'The Queen's Gambit' comes to mind. I suck at chess, by the way.

Reading this gave me so much second-hand satisfaction. Thank you.

Chess is amazing, especially the satisfaction of humbling guys who think the game is going to be easy cause your a girl

I am glad you are good a chess, but who plays chess on a first date?

i mean where do those men live? as a kid I loved chess and Judith Polgar (she was was my idol. Women play at the top tier in world. I mean I remember as kid knowing that Polgar was internationally ranked by age 9, beat her first grandmaster at 11 and at 15 became the youngest grandmaster till that point in history. I grew up idolizing her. How can any man who knows anything about Chess not know about Polgar or ever look down at a woman in chess

Honey, if those jerks are so offended by a woman who plays better than they do, they definitely are not worth it. Don't waste your time on guys who only feel good about themselves when they are the smarter than their partners.

I honestly only have seen chess sets in the wild a few times over my lifespan of 36 years. So how often does this really happen to her? Because i think this is all made up.

LOL! Who'd want a 2nd date with those clods?

My ex-husband taught me chess, but never enough so I could beat him. He'd just wanted someone to wupass. Sigh. I never pursued playing after that.

Fragile egos are so easy to bruise. Anyway, I like chess I just really suck at it. But it wouldn't bother me to get bombed in three moves. Or even one. Getting beaten is how you learn...

We all play chess all the time, Life is one big game of chess!

Love this....

Just smile as you Zug 'em.

I have a satisfied smile right now.

I would gladly loose to her any time

I love you!!

Rarely any second dates? Who stops dating someone because she's better at chess than him?

Great way to sift out the jerks

Actually, having read the first 25 entries in this article, I get more and more convinced that that the whole "mansplaining" is a huge misunderstanding. I believe that the guys are simply talking to themselves - while someone else (sometimes a woman, an other man, a mirror, whatever) is near them. Like their brain gets triggered to spit out what has been saved on the respective topic. When knew knowledge is added (e.g. by women as described in the stories below) these guys will spit out updated stories during next encounters and will become experts, one day, maybe. Seeing this mansplaining guy as a person talking to himself could be an option. Actually some of the situations happened to me with other women 😲. Respectful communication is tricky ❤️

Gross.

That’s exactly what I thought Raine!

Why are there so many chess boards? I love it!!

Daaaang you absolute Queen!

I don't know how to play chess, but I would love to learn how to play chess. I don't understand why people choose to explain things to other people that the other people already know.

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How many times has she played chess on a date? Is this a common date activity?

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Oh yeah, the chess set that's always here during a date...

Since he is a natural, you should take his advice on it

Best part is that you get to give out the final marks.

Look on the bright side, cement proof that he did you a favour by showing you his true colours.

I'd be with those nurses.

To the 'Mansplaining Deniers' out there : The point is that those men make the assumption that the woman knows nothing, without knowing anything about her. When we meet a new person, we could all just assume they are equally intelligent as us.

YOU TELL HIM! I'm tired of men trying to explain s**t that I know better.

"young lady" - so condescending 🤬

The name makes this story even better.

Seriously men need to at least know what they are talking about when they do this

And that was the last time that OP's husband was ever seen.

I got a C in art once for ‘plagiarising’ Devil Wears Prada (had just come out at the time). We had to design a shoe. I made mine into a dragon with a tail going up the leg and scales all over looking like fire. All the work showed it was inspired by Smaug from The Hobbit. The art teacher who was ALSO and English teacher said what’s the hobbit? Who’s Tolkien? Said I was lying and still gave me a C for ‘plagiarising’ Devil Wears Prada 🤦🏼‍♀️

The men: "La, la, la, la, la...I can't hear you!"

I am 45yrs old and am in full blown menopause. I started peri menopause when I was 38-39yrs old. I had a man child explain menopause and proceed to tell me that it is impossible for a woman to start it that young and to be in menopause at my age. While it is not common it does happen and my last period was actually almost 6yrs ago. He said it was something else and insisted that the Gynecologist was wrong due to her being a woman and I NEED TO SEE A MALE DOCTOR to be correctly diagnosed. I had blood work done and am currently on hormone therapy. Kicker....... this Man/Child was 22yrs old and was going to college for a degree in physical education. LMFAO SMH

It makes you wonder how this guy was raised.

I wouldn't be able to stop laughing if somebody insulted me like this.

Why is anyone just answering to a convo they are NOT part of??

(Dungeons & Dragons in case you were wondering)

How can you be an engineer and not understand pH, it's so basic! (no pun intended)

Stop with the made up Covid nonsense, “doctor”! You’re just distracting us from the real and imminent threat of the Lizard People from Planet X! Not to mention the cannibals in the pizza basement.

Oof!!!

If “girls” can’t play bass, then what was Carol Kaye doing on all 10,000+ recording sessions she played on? If he’s ever enjoyed a famous bass line from the last half of the 20th century, she probably played it.

You could be showing it to him on a cutting board, and then putting it together on a sewing machine, and he'd still say that you were wrong.