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

Dinner party chat with dh of family friend. I had one dc at time and he and his dw had recently had 2nd. He was at pains to explain the importance of planning birth 5to ensure kids are born September - December to be older at school. I explain that even if I want4d to do that it wouldn't have been possible and won't be possible for dc 2 as we had fertility issues so you have to keep trying, hoping for the best and you certainly don5t just want to stop trying for 6 months because of potential schooling issues. He then explained to me in extensive detail about the best time to try for a baby in order to get a September/October baby.

Mind boggling.

I've subsequently had multiple similar moments with both him and his wife and after the last event dh and I agreed to att4mpt to avoid any events at which they might be present.

mineofuselessinformation in that instance "that's not possible" clearly translates as "I don't know how to do it".

Dh often tells me things aren't possible.

@origamiunicorn funnily enough I've had a similar argument with an American in a bar when I first moved to Manchester.

He asked where I was from as my accent was different and when I replied Wales, he asked where that was in England.

We went back and forth for a while, with him denying Wales was its own country and me getting more annoyed. Then I asked where he was from and he replied some state or other in the USA.

"Oh Canada, I love that country" I said
He got really shirty with me and angrily proclaimed he was an American. I said "Yes, Canada in North America!" We went back and forth for a while with him getting frustrated that I'd never heard of the USA and was convinced everything north of Mexico was Canadian.

It was only when I actually womansplained what I'd done to him that he twigged I had been taking the piss due to his ignorance of my country!

Ooops bold fail. Wish a man had told me how I was doing it wrong

My grandfather, an engineer, spent a few months as a technical editor on a trade magazine related to his field, really just there to advise the writers on the literal mechanics. He did this over 50 years ago.

I'm a journalist with 15+ years of experience, specialising in online (not the Mail, or any other national, I hasten to add). He tried to tell me I didn't need an Internet connection (mine had been accidentally severed by roadworkers) as "how do you think we managed before?"

Literally the entire basis of my current job is the bloody internet!

Thank you so much everyone for sharing all your stories, they've been....enlightening?

My husband once gave me a lesson on how to iron his underpants.

I'm married to a mansplainer. He'll splain on and on about everything even periods. I feel it could be grounds for divorce.

My BIL once tried to explain to me what feminism is... seriously.

My OH just explained that when I run my glass kiln to fill any gaps with smaller pieces to fire them at the same time.

The fact that I've been using a kiln for about 3 years now and I always have work ready to be fired waiting according to the schedule it needs (so the kiln has never ever run with unnecessary gaps) seems to have escaped his attention.

He'll be telling me how to cut glass next.

Think I fancy a

My uncle tried to explain how embryos develop from Day 1 of conception to Day 5. He does not have children, works in a bank, and has no reason to know about reproductive medicine.

I have an MSc in it, and whilst I don't claim to know everything, I do know a darn sight more than he does!

My BIL once tried to explain to me what feminism is... seriously.

One of my bosses once tried to explain sexual harrassment from the victim's perspective to me.

Context: I had just told him that, come hell or high water, I wasn't working for client X anymore after he'd suggested I "sweeten the deal" during a sales negotiation and pinched my bum.

His argument for why he knew better: his female boss once told him he was cute when he was 22.

Bloke at work years ago who’d had a week camping somewhere in Wales and in the course of telling me about it told me he’d been to a place called Cwm y Glo which he helpfully translated for me as Oak Tree Valley. I speak fluent Welsh (and he knew this) It means Coal Valley. He actually argued back that it didn’t.

He could often be found mansplaining various things to young interns who didn’t yet have the life skills or experience to call him out or just tell him to sod off

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My husband once gave me a lesson on how to iron his underpants.
I hope he's doing them himself now!

Yesterday a new colleague mansplained to me what a tagline was. I am in a fairly senior role in the marketing team. He is not. I was very snappish in my response.

How to use the washing machine ! I have only been usuing it every day for 40 odd years

Met some friends and friends of friends in the pub during the Scottish independence referendum campaign. The referendum was the topic of conversation and Alex Salmond had been on R4 that morning. I was about to mention something he'd said in the interview when a man I'd never spoken to before stopped the conversation to tell me that "Alex Salmond is the leader of the SNP." And then, as if I'd been living under a rock for the previous few months, "Scotland are having a vote to see if they want to break away from the UK."

