experience. I was being shown the machine I'll be using by a guy and his exact words were "hydraulics means it goes up and down" and "these metal tynes are what make it a forklift". The dude didn't even have a license.
Nicola Mawson 3 years ago
I was once told my car wasn't starting because the glow bulb light wasn't off. I sent a video. It went in for two days and came back working
#61
I was sitting in a lecture about a year or two ago and was shooting off a few quick emails on my laptop. At the end of the lecture the guy behind me says "So, I was watching you write your emails..." GREAT way to start a conversation, btw. "...and I noticed you didn't have an automatic signature." He then tries to tell me how to add a signature on my emails. The class was for people who are computer science majors or the very least highly tech literate...he thought I was an idiot.
#62
At the gym, an old man went up to me while I was doing skull crushers and guided my arms when I was perfectly fine. He was speaking loudly about how I had to do it a certain way to feel it in my arms in front of everyone
Me Oh My 3 years ago
I would say she ought to have just kicked him and told him to sod off, but he might've been dangerous and y'know, it's impossible for women to be able to tell men to f**k off and feel safe.
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I was not long ago informed about child labour and how “it’s not even that painful”. I’ve had four children. The man that tried to tell me the ins and outs of giving birth hasn’t ever even witnessed labour and delivery.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago
I like to tell these men that being kicked in the b@lls doesn't hurt. Because as women, we don't feel the pain, thus it doesn't exist! Because that's exactly what they do to us.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Well when he experiences something the size of a melon come out of something the size of a lemon then maybe we can talk about pain.
#64
I was in Curry's (UK white goods/computer type store) once just looking for an ethernet cable, knew exactly what to get, what ends to look for etc. A male sales person asked me if I needed help and I said no, it's fine, I know what I'm getting. He then insisted i tell him and took me to an aisle with the completely wrong cables. I humored him for a while and when trying to politely back off he randomly starting quoting something he'd heard from David Hasslehoff once about women and technology. Completely irrelevant but obviously trying to belittle me (or impress me? Who knows). I just laughed in his face, picked up what I needed and said something along the lines of 'some advice, when trying to use your sales pitch , quoting The Hoff is not going to get you very far'. K**b.
#65
Dude told me men were better drivers than women. I informed him that studies suggested women were safer drivers (fewer accidents or something). He said yeah, that's why men are better drivers because they had to learn how to steer out of those bad situations.
Amy S 3 years ago
In the Europe, car insurance companies cannot base their premiums on whether you are male or female because it's considered gender discrimination. When this law passed mine and all my female friends premiums went up but the guys premiums didn't go down.
Load More Replies... #66
There was one time when I was telling my dad how I just saw the movie adaption of Les Mes. He responds by telling me about the plot...of the movie I just told him I saw.
Theo Blackwood 3 years ago (edited)
Does he want to explain it to an autistic person whose special interest is Les Miserables? Because I’d love to flex my skill on someone like this.
#67
My brother in law once explained to me how to trace a picture. He gets the ridiculous mansplaining from my father in law, who mansplains everything. How to start a lawnmower, or pull a weed. Summarizing my thesis for me, incorrectly, without having read it or any research on the topic. The man literally repeats my words sometimes to make it seem like he is answering the question and not me.
#68
Was changing my tire on the side of the road and a random guy ended up telling me how to do it and proceeded to demonstrate the technique. Then ran away when he knocked the jack off and nearly caused the wheel hub to break.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I wonder if he went to his friends that day and boasted about how he saved a woman by changing a tyre for her?
#69
When we were 16 or 17 I had two guy friends tell me I was disgusting for not using soap to clean my vajayjay ;-;
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
Lol. Our (male) chemistry teacher explained that when covering pH values when we were 13-14.
Adam Zad 3 years ago
Wow! 13-14 pH values are really high! (Intentional Misunderstanding: One more service I offer)
Load More Replies... PurpleDoople 3 years ago
Ok so I’m a guy it might be really obvious but why wouldn’t you? Any particular reason?
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
The vagina is self cleaning and has its own delicate microsystem and PH so using soap can cause the healthy bacteria to be destroyed and the PH to change which can cause you to develop infections such as bacterial vaginosis, yeast infections or thrush, which are very uncomfortable
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I was halfway through building a small deck when my father felt the need to tell me how to use a screwdriver.
