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

Years and years ago, I was tinkering in my car engine, deciding what parts I needed to do a small job in the engine,, and a man who lived next door at the time came over, to give me his expert advice. He said, what's the problem Luv. So just told him what I was going to buy at the garage car parts place. He disagreed of course, and said, you women know bugger all about car engines, so you will get things all wrong,

My now late Husband was away on business at the time, but he gave me lots of advice,and taught me how to do small jobs on cars, so I could replace hoses and little things myself.

The dumb man next door, went away shaking his head, and probably muttering to himself about stupid women. There would be no way I would have let him near my car engine. !

I recently had the mental load mansplained to me by a lovely friend, who had recently discovered that it was an issue.

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

I work in IT, I am certified up to my ears in AWS Cloud infrastructure. If one more man does the "baby steps explanation" again I might reach down the Teams Chat and shove a toilet roll in his mouth.

I used to work for Jessops in my early 20's, one day I was on the ship for when a customer approached and asked me to go get one of the men in the store to help him. The only men who worked there were serving other customers, so I offered to help instead. He was not happy with this, so told me I was allowed to show him some things while he waited for the "experts" to be free. He made me show him something from every cabinet, all the while mansplaining cameras to me and complaining about how awful it was they let staff like me do sales instead of staying at the till. Anyway, we get to the binoculars cabinet, he insisted on trying the most expensive pair and was getting more and more agitated as he couldn't get them to work. He finally took a breath from complaining about the service so I took my chance to point out that, not only did I actually have a photography qualification (unlike my male colleagues), but that he's fine the binoculars worked better if you liked through the other end.

Luckily for me rather than making him angrier it actually seemed to make him think, and from that point on he only let me serve him.

I have a friend who is a Cambridge educated engineer and pilot for a large commercial airline, who had the gas man explain to her that he could call her partner once he got home to explain what needed to be done with the boiler, rather than explain it to her. Unbelievable.

One of my jobs as a teenager, the first day the boss told me to mop the floor then immediately started to give me a lesson on how to fill the bucket, how to dunk the mop in the bucket, how to wring the mop, then place it on the floor and move it to clean the floor.............

I really disliked that man.

My favourite involved extremely sexist assed factory owners who I was in charge of giving work & the correct amount of supplies to produce the amount of goods we were ordering to the factory.

Cocky assed mansplainer decided I was a skinny air head bimbo & decided to argue for more supplies than needed (a way factories make money on the side) as he could clearly run rings around me. He turned up at my office with his entourage & set about laying out work to prove me wrong. In doing so he let on that they had a much bigger facility for one component that meant I could actually reduce the supplies per unit. So I stood back feigned interest & let his cocky ass waffle on, showing off to his mates.

When he finished I thanked him for his time & enlightening information & gave him a new, smaller not bigger costing. Pointing out his mistake that showed me I could.

He never challenged me again 😂

My dad is an expert mansplainer. Could have won Mastermind, if he'd been able to stop himself explaining the answers to John Humphrys. One of the funniest conversations I have ever had with him was after he joined a club of retired men and met Barry. Barry out mansplained him, and his mate Alan. Barry continues to explain things to my dad, even over Zoom - "and he didn't even know how to work Zoom until I told him" says my dad all

I can’t think of one myself at the moment but these are actually making me quite angry

Just before I had DS, FIL mansplained to me how to go about losing the baby weight and how to keep it off it as MIL had “acquired a bit of a belly” after having their DC. (I know that he cheated on her at this point in history and she left him. What a fucking berk)

Male doctor explaining to me how I shouldn't be in pain 24 hrs after c-section because c-sections are not particularly painful.

I mean, what the FUCK? I can only begin to imagine the depths of his arseholeness and wankery.

@AmandaHoldensLips

Male doctor explaining to me how I shouldn't be in pain 24 hrs after c-section because c-sections are not particularly painful.

I mean, what the FUCK? I can only begin to imagine the depths of his arseholeness and wankery.

Wtf?!

@GentlemanJackie That was an extremely restful and surprisingly interesting watch!

Not sure this would be classed as mansplaining but maybe?. We visited my sister last week she's just had her 3rd baby (1st for her partner).He told us proudly that she had such an easy birth because of how relaxed HE was. Wtf even my teenage son rolled his eyes hard.

DH felt the need to explain how to clean up newborn DD after a dirty nappy (front to back, you know).

In an electrical warehouse type store looking at washing machines. One I liked was marked AAA.

Me: I know this is about the energy rating but what does AAA actually mean?

Young Man Assistant : It means it has 3 As madam.

I'm doing a course for a qualification I need where some of the classes are really quite basic biology/child development.
Lecturer is typically quite boring and patronising at the best of times; outdid himself recently on the the topic of breastfeeding when he announced that he personally advises all women to breastfeed for 2 years... he doesn't know why women give up early, maybe they get tired... he is sure if it was men who breastfed, they would even do it for 3 years.

No words.

Today's gem from my manager- the difference between round and oval tablets. With sketches. My colleague and I were doing this job before he even began his pharmacy degree.

DH once mansplained mansplaining to me... Felt like a right dick when I pointed out what he had done

FIL showing me how to use the new front door key to their house a few years ago. It was a standard Yale lock, nothing fancy and didn't even need 'jiggling' or anything. But they'd had the lock replaced as it was old so wanted us to replace our spare keys (fair enough). DH had to walk off when he saw my face

FIL also showing me how to sort the recycling when they were going away on a long cruise a few years ago (we were staying at theirs for a few weeks anyway as between selling and buying a house). Again, really not complex as their bins are v clearly marked and we live in the same council area SO IT'S THE SAME AS WHAT I ALREADY DO EVERY WEEK TREVOR (not FIL name)

Guy in car showroom basically trying to sell us a load of unnecessary extra insurances warranties etc when we bought our last (nearly new) car. I'm very financially savvy and DH is happy for me to take the lead on money stuff. Same guy also trying to persuade me that buying a brand new model for £15k more, using the cash we were going to buy the other car outright with as a deposit on the new car then taking out a loan at 19% APR for the balance. I did actually ask if he was joking. Fucking twat.

This isn't really mansplaining in true sense of the word, but man-arrogance-thinks-they-know-everything-dick: Boss's wife had an appointment with consultant to discuss possibility of c section as they were concerned that baby was v big, wife was v small etc. Male boss to me, breezily, "Aaah, it will be fine. Women have successfully been giving birth for thousands of years."

He was somewhat taken aback when I pointed out that in fact, women have been dying in childbirth for 1000s of years....

Listen to Demot O'Learys podcast for classic mansplaining. The best one I heard was when he told Oti Mabuse all about life in South Africa (he spent three months there for a tv series once) and also that ballroom dancing was much more popular in the U.K. that Germany. She took it very well but didn't hesitate to correct him. He also instructed Liam `Payne about living in Ireland and Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott about acting.

I once had a bloke mansplain my own fucking motorbike to me!

Parked in my local, chatting with the other bikers (who all knew me and my bike) and Mr Fucking Billy Balls comes up and starts chatting to me really patronising about the bikes, then he starts on mine.....

I say "it's my bike mate I fix it myself" and he just takes a breath and simply carries on telling me how to tune the engine, fix the brakes blah blah blah.

The funniest thing was that he was wrong about most of it!!

The others were fucking cracking up cos I was getting more and more irate!

Eventually I told him to stop with the unwanted advice, and exactly why he was wrong, and that he was a dick.

He went away quietly after that!

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!