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

@MonkeyPuddle

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.

This is my favourite 😂

My cousin recently tried to explain diabetes to me he was an expert because his exs ( who he was with 6 months) sister was diabetic, I was diagnosed in 2005!

@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.

So determined to be right he couldn’t have just looked past the pregnancy and seen another human being who felt very nauseous and therefore needed a seat.

Also I see the grip shop has branched out into crowbars for those posters who feel the need to shove the trans debate into every thread 🙄

@BlatantlyNameChanged - I'm horrified to read about your experience following your c-section. I hope the resulting PTSD is improving and that you're not left with any other physical or mental scars (although I imagine you probably are, I'm sorry).

An ex once (incorrectly) explained to me how children learn to read. I was a Year 1 teacher at the time.

@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.

Did the bread knife need a good wash later on...?

[quote Fluffycloudland77]@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 😲[/quote]
You are funny, he’s saying you have a sharp tongue because you showed how stupid he was being!

When hiking I never get a map out if there’s a bloke in the vicinity. They either want to give you directions (I don’t need them, I’ve got a MAP!) or to explain to you how to read a map. Reading a map is not rocket science.

On an OU dvd - John Cleese explaining Buddhism to the Dalai Lama.

🤦🏻‍♀️ John Cleese is a twat.

@catmandont

Plumber was working in new kitchen extension. He seemed to be killing time, so I asked what he was up to. (I happened to be home that day, DH happened to be at work). He said he needed to talk to DH about something, I asked if I could help. No, it was something he needed to discuss with DH. Ok fair enough I thought maybe it was an ongoing discussion.

Plumber shuffled around for a couple more hours not really doing much, before DH came home. I said to DH oh plumber needs to speak to you, DH very confused said why didn't you talk to him, you know more about the kitchen plan than me...

Plumber then asked DH where he would like the cooker, DH gave me a wry smile and said oh you need to ask catmandont about that, she knows more than me.

I took my plans out to show him and walked him over and pointed at the marks on the wall labelled "cooker". He was not impressed 🤣

He must have been very confused - surely only the "lady of the house" would have any interest in cooker placement. Unless your DH is Gordon Ramsey maybe.

I recently had my job mansplained to me in a teams meeting by a man who had heard a woman explain their similar job to him. I am at the same specialist level and with 20 years experience.

I was too astonished at the time to remark on this other than "Hmmm"

Oh, I've had this too. And a former employer who would spell my name to me in dictations.

My boss spelt out c o v i d on a dictation a couple of months ago. I think he just had a brain fart.

@StCharlotte

Oh, I've had this too. And a former employer who would spell my name to me in dictations.

My boss spelt out c o v i d on a dictation a couple of months ago. I think he just had a brain fart.

🤣🤣🤣

An academic paper that I had submitted for review was returned with reviewer comments citing errors in methodology (they were wrong). The reviewer helpfully suggested reading a previously published paper about this methodology...the reviewer failed to notice that I also wrote that paper...

Men often come to my place of work and talk over my head to the men in the room because I couldn’t possibly know how appliances work. You should see their faces when told that I am the one they should be talking to. A lot of older male customers explain what is wrong with their appliance and tell me what part they would like to order. If I think they are wrong I tell them and also tell them what part they should be purchasing. Most of the time I’m met by a patronising look and an explanation as to why I am wrong followed by eyebrow raising to my male colleagues. It’s quite funny when they come back to tell me their machine is still not working and I tell then we’ll it won’t because you need the part I told you you needed the other day when you wanted to speak to a man instead of me.

My FIL mansplained (well attempted to) how to hand my washing out for 'optimum drying' because apparently how I was doing it would mean that things wouldn't dry properly.

I am a 37 year old sahm of two small children with a sport playing DH. I'm fairly experienced in the art of hanging washing on the line, I do enough of it!!

@sueelleker
I'm a bit late but yes, sometimes he does. The most recent time it was a book about classical music, and I have a music degree and work in the classical music industry. I was actually happy he was enjoying it so much and didn't really mind being told facts and stories I had been familiar with for more than 20 years, but something must have shown on my face because he stopped abruptly and said, oh you know all this don't you, I'm mansplaining aren't I? So I count that as a win.

@redheadonatractor, you totally missed an opportunity there!
Tell him you need him to show you how (don't offer to help), and then the next time ask him to show you again as you're not sure....
Keep it going until he either takes on the task or shuts up!

@mineofuselessinformation Hmmm... not sure I want my FIL handling my underwear though 😳

@Triffid1. My FIL who is extremely bright and knowledgeable tried mansplaining this to me too. He is medically qualified in a different field. But when I was 6 months pregnant he mentioned all the fuss about childbirth and medical intervention was a bit much as women had being given birth forever. I pointed out that until relatively recently there were high mortality rates for mother and baby in childbirth.

Another friends husband thought it was ridiculous that I was considering a c section. He said that birth isn’t that bad. I told him that when a baby is coming out his vagina, that’s when he gets an opinion on the matter

I work in a (very) male domimated industry where my particular company is rather specialised (and even more male dominated)

About 5 years into my job, by this point I was all customers main point of contact and was running the show so to speak, I had a customer ring up and ask to speak "to a man." I literally answered the phone and the exact words out of his mouth were "hello, can I speak to man."

This obviously got my back up however I somehow remained calm and explained that no he couldn't but he could speak to me. What followed was genius. "oh OK, well I have some machines, do you know what machines are? OK, well they need moving you may need insert specialist equipment here but I don't suppose you know what that is do you?" he then proceeds to explain what the specialist equipment is and what it does.

Our business specialises in the movement of machines using this particular specialist equipment. As he was talking I was looking at 5 of them and have seen them everyday for donkeys Years. Not only that, seeing as it's my job, I clearly have a very good understanding of how these things work!

Sadly this isn't a rare occurrence!

My boss spelt out c o v i d on a dictation a couple of months ago. I think he just had a brain fart.

Digressing here, but I didn't realize taking dictation from your boss was still a thing, in this day and age. It was almost out of fashion when I did a Pitman's secretarial course in the mid-Eighties.

Another car one. Managed to buy a used car without bother from a dealer but it developed a fault within a few weeks. Drive shaft. They replaced it under warranty. So far so good. Second day after picking it up it broke down on way to work. Scary experience. Engine working but wheels not moving.
I was fortunately on the only hill in the area and coasted into a lay-by. AA eventually arrived. I was prepared to be given a hard time but he was great. I told him which part had been replaced. He
jacked up car and banged the drive shaft back together. Agreed to follow me to the garage the car dealer used 15 miles away.
I asked AA man to explain to garage what he'd done to get me moving as that's his job. All good. Got lift home. Garaged phoned. Said nothing wrong with new part. They don't fail. I explained again what AA had done. No, not possible said garage. How many miles had you done on new part, etc? Went on for ages.
I refused to have car back. They made the wife of the dealer drive it around. Low and behold she broke down after 20 miles. Absolute tossers.