Misogynistic bellends speaking down to women

[Lwrenagain]

Firstly, I couldn't care less here if I'm unreasonable but I invite you to come and have a moan with me.

DP and I share a car. Said car is in garage and I've heard the mechanic laughing and chatting with DP and was smiley enough with me when DP was there.

I've rang yesterday to ask could he do a quick text or report for me on the cars problems as I've a cover in place that will pay towards repairs.

He spoke to me like I was a fucking idiot and I can't even think now how he worded it, but it was just horrid.
Then he said to get DP to ring him and he'll sort it with him. I'm still furious now.

So, aibu to hope he pisses sand and maybe razors every time he speaks to a woman this way until he learns to fucking not?

I didn't buy a car from a Citroen dealership because of the way they spoke to me. Or rather didn't speak to me. I don't think they thought I was buying a car. They were right, as far as their dealership was concerned, I went elsewhere because of their shitty attitude.

I asked a local firm to come and give me a quote for some building work. When the guy turned up he refused to give me a figure and asked if I had my husbands permission! I confused the hell out of him by saying my wife was at work. Needless to say he won't be getting the job!

OP I think I love your mum ❤️😆

But the mansplaining.... I hate it I hate it I hate it. I work in a field that is often in the news and if I do say so myself I am well qualified/experienced. But jeez, the amount of men who like to a) hold forth on the topic (and get most of it wrong) and then b) explain things to me and only me, very slowly so that my female brain can handle it. So annoying. And yes I know that some men are just dickish to everyone but no, I'm talking about times when said men have engaged with other men in the group but then stopped to explain things to me, the only woman. Like the woman in the pic above, I pick my moments! (But mostly just avoid talking about it now tbh.)

Oh, this really boils my piss!!

As first-time buyers, we went to a mortgage advisor. I had done all the legwork, knew about rates, etc.

Dickhead advisor referred everything to DH. Even when I asked a question!!!

He also asked DH something, who laughed and replied,'I have no idea - my wife's the expert. You need auto ask her!' He didn't.

The absolute kicker was when he put DH down as the primary contact (even when told that was me) and me down as 'MRS DH's NAME & SURNAME.'

When he phoned DH the day after, DH took great delight in telling him why we had no intention of signing with him..
Prick

The men in my local garage are super heroes and really helpful. So I'd say find another garage!

Absolutely right. I tend to ignore them for a quiet life but it is totally unacceptable.

In general we are one of the luckiest countries in the world for equality, but that speaks volumes about how far there is to go.

It's horrendous. Especially when I've got nearly three post-grad qualifications (about to finish the third) yet they talk down to us all like we're clueless bimbos.

PS I got this from my accountant also. He's such a knob. He talks like Bernard Manning "Well you see it's like this, love".

One of my postgraduate quals is accountancy so I knew he was talking bullshit. But after four months of getting nowhere I had to adopt the "you're so clever" act just to get anything done. 🫣

Try saying no you get the "sigh" you don't understand luv I do I DO understand and I'm still saying no

Love this thread. Local garage, the manager was on holiday last MOT and the mechanic didn’t mansplain at all, it was total bliss. Trying to work out when the manager will be away for the next MOT! If I got a quid for each condescending remark I’ve received from men over the years, I could literally retire now (I’m 52). The best one…. there are so many: The estate agent on our house purchase actually said to me (when vendor wanted to keep an interest in some of the land -I don’t bloody think so!): “ but you wouldn’t understand these concepts you’re a woman” to which I replied: I’m only a bloody solicitor who qualified at a top London law firm it’s a bit like trying to teach grandmother how to suck eggs”. That shut the cretin up. For the love of God….what a moron!

Is he a good, reliable mechanic and reasonably priced, though?

I describe my FiL as a man who'd rather ask the male porter about getting open heart surgery than the opinion of a female heart surgeon but I always thought that he was just in the small minority.
Seems more common than I realised that women being intelligent is a problem.

And to the person that said you love my mum, you want her? Imagine a scouse Deborah meaden lookalike with the personality of Paul O'grady mixed with phoebe from friends. If you're still keen I'll send her DPD x