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

It's fine to offer help. If they tell you they are fine and perfectly able to manage, it's also OK to believe them and stop insisting that no, they can't possibly know what they are able to do.

I went to a local car dealership with a view to buying a new car. Walked into the showroom. There were about six salesmen huddled chatting in spivvy suits and even after I had been looking at cars for over half an hour, not one of them approached me so I went and asked for some information, nothing too technical. They looked at me like I was an alien, one excused himself and subsequently returned with another man with sleeves rolled up and grease up to his elbows who was very polite but I had had enough. I thanked him for his time and walked out.

The next weekend I went to a different garage where I was treated somewhat differently and bought a car. I returned to the first garage and did several rounds of their forecourt whist waving enthusiastically at the arseholes inside. They didn't look happy.

I don't find mansplaining funny, it infuriates me.

It sounds bloody annoying @Crankley, but more as though they knew their limitations and didn’t even attempt to explain anything rather than mansplaining.

I'll never forget walking into an office just as a male drug rep asked my colleague, an extremely senior, highly qualified Hepatology Nurse Specialist in a large London teaching hospital if she knew what a spreadsheet was! 🙄

ButtercupSquash They were salesmen, there to sell cars. I wasn't asking complicated questions about the engine, which I know little about but things like warranty, etc. Plus they all descended on a man when he walked into the showroom.

@Crankley, Oh, I thought the other man was brought out to answer your simple questions.
My experience of buying a car as a single female was to be pounced on immediately as an easy mark. God I hate buying cars.

I got an hour long rant from a guy who was born, raised, and still lived in the USA about the troubles in Northern Ireland, How I had no clue what I was talking about etc. He ended up getting so enraged he copy and pasted the wikipedia page about the troubles and sent it to me. I'm from Northern Ireland.

My DH read an article about the different Covid vaccines and started sharing what he learned about ORs and RRs to me, a statistician with a master's degree in public health. I work at a hospital analysing Covid numbers day in, day out ffs. Thankfully, I just had to look at him with a raised eyebrow and he got the message.

More infuriating though was the time that my ex-Bil (before my sister got rid of him) tried explaining stocks to me. He just assumed I knew nothing about finance, while in reality he was in massive debt and I was sitting pretty with decent investments. What a jerk.

My ex dp mansplaining how menstrual cramps/ pain are just a “social construct” and we only think they hurt because society tells us they do. Apparently in other cultures women don’t experience menstrual cramping because it’s not made an issue of 🤨🤨😡.

@Iggly

Someone explained to me we need sanitary bins in toilet cubicles and that I shouldn’t flush said items down the toilet.

I’m 40 with nearly 30 years of periods under my belt. This person was a man who’d just learned about disposing of sanitary wear.

Fuck

Off

😂

@TheSecondMrsAshwell THANK YOU. I’ve been waiting for someone to find me funny.

Dh says I’m not funny I just have a sharp tongue 😲

Dh says I’m not funny I just have a sharp tongue

I imagined you surrounded by fuffy bits of Labrador wielding a screwdriver.

He would say you just have a sharp tongue - he felt a twonk after being made to feel a lemon for thinking he knows better thabn you how to roast a chicken.

@jadpnh

I got an hour long rant from a guy who was born, raised, and still lived in the USA about the troubles in Northern Ireland, How I had no clue what I was talking about etc. He ended up getting so enraged he copy and pasted the wikipedia page about the troubles and sent it to me. I'm from Northern Ireland.

Oh my christ, he didn't claim he knew more because he's Irish American did he?

A few years ago a woman got on the train with a baby on board badge looking rather green. Someone spotted her and asked if she was ok. She said she had terrible morning sickness and was just feeling dizzy and a bit off colour. A man next to her taps a guy on the shoulder who was sitting down and asked him to give her his seat. He ranted about how she didn't need the seat and he had 3 children and he knew she didn't need it and wasn't properly pregnant yet so he really didn't need to move. He was challenged by multiple people to move and spent 5 minutes ranting about how morning sickness wasn't a thing and he knew this because he had 3 children. Lots of other people offered her a seat but the man who asked him originally to move wouldn't back down and kept saying you have no idea what you are talking about and your wife had them not you but he kept saying that despite this he still absolutely understood pregnancy more than she did.

My mothers husband apparently has insight knowledge of the property market and had looked at my house in-depth and was able to tell me exactly what it was worth.

Translation - he put my address into zoopla.

I work in IT. I'm 42.

I'm at director level now, but previously worked in systems development, build and testing for ~15 years.

I have many, many battle scars, to the extent that I actually quite look forward to going to buy tech in a retail store, because it gives me the excuse to sharpen my claws.

FlorrieLindley Salutes! One ex petrol pump attendant at your service! (we were required to salute VIP's, senior citizens, police officers and the RAC!) also many years of riding under my belt.

