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

I was cycling, a white van turned left and indicated whilst turning left, so I had to suddenly brake. Another white van stopped me and said "you need to check the indicators".

Mate I'm 41, been cycling for decades, I think I know the concept of indicators.

Another time, my bike chain broke. Was just broken. So I walked my bike home, no big deal. I was walking for 30 sec and an old guy stopped me, looked at my bike and said "well, the chain is broken you need to fix that".
Who would know that a bike can't work without a chain?!?

These stuff you know, no woman would stop you to say something like that.

I'm pretty lucky though, I've had way less mansplaining in the UK than in my (latin) country. Probably a mix of cultural difference and me being older and more confident.
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.

I do agree women can do it, some women do it to men about things they think are their area, and I have had it done to me a lot by both my mum and xMIL so maybe that's kind of older generation 'splaining when they think we can't possibly have a clue.

But mansplaining is more common IME, when men just can't imagine you could understand the issue or even be more informed than them.

I work in a female-dominated field, 90% of the time with other women and I'm very experienced at what I do. Almost without fail, on the rare occasions when I work with men, they patronise me and mansplain to me, but female colleagues and contacts hardly ever do.

For example I sent one bloke a clear and simple email to say that IME the method he had suggested was time-consuming and didn't get the best results, and could I use a different method. His reply was all about how if I didn't understand it he and the other man on the team could explain it and help me with it.

I understood it, I had used it multiple times, and I knew better than him about its failings but he read it as I needed help.

Mine is horticulture-related and a very male-dominated hobby, so let's just say it's orchid growing (it's not).

I was exhibiting at a national orchid show, at a loose end and wandering round eyeing up the competition and got chatting to a bloke. He started mansplaining the most elementary bits of their care, as to a total ignoramus, and suggested that I went to a particular club stand where I would find a very useful leaflet explaining everything for beginners in great detail. Oh yes I know the one, I said - I wrote it. He then tried telling me that he didn't mean the flyer advertising our club's forthcoming workshop, he was talking about a really useful pamphlet that I would find invaluable. Yes I know, I said - thank you very much.

As a parting shot I suggested that he look carefully at the back page to find out who wrote it.

@Watto1

I work in a shop in a small town in Wales. A customer came in to arrange delivery of a large item. When giving me the address, he felt the need to spell the name of the town we were both standing in.

Any chance this was out of habit? I often spell our surname automatically when I’m sure I don’t need to.

Wrotten Oh god yes.

Me to client: So, you can't do this, because bla bla, but you could do that.
Client looks at me like he's chewing on a lemon: Really, are you sure? But..
Male colleague walks in and tells him exactly the same thing: So, you can't do this, but you could do that.

Client stares at him adoringly like he's the second coming: Oh yes, I see, I can't do this but I can do that!! Brilliant!

Penis coefficient is amazing, isn't it. Instantly doubles the credibility of any message.

Many years ago someone explained in great detail why my (very normal) regular periods weren't natural and that if I lived a natural life without meat and with organic food I'd just have the odd period when I got together with a man.
It was a very long mansplanation.

@Eachpeachpears

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

Meta-mansplaining

A couple of years ago at work a man called to try to sell us a card machine. I was the poor sap who happened to pick up the phone to him. We didn't ever take card payments directly and had no use for a card machine. I tried to explain this to him, but he I got as far as "We don't need a card machine because..." before he cut me off with "You know what a card machine is, don't you?" and, not waiting for my response, started this explanation, talking veeeeery slooooowly in this overly sincere tone of voice "So, you know when you go shopping and there's that plastic box that you put your card in and then you put the numbers in and then that's how you pay? Yes, well that's a card machine." Patronising twat.

@PurpleWh1teGreen

Halfords mechanic asked would you like us to check your spark plugs & oil as well Madam? when I took my car for an MOT.

I drive an electric vehicle.

You should have said yes, and watched him look for them!

Not so much funny as cringingly uncomfortable - a Male colleague explaining to our US HR colleague all about the complexities of employment in the USA. He has never worked in HR (or at anything else) in the USA. What an absolute bellend.

My lovely DP was an HGV driver and has a tendency to know ‘the right way’ to get anywhere in the UK… according to him…
I lived in my old home town for 40 years before moving 100 miles to current home around 20 years ago. I have made many many journeys back home and know there is about 4 ways you can go. Everyone uses the obvious way as it’s quicker. However, he insists he knows the “best way” and we will go this way - so I think he must know some way that I don’t 🤷‍♀️ He starts mansplaining in the most boring detail… (Sat Navs are at least brief with their instructions.)
On and on he went, swinging a left here, chucking a right there, stopping for a pasty, blah blah…
When he finally ended this droning on, I said very quietly “you’ve just navigated me home… the way I always go and always have, for 20 years..”
He sulked.

