Mansplaining knob

[HolidayHattie]

Just overheard a man telling his female colleague at great length about the football tonight. That England played Andorra* on Saturday [true] and tonight they are playing Slovakia in Nottingham in a world cup qualifier. He imparted a lot more information and said it all with total confidence. Honestly, I almost believed him.

England are playing Senegal in a friendly.

• He may even have said they played IN Andorra. The game was actually in Barcelona.

What gems have you heard recently?

I just say ‘Nigel, I’m sure someone else is dying to talk about the exploits of the Andorran kickyball team’.

I volunteer in a hospital and a patronising man volunteer was temporarily paired with me. If a patient asked me a question, he would wait for me to reply then say Yes that's right, and repeat my answer.
A really bad tempered woman said to him "I don't need telling twice, thank you".
I laughed my head off 🤣

My brother was the king of mansplaining absolutely everything, and then inventing people to back up his story.

Such gems included talking to a paramedic, and he told her he was, in fact, more qualified than her because he was a first aider at work, and they see more severe accidents at his work than she saw at hers.

When I went into labour he told me he had a headache and it had been scientifically proven that headaches were worse than contractions. Then he doubled down and said he had somehow preemptively been speaking to my consultant in the local pub about this and he agreed with my brother.

Told me one day I was doing my makeup all wrong, the said he had been discussing it with a make up artist friend of his and described how I did it, and she agreed it was wrong.

Very glad we no longer talk, it was draining.

OP you need this thread! Read and enjoy: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5173518-come-share-your-mansplaining-stories-here

Oh but my most recent one was a bloke at work mansplaining to me that I needed to put my hand under cold water because I'd burned it. While I had my hand under cold water. Because I'd burned it. 🤦‍♀️

I had a doctor mansplaining the different stages labour to me whilst I was in the last stage of my second labour

i just gave him a look , really regret not having a witty remark

my blood pressure had been awesome all pregnancy and labour but that shot it right up as I panicked he was a useless knob and he said I needed a c section

I've remembered another one. Many years ago I was planning my 21st party. I was at a friend's house discussing the venue with her and her mum when a man who was visiting, a friend of her dad, he didn't know me, we'd never met before, told me I was wrong about where I was holding my party and told me where the correct venue was.

He wasn't even invited.

Mea culpa! I hadn't seen that.

I was being given a lift and the male driver pointed out a road sign and wondered what it meant. I told him why (one of my friends is very keen on that sort of stuff). A couple of weeks later we were making the same journey and as we passed that sign, he explained to me what it meant and said he'd asked his (adult) son about it. I was obviously the wrong sex to know that sort of stuff.

A doctor explaining a medical procedure within the remit of his job, is not mansplaining! Male or female he’s literally a doctor ffs. There are millions of male gynaecologists & obstetricians

I had a random suddenly stand behind my car as I was reversing out of a space in a hospital car park and start doing the directing with his hand. I stopped, pulled on the hand brake and wound down the window and said “it’s ok mate, I’ve been driving for 30 years, I know how to reverse.”

Oh he did stomp off in a huff. The cheek. Like I was in the wrong and hurt his feelings!

You missed that she was in her second pregnancy. So she knew about it and didn't need it explaining. That was her point.

butteredRadish you did not read my post properly

He was not explaining a medical procedure to me at all

I was at the end of my second labour and he was explaining the stages of labour ie
1 contractions
2 baby in birth canal
3 after birth

this was completely unnecessary, I had been through these stages ( nearly ) twice and I had not asked him to explain anything to me .

he came in explained this to me which shot my blood pressure up as I could tell he was very inexperienced and awkward and told me I was going to have a c section ( which also did not need explaining but he then just left

if you are going to be unkind and harsh at least read carefully

Posh young man giving his girlfriend a really hard time on the train because she said 'si' means yes in French. He was being really aggressive about it, ridiculing her, telling her she was stupid, saying how dare she contradict him when his mother was French. He was being really nasty, and she went quiet. In the end I said, "She's right, you know" and he told me to fuck off.

Isn't it 'oui' in French?

And 'si' in Spanish?

@TooSquaretobehip
In French, when you answer positively to a negative question, it is "si".
E.g. "Didn't you buy any bread?" Si...
E.g "Did you buy croissants?" Oui

Doesn't 'si' mean a kind of "yes, but"?
So, for instance..."Vous êtes arrivée?" "Have you arrived?"
"Non"
"Mais, si, je peux vous voir!", "But yes, I can see you!"

Sorry, completely missed the point of the thread!

Ah, yes, better explained...

To which one hopes you said ‘Va te faire foutre’.😀

I learned in French that 'non' is no in French.

Granted I only took French for 6 months, and it was a small rural school, so.... I may have been taught wrong.

I met an ex boyfriend in the hospital foyer.. he had some kind of scrubs on and told me he was now a qualified nurse.
A week later l was admitted to hospital and on a ward for three weeks.. on the third week l was wheeled down to theater.. the porter turned out to be that ex .🤣

That’s a fantasist or plain liar, not a mansplainer!

TooSquaretobehip, I think it's used when you want an emphatic yes. As in (forgive schoolgirl French): "'Si' est francais", "Non, ma fille stupide, oui est le mot", "Mais si! Si est aussi un mot francais ".

I love the mansplaining video of the female golf pro trying out her swing and random man starts giving her tips.

During a conversation about the stigmatisation of mental illnesses, a man once very confidently said to me “Ah yes, but you won’t have heard about this murder case…”

I had stop him to point out that a) I was the press officer who handled the media liaison for the trial and b) the murder took place in the cul-de-sac where I lived.