I'm afraid I was too shocked to say anything!

The same guy later told me how much he'd enjoyed his pasta pescatore on holiday in Italy that year, and informed me (without my asking) that that translated as "seafood pasta."

I've got a first class degree, half of which is in Romance languages!

If I ever see that guy again...

I had a career in the Army as a communications engineer. The useful thing about being in uniform is that your seniority and specialism is clearly visible.

I was running a team of 120 people. Lost count the number of times much more junior men from a different branch would

A) Not believe that I was the one in charge

B) Explain things in technical language to my more junior male colleagues and either ignore me completely or try to patronise me

Now have a PhD in nature conservation and spend a lot of time dealing with the public offering advice and information. A lot of male birdwatchers simply won't believe me. Posted an unusual wildlife photo on social media with an explanation. Lots of men telling me I was wrong. I wasn't.

DF is not so much a mansplainer but a know it all who won't budge on his point of view for any woman, no matter how knowledgeable or qualified.

I compete in Canicross with my dog. My DF has no interest in it whatsoever but after watching one competition he's an expert!
My girl wasn't running right. He insisted she was fine - again despite knowing nothing about canicross - apparently it was being caused by canicross and she was fine when he walked her.
I took her to the vet and he came with me to wrangle DS.
Despite hearing my highly qualified female vet - who is also a partner in the practice - agree with me that something wasn't right he insisted I didn't need xrays to rule out anything nasty.
After that proved clear he insisted that I didn't need the course therapeutic massages I'd booked. (one session later there was already a vast improvement).

I buy the food for all the dogs in the household - mine and his two. He'd insisted on Bakers for his and it's awful stuff and I could tell him exactly why but apparently they were "thriving on it" (bouncing off the walls more like).
I just switched them to something better without telling him at the time but he still won't admit the change for the better.
At the same time he was wondering why his two had dodgy tummies. Some random bloke he got chatting to up the woods mentioned his dog was he same when fed a certain dog treat - the same on DF gives. Funnily enough he listened to the man.

I do canicross with a lot of professional dog people - trainers, vets, physiotherapists etc. I can pass on any amount of advice from them to him and I talking "new fangled shite" (eg when he was having recall problems with his pup and bollocking the poor dog when he came back I told him not to do it and explained why he told me I was talking rubbish )

“Do you want me to park your car for you?”
I was driving, he was in the passenger seat.

What the fuck did he think I usually did, just left the thing running in the road while I went to get my shopping?

Mummy have you watched Mum? There was an episode where a man offered to reverse/park for his female partner. Her response? “I’m a woman Derek, it’s not a disability”

I have a dvd from the OU, showing John Cleese attempting to explain Buddhism to the Dalai Lama.

@nicopolastri I haven’t seen that! I wish I’d come up with something equally cutting! As it was I could only manage flabbergasted silence.....on further questioning he explained that he often parked cars for his female friends, so didn’t see it as a strange offer. Most odd. It was a guy I was seeing as a student; it didn’t last much longer tragically.....

Much as I miss my dear departed Father, I do not miss his inherent belief that he was right about EveryFuckingThing. The Christmas we played Trivial Pursuit and he would absolutely not have it that Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas is spoken about even now in hushed tones. --

Atlases ( plural) were summoned and pored over, with me saying " Dad, I was there six months ago, I should know where I went on holiday!" and him saying "No! Kansas City is in Kansas!" until his brother finally agreed with me that yes, it was in Missouri- and only then, once another man had decreed it so, was it allowed to pass as fact. My father is part of the reason I drink too much.

Just now my husband tried in minute detail to explain to me that a police officers warrant card is a legal document and what makes it a legal doc. Because I didn't clap and cheer him on his knowledge like some demented seal on heat he then sat down and googled it, and explained it again in a very slow tone. All interesting. Except I am a solicitor. It's a given I know what a legal document is. Had to come and find this thread to add it!