What's been "mansplained" to you recently?

[askingrandomsonlinemighthelp]

My DP is a mansplainer extraordinaire. We were walking along the coast toward a famous (in these parts) lighthouse.

He told me what a lighthouse was.

A male colleague, who had passed his test a few years previously, but never driven a car since, started telling me how to reverse park, and offered to do it for me. I’ve been driving for 25 years. I threatened to leave him there, miles from home, if he didn’t shut the fuck up!

How to use Microsoft office, by a much younger, junior colleague...

Male colleague who is a patronising ass at the best of times publicly mansplained to me ‘what good looks like’ in my area of expertise using a best practice example. The example was my own work 😡😡😡

I picked up a pair of trousers in a shop. On the way to the checkout Young Male Assistant says ' did you get them from the 50% off rail?'
Me - Yes .
YMA -They are not 50% off though because they are already reduced
Me - They are marked as £26 so I thought they would be £13
YMA - But they have already been reduced by 20%
Me - So how much will they be then?
YMA - £13 but the recommended price is higher than £26
Me - so I was right then
YMA -Yes, but you are getting more than 50% off.

I just smiled and walked away.

@hadtojoin

I picked up a pair of trousers in a shop. On the way to the checkout Young Male Assistant says ' did you get them from the 50% off rail?' Me - Yes . YMA -They are not 50% off though because they are already reduced Me - They are marked as £26 so I thought they would be £13 YMA - But they have already been reduced by 20% Me - So how much will they be then? YMA - £13 but the recommended price is higher than £26 Me - so I was right then YMA -Yes, but you are getting more than 50% off.

I just smiled and walked away.

Ah! Wasn’t he just awkwardly (and ineffectual ly) trying to tell you that the items on the 50% rail were even more of a bargain?

[quote thenightsky]**@EMIS Fucking hell. How are you not doing time? [/quote]
Would you come to the court case and be my witness? Tell them. I was provoked 🙄

@FuckyouCovid21

I also work in the construction field and was told, many years ago (by a man obviously) "but you can't be - its not possible for womens brains to work in that way, they are wired up all wrong - you'll see". 20 years on and i haven't yet 'seen' what he was referring to :-D

That the large bin in my garden was made of plastic, and therefore could not be removed by himself (a purveyor of unwanted ferrous metals) Further monologue on the differences between items of metallic , versus plastic, persuasion followed. Until I clarified that when i said 'you can take that' I'd been pointing at a piece of (scrap iron) railing to the side of the bin.

A couple of weeks ago DD (14) asked a question about how it feels to give birth. Before I could draw breath, both DH and DS (18) chimed in with lengthy and detailed answers. I literally couldn't get a word in, and she and I just stared at each other incredulously while they held forth with all their Knowledge and Opinions on the subject.

I told them what a relief it was for us that they were there, because honestly, how much could I possibly contribute, what with only having pushed two babies out of my very own fucking vagina ...

We have a wood burner. I've been telling my DH to stop putting fresh logs on the burner, which produce more smoke and less heat, but to use wood that's dried out for a couple of years in the wood store. He ignores me.

DH went away on a man-camping weekend where he met a bloke called Steve who has a wood burner. He came home on Sunday and told me all about how Steve says we should only burn logs that have been drying out for a couple of years because they will produce more heat, and less smoke.

If he'd said, "you know, Steve thinks like you do that we should use older logs" I wouldn't mind, but it was as if he'd never heard me saying these things and Steve had opened his mind to a whole new world of understanding. Why don't they hear us?

Watching an advert for shampoo or similar where the celebrity model is an Olympic boxer (I forget her name). She does a boxing move at the camera at the end of the advert. DH, a keen marital arts enthusiast (amateur) started criticising her technique and demonstrated how you should box. I pointed out that she is literally an Olympic boxer. He didn't back down.

33goingon64

Nicola Adams.

I had an experience where I was waiting for a lift (in an FE college) reading a poster advertising a boxercise, it had a picture of 3 men with boxing medals but when you actually read the blurb it was for men and women.

There was a weekly newsletter sent round with some other bits I thought were sexist.