DramaDoc 3 years ago
I was helping out a friend legging an 8" platform for a burlesques performance and this random guy comes up to tell me I'm doing it wrong because he "took a class in theatre stagecraft." At the time, I was working as the Assistant Technical Director/Master Carpenter for a local theatre (and had been a theatre technician for nearly a decade). My friend totally saved his a$$ before I screwed his foot to the floor while also nailing his b*lls to the wall.
#71
I was invited by a public interest group to do a talk on the tech community in our city as someone who worked at a startup and was pretty active in the community. The host asked what my thoughts were on the startup scene and before I could even answer, this random guy gets up and says “I can probably answer that for you” and proceeds to blabber on for several minutes like I’m not even there. That was exactly the topic I was invited for and I had no idea who this guy even was.
#72
Went to a store to get a power bar with a surge protector. Got asked if I know what a surge is.
FactcheckerGeneral 3 years ago
It's when Uber knock their prices up to ten times their usual rates in response to a tragedy in the news.
#73
One dude explained me the correct way to read books when I was 12. And that person had never even touched a single book in his entire life apart from the school textbooks. He showed me how to hold a book without cracking the spine, while he himself was cracking it while trying to explain me (I love cracked spines, I don't know why, but I just do).
#74
That bisexual women don't have problems related to their sexuality because everyone loves them. That, or that time when a guy told me he'd protect me in a game he had played for 5 hours and I'd played competitively for a year at that point.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
But he’s a DUDE so OBVIOUSLY he’s going to be naturally superior to you in all things video game! /s
#75
This bartender tried to argue with me over something so stupid. I was just trying to be friendly and make conversation, so I asked him if he was Irish (this was an Irish bar). He told me yes he was, and I said that my family is Irish too. He then tells me “NO, you’re white and I hate when white people talk about all the countries they apparently are from.” I’m like....bro you JUST told me that you are Irish before I even said anything and you are also white? He then raised his voice at me and became very argumentative so much that everyone at this bar was just staring at me like I did something wrong...lmao ok
AustrianGirl 3 years ago
I guess it's just like some people didn't believe I'm Austrian - just because I didn't own a Drindl for a couple years. These dresses are expensive and I refuse to wear anything but the real ones - which with all the stuff you need with them - can easily cost a lot of money. The one I got this year for my sisters wedding was about 350€ without the alterations. Of course you can get a cheap one for 50€, but it's just not the same, it doesn't look the same and it certainly doesn't fit or feel the same. And if you get a real one you probably will be wearing it for years. Just wondering, are they talking Irish - like really from Ireland or are they talking American Irish (some ancestors generations ago). That always confuses me...
Me Oh My 3 years ago
Good question. I'm willing to bet real money that the barkeep's American Irish and the lady's the Ireland Irish.
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Ex boyfriend was an engineer and genuinely once described to me what a screw was because it was “complicated”
#77
I have another one but this is slightly opposite. My husband mansplains to me alot. Most of the time it comes with an eye roll but he caught me out the other day and I found it hilarious. Our dogs were on the sofa sleeping and he says to them 'look at this luxury you have. In the old days you would've been up in the roof'. I was literally like 'wtf are you talking about now, why would they have been in the roof'?'. He then proceeds to tell me about the origin of the phrase 'raining cats and dogs". I had to Google it. He was right damn it!!!
#78
Have another one, a man said “good luck” to me (woman) backing my trailer down a busy launch ramp-I proceeded to back up perfectly & get our boat hitched up & out…before he turned his car on to leave.
#79
Guy at my work (i work there as a student) asked me what i study and i told him about it and about the master thesis i'm writing. He then proceeds to try and argue with me about my thesis subject , mansplaining the very subject i do research about to me, a subject that he didn't know sh*t about. I'm also a language teacher and he is known at work for being good at languages (basically the only thing that makes up for his social incompetence). Ever since i told him that, he constantly corrects my French, told me that "donc" isn't an existing word in French, lmao. He gets a kick out of making me feel dumb i think.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
Donc = so/thus. I haven't studied French since school and I knew that immediately.
