I really don't need a male, 24-year-old sports coach mansplaining exercise and weight loss to perimenopausal women, thank you very much

[Annoyance]

That is all.

He's not anyone I work with, just someone I got into a conversation with and he started giving me unsolicited "advice".

Just fuck off.

I presumed as he was a sport's coach it was kind of his job??

If you read the op then it's the most likely scenario, it was just someone she got into a conversation with and was unsolicited advice. This isn't someone she's gone to in a professional capacity, this isn't someone she's asked advice from. His job is irrelevant if she hasn't asked for his help.

Yes, 'Karen' and 'mansplain' are both sexist, nasty terms. OP are you coming back to explain or not?

@Wtfdoipick

If you read the op then it's the most likely scenario, it was just someone she got into a conversation with and was unsolicited advice. This isn't someone she's gone to in a professional capacity, this isn't someone she's asked advice from. His job is irrelevant if she hasn't asked for his help.

How would she have known he was a sports coach

@KaptainKaveman

Yes, 'Karen' and 'mansplain' are both sexist, nasty terms. OP are you coming back to explain or not?

If men (collectively), didnt feel the need to speak to women as if they know nothing, then we wouldnt need the terminology for it.

Move more and eat less is hardly good advice when everyone knows that already. The problem is HOW to be able to actually achieve eating less. The 24 year old is unlikely to be helpful on this. OP, yanbu.

Easily @Bryonyshcmyony If I take my kid to basketball in the summer and get chatting the coach, I know the coach is a coach, it doesn't mean I need his advice.

How would she have known he was a sports coach

He probably told her, knowing someone's job does not mean you have approached them for advice.

It doesn't matter if the advice was golden, does it, if it is unsolicited, and from "just someone" then it is unwelcome.

If men (collectively), didnt feel the need to speak to women as if they know nothing, then we wouldnt need the terminology for it.

That's the equivalent of

If white women (collectively), didnt feel the need to speak to black men as if they know nothing, then we wouldnt need the terminology for it.

It's a shitty excuse for ignorant stereotyping.

(That's the origin of the Karen term.)

Oh well
Just ignore it if its not useful!

Well, yes. Quite.

It's a shame the word Karen cannot be swapped for something that sounds a bit less shit for women called Karen.

But if an action exists, then it requires terminology.

The problem is HOW to be able to actually achieve eating less. The 24 year old is unlikely to be helpful on this.

Why though? If that's the area in which they work, something they have studied for and is now their "bread and butter" based on the latest teachings...why would they be unlikely to be helpful?
(if asked which is the key issue here)

Mansplaning? Isn’t that just a nasty way to call a man a man a Karen?

The difference between "Karen" and "mansplaining" is that Karen is used to silence.

Mansplainers can never be silenced

Karen v Mansplainer!
Who will win!

There's only one way to find out...!

Mansplaining doesn't explain what offended her so much.

Oh good Lord, would you quit with the Karen stuff? This is about a bloke giving me unsolicited advice in a patronising manner when he doesn't know anything about me or my health.

@Annoyance

Oh good Lord, would you quit with the Karen stuff? This is about a bloke giving me unsolicited advice in a patronising manner when he doesn't know anything about me or my health.

Just ignore him?

@Annoyance

Oh good Lord, would you quit with the Karen stuff? This is about a bloke giving me unsolicited advice in a patronising manner when he doesn't know anything about me or my health.

Well no.... we will mention it if we like? You can't silence people you know......

@Annoyance

Oh good Lord, would you quit with the Karen stuff? This is about a bloke giving me unsolicited advice in a patronising manner when he doesn't know anything about me or my health.

Give us a bit more info. Who was he? Why were you talking to him? Is he your sports coach? Were you at the bus stop or something and he sparked up a conversation? Or is he your DS?

No one here knows neither. If you explain we could perhaps understand

Isn't that what sports coached does irrelevant age/sex .

judging by your attitude I don't think anyone can explain anything to you .

But he was a sports coach?
I often give my male patients advice. Is that bad because I’m female? Should I stop?

Not mansplaining if he knows more about it than you.