I sent an email, worded very carefully, so as not to hurt the fragile feelings of a man pointing out that Nicola Adams was:

a) the first woman to win an Olympic gold in boxing and that she will always be the first women who won a medal

b) had a background more similar to the students at the college

I did get a rather nice email back conceding I had a point.

@BikeRunSki

The young, make doctor who visited me when I was in hospital for the 3rd week with hyperemisis so debilitating I could not get out of bed without throwing up - in my second hyperemetic pregnancy - kindly explained to me that it was thought to be to do with pregnancy hormones, but actually, not everyone got it, so he believed it was probably actually psychosomatic. I threw up on his notes.

Hahaha!!

I was looking for a very specific van to borrow for a job, had searched all the nearby dealers and marketplaces, was coming up stumped. Lots of white ones but we needed blue and dealers often don't like lending/hiring vans for sale. I've been doing this a long time now.
Whilst I was waiting for some people to get back to me I sent a shout out email to the whole company to ask if anyone knew anyone with anything similar.

The reply from an older male colleague: you could have a look on here, they are a van dealer with lots of vans for sale. It was worded in a very patronising manner

My daughter's 15 year-old boyfriend explained to us that if our periods are particularly heavy, we "could use a tampon AND a sanitary towel".

My FIL likes to explain various aspects of banking to me. I have a senior position in banking and have worked in it for 35 years, but he heard half of a discussion on Radio 2 once and has seen The Wolf of Wall Street, so obviously knows more about it than me. I dread hearing him say "Ooh Domingo, this is interesting, did you know..."
Yes, I did know, it's literally what I do every day for a living, but don't let that stop you getting the whole thing arse about face and boring us all shitless into the bargain.

Driving out of a busy petrol station a man appeared and started giving me instructions on how to reverse and drive out. He almost jumped in front of my car and started barking instructions. I almost ran the fool over.

A male midwife who told me me I wasn't ill but "probably just tired" after a bout of vomiting and dizziness. I threw up on the floor as he mansplained the various stages of pregnancy and how they impact the body. An hour later I was admitted into hospital and placed on a drip, diagnosed with severe dehydration.

I’m an academic and I give a lot of public lectures. Men (and it is always men, usually older men) quite often like to come and explain my lectures to me. I also get a lot of “ah so you’ve written a book on this? Let me explain it to you...” I bet my male colleagues don’t get that.

I've just had one today. Driving out of a garage, and turning right. It's a horrible junction as right on a roundabout and people fly around the corner so you have to be both careful, and speedy. I look right, to see a van parked on the pavement, blocking my entire view
His mate is walking back over to the van so I waited figuring they will then move and I can drive off safely
Oh no, they start trying to "help" me manoeuvre out by saying when it's clear rather than just DRIVING OFF AND MAKING IT CLEAR. But this road is so tight that between them saying clear, and me going, it's still dangerous.
Wound down my window and said well if you move your van off the pavement and blocking everyone's view by parking stupidly, we can all go then. He called me a stupid bitch

QueenPaw

TBF, he probably thought he was helping. Misplaced obviously as his van was causing an obstruction but maybe they weren’t ready to move off.

@Sweetslumber they were all ready to go, engine started, indicator on etc
TBF they were parked completely on a pavement and on a junction where they shouldn't have been at all! Right next to the garage, with all the free parking
I gestured to him several times to move off, I would wait, it was fine

My own job, by DP who hasn't a clue about what I do. Be he is the single authority on everything that exists apparently.

In that case they are patronising arses! 😃

That was for Queen!

Here's my diagram (as always required!)
Me trying to turn right, stupid giant van, X marks the junction that people fly around (I've seen numerous people fly round it and crash into people leaving the garage), scribble for the endless free parking which of course he couldn't use
It was very much
< gesture > "move off"
"Go on love, you're clear"
"Just move off, I'll wait"
"I'll guide you out love"
"JUST MOVE, then I can actually use my own eyes"

I absolutely hate people telling me to move off when I can’t see the road. Unless they themselves are standing in the path of oncoming traffic and will bear the brunt of any collision.

There is a tight, narrow blind bend near me and delivery drivers regularly park on it. I have to wait for them to shift.
I had one ‘helpfully’ telling me that I could have gone whilst they were parked there and shouldn’t have waited.
‘Nothing was coming’
Really?
Funnily enough, I can’t see round corners.