Come & share your mansplaining stories here!

[TheStroppyFeminist]

Yesterday a male colleague told me that adding an extra column to my document would make it better.

a) It didn't and b) I've been hiring people since way before he was born so he can FTFO

What have you had mansplained to you recently?

Diddums.

My ds had this when his gf was looking for a new car. She drives, he doesn't, and yet the salesman was looking and talking to him. He let him say his bit and then told him who he should be talking too. I think him and his gf had a little chuckle about that afterwards.

"How helpful that the op has this man to explain that all the women are wrong and if she changes then he won’t ’need’ the porn…"

"Focus on the psychology of establishing a true connection and he won't need to go near porn."

Not seeing the glaringly obvious contradiction here, @Elderberrier?
Or was that meant as satire?

I get it a lot at work with it being a male dominant industry
Male customers seem surprised that I'm female and then when I do something simple I get "oh good girl"
Or they try to explain an MOT to me or "now there's a thing called a cam belt..."
Yes, I am aware

Thing is.. I'm a man. and mansplaining happens to me every day in my job.. 90% male environment. It is so frustrating having to ignore this every day... just so tiresome.

Tell us an example?

I'm a seafarer .. boring examples... but its every day...

so give us an example?

Otherwise you're kind of a man ... mansplaining that women are wrong about mansplaining....

I think Elderberrier was quoting the Man Himself, via cut-and-paste, in her second section of text

A gas fire surveyor knew more about my house than i did apparently, even though he'd never been in it before and i'd lived with all its quirks for 10 years. I was having a new gas fire and surround installed, so had to have the chimney surveyed in my victorian terrace house.
Surveyor informed me that there would be a back burner behind it because there always was and it would cost £££s to remove.
I said there wouldn't be, there was no water that side of the house, he very patronisingly told me hed been doing the job for years and new better, so I explained, bathroom is above the kitchen and now defunct water tank above that in the attic no water in the other side. Looking smug he said that it would definitely be there. 10 minutes later I enquired if he'd found it. He just humphed and got on with preparing his smoke bomb.
He then asked if there was still a fire place in the bedroom above the living room, I said no the bedroom and attic fireplaces had been boarded up. He confidently told me that the attic was a conversion and there would never have been a fire place up there. I didn't say anything until we were stood outside watching the smoke pour out of the flue when I asked why if there was no fire place in the attic, there were 3 flues on the stack and a hearth in the attic. He signed off the survey and stomped off to his van.

Some years ago I was stripping wallpaper off the wall on the upstairs landing and got to the light switch. I called downstairs to DH to switch the electricity off so I could unscrew the plate and pull the edges of old paper out from under it.

He said no, there was no need to do that because the paper wouldn't be under the edge of the switch plate, it would have been cut round it. I said yes, it was underneath, so would he please do as I asked. He absolutely insisted that there was no need to switch the electric off and unscrew the switch.

Thing is... I lived in the house long before his arrival on the scene and it was me who had originally papered that wall, so if anyone knew whether the paper had been tucked behind the light switch plate, it was me.

hahah stop this is too good

I kept pet rats for about 3 decades (can't do it anymore. their lifespans are heartbreaking)

some bloke explained to me that they can get through small spaces because "they don't have bones" (geez, that would have made losing one of my rats to bone cancer in his nasal cavity much easier, wouldn't it) and that they pee constantly because they "don't have bladders" damn, all the times I've had them on courses of antibiotics for bladder infections were pointless, then. and the fact we actually HAVE the skeleton of my last rat, which my mum reconstructed for us, that's imaginary.

That explains it. Thanks.

@CrowleyKitten and now you know that some men can exist without a brain, after talking to that plonker!

Please do tell me how to test when I'm supposed to be objective to your team?

Oh yes that was it. Thanks!

I know this is an oldish thread but I have one to add.

We’re prepping our house to sell, photos are being taken later this week, so I’ve shampooed some of the carpets and last weekend my husband did some more. The first time he’s ever used a carpet cleaner, as opposed to me using one quite regularly since I bought my first machine at least 15 years ago.

Today there was just one carpet left to shampoo, in the room where the dog spends most of his time so it was deliberately left until last. I found that the suction wasn’t very strong when lifting the dirty water out of the carpet so took part of the machine apart and cleaned a load of carpet fluff and dog hair out of it which unblocked it. Mentioned to my husband that the suction had been poor and before I could finish telling him how I’d fixed it, he cut in and asked if I’d been releasing the water button to stop it spraying because suction wouldn’t operate otherwise, and when I rolled my eyes and said I had he then explained that if the water tank isn’t clipped on properly then that’ll stop it too.
Apparently he was just trying to help 🤦🏼‍♀️

Of course you’d only know about the cleaning part because the mechanics of the machine are just too much for our girly heads to comprehend. Cleaning, we can do. Anything even 0.5% towards the world of engineering? Leave that to the men.

😄

Reminds me of my ExH when I was driving and he said 'be careful we're coming up to a big roundabout'... oooh I was quaking in my boots! I passed first time at age 17 and he took 3 attempts until he passed at age 32.

Unbelievable! I've had this before. Infuriating.

God, I wonder why he's your ex!