#80
how control c and v are keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste
#81
Oh man, I have a good one for this. I don’t know how we got on the topic of names but my brother flat out said to me “you know you have two middle names” and I was dumbfounded at the level of this. I had to tell him my first name was two parts with a hyphen and I had one middle name (think Heaven-Leigh Hope but definitely not that name). He then proceeded to tell me he’s always thought I had two middle names and he was going to keep thinking it 🤦🏼♀️. This is one of the many stupid reasons I had my first name legally changed to get rid of the stupid hyphen.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
I (62F) have a brother (58) who still cannot spell my name right. Oh, and my uncle who is also my godfather can't spell it correctly either.
#82
When I told a guy in a bar I was a teacher, he asked me about the Common Core standards. I told him my thoughts as a professional, very briefly outlining some of the challenges but a lot of the things I thought were beneficial. His response: "Yeah I saw some comedian talk about how he can't help his daughter do math anymore cuz of Common Core. Probably should get rid of 'em."
#83
i work at a fast food place, basically how to do my job…and having them explain what i already know but ill rephrase it differently and theyd be like WELL ACTUALLY..and still end up w the same explanation as me lol
#84
OMG!! This happened yesterday!! My husband man-splained summer to me hahahaha
#85
Context: I am an American who has lived in Europe over 20 years and has worked for a British boss for 10 of those years. A British man I have known for almost 20 years, who also knows my boss is British, explained to me literally last week based solely on a sh*tpost meme i posted on fb purely to sh*tpost, **that in England they don't call football soccer, only Americans call it soccer.** First, why are you explaining sh*tpost memes to people. If i'm posting a meme why are you explaining it back to me. So that's mansplaining mistake number one. Two, even if i was so culturally unaware or stupid, I speak French and German and soccer is "football" in French and a cognate in German, i think i would have figured it out at least a decade ago if my BRITISH BOSS hadn't clued me in. Three, i call it soccer in English because I'm American. I use American vernacular. That does not imply ignorance of other regions' English vocabulary, it just implies i am AMERICAN. The hell are you going to explain that to me. There's no way that looks good or justified.
FactcheckerGeneral 3 years ago
Four, "soccer" is an English term invented in England for Association Football in order to differentiate it from Rugby Football.
What do you think ?
Laika-Mutton 3 years ago
Some of these aren't mansplaining, but they do give off the same 'women are / women can't/ women want--' assumptions vibe. As if we are another breed entirely. As if we aren't individual human beings with a diversity of skills, knowledge, and experience.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
I guess it doesn't count as mansplaining when it's directed at me, but gotta say the dude who tried to correct me on Finnish history on this site got me kinda p*ssed off. I commented that Finland used to be a part of Sweden (it was for centuries, google it if you don't believe me) and he felt it necessary to comment that, no Finland used to a part of Russia (well yeah, for a lot less time) and Norway part of Sweden. I'm a Finn and have sat through countless of hours of Finnish history in school, but I guess you know better random internet guy.
BoredFinn 3 years ago
A foreign guy on Facebook claimed that Finland once banned Donald Duck for not wearing pants. I corrected him with facts and attached an URL to back me up. He didn't change his mind and wanted an "official source", whatever it means, I don't know. But hey did you know that our goverment has deleted the information because they didn't want the world to ridicule and shame us? He told me so, so it must be true. I'm just a woman who was born in Finland and have lived here for all my life, 41 years, what could I possibly know about Aku Ankka?
Load More Replies... marianne eliza 3 years ago
So many of these are lame attempts to chat up a woman. Man wants to feel manly and impress the weaker sex.
L. Murphy 3 years ago
For once it would be nice to see a man utilize the helpless tactic and ask us for advice or help. If men just treated women as fully developed humans, it might help them get laid. They just need to check their inflated egos.
