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

In the end I corrected this by sending an email to the while department with all the relevant documents and contact info.

This is endlessly frustrating, isn't it?

I've a colleague who, while generally quite lovely, understands neither finances nor the fact that he doesn't understand finances.

He's single-handedly responsible for the "break-even" tool - an Excel based calculator that figures out at which point, if ever, you'll break even with any given choice.

My university intern built the tool for me. This guy is in upper management. He still lectures everyone - including the intern as well as myself - on the need to strategically invest. Yes, that's a thing - but only in things that stand a chance of actually making money at some poibt down the line. It's not "investing" if you're simply too thick to calculate whether or not the figures work out on X.

My boss mansplained feminism to me and how he understood what it was like to experience sex discrimination as a woman because he had a wife and a daughter 😂 and on that basis there was no need to take any action through training and development to address the gender pay gap in our organisation.

I remember a thread on here a long time ago and the OP said he was a man. He'd posted a link to an article about women in other countries who had been given time off for their periods.

He mansplained periods and then told us that there was options for us that would help our painful/bad periods, such as contraception. Although he said periods weren't even that bad as he knew women who managed just fine with their periods

He was soon shot down.

I have just had my DS boysplain to me, with helpful practical demonstration, that I have apparently been cleaning my makeup brushes wrong. Given I am in my 40s, and not sporting a face full of spots, I must have been doing something right these past many years.

I have, in turn, womansplained mansplaining to him. I hope I have caught things in time and it isn't too late for him!

It became a standing joke between my adult son and I; every time he wanted a new laptop he would take me with him. The little, white hared, old lady would stand respectfully quiet while the sales person (alas generally male) explained how the laptop worked. My son,who had no idea how computers worked, would then turn to me and ask, "What do you think?" The look on their faces was our prize! Often they had to go and get the manager of the section to answer the technical questions I asked. I have a first class degree in computing 🙄. In my case I was not only female but OLD! Small victories. It really is time this nonsense stopped.

I asked a guy friend if he had a recommendation for laptop insurance.

He didn't, but he did tell me to back up my data and make sure nobody stole my machine.

I like the term "correctile dysfunction"

Have to share what just happened to me.

Took my car to be washed in one of those supermarket car washes. Took baby in his pram for a coffee whilst we waited.
On return I put DS's car seat into the car, turned around to put the pram into the car and car wash attendant was there. Told me he would do it to save my back. I told him no need but he wouldn't take no for an answer.

Oh my god!! I watched him try to fold the pram for 5 minutes, call a colleague over to help. (refusing all help from me in the meantime) Eventually he gave up and told me he wasn't sure what I'd done but the pram must be broken 🙄.

So very calmly I pulled the lever and pushed the handle to collapse the pram, put it in the car and drove off without saying a word. He did at least have the grace to look slightly embarrassed. 🤣

Anything my ex boss talked to me about was mansplained by him. Anything, absolutely anything.
In my head I used to call him Noel...

He's now my ex boss, yeeaay!!! 😁