You already know you're right, but if it helps you're referring to to the Automated Petroil Mobile Mixer Pump which certainly did exist and was part of my list of daily duties to maintain, refill and use 45 years ago!
It was a mobile pump rather than connected to the underground tanks, and was wheeled in and out at the beginning and end of each day along with the fire extinguishers, sand buckets etc.

We worked in gallons, quarts and pints and it was usually filled up with two star petrol (it's lower Octane, approx 87, if he doesn't know ) and a selection of three different viscosity's of motor oil.
The attendant selected the appropriate grade for the bike and it delivered the petrol and oil ready measured.
By the 70's most fuel stations had replaced it with a much smaller wheeled Redex pump that the attendant was required to put shot/s of into the tank prior to fueling, and needed to pay attention to spraying the Redex with the correct amount of petrol to mix it. (At that time the public weren't trusted to fuel their own vehicles safely.) We still had both pumps and a steady stream of British bikers. There was also a general expectation that Petroil or Redex should earn the attendant a small tip.

My job at that time required me to be able to fuel vehicles, (2 star, 4 star or Derv- diesel) check oil and brake fluid, water and washer fluid, and fill tires with air at the correct pressure and advise motorists on the correct fluids and in some cases correct oil viscosity to petrol ratios.
For a small additional charge I could also be required to replace a fan belt or adjust a motorcycle chain, if needed by removing a link, change a tire or fit a new inner tube all while being often patronized while I worked.
I was also required to 'always be neat,and tidy in the execution of my duties', not swear and wear blue eye shadow to match my royal blue overalls! (White coats were two generations earlier.)

@Catscakeandchocolate how infuriating! The hardest bit of pregnancy is totally the first 12 weeks when you have morning sickness but no bump to show! Good for that man standing up to the idiot.

@Catscakeandchocolate

A few years ago a woman got on the train with a baby on board badge looking rather green. Someone spotted her and asked if she was ok. She said she had terrible morning sickness and was just feeling dizzy and a bit off colour. A man next to her taps a guy on the shoulder who was sitting down and asked him to give her his seat. He ranted about how she didn't need the seat and he had 3 children and he knew she didn't need it and wasn't properly pregnant yet so he really didn't need to move. He was challenged by multiple people to move and spent 5 minutes ranting about how morning sickness wasn't a thing and he knew this because he had 3 children. Lots of other people offered her a seat but the man who asked him originally to move wouldn't back down and kept saying you have no idea what you are talking about and your wife had them not you but he kept saying that despite this he still absolutely understood pregnancy more than she did.

Well what happened in the end?! Don’t leave us in suspense!

Ha sorry he eventually gave her his seat and spent the rest of the journey muttering how she didn't need it. I was down the other end of the carriage about 37 weeks pregnant and wondered if I had of asked for his seat would I have been pregnant enough for him to move. I totally agree with rosewood too. I needed a seat more pre 12 weeks as sitting down was the only way to keep the nausea at bay but you know he had 3 kids and I only carried 2 so I am sure he knows best

@ScrollingLeaves

I think it was bad because she told him she’d moved her old one out alone and he wanted someone to move it with him, but that someone couldn’t be a woman, no.

And to go and ask her neighbour when she’d explained she was perfectly capable because ‘it’s so heavy though’ (she knows, she told you she can manage) was just silly.
I really wish all of her neighbours had been female!

My 86 year old dad took over from my 78 year old mother-in-law to show her how to cut a loaf of bread. I kid you not.

@Catscakeandchocolate

Ha sorry he eventually gave her his seat and spent the rest of the journey muttering how she didn't need it. I was down the other end of the carriage about 37 weeks pregnant and wondered if I had of asked for his seat would I have been pregnant enough for him to move. I totally agree with rosewood too. I needed a seat more pre 12 weeks as sitting down was the only way to keep the nausea at bay but you know he had 3 kids and I only carried 2 so I am sure he knows best

Yay! Hope you had a seat too?

@LadyEggs

My 86 year old dad took over from my 78 year old mother-in-law to show her how to cut a loaf of bread. I kid you not.

Well she is younger! Kidding!

@Catscakeandchocolate

A few years ago a woman got on the train with a baby on board badge looking rather green. Someone spotted her and asked if she was ok. She said she had terrible morning sickness and was just feeling dizzy and a bit off colour. A man next to her taps a guy on the shoulder who was sitting down and asked him to give her his seat. He ranted about how she didn't need the seat and he had 3 children and he knew she didn't need it and wasn't properly pregnant yet so he really didn't need to move. He was challenged by multiple people to move and spent 5 minutes ranting about how morning sickness wasn't a thing and he knew this because he had 3 children. Lots of other people offered her a seat but the man who asked him originally to move wouldn't back down and kept saying you have no idea what you are talking about and your wife had them not you but he kept saying that despite this he still absolutely understood pregnancy more than she did.

I was hoping that ended with she vomited on him!