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

Loving this thread but its making me see red at the same time.

Probably not doing my blood pressure any good making up replies to some of these idiots! We really need to call them out on it every single time.

A relative of mine did mansplain but he even had the front to preface it with "I dont know anything about this but.....then his go on to explain what it was, totally convinced he was right." Of course it was usually BS.

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

Love this, must watch out for this when my town is inundated with holiday makers this summer, ready to rush in and stop them going into the sea by accident! Those poor women must be protected!

My FiL kept trying to give me breast feeding advice. Mind you, he was also overly interested in how my post partum recovery was elsewhere and made repeated comments each time I stood up and sat down. He was largely absent from my husband and his siblings' childhoods, due to work commitments and hobbies so I doubt he had been around when MiL was breastfeeding. Strangely, I have breastfed in many places and in the company of many people, but never once him.

@S1naidSucks apparently this is a very real possibility unless we have our guardians present. Who knew?!

@Willow2017 me too. I'm loving reading the comments but having a really hard time working out how to deal with both the awe and horror I'm experiencing simultaneously.
I wasn't going to bother posting at all but I'm really glad I did now, just pure madness.

@TremblingFanjo 😂😂😂 female lady woman

SaskiaRembrandt that would give me the rage! What did you do?
BTW DD and I are horrible histories biggest fans so if you need anything clarifying or explaining we're here (to dance and sing it to you :o)

@MitziK - I would pay good money to see you destroy an audio-equipment mansplainer!! And I bet I'm not the only one.

"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."

He did what, @Tashtegotoo?? What a knobhead!!

"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”"

Your dd is amazing, @UnicornPug - perceptive and witty!

"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."

Probably because, if she did try to bury him under the patio, he'd tell her she was doing it wrong, @plantbased!!

I had no idea the sea was so dangerous to us wimmin - I live by the coast! I’d better never leave the house again, just to be safe!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius a swift shovel to the head should solve that one

In the doctor's surgery. We have ID cards here (different country) and we register our arrival for an appointment by swiping the card in a machine at the reception desk. The practise nurse was behind the counter doing some admin and as I walked away she noticed that the machine hadn't worked and called me back to swipe me card again. Well I tried it again and it didn't work, so she took it and had a go and it still didn;t work. Then this random bloke waiting behind me reached forward and went to take the card from her because obviously us women weren't doing it right. I mustered up my best foreign language abilities and said 'I think she knows what's she's doing'. Thankfully my glare transcends linguistic boundaries.

DP went through a phase of trying to mansplain things to me so everytime he did, I handed over whatever it was to him and went and sat in front of the telly. Well, if he knew best, he could do it properly the first time

Took him a few times to correlate my constantly downing tools to his unnecessary explaining and ”helpful” suggestions corrections

Think he's got the hint now. Interfere and the jobs yours.

@EmilyThornby love that! Great approach!

I coach rugby. In certain tournaments, coaches ref the games.

Rugby dad approached me and said I had got the offside decision wrong (I hadn’t).

I explained why I hadn’t and he then asked to see the coach.

Told him I was the coach. He then mansplained to me what a coach was, why I couldn’t be it and could he please see the coach.

I got the other member of the staff over. Rugby dad said “ah you’re the coach”. Other member of staff “no, Jacques is - that’s why she’s wearing the jumper with “coach” on it”

IME men are utterly obsessed with mansplaining offside.

A guy did it on here a couple of months ago. And got the explanation wrong

My dad once argued with me over the correct way to paint my flat and how I was using the wrong paint. I worked in a paint manufacturing factory at the time 😬😬

@Twisique When on jury duty you're not permitted to disclose or discuss which case you're working on to ANYONE. So how could he have possibly known? I'm not sure you understand mansplaining

@HappyLoneParentDay It was when I returned to work, after the trial when I was allowed to talk about it. After jury service you are allowed to talk about the aspects of the case that are in the public domain (not what happened in the deliberation room). He knew I had been a juror on the trial but explained it to me anyway. Textbook mansplaining!

Mansplained at the garage this week. My parking sensors have not worked since they replaced the left tail light and I know the electric feed for the sensors comes from that light, so I asked them to look at it.
A) apparently these parking sensors were fitting after delivery and they therefore can’t fix them (they came fitted as standard)
B) no you must be wrong (I’ve owned the car since new)
C) well maybe your dealer fitted them (I bought it through a Toyota garage they came as part of the sport package)
D) well they aren’t Toyota standard so we can’t fix them (you broke them, you fix them)
Repeat for 10 minutes until I finally snap and say i’ll take the car back to Toyota then. Who fix them and explain that the wire from the rear left light hadn’t been attached.

I’m also a solicitor and find mansplaining rife. Apparently I can’t have ovaries and know what I’m doing, despite several post grad qualifications and 15 years experience. My trainee fresh from law school often likes to tell me why I’m wrong. He thinks he’s being dynamic. He’s an arrogant prick who won’t be getting hired

@Happynow001- erm, I don't know? What an odd question.

On a visit to a Mosque in Turkey, some Australian guy explaining to the Muslim guide that he was wrong about an aspect of the Islamic faith. Clearly it's not just women that the worst mansplainers give their advice to.

I am currently awaiting the arrival of the windscreen repair man.

I'll report back

My boss tried to tell me how to park my car and that I wouldn't be able to drive out of the space I was parked in.
He's failed his test three times, which is why I was driving him.
He then told me I was throwing my curve balls wrongly in Pokémon-Go. He doesn't play Pokemon-Go; I'm level 39.
I can't stab him though as technically I was playing Pokemon-Go on work time, so I just nodded.

@BaronessBomburst to be fair he can't be that bad if he lets you play Pokemon go at work

I was involved in writing up new legislation and a strategy for a particular issue. It was a long lengthy process and at the end, the whole approach was lauded on a global level. It was a tough piece of work but something I am vry proud to have been involved in.

I was recently on a ferry and a man sat at my table. I was proof reading a briefing document for the Government that a colleague and I had written. The man refused to believe me that I was reading about that, despite me showing him the paper. He also refused to believe that one of the authors was me. He was an ex-cop and proceeded to tell me what the current law was on this issue. I told him that he was out of date with new laws and strategy introduced. He couldn't admit that he didn't know this so waffled about what he thought the laws should be. I explained that I was part of developing the new legislation and knew what it now was. He completely ignored that part and waffled on about his own views on the situation and a case he had worked on 20 years ago which showed he was the expert. I told him that I had researched the issue for many many years and what he was saying was now wrong and no longer up to date. He could not accept this and suggested I speak to one of his pals in the police as he "was the man in the know" and I could probably learn quite a bit from him. When I said that I actually worked alongside this man's superiors such as the highest ranking officer in the country on the new laws - he refused to believe that and insisted that his mate, the local bobby would know more than I did and so wrote down his mate's email so I could contact him directly. He got very shirty when I wouldn't email his pal straight away in front of him.

I moved seats to get away from him but he tracked me down to tell me that he had googled the issue and I might want to speak to a person called petiteonion about this issue as it seemed like he knew a bit. I couldn't be arsed telling him that he was actually speaking to petiteonion directly and that he was a she .

I moved again and left him to his John Grisham.

I've refused to drive SFIL anywhere because of the incessant mansplaining.

On one short journey he told me that I was driving too fast, driving too slow (lots of NSL roads here that drop down to 30 in villages. I was going the appropriate speed), told me that putting the handbrake on whilst waiting at a red light would 'damage' the car and got very aerated at the multi storey car park as he didn't feel the my car would have enough 'power' to get up the ramp to the first floor.

He's never driven a car.

Never does this to DH or BIL.