To expect not to be mansplained to about everything!

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Why do people assume that if you don't talk about something all of the bloody live long day, then you must have absolutely no idea about it?

It's just so bloody arrogant, annoying and boring!

In order to make it stop, I find myself having to more or less be rude by cutting them off and letting them know that I already know that!

For context, I've basically just had exercise explained to me. I used to compete nationally in a competitive sport, I have always exercised regularly and I like to try new things and am reasonably fit (am currently training for a marathon, which is a new challenge for me), but because I don't harp on in the office about what time I get up so I can do a 6am spin class, clearly I need to have the benefits of exercise explained to me!

I had a man actually email me and tell me the optimum angle to park the car at work.

He can't drive and gets two buses to work and back every day.

He was, by all accounts, offended and confused when I called him a condescending mansplaining cockface.

How did he react InsultingTheAlligator?

Total white faced shock.

And then treated me with respect from there on in. I am not a grudge holder, so he continued to work in my team for I think about 12 months or so (this was a while back) and we got on just fine. :) I gave him a reference when he left!

This is something that both sexes do however, oddly, one sex seems to be much more prone to doing it to the other.

"Total white faced shock."

Oh brilliant! Thanks for replying InsultingTheAlligator

The one who took the biscuit was my English male colleague explaining the US political system to my American colleague

Hey wasonthelist, please can I have your friend's contact details - I'd really appreciate an explanation of the US political system and am happy to be mansplained at