@Lockheart

Article fodder?

Absolutely

Oh remember this one.
My mum and step dad have a pool in their garden. We were once there with some friends, one was male.
One day, my mum and step dad went away for a couple of days and my step dad wanted to show us how to activate and stop the pool's pump system.
He asked where was my male friend so he could explain how it worked.
I said "he's leaving tomorrow, so show me".
Mind you, it was literally just a big red button, labelled "pump". Nothing else.

Same man who once wanted to call the electrician because the power went off. I just opened the fuse box and switched the circuit breaker on and that's it, he saved €120 on electrician fees.

Not my story, but one I read elsewhere. A couple walked into a pharmacy, the man needed a prescription filled, the woman wanted to get some makeup.
The man ordered the (female) pharmacist to assist his wife with her shopping, while the (male) pharmacist sorted out the prescription. Only thing was the male pharmacist was a trainee, and couldn't dispense the medication without the final sign off, from his senior colleague...who took her sweet time in helping the woman decide on what makeup to buy.
Not mansplaining, I know, but the thread reminded me of it.

Oh, also an old landlord from when we rented the worst flat in the world, who, when I went in to complain about the water running down the walls, waking up to a duvet covered in condensation every morning, and black mould everywhere told me my husband should come in to speak to him because I was obviously using the tumble dryer incorrectly and that was causing the damp, before explaining condenser dryers to me repeatedly (it wasn't, it was just a badly converted old stable block and he hadn't spent any money on it ever). He also told me women were too emotional to have these conversations with (I was pissed off but calm) and not as intelligent as men in the same conversation though, so perhaps that was just rampant misogyny rather than mansplaining.

Yesterday 'D'H very kindly explained and then demonstrated twice the correct way to scoop the formula for DS's bottles. After spending the last 9 months on maternity leave making the majority of bottles I'm sure you can imagine how thrilled I was.

My dad mansplained once how to breastfeed my 2 day old baby-complete with latch and how to hold them
Baby was no4 and I’d fed the other 3 myself

My bloody boss mansplains all the bloody time
I’m 43,I have 6 kids and have ran a house since I was 19
If he shows me one more time how to mop and dry a floor one more time,he’s going to find that mop up his arse

My partner once mansplained how to flush a loo
He’d gone and flushed-I went for a pee a few minutes later but the tank hadn’t refilled properly (takes ages) so I’d flushed but not noticed it hadn’t flushed everything
I told him that if he was so bloody good with the loo then he could bloody well clean it as well
He shut up

I had a friend at work who got pregnant aged 18
I honestly think if one more bloke had told her that childbirth ‘wasn’t that bad’ and ‘women make a meal over it for attention’ I think she would have decked them
I had to step in a few times over that one-poor kid was so scared of having her baby and they made it worse
(She went on to have an ‘easy’ birth and now has a beautiful baby)

I had a man explain to me what the pain of childbirth felt like. I was 49 at the time and had 3 children. He was 30 and had none.

Not mansplaining strictly speaking but certainly in the spirit of the concept: when i was at uni I rented a place that belonged to a farmer and was located next to his farm. I drove an old VW Golf and switched over from summer to winter tyres by myself every six months. (In rural Germany, where winter tyres are routinely used in the coöder months). It's not exactly rocket science. One day I was happily changing out the tyres on his farmyard he walked past, observed me for a few minutes with a concerned expression, then wandered off. Came back, offered help, which I politely declined. He then proceeded to walk past several more times, each time either shaking his head in a doubtful way, or asking whether I was sure I didn't need help. He was a nuce guy, but women using a car jack was clearly not something he could get used to.

I've given this example before but it still makes me . I've been teaching for 20+ years. was musing to DP (not a teacher) how to mark an A level essay that was incredibly well written and researched but didn't hit the mark scheme tick boxes . He spent 20 mins telling me how I should do it and what I should say to the kid.

When I called the doctors because i was loosing weight and had no appetite he told me; most women want to lose weight and be skinny so its not a problem.

Cheers doc 👍

DH has just shown me how to roll up the hose 💦

I've spent my career in IT. Mansplaining is an occupational hazard!

..the one who corrected my pronunciation of my name!

@SaborDeSoledad

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

Surely you got him to demonstrate this? Several times?