What's the funniest experience of mansplaining you have experienced

[bjjgirl]

Please to help me keep my sanity and give me some light relief can you tell me the best examples of mansplaining you have experienced?

I have had a long day of this at work and it's just exhausting

Article fodder?

@Lockheart

Article fodder?

I don't follow but I am defo not a reporter (the daily mail is shite)

You first.

My mum’s partner showed me how to put my own car seat in my own car - second child, I’d had the seat for 7 years. I nearly punched him

Bloody hell, I work in a male dominated environment but I ran a circuit class and one of them completely redesigned the circuit as he was sure that's what I was meant to do

Mine aren't funny but bloody exhausting- I have the experience but they just mad plain but desguise it as advice, how I make my own bloody cup of tea, talking over me to answer questions I'm asked about my own presentation

Oh when I drive the work cars, the rare occasions I am allowed, I get a running commentary of every traffic light, speed camera round about

I don't want to give my real job title but let's say I'm Head of Hedgehogs. I chaired a meeting about a hedgehog. A man who works in the Salmon department began by telling me that a hedgehog is a mammal, with the air of somebody magnanimously imparting great wisdom.

I work with a guy who “explained” to two women how you register the birth of a child.

He had no children.

The two women had 5 children between them and had personally registered the births of each one.

@bjjgirl

Oh when I drive the work cars, the rare occasions I am allowed, I get a running commentary of every traffic light, speed camera round about

My dad did this as he got older. Every single trip. That and tellin* me when to change gear - I drive an automatic.

Not sure if this is quite what you mean but here is mine. Many years ago - when CD Players were still quote new technology and whizzy things to have - DH and I decided to invest in a decent one. We didn't know what to look for really so we bought one of these Which Hifi magazines which had an article all about the finer points to look for.

Anyway, both having read the article we went in to a specialist Hifi shop near where we worked to see what they had. The salesman tried very hard to push a particular model to us but we soon noticed that he was completely thrown by a woman asking technical questions. Whenever I asked him something he considered carefully and then addressed his answer to DH.

The longer it went on in fact we realized he might have known lots about traditional hifi but was completely winging it with CD players. He kept insisting the favoured one had a "better spec". When we eventually tried to pin him down as to why it was better, the best he could do was "It's more..more..Better"

We ledt the shop and never returned

I enjoyed seeing the cockerel mansplaining how to eat the food to the hens who were already eating the food in this video m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zrmI6zOLH4

Apparently it’s not just human males who do this

Also the top hen Gannet is MAGNIFICENT

Most recently, a guy in my team described in an email how he was going to do the task I assigned to him, with links to Wikipedia for some basic concepts that I had known since he was in nursery. I've got more than 15 years of experience over him.

The random man at the garage who told me that I was putting water in my petrol tank (I was filling the radiator, cap on the inside rim of the hatchback, as the light had come on), then told me my car didn’t have a radiator, then walked to the front of the car asking me to open the bonnet so he could look at the engine... which was in the back of the car! His face, when I opened the bonnet to reveal bags of shopping, was a picture...

The age old trying to explain the off -side rule in football, and assuming I can’t understand it. I am a lawyer, I understand rules! This is not a complex rule.

Anything with rules really, including covid rules, is good for a mansplain.

Ugh it’s so frustrating! I’m sure I can think of a few from my DH!!

DP recently went for his covid jab, he was telling all about it ‘they give it in the deltoid muscle, did you know that?’

I’m a bloody covid vaccinator and have given thousands of immunisations over the years.

@Notjustanymum

The random man at the garage who told me that I was putting water in my petrol tank (I was filling the radiator, cap on the inside rim of the hatchback, as the light had come on), then told me my car didn’t have a radiator, then walked to the front of the car asking me to open the bonnet so he could look at the engine... which was in the back of the car! His face, when I opened the bonnet to reveal bags of shopping, was a picture...

Funny as hell. Thanks for sharing.

A flat mate’s boyfriend carefully explaining to a room full of female physio students how chiropractors and osteopaths are vastly superior to physios in every way

I’m an old age psychiatrist, more specifically a dementia specialist. A student once said to me that I “had to bear in mind that dementia is an illness affecting memory”. He was the recipient of my famed death stare!

I'm a statistician. My job involves complex statistical modelling. I did I piece of work for another department as a favour. It was VERY SIMPLE modelling but they didn't have anyone with the knowledge or technical skills to do it.
5 minutes into presenting my results a young lad interrupted to make sure I'd correctly mean and median a d. It confused them.

WTAF.

"and not confused them"

I was watching some TV show about restaurants and told DB about what I'd do if I had a restaurant, nothing too in depth just what food I'd serve, how I'd have it decorated, where it would be located, that sort of thing. DB went into an in depth explanation about why my business model for my very much imaginary restaurant was all wrong and how I wouldn't make much money from my imaginary restaurant, he then explained how I should set up, run, and market my fucking IMAGINARY restaurant along with estimated profit margins, which suppliers would be best to use, and how many tables I should aim to fill each day. Rather took the fun out of the daydream.

When I was pregnant with DC3 a male colleague mansplained pregnancy to me, told me morning sickness is a mental construct and you only feel sick because you're expecting to feel sick (I had HG), mainsplained labour, told me exactly how labour and delivery feels just in case I hadn't been paying attention during my first two pregnancies, and when I said I was a section he mansplained how the surgery is carried out and also explained that good preparation is key to avoiding a section.

Light relief? Mansplaining gives me the rage!

It's a fairly typical one. We went to a caryard, looking for a car for me. I'm not too stupid when it comes to cars - between the two of us, I'm the petrolhead. No matter what, the car salesman would address any remarks, answers to questions, to DH. I got so pissed off, I walked off over to the car yard opposite, where the salesman was more than happy to talk to me, even after he'd extricated himself from the other salesman. And bought a car from him.