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Mansplaining knob

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HolidayHattie · 10/06/2025 15:51

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?

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garlictwist · 11/06/2025 05:25

Not quite the same thing, but I was hiking in the Lake District yesterday. A group of Australian male walkers stopped me and asked me for some directions, which I gave them. I carried on walking and then heard them stop the man walking behind me and ask him the same thing as "they didn't trust what I'd said".

nopiesleftinthisvehicle · 11/06/2025 07:28

I was stood at the petrol station with the pump in my hand mid flow when 'white van man' shouted over panicked that I was using the wrong fuel.
I had to double check myself, I was so surprised.
I'd been driving this same car for three years.
He wasn't convinced when I assured him I was quite correct and didn't apologise or seem embarrassed, which was the thing that annoyed me the most. How could I know better than him? 🤨

PlayDoh135 · 11/06/2025 08:52

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 10/06/2025 22:55

@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

Wow! That's my newly learned fact of the day. I never knew that.

Itallcomesdowntothis · 11/06/2025 09:04

ButteredRadish · 10/06/2025 18:04

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

Good point. Very big difference between mansplaining and a man in his job imparting necessary information.

DaimondSpine · 11/06/2025 09:04

DontTouchRoach · 11/06/2025 02:18

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.

Hah ! I would have loved to have seen his face 😂

sashh · 11/06/2025 09:13

I think one of my favourites was a mansplaining of tennis. To Martina Navratilova.

DaimondSpine · 11/06/2025 09:18

ErrolTheDragon · 10/06/2025 23:58

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

This could be the start of a great seperate thread about liars and how they were caught out !

spoonbillstretford · 11/06/2025 09:24

Judiezones · 10/06/2025 15:55

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 🤣

Edited

You should say that to him. "Is that an echo, Brian?"

andfinallyhereweare · 11/06/2025 09:50

My fave is all the people on here criticing if it is indeed mansplaining or not… 🤔

C152 · 11/06/2025 10:08

ButteredRadish · 10/06/2025 18:04

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 think a woman who's had a baby before and is in the last stage of labour with her second baby is well aware of the stages of labour.

GetOffTheCounter · 11/06/2025 10:12

pimplebum · 10/06/2025 16:04

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

A friend of mine recently had a hysteroscopy and polyps removed without pain relief. She was vomiting and passed out. When she came to the male doctor said grumpily she had had children after all and was 'making too much of it'.

Not mansplaining as such- just arseholery.

I suggested that we see if he wants a vasectomy without relief. happy to do it myself.

Boredlass · 11/06/2025 10:13

He made a mistake. It’s hardly mansplaining

RabbitsRock · 11/06/2025 10:17

I can see mansplaining being misused quite a bit, like gaslighting is.

MyMindIsSoLoud · 11/06/2025 10:18

I saw someone referred to mansplaining as ‘correctile dysfunction’.
The post underneath-by a man- explained about the correctile/erectile swap 😂

LittleBitofBread · 11/06/2025 10:25

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 10/06/2025 22:55

@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

Yep, came on to say this (although I couldn't think of such a good example!)

KPPlumbing · 11/06/2025 10:39

My husband started talking AT our American friend, telling her all about American Independence Day.

She's very sweet and trusting and said "Oh really, I didn't know that".

I jumped in and said "No, he's talking absolute horse shit and got loads of that wrong. Don't let him tell you about the history of YOUR country!"

thistimelastweek · 11/06/2025 11:06

Bloke stopped me and asked the breed of my dog.
Then told me I was wrong.

myplace · 11/06/2025 11:12

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 10/06/2025 22:55

@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

But now I don’t know whether there are croissants or not!

Does it mean ‘au contraire, I most certainly did buy croissants?!’?
Or ‘You’re right, I didn’t buy croissant.’

It’s much needed in English, whichever.

LillyPJ · 11/06/2025 11:30

MyMindIsSoLoud · 11/06/2025 10:18

I saw someone referred to mansplaining as ‘correctile dysfunction’.
The post underneath-by a man- explained about the correctile/erectile swap 😂

I wish they'd give us the laugh emoji back! (Has there been a petition or request or something? We really need it.) This one is a classic! 😆

MattCauthon · 11/06/2025 12:11

DontTouchRoach · 11/06/2025 02:18

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.

Does it count as manspllaining when they tell you something wrong about something you have direct knowledge of, but don't BELIEVE you when you correct them?

I had the sad task of being the PR person running point on a high profile suicide of a colleague. This included attending the inquest. The Metro and Daily Mail and similar were, of course, all over it and wrote lengthy stories about the inquest, many of which were largely complete fabrications (papers like The Telegraph etc ALSo reported things, but more accurately). I was widely quoted as the organisation's spokesperson.

One of the stories that the red tops were teling that was completely untrue was that my colleague's mother had to be escorted from the building when she broke down while testifying - which was 100% not true.

I lost count of the number of people who talked me through the terrible situation, in particular who were deeply sympathetic to the mother being unable to complete her testimony and who literally did not believe me when I said that she was very upset, understandably, but that she had not, in fact, given any sort of testimony or witness statement at the inquest or been escorted out. It was bizarre.

What was saddest for me, is that I felt the truth - that she had sat there stoicly, crying at intervals and had left the room at one point, yes - was actually far more impactful. I spoke to both her and her husband (well, she didn't say much, but was there and I'd spoken to her husband on the phone a few times) and they came across as nothing but loving, kind people who were completely bewildered by what had happened to their son and the interest people were showing in the story.

LittleBitofBread · 11/06/2025 13:35

myplace · 11/06/2025 11:12

But now I don’t know whether there are croissants or not!

Does it mean ‘au contraire, I most certainly did buy croissants?!’?
Or ‘You’re right, I didn’t buy croissant.’

It’s much needed in English, whichever.

‘au contraire, I most certainly did buy croissants!’
in English I think we'd use tone/emphasis.

TaranFollt · 11/06/2025 14:13

Where do mansplainers get their water from?
A well, actually...

Ginsmything · 11/06/2025 16:31

GetOffTheCounter · 11/06/2025 10:12

A friend of mine recently had a hysteroscopy and polyps removed without pain relief. She was vomiting and passed out. When she came to the male doctor said grumpily she had had children after all and was 'making too much of it'.

Not mansplaining as such- just arseholery.

I suggested that we see if he wants a vasectomy without relief. happy to do it myself.

I had a procedure to remove a polyp on my cervix with no pain relief, after several attempts and a lot of pain the doctor gave up and referred me for a GA . Turns out she was trying to twist off scar tissue from a previous colposcopy.😱 sorry not related to mansplaining

EmeraldRoulette · 11/06/2025 16:31

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 10/06/2025 22:55

@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

Does that mean

yes, I bought bread

or

yes I didn't buy bread

???