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

A few weeks ago I phoned a director at my company. The conversation went like this

Me: There is an issue with X. To resolve this I have implemented Y. If you are in agreement I will contact Z.
HIM: Hmmm. I think the best course of action is to contact Z, You need to implement Y as it appears there is an issue with X.

ME: I, I just said that.....

This isnt me but ha to be the best....

@Boatingforthestars

I took my toddler DD to the hair dressers yesterday for her first cut since lockdown last year, I'm Dad for reference.

Sat her on my lap and talking to the hair dresser who asks what we want done, she then says "don't know why I'm asking you, you won't have a clue" I said no really I do I do her hair more than mum does and I'm very hands on.
I said I'm aware she has lots of split ends and although we like the length of her hair we are more intrested in it being healthy so just take of whatever needs to go. This was met with "before I do it is mum happy with that" mum wasn't even in the shop.
Then mid cut she's telling me how much easier mum will find it to brush now and I should be less knotty, I said I do her hair more than mum does, she's a Daddy's girl and I'm more gentle.

I honestly felt like I was speaking a foreign language when I told her I knew what I wanted or that I had an involvement in my DD hair as she just couldn't seem to accept it and kept referring back to mum.

Reading some of the responses on here I guess the problems stem from people thinking you are in a world you don't belong like women in car dealerships, diy shops or dealing with something technical but hand on, which then says an awful lot about the outdated views of the person I'm question.

Where the line gets blurred I guess is if I saw a lady with a flat tyre or broken down at the side of the road, I would be far more likely to ask her if she was OK than I would to a man.

Of course the only post which feels the need to explain the reasoning behind ‘mansplaining’ would be the one from a man!!

A former housemate explaining to me what depression is. I have some pretty obvious visual clues that I've suffered it myself, so this really pissed me off.

Also some old dude telling me I can't be a Goth because I was wearing red, cos according to him Goths only wear black. I can wear a rainbow striped dress, and still be a Goth! (Kinda want one now, just to prove a point, and wear it with DMs and my beloved denim jacket.)

@Boatingforthestars

I have to admit I've done something sort of similar. Went out for breakfast with my husband and our youngest one day. At the next table was a dad with approx one year old twins in highchairs. I remarked "gosh he's brave bringing them out on his own for a meal". My husband's response was "But if they were with their mum you wouldn't even have noticed would you?". Ashamed to say I probably wouldn't have.

I work in car servicing. The amount of men that ring and ask to speak to servicing or presume I'm in reception is bonkers

I should add we are all female in servicing and 50/50 in sales. Anyone trying to mansplain has a tricky task! Mostly it seems to be men not liking the answers I give and asking "to speak to someone who knows the car. In the service department"
Yes. That's me... or one of my other female colleagues

My ex bf tried to mansplain photo editing to me and it was hilarious considering that I've been learning it for quite some time before I met him but here he goes telling me what histogram is and why do we need layers. He also assumed I use free portrait editing software (like Photodiva) not because of its quality and fastness but because 'any paid software would be a waste of money since there are too many tools I don't know nor need anyway'. I regret time spent on perfecting his shots.

My late DM was a civil servant; she would take initial interviews, then prepare cases for tribunal appeals. She had a good working knowledge of relevant laws and regulations, and many clients were grateful for her well-informed advice.
The phrase which doomed some before they began was, "I want to speak to the man in charge."

There is one particular manager I work with who regularly patronises female colleagues. He was doing an appraisal on some safety critical procedures with my (female) colleague and explained in some detail how to do this procedure (which everyone in our grade knows back to front) but he was telling her the old way which had been updated. So my colleague said, "you're wrong, it changed last month" but he insisted he was right because he's been in the game for decades etc. So my colleague went to find the most recent version of the procedure to show him and when she did, he didn't accept it nor did he apologise but said, "You have changed since you got promoted"!!!!!!!

For context I get hot and sweaty so I have a shower everyday
My partner maybe 3/4 times a week as he doesn't get so stinky
Last night he spent 15 minutes showing/telling me the best way to get out of the shower
I let him finally get out before pointing out that I've had many more showers than him due to the fact he grew up with a bath and I didn't
I finished with 'and you can stick your mansplaining up your arse'
He came down and promptly explained what mansplaining is!
I walked away...

Years and years ago I bought a torch in a local hardware shop. I got a full demonstration about how to used the torch, how to store the torch and told repeatedly it was not waterproof.

Daniel Radcliffe explaining to a menopausal domestic violence survivor what it is to be a woman.

Highly recommend this book.
As well as ‘Invisible Women’ as recommended up thread.
Although you may find your BP shooting up at some of the stories.

A colleague explained how to use the water tap in the staff kitchen...also same person the 'special programes' on the microwave. He clearly thought I was an absolute idiot. My position was much more senior than his. Creep.

