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34 Times Guys Humiliated Themselves By Mansplaining Things To Skilled Individuals, As Shared By Women On Twitter
Even though men and women are supposed to be somewhat similar in a sense, sometimes the one and only thing that bonds us together is the fact that we're both human beings. Of course, not everyone is as oblivious as some might be, yet encountering very audacