What's the worst mansplaining you've ever been witness to?

[plantbased]

Some bloke just mansplained my own business to me, a business I built myself, from scratch. I built the company, the website, the lot. Utter cockwomble! Obviously he knows better than my oestrogen addled brain grrr

dan brown
the davinci code is mansplain central

Ah wow that's crazy OP. Do you have any specific examples of how he mansplained your business to you?

I find the mansplaining thing to be far more common with men who are 45+ in age.

I was renovating a flat and the builder, chippie and plumber (all male) were there. We were discussing the flooring and levels. I said we should use a certain type of flooring and threshold as that would disguise the issue. They all looked at me and heard me say this. Then they talked around the problem some more til one of them said ‘let’s use this type of flooring and threshold and that will take care of the problem’. Yes the very same solution I had come up with five minutes before. They then spent another five minutes explaining to me how it would work. Me and the other woman in the room just looked at each other...

Some guy decided to explain to me how to shoot videos, edit, create an account on a website and how to upload.
Very complicated stuff which he could set everything up for an ongoing fee.
I didn’t ask him for advice about anything.

Porridge. A group demonstration on the optimal way to make porridge.

An ex once told me how to hold a mug!!! We were in company and his comments were repeated back to him for years!!

Oh the men haters are on the go again 🙄

@RosesandCuddles he explained how I should go about hosting my website (whilst missing out some pretty key points)
He then went on to explain how I need to go about html coding for parts of my site (which I'm completely competent in and have already done but clearly I've done it in a womanly way and not the proper manly way) and to top it off criticised my marketing techniques (which surprisingly for a mere woman I'm surprisingly knowledgable about) gah it makes my blood boil!

@Pipandmum bloody unbelievable! They just have to have the idea themselves don't they 🙄 I wonder how much time they wasted by completely ignoring you

@BlameItOnBianca that's just laughable - is there nothing they can't do better than us ovary wielding maniacs?

My dad. I was working at a company and I told him how many people were working there and he disagreed with me and said ''no it's about 35 people''. I said ''no it's about 135!''. He argued it out with me, and when I wouldn't back down he did that ''oh you're so sensitive - I can say nothing '' martyred expression.

I could go on but that one really brought it home to me how bad he is.

@comeonsummer2019 sure you don't have to read if it troubles you so

Bloke at work explained what I should be looking for when buying a bra. I asked him if he was Grayson Perry.

I’ve been a PA the whole time my DP has known me. After we’d known each other about a year he was telling me a story about work which started with “so at work there was a PA - that means personal assistant, she does stuff like calendar management” and I’ve never let him forget it

Having my final year uni experiment explained back to me by the man I had just explained it to (who did not study that subject).

Interestingly the other day I was in a meeting and one man did proper mansplaining at another man! Never seen that before.

A man on Facebook told me I clearly knew nothing about a certain ancient Greek dig site in a post I'd commented on and explained how he knew all about it because he had read books on the subject, which I wouldn't have, because I looked like I work in McDonalds.
I have a degree in archaeology and ancient Greek and Roman history and had actually been taught by one of the archaeologists who was on that dig. I told him this and he and three random men told me I was lying.

@plantbased
I quite agree. Mansplaining is just another vile term by the men haters.

A male lawyer took me painstakingly through a contract to explain the provisions. I wrote the contract.

Not exactly mansplaining, but man-hearing. Way back in the early-ish days of computer networks in the office I overheard three men trying to access one computer from another one. I said "You have to go onto X's computer and make his drive shared before you can see it from Y's computer. Would you like me to show you how?" They turned and looked at me for few seconds in complete silence and then turned back to the screen and continued trying to solve it themselves. A couple of minutes later a man walked by and overheard the conversation and said "You have to make X's drive shared before you can see it from Y's computer." They immediately replied "How do you do that then?"

I was once training a new employee, I knew the system inside out he'd worked there for a morning. He told me I was wrong and my way was incorrect. I shouldn't be pressing the physical buttons but using the ones on the screen. I let him press the screen a couple of times before telling him it wasn't a touchscreen.

I hate the term mansplaining, do we say womansplaining when women do it because it's only ever woman who feel the need to explain my job to me or talk down to me like "are you sure this is what you are looking for"
No they are just assholes like men who do it. Some people are just dicks.
It's embarrassing and I cringe whenever I hear someone say it

@Cherylshaw I agree.

How did the mansplainer meet his untimely end?
He fell down a 'well, actually'.

I'm baffled as to why those of you who hate the word 'mansplaining' click and read the post just to moan, you know you're not going to like it so just scroll past 😂🤷‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

I’m sure the two pissed off posters would love to share lots of stories of women telling men how to do the jobs they’re trained to do. There are bound to be loads and loads. I’ll pop in later to read them.