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Rachel Reynolds 3 years ago
I went Farm and Fleet to pick up a tool and this older guy asked me what I was looking for. I asked for a handheld tubing bender and he took me, first to the wrong section, then to the right section but handed me a tubing cutter. Fortunately, the tool I needed was right next us. I said, sorry but this is what I'm looking for. He then took the tool out of my hands and asked if I wanted to call my husband to make sure...Yes, I spoke to his manager.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
Came to the comments section to enjoy the stillness before the idiots come and start complaining again about "man bashing on bp" ... 🏞
Jane Doe 3 years ago
My brother and I going through our parents’ books. I have sorted piles: donate, sell, gift to Name, rubbish. He reviews my groups and tells me the rubbish books are valuable. I should keep them or sell him (not that he is offering to do either.). Now he IS a high school history teacher, so maybe he knows…better than I who is only a rare books dealer.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
I had a legal problem, proof the claims were wrong, opinions of several legal professionals, court verdicts against this body for the same issues, and at that point I knew the relevant laws and regulations by heart. A friend of my husband's tells me literally, "I've never had this problem and I don't know about it" and then tells me what he thinks I should do. I point out the first part of his own sentence and why his suggestion doesn't work here, no, he still stands by it. And he wonders why many people don't like him.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago (edited)
I think we need to start checking these people hard when it happens (in certain obvious situations). Like, very loudly and firmly saying "NO. BAD." Then when they're shocked into silence simply go on about our explanations/discussions/life as if they didn't exist.
Penny Lost 3 years ago
“If there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever f**k things up this badly.” George Carlin
Laika-Mutton 3 years ago
Some of these aren't mansplaining, but they do give off the same 'women are / women can't/ women want--' assumptions vibe. As if we are another breed entirely. As if we aren't individual human beings with a diversity of skills, knowledge, and experience.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
I guess it doesn't count as mansplaining when it's directed at me, but gotta say the dude who tried to correct me on Finnish history on this site got me kinda p*ssed off. I commented that Finland used to be a part of Sweden (it was for centuries, google it if you don't believe me) and he felt it necessary to comment that, no Finland used to a part of Russia (well yeah, for a lot less time) and Norway part of Sweden. I'm a Finn and have sat through countless of hours of Finnish history in school, but I guess you know better random internet guy.
BoredFinn 3 years ago
A foreign guy on Facebook claimed that Finland once banned Donald Duck for not wearing pants. I corrected him with facts and attached an URL to back me up. He didn't change his mind and wanted an "official source", whatever it means, I don't know. But hey did you know that our goverment has deleted the information because they didn't want the world to ridicule and shame us? He told me so, so it must be true. I'm just a woman who was born in Finland and have lived here for all my life, 41 years, what could I possibly know about Aku Ankka?
Load More Replies... marianne eliza 3 years ago
So many of these are lame attempts to chat up a woman. Man wants to feel manly and impress the weaker sex.
L. Murphy 3 years ago
For once it would be nice to see a man utilize the helpless tactic and ask us for advice or help. If men just treated women as fully developed humans, it might help them get laid. They just need to check their inflated egos.
Load More Replies... Rachel Reynolds 3 years ago
I went Farm and Fleet to pick up a tool and this older guy asked me what I was looking for. I asked for a handheld tubing bender and he took me, first to the wrong section, then to the right section but handed me a tubing cutter. Fortunately, the tool I needed was right next us. I said, sorry but this is what I'm looking for. He then took the tool out of my hands and asked if I wanted to call my husband to make sure...Yes, I spoke to his manager.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
Came to the comments section to enjoy the stillness before the idiots come and start complaining again about "man bashing on bp" ... 🏞
Jane Doe 3 years ago
My brother and I going through our parents’ books. I have sorted piles: donate, sell, gift to Name, rubbish. He reviews my groups and tells me the rubbish books are valuable. I should keep them or sell him (not that he is offering to do either.). Now he IS a high school history teacher, so maybe he knows…better than I who is only a rare books dealer.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
I had a legal problem, proof the claims were wrong, opinions of several legal professionals, court verdicts against this body for the same issues, and at that point I knew the relevant laws and regulations by heart. A friend of my husband's tells me literally, "I've never had this problem and I don't know about it" and then tells me what he thinks I should do. I point out the first part of his own sentence and why his suggestion doesn't work here, no, he still stands by it. And he wonders why many people don't like him.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago (edited)
I think we need to start checking these people hard when it happens (in certain obvious situations). Like, very loudly and firmly saying "NO. BAD." Then when they're shocked into silence simply go on about our explanations/discussions/life as if they didn't exist.
Penny Lost 3 years ago
“If there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever f**k things up this badly.” George Carlin
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