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

My DS mansplained (boysplained?) Angel Delight to me last year, having learned how to make it on a school residential trip and assumed that it was some new and innovative dessert that I would never have heard of

I wasn't playing Pokemon-Go AT work. Just in work time. Boss told me we needed to go into town to collect something. Turned out something was beer for the after-work drinks. So whilst he was buying the beer I caught Pokémon.
Nah, it's not getting any better is it......?

'Passwords are just like a key. If you lost the key to your house you couldn't get in. The same goes for a password to your PC. Do you understand?'........OMG!!!!!! I had to count to 10 😁

I am so glad you shared that, @InspirationWontCome - now I understand what passwords are for. Mind you, I expect my uterus will make me forget this highly technical and complex information as soon as I click away from this thread!

I love how specific some of them are -

An ex BF (an IT tech) once proclaimed very pompously that I'd probably overestimated the size of a fish I'd just seen because things look a third larger underwater. I had literally just spent 3 years doing my field-based DPhil that included extensive training and calibration of my accuracy in measuring fish lengths underwater by eye.

beethebee that is so brilliant and awful at the same time.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius You're welcome, I'm happy to share this little gem with other pea-brained women like ourselves! 😂

We were very lucky to be gifted a honeymoon in the Caribbean (a LONG time ago).

We didn't meet any other Brits over there, but lots of Americans.

We'd got chatting to a couple on a cruise, and when dh went to the bar, the man asked where we were from.

"England" I said.
"Where?"
"England. The UK"
"I know the UK, but England? There's no such country".

I didn't know how to respond to that.

DH the other day asked me when I was starting to take Norithesterone (sp?) to delay my period for our holiday. I told him July 6th, which according to my calculations is the right day. He then went on to try and explain how I might be wrong. Because he obviously knows my periods better than I do. I told him to use his own advice when he wants to delay his period.

@InspirationWontCome aaaahh now I see!! All along I just assumed it was the tiny computer goblins out to get me by forbidding access to websites. Dang, knowledge really IS power! I hope you thanked the kind gentleman for his helpful explanation!!

MilesJuppIsMyBitch has reminded me that I did have someone womansplain something to me once. I was starting my German class in Berlin and filling in the forms to get a reduced fee because I was from the EU. My German teacher wanted me to correct 'Ireland' to 'Britain'. I refused, so she very kindly explained to me that Ireland was in Britain, although she understood my wish that it was independent. I think she was confused with Northern Ireland, although even that isn't in Britain, it's in the UK. It was 1998 so I couldn't Google on my phone to show her a list of EU countries, and I'm pretty sure that she altered my form before she handed it in to the office.

The guy from Virgin Media who was installing cable to my flat asked me to set up a password as part of the installation. I quickly bashed out a password into the two boxes required. He looked at me pityingly and explained that the passwords had to be the same and I couldn’t just type random things into the boxes, it had to be something I would remember well who knew?!

My DH explained to me what mansplaining is. At least, he started to, caught the look on my face, and stopped. At least he had the grace to look sheepish.

I am both disappointed and relieved to report that the windscreen repair man was normal

@rollingpine is it bad that I'm also disappointed purely for the fact that we now don't get a story

#plantbased I can't bear to have you disappointed, I shall go out and find another man just for you.

(One of them lives here, but he's been married to me for too long and is now too well-trained).

@rollingpine goodo off you pop! Pretty sure it won't take long to find one of these menz...
Come to think of it, maybe there should be an app to locate/avoid them

Tried NDN - no good, he's deaf and didn't hear me knocking on the door.

Tried NDN - no good, he's deaf and didn't hear me knocking on the door.

Obviously you weren’t knocking it properly, with your silly lady hands.

Bugger, I've been rumbled.

On holiday in an apartment complex in Spain last September.

We hired a kettle and a toaster from reception, and the deposit you put down was returnable when you took them back on your final day.

I said that I would take them back as DH was bringing the suitcase down. He began trying to explain to me how to carry them up to the reception desk, hand them over and show the receipt to get thy money back!!

I told him to bugger off or I would be tempted to hand him in to reception and see how much money they would give me for him. To be fair, he did back off then.

Get the money back. Autocorrect misbehaving there.

@Topseyt to be fair I just thought you were being fancy with thy money

Petite onion you didn't tell him? How on earth did you resist?

A friend once explained to me in detail how adding salt to food brought out the flavours. I'm a qualified chef...