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

Just remembered another one.

My colleagues had been on holiday and returned to find his car battery was dead.

I do most of the basic maintenance on the communal cars so he knew he could call me for help and I drove over to give him a jump start.

As I was attaching the leads a man came over and asked if we needed help. I told him it was fine, my DF is a time-served mechanic and had taught me this years ago.

Nevertheless he hung around and "helpfully" told me where to attach the wires. I told him he was wrong, and that what he had suggested was potentially dangerous.

And he STILL hung about until I'd got my colleague's car restarted and this "proved" that I knew what j was doing.

I’d just read Steven Hawkins book ( and taken notes! Well, I was bored) ( and interested) and some chap at a party mansplained Einstein’s relativity theory. It was that sort of party! I was soo proud of myself to be able to smooth down my mini skirt, flick my blonde hair and say, ‘ I think you mean the theory of general relativity, not special relativity’ still laughing now!

@IrisJoy

The c-section ones remind me of my own experience. I had been in a lot of abdominal pain for 2.5 weeks, in and out of doctors and hospitals while they tried to work out what it was. They eventually gave me a scan and found something very unusual in anyone but babies (can't say what it is as it would be very identifying). The radiographer had two consultants come to check it as she was so surprised to see it on the scan. I was blue lighted to another hospital for emergency surgery. I was just so relieved that they had found what it was and could help. Upon arrival a junior (male) doctor came in and WITHOUT EXAMINING ME OR ASKING ANY HISTORY declared that it could not be that as I was not in enough pain ( I am not a screamer, I go quiet when I am in pain). He started to talk about discharging me! The surgeon then came in and started to examine me. He looked at me and said that he couldn't believe the pain i must be in or how I had survived the last couple of weeks. The junior doctor was still in the room so I told the surgeon that he had been about to discharge me without examining me. I then watched through the venetian blind as the surgeon gave the junior doctor the bollocking of his life. (Two hours later I had the surgery and it turns out if the junior doctor had sent me home I would probably have died within the next 12 hours).

This is appalling and infuriating

@WhyMrsRobinson

I’d just read Steven Hawkins book ( and taken notes! Well, I was bored) ( and interested) and some chap at a party mansplained Einstein’s relativity theory. It was that sort of party! I was soo proud of myself to be able to smooth down my mini skirt, flick my blonde hair and say, ‘ I think you mean the theory of general relativity, not special relativity’ still laughing now!

What was his reaction? 😃

Another one I've just remembered.

I grew up on the east coast of Scotland but have family in Newcastle.
I was due to drive down to the Toon on my own for the first time since passing my test and was telling a colleague.

He told me the best route would be to go via Glasgow and then down to Carlisle and then across to Newcastle.
I pointed out my DGF did the route once a month to visit his elderly DM and if that was the bast rout from the EAST of Scotland rather than the A1 he would surely go that way, wouldn't he?

But the pronunciation is rooves

I agree with @HollowTalk

That youtube thing is wrong.

I was a litigator specialising in property law. I spent a lot of time litigating over boundaries and boundary features. I’ve practised for just shy of 20 years now and have been involved in cases up to the Court of Appeal for various governmental departments.

My FIL has a book which is like a beginner’s guide to the law. Which means he’s better placed to advise on, and has corrected me on, various points of property law. My MIL asked me for advice on a boundary problem they were having. He corrected the advice I gave them, in front of me. I refuse to discuss the law or answer any questions about the law in front of them any more.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

But the pronunciation is rooves

I agree with @HollowTalk

That youtube thing is wrong.

I bet you and @HollowTalk don’t even know how to make babies either. In what dictionary is ru:vz given as the only correct pronunciation? Go and teach your grandmother how to suck eggs!

What has making babies got to do with anything? My children want to know.

You change the y to an i and add es. It’s another plural you might get wrong.

I didn't say that the plural of roof was rooves. I said you pronounces roofs as rooves.

And it’s about time you admitted you were wrong, don’t you think, @HollowTalk

Why on earth would I do that, when I'm not?

