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

I am an advanced nurse practitioner & I have just completed a master's level qualification to enable me to prescribe all medicines (non-medical prescribing). A friends husband spent quite a while telling me how he knows all about non medical prescribing as that is exactly what his job is all about.
He is not medically qualified in any way & works in IT.

Sack

So they can ‘womansplain’ to you why you are wrong about these poor, misunderstood chaps, @plantbased!

Oh I’m so stealing that, sackrifice.

Ah @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I see! Thanks for explaining 😂

It's really simple.....if men don't want to be thought of in this way, they could, you know, just not fucking do it.
It's not man hating to point out when men think they know better and don't they should understand this abd STFU.

Is it too much to ask for them to stop and fucking think about what they are doing??

My ex husband once told me how to use a screwdriver - given I had it in my hand and was using it it was a bad idea on his behalf

A friend's husband likes to mansplain childbirth, it's really weird.

I asked about the suitability of a products on a diy store

One of my bosses literally explained being on the receiving end of workplace sexual harrassment to me - followed by a detour into why it wasn't a gendered phenomenon in the least.

I offered to pinch his bum and asked him whether that would a) bother (A: yes) and b) intimidate (A: no, I'm much taller and physically stronger than you if push came to shove) him.

I won so badly even he conceded.

I frequently have my research area explained to me (specifically telling me that I'm wrong) by men with no experience in this area when I have 100+ publications on it and am a professor 🤷‍♀️. Have never had a woman do it to me.

I'm not pissed of in the slightest, like I said I just find the term embarrassing.

I can’t remember personally but I’ll never forget laughing about the man who tried to mansplain women’s gynaecology problems...to a female gynaecologist. He was insisting she was wrong, and he was right and wouldn’t hear the end of it

Best thing..it was all on twitter so his twattery was seen by many people

Gaah!
I asked about the suitability of a product in a diy shop, as the packet was not clear. A man produced a pen and read the packet to me, complete with a pen pointing at each word...... (I had already told him I had read the packet.)
When buying a new phone, I wanted to check very specifically that all of my contacts would be transferred over to the new phone. The man told me not to worry, that all of my contacts were stored 'in the cloud'. He pointed up to the ceiling to illustrate the point. If I hadn't wanted the phone, I would have walked out there and then. As it was dd2 and I kept giving each other the side eye, trying not to burst out laughing!

Male head teacher explaining to me and another female colleague what it is like for women living in fear of their estranged spouses following DV. I decided to be pleased that he is empathetic and takes an interest.

My ex explained to me how I was breastfeeding all wrong. My eldest daughter told him he probably felt he was an expert because he has bigger boobs than me.

How to stack a dishwasher
How to put suitcases in the car
And my personal favourite:
How to give birth.

But yeah, really really mean and unnecessary. Manhater that I am

My eldest daughter told him he probably felt he was an expert because he has bigger boobs than me.

Regardless of her qualifications and background: I'm hereby offering to hire your DD into a well-paid, prestigious job.

I hope you're proud of her!!! Well played!

😂

I had my c-section recovery mansplained to me by a male GP, apparently it had to be far more painful than the labour that proceeded it and I was obviously lying about the fact that I hadn't taken any medications. I'd gone to see him about my mental health, in floods of tears with a 3 week old baby in tow.

My father in law mansplained libraries to me the other week.

I used to be a librarian.

My ex is an 'expert' on everything. He has regularly explained to genuine experts in their field why they are wrong about their specific subject. It's embarrassing. He once explained to me how to get from one location to another in my home town - a place he had visited once.

I don't know if it's because he's a man or just a narcissistic twat.

I did jury service a couple of years ago, long complicated case that was in the news. When I got back to work one of the men explained the case to me...

Have a friend who is an expert on anything and everything. His ex has just had a baby and they were both at mine, baby maybe 2 months old at this point. We were discussing something like sleep I think and I gave a detailed explanation about something to do with it (I'm qualified in childcare, and whilst I'm not an expert I know lots more than this guy ever could and wouldn't have explained something if I didn't know enough about it) and he tried to repeat it all back to me as if he was the one saying it for the first time. His ex and my partner both told him he was being an idiot and to shut up 😂

I once had a guy mansplain me about my own fucking motorbike.
Literally stood there and told me about its engine, top speed, cooling system etc.

I'd been riding it for 6 fucking years!!

When I pointed out he was wrong about some bits he got in a huff ffs.

I once had a male farrier explain to me (while I was standing there holding the horse I had owned for several years) that actually the horse shoes are nailed on.

No, really? And there was me thinking they were held on with unicorn spit.