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've blocked him now so I can't see it but my ex once tried to explain an aspect of feminism to Margaret Atwood on facebook.

I had a bloke sitting next to me at a wedding explain my PhD thesis topic to me, at some length but with minimal depth . I’m an art historian and the topic came up because I had just given a paper on the subject in question at a major international conference.
His specialism? Mortgages

I had a junior lawyer, in a conference room full of lawyers, tell me I'd misunderstood the nuances of an argument in a complex case.

It was my argument.

My dad did no housework ever, lazy as hell but complained about the mess, my mums cooking etc....one Christmas he was ‘helping’ in the kitchen and I heard ‘rather you go, see, if you tidy as you go it’s much easier isn’t it?’

*’there you go...’

My daughter (13) came home from school the other day incredulous that a boy in her class had explained periods to her. What they are, how you know when you have one etc... I asked her if she’d learned anything. “Yes,” she said. “I learned he’s an idiot”

Not mansplaining, but I was telling my husband how I’d been late to an appointment because I got stuck behind a level crossing and he told me I must have been mistaken as there was no level crossing there. Silly me. I must have imagined the great big barriers and the trains.

a colleague who corrected me over my career- despite only being in it for 2 years (23 year career) Then when I told DP later , he said ' I'm sure he didn't mean it like that'

RAGE

Reading the ones where the menz listen to your idea and then make it their own CAN work to your advantage at times I find, especially if you need to get things done. They feel so proud of themselves for their ingenious ideas then want to show you how specific things are done - if you work it the right way you can get out of many a dull job

Ds at 21 mansplaining rape to me and how women felt about it. I pointed out that as the only one in the room with a vagina, my take on it was far more relevant than his.

Reading the ones where the menz listen to your idea and then make it their own CAN work to your advantage at times I find, especially if you need to get things done. They feel so proud of themselves for their ingenious ideas then want to show you how specific things are done - if you work it the right way you can get out of many a dull job

this reminds me of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where the women of the family persuade the ‘it’s a mistake to educate women’ elderly Greek dad that everything is his idea in order to get their own way.

Just the other day. We've had issues with the drains blocking and flooding and I came home to two older gents faffing on with the manhole covers off.

They couldn't work out which way the water flowed so I told them "oh it flows point this direction". One of the two looked at me with pity and gently tried to explain "well love, see, water, it can't flow uphill ya thick bitch ".

"Well no but that manhole is 5ft deep" so it is in fact NOT running uphill 🙄 Patronising arse, I got a few apologies and thanks for cracking their head scratcher issue.

My DH mansplains almost every minutiae of our lives, daily...

I should have given an example: my DH will often tell me that I'm not making (my own) lunch (a sandwich) the optimum way, while sitting on the sofa about five metres away, so he just assumes I'm doing it wrong!

@OccidentalPurist how on earth do you put up with that?!

Plant based I've taken to just nodding and carrying on regardless 😂

@OccidentalPurist my brother is a bit like that. My SIL can't do a damn thing right whether it be making a sandwich or cleaning. Of course my 'D'B never lifts a finger to help just helpfully shouts the correct way from wherever he is (usually on the sofa with a beer). God knows why she puts up with him, if I was her he'd be under the patio. I stood up to him once because I KNEW he was talking shit and just had to give his correct manly view. He hasn't spoken to me for 6 months.

Probably loads. Actually definitely loads. One that springs to mind is how to use a hammer. Not to me just saw it in a room while an exhibition was being installed.

To all the people offended by the term it really does happen and I've never seen it done by a woman because they tend to have more empathy and tact.

Ooh well done Plantbased!

I've blocked him now so I can't see it but my ex once tried to explain an aspect of feminism to Margaret Atwood on facebook.

I imagine she slaughtered him. I hope it was fun to watch.

A man if met through a friend kept telling me the town I’d lived in all my life had a harbour as that’s where he kept his boat, every time I said there was no bodies of water except for a few streams he kept telling I was wrong and I’d not know about these things as I’m a woman and would be oblivious to the harbour and sea!

@Grumpbum123 that actually made me do a little snortle.

"I’d not know about these things as I’m a woman and would be oblivious to the harbour and sea!"

I never realised how truly limited we are by our wombs. Thank God we have have men with penisis to look after us. God forbid we go to the seaside unaccompanied - imagine the carnage of all the drowning women who just didn't see the ocean there

A female colleague of mine used the term mansplaining in our open plan office and another female colleague asked what it meant... A male colleague explained the term to her. A very long-winded explanation too

God forbid we go to the seaside unaccompanied - imagine the carnage of all the drowning women who just didn't see the ocean there

I now have visions of women falling off the harbour like lemmings. 😁

also, I have a computer with a very weird issue at work
Every man I have ever reported the issue to says
" It must have- I'll sort it out"
cue: 10 minutes of looking at it to then say
"Oh Yeah how weird"

Every woman I have told has said
"Oh that's weird, what did you have to do?"