So many examples! Dh used to be an epic mansplainer, he's got better over the years but he once mansplained periods to me, I told him to come back and talk to me after his first period. He has also mansplained university to me, I'm an academic with a BSc, several PG Dips and an MSc and have studied at three different universities, he never studied much beyond A level.
At 8 months pregnant I had spd and a male physio explained that I need to strengthen my abdominal and core muscles for it to get better, I asked him how many sit ups he did when he was pregnant.

My FIL makes an absolute show of 'guiding' my car away whenever we leave his house or if I'm in a driveway. Usually on a clear road where there is little traffic, high visibility and no issues. He stands in the middle of the road, watching for other cars, telling me when to move, flapping his hands and moving me on.

He also bought me wing mirror extensions for my car one year.

Gives me the rage every time. He's not even doing it as a sexist 'joke' he just thinks that's what he should do.
Never does it to his son, who ,by the way, has 6 points on his licence and crashed his car on a wall doing 20mph.

I have suffered since I was 11 with horrendous periods. I once had to have my mom bring underwear and trousers to school for me as I had started unexpectedly and bled all over myself, a chair and the floor during a double period (no pun intended) lesson. A boy in my class (we were 15 at the time) asked why I was so disgusting that I couldn't just hold it in and questioned whether I'd be so blasé about shitting or pissing myself. He then proceeded to tell me it was absolutely possible to hold it in and that tampons and pads were akin to incontinence products.

@Threelittleducks

My FIL makes an absolute show of 'guiding' my car away whenever we leave his house or if I'm in a driveway. Usually on a clear road where there is little traffic, high visibility and no issues. He stands in the middle of the road, watching for other cars, telling me when to move, flapping his hands and moving me on. He also bought me wing mirror extensions for my car one year. Gives me the rage every time. He's not even doing it as a sexist 'joke' he just thinks that's what he should do. Never does it to his son, who ,by the way, has 6 points on his licence and crashed his car on a wall doing 20mph.

Oh god that’s given me rage I have a family member that does that. I’m quite placid usually but just want my foot to slip off the brake when he does it. I came out of the supermarket one day with a very full trolley that had dodgy wheels. An older man rushed over and moved me away and explained (with actions) the best way to push the trolley to keep control of it I stood there smiling with my eyebrows raised, he said ‘ok?’ And then went off and tried to enter the supermarket through the exit.

My friend bought a washing machine second hand from a lady online.
She turned up with a man to deliver it.
He pulled up and opened the van doors and friend went to hand over the cash but they wouldn’t take it just yet.
Bloke ‘is your fella about to bring it in love?’
Friend ‘I’m single, it’s just me but it’s okay I can manage’
Bloke ‘oh I see, are any of your neighbours men? Perhaps they can help?’
Friend ‘it’s okay, I put my old one outside myself for collection when it broke down, I’ll be fine’
(Lady is now knocking on a neighbours door asking to borrow a man )
Bloke ‘no love, I can’t let you move this, it’s really big and heavy you see. Don’t worry we’ll sort it’
Friend ‘okay ’
Neighbour man comes over and they both take it inside.
As they were leaving bloke said ‘make sure to get someone proper to plumb it in love or you’ll be in a pickle!’
She said she almost told him to forget it for being so sexist (but she really needed the washing machine )

@Fluffycloudland77

Dh “The best way to roast a chicken” Me, hand up “stop there, you’ve never cooked a roast chicken in your life” Dh “no, but I’ve seen it done”

Well I’ve watched supervet but it doesn’t mean I can put a Labrador back together, does it?.

That is possibly one of the funniest comebacks I've ever read. Genius. And I had to stop myself laughing at it at the vet's this morning.

I have a mate who could mansplain mansplaining to a man. She is Professor Emeritus in The Sodding Obvious at the University of No Shit Sherlock. She leaps in with a mansplanation of what I should do in any and all situations. Let me see..... I have all my limbs and I'm upright. No, I'm good.

As a Manager, I was shown by a Junior Partner how to fold a letter to put it in an envelope. I don’t know how I kept my mouth shut.

not mansplaining but the 'Oh you need a man to lift it!' happens to me all the time. Yes, on average, the male sex is stronger than female one. But if I tell you that thanks, I can manage - why do you keep insisting I can't?? Because I'm just a silly woman who doesn't understand a heavy item is heavy?

I am in a male dominated industry.
I work closely with a man.
I regularly pull him into email conversations with customers who will
not accept what I'm saying and ask him to translate for me.
His emails usually say as poorbuthappy has already explained we are unable to comply with your requirements....etc
Funnily enough they usually listen to him. dickheads.

“Antiquestuff
Bloke ‘no love, I can’t let you move this, it’s really big and heavy you see. Don’t worry we’ll sort it’”

I actually think the man delivering it was being very kind. Though I am practical and strong and do all sorts of things alone, I’d really have appreciated this. I am not nearly as strong as a man. So to me that man was more being good-natured than mansplaining.

I take your point though, Antique