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Nominations for the "Mansplainer of the Year 2018 award" please - huge phallic trophy to be won....

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MrsFogi · 21/12/2018 15:29

I will start with some cyclist who just got the stabilisers off called Dr Rachel Mckinnon telling Martina Navratilova that "You don't hit a tennis ball with your tennis ball or vagina. If you do, you're doing it wrong." No link I'm afraid because the tweet seems to have been pulled after much bullying of Martina.

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SophoclesTheFox · 22/12/2018 07:55

bigbum that reminds me: Shout out to my manager who explained about running long distances to me earlier in the week- the importance of pacing, hydration, gels etc.

I said to him “you know I’ve done half a dozen marathons, right?”

“yeah, I know”, he said.

And carried right on mansplaining 😂

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 22/12/2018 17:06

I am autistic and last week had autism mansplained to me by a neurotypical man.

enough1 · 22/12/2018 18:06

Pink News

Katvonbatshit · 23/12/2018 13:40

Thank God Haddock is here to help women.
Surely he deserves a massive phallus?

Nominations for the "Mansplainer of the Year 2018 award" please - huge phallic trophy to be won....
dangerrabbit · 23/12/2018 13:45

Is haddock being ironic in that quote above Katvon?

teawamutu · 23/12/2018 15:44

I think he thinks he is. Bless him.

averylongtimeago · 23/12/2018 15:50

On a lighter note, can my DH get some sort of award for mansplaining how to clean a shower?

Other than that, the Dr certainly deserves a prize for that tweet!

ErrolTheDragon · 23/12/2018 15:57

On a lighter note, can my DH get some sort of award for mansplaining how to clean a shower?

Yes; obviously his award should be a large supply of the cleaning products he specified, for his exclusive use.

averylongtimeago · 23/12/2018 17:24

I chased him out of the bathroom with a bottle of limescale remover.....

SirVixofVixHall · 23/12/2018 18:12

In such a crowded field, with such a high calibre of applicants, how will we ever find an outright winner ?

Terfing · 23/12/2018 18:21

Can't we give them a massive vulva that identifies as a male vuvla instead?!

MadamBatty · 23/12/2018 18:24

The Business grad who explained some basic engineering terms to my boss the Director of Engineering. I pointed this out to him, he seemed puzzled.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 23/12/2018 18:51

dangerrabbit Harrop is gay so is excluded from the audience his sermon is directed at

norrismcwhirtersfridgemagnet · 23/12/2018 19:22

Jeremy Corbyn for mansplaining International Women's Day to Theresa May ( stupid woman )

JennyHolzersGhost · 23/12/2018 19:26

Owen Jones has got to win this one surely.

And the runner up is my colleague Rob, who is the world’s biggest mansplaining prick and a large part of the reason I’m considering quitting in the new year.

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 23/12/2018 19:51

I think it should be a teeny tiny phallus, rather than a huge one. But on a huge plinth with enormous lettering.

Men could let the significance of that penetrate.

Terfing · 23/12/2018 19:53

He winner has to be Dr Harrop. He has undoubtedly worked the hardest to win it.

hackmum · 23/12/2018 21:15

Let’s not forget Peter Tatchell, who has done sterling work on the mansplaining front, including patronising Julie Bindel who then proceeded to run rings around him.

ToeToToe · 23/12/2018 21:16

I don't want to nominate the good doctor Harrop, because any recognition at all would probably make him happy.

I'm going with Benjamin Cohen for mansplaining to a female MP, on the Politics show, that male sex offenders assaulting women in women's prisons isn't really very important, and then shrugging.

teawamutu · 23/12/2018 21:25

On reflection, I don't see how it can be anyone else but R 'do you, the lesbian icon and greatest female tennis player of all time, know who I am?' Mckinnon.

Peak transed more people in the course of one arse-witted Twitter exchange than this board and Haddock combined have managed all year...

ToeToToe · 23/12/2018 22:51

I'm changing mine to Tatchell. Not just the Julie Bindel thing.

Just read this tweet:
twitter.com/PeterTatchell/status/1076863772646625281

Unbelievable.

Yeahnahyeah · 23/12/2018 23:09

An everyday example I was involved in last night. ....a social setting; I count 10 times my male friend interrupted me, so got fed up and interrupted him back ONCE. He instantly ranted at me for interrupting, in a very aggressive shouty way, lecturing me on my rudeness.
Asswipe.

calpop · 23/12/2018 23:52

Got to be The Haddock

littlbrowndog · 24/12/2018 00:05

Tatchell
Fuck off with your telling women what to do say and think
I nominate him

SophoclesTheFox · 24/12/2018 07:29

If we have a team effort, I’d also nominate the tag team of assorted doughnuts and bananas who turn up here every time we talk about prostitution and porn to explain to us why men absolutely must not have their access to women’s bodies fettered in any way. I really love it when men explain how women should feel about that.

Top noms are still LOJ and the Good Doctor, who really have put in the legwork on this. Also anyone named Tim who writes for the Guardian. And Eammon Holmes.