“HollowTalk

I didn't say that the plural of roof was rooves. I said you pronounces roofs as rooves.”

I would pronounce roofs as rooves too.

It sounds wrong saying roofs! Definitely rooves in pronunciation!

Shall I hold your coats while you get out the duelling pistols??

I pronounce 'roofs' to rhyme with hooves. But - I'm not sure if it's regional variation or more individual - there are definitely people who speak perfectly good English who pronounce it 'roofs', or even 'rufs' (probably the same people who pronounce tooth something like 'tuth').

So, saying "I said you pronounces roofs as rooves.” is an inaccurate generalisation. Saying 'I pronounce it...." or 'most people pronounce it...' - sure.

Maybe we should take this to Pedants' Corner?

As a teenager I was shopping with my DM for paper bags, parcel paper and string that DM & DF needed for their market stall.

The helpful man behind the counter was explaining to DM how important it was to use nice strong string and demonstrated how strong it was by pulling it in his hands.

Unfortunately he let out a huge fart, went bright red & rushed into the back office. I was creasing up so much I was sent outside "to look for traffic wardens"

@Sleeperagent

Too many... A friend who is a serial mansplainer once told me he was buying a rocking chair and went on to explain that it's a chair that rocks back and forth. He even demonstrated the rocking motions with his arms. Recently I was in a city planning meeting on zoom, I was the only female. I made a good suggestion. As soon as I'd finished a man went on to explain in great detail exactly what I meant. I didn't even know him. What made it worse was at the end the chairMAN said what a good point the man had made and all the other participants agreed. It was my idea!

Been there!

More than once . . .

The actual mansplaining on this mansplaining thread is amazing!

@CasperGutman

I've had to deal with quite a lot of tradesmen recently and so far, my experience has been pretty good, just had the odd "love" once or twice.

As someone raised int the North West of England, I wouldn't assume someone was being patronising solely because they called you "love". It's a pretty common mode of address in some areas, especially from older adults towards younger ones of the opposite gender, and (as a man in his late 30s) I am frequently addressed as "love" by female staff in shops and cafés, on public transport etc. etc.

Of course, there may have been other things about those interactions which were indicative of problems.

Thank you

My FIL has a book which is like a beginner’s guide to the law. Which means he’s better placed to advise on, and has corrected me on, various points of property law.

I'm a lawyer and this happened all the time when I was still helpful enough to occasionally offer advice. 'But this can't be right, because my neighbour's uncle's friend said..'
Well go ask him then. You realise people normally pay me a lot of money for what I just did for you for free, but clearly I have no clue..

The man at my work, in a meeting, who mansplained what mansplaining was to me. I could barely keep a straight face as a colleague rolled her eyes continuously.

I'm a hospital Dr. At the moment a patients son is driving me insane
He clearly thinks that he (IT person) and Dr Google are going to be able to come up with some amazing ideas for his mums care that I will not have thought of despite my postgrad qualifications and years of experience in the field.
I wouldn't even mind that so much if they were 'suggestions' but he is constantly trying to 'catch me out'. He is constantly surprised that yes I can quote the NICE and Royal College guidelines in my own field, yes I have heard of basic rating scales in common use and classic papers in the field. Basically if you can Google it then I am already going to know it because it's my job to know it.
I keep thinking that one week I will have proved myself sufficiently to be trusted but not so far.
I do wonder to myself whether if I was a man I would be getting g quite such a hard time.

@Ravenclawsome

Another one I've just remembered. I grew up on the east coast of Scotland but have family in Newcastle. I was due to drive down to the Toon on my own for the first time since passing my test and was telling a colleague. He told me the best route would be to go via Glasgow and then down to Carlisle and then across to Newcastle. I pointed out my DGF did the route once a month to visit his elderly DM and if that was the bast rout from the EAST of Scotland rather than the A1 he would surely go that way, wouldn't he?

When we do a similar journey the two routes can be pretty even time wise, although it is longer (miles) to go via Glasgow and Carlisle. However we live central Scotland as opposed to the East coast of Scotland.