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

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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

@StealthPolarBear I was thinking the same! After all that it would have been AMAZING to see the look on his face!

Eurgh, everyday at work I go through some kind of mansplaining 😫 But their way of fixing problems is over complicated, convoluted & over the top 🙈 I despair most days!!

Yesterday I had the legal principles behind an enforcement process I designed incorrectly explained to me very s-l-o-w-l-y and carefully, presumably so my ladybrain could keep up.

Last week my manager explained step by step how to order envelopes. I mean in terms of “so you’ll walk down the office to where Jane sits, find Jane, then say ‘Hi Jane, I need to order some envelopes, is it you who orders stationery?’” (Those were the initial steps, there were quite a few more!) I thanked him and asked him to show me how to put one foot in front of the other as he hadn’t fully explained the walking part. Luckily we get on well and he took it in good humour.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch

That happens all the time with Americans who can't understand Scotland is part of the UK as the UK is just another word for England in their minds.

I've never heard of them not understanding England and the UK though.

Some Dutch guys in a bar in Amsterdam tried telling my DP that Wales wasn't a country, it is part of England. To say he wasn't impressed was an understatement.

I was manning a stand, representing my workplace at a science fair, the amount of men who started mansplaining science to me. It's literally my job mate, just stop. There was a "quiz activity" too, their faces when they got some answers wrong 😆

A random bloke once mansplained how to burp our son to my partner at a motorway service station. I had just done the boobing and passed him over. It wasn't very busy and this bloke came right accross the dining area and sat himself down. Apparently his partner was a midwife O_o

Men frequently mansplain to me how I should pronounce my job title. Because I’ve obviously been pronouncing it incorrectly for over a decade and just never noticed.

The conversation goes something like this:
MAN: What job do you do?
ME: I’m a patent attorney.
MAN: Oh, you mean a pay-tent attorney.
ME:
MAN: I had a great invention, but I couldn’t afford to copyright it and so now [brand name] belongs to [big company].

I hope you tell them Pay-tent is glossy shoes 😆

This is from years ago. Started a new job and was having a chat with a senior manager from another department. We were talking about my drive in and he disagreed with me about the route I had driven to get to the office. Not the best route to get there, the actual route I had driven! I said "no, that's no what I said. I drive x, y and z way" to which he huffily responded "that's the way I said". No it's bloody not mate, your version would have taken at least twenty minutes longer (I didn't say out loud). On the plus side it was a good warning about his general dickishness - I didn't bother saying goodbye before I moved on!

Actually in labour with DS2, who was back to back and face first. Male Dr came in to the room 8 hours in, and told me that it was just pressure, and not as painful as I made out.

I him to fuck off and leave me with the midwife, who knew what she was doing.

DH was horrified, as apparently you can't speak to Dr's like that. I said that I could, until they had also given birth.

ModreB
🤣😂. Good for you!

@MilesJuppismybitch I live in Germany, I'm from Scotland, I've lost count of the number of times I've had to sit through a retrospective mansplain of the relationship between Scotland and England after correcting someone who called me English. It would be a lot less effort for them to just admit that yes, German's funny like that, people say "England" when they mean "Grossbritannien"... but there's no limit to the efforts some people will put in to be right

But my best mansplain was when my FIL, a printer, explained me the difference between printing pigments and inkjet inks... when I was a process development chemist, working on developing chemical synthesis routes for you guessed it, inkjet inks. I kept trying to interrupt him to tell him but he wasn't having it. You know that feeling when you realise that a person you thought of as an enthusiastic conversationalist is actually just an enthusiastic monologuer.

My DH explaining to me yesterday what I should do when people have been overpaid at work.

He's worked in finance for 18 months. I've been a payroll manager for almost 15 years.

He really wound me up!!!

My dad is the worst mansplainer ever.

I am a qualified doctor, he has done a first aid course at work, yet somehow I think he believes our knowledge base is comparable...

This thread has just reminded me... Had a British Gas engineer in to check our boiler (heating came on everytime hot water came on) he dutifully explained to me what the issue was, fixed it and recommended a system flush, was just finishing off the paperwork and my husband came home. He then proceeded to talk over me to my husband explaining the exact same thing (using technical words rather than the primary school language used for me). My husband very carefully pointed him back to me and said 'you're best off talking to gizlotsmum, she's the one with the degree in water treatment'. I got an apology from British Gas for that one...

My mum used to 'second hand mansplain'.If a man had told her something then it was right and she would repeat it.

My brother is hundreds of miles away from most family so not everyone can stay with him if there is a family gathering at his.

So at one of these gatherings my mum starts telling everyone about the farm they are staying at and how the farmer had had an operation to put a piece of metal in his heart.

I correct her that it is a stent, looks more like a spring and is placed in the coronary artery.

She tells me I'm wrong because the farmer has told her, and he's the one who's had the operation.

I point out that as a clinical physiologist I have seen many many stents put in, I monitor the ECG while the balloon is inflated with saline, not air(something else my um got wrong), and that as I do this for a living I might know something about it.

Then she sulked.

Gingerkittykat I don't think he'd ever heard of England! It was a long time ago, but I think I said something about the English language coming from England, & he just looked baffled.

It was the absolute certainty that my country didn't exist that was the real mind-blower at the time

My Dad used to mansplain how to take photographs when we were on family holidays.

It was a standing joke. We have dozens of holiday snaps with him in them and the expression on his face definitely tells you that he was trying to instruct the person behind the camera how to point and angle the camera, how to press the button etc.

He did it to me many times, but as a stroppy teenager I took to just ignoring him and taking the photo I wanted anyway.

When my sister and I were virtually grown up my parents took to taking the odd break by themselves again.

Once home they would show us their photos and whenever there was one of just him we would comment "There's Dad, instructing you (Mum) on how to use the camera". Her reply would be that of course he was as he always did. She just got on with it though.

We rarely commented on any of the world famous monuments that he was photographed at, we just observed that as usual he was instructing the photographer.

A while back, but we once introduced two of our friends when we went out to the pub together. They were really hitting it off, until I saw the woman of the two freeze and start looking pissed off and move away.

Apparently he had just been saying how much he loved his motorbike, how fast it would go, wind going past him etc., how she'd love it and would she like to ride pillion with him sometime to see what it was like.

He was an occasional/weekend biker. She'd been one all her life, frequently went to conventions and races, and could take her bike apart and put it back together with her eyes shut. She was not impressed!

Haha OP I think you’ve met my cousin. He also mansplains to me how to do the technical side that I have a professional qualification in (and he doesn’t!)

My DH once gave me a demonstration of how a period flows out of the body, to help me explain to our daughter when the time comes. That was useful.

@VortexofBloggery wins.

Man on the train justifying why he hadn't given up his seat to a pregnant woman as she didn't look pregnant enough. When she pointed out she had terrible morning sickness and sitting made her feel better he mansplained how easy pregnancy was and she was just being dramatic as he had 2 kids himself so knew what he was talking about. For the avoidance of doubt he was not a trans man. I was 8.5 months pregnant at the time and gave my seat up for her whilst he still sat. What. A. Knob

Catscakeandchocolate She should have started retching over him. I bet he would soon have moved.

DH tried to explain basic computer use, you know to type letters, print stuff that sort of thing. I was an auctioneer's secretary at that point spending 9 hours a day on a computer (doing my job very competently) getting catalogues out to print deadlines, sending digital photographs, emailing etc.

DH worked solely with cars.

I laughed and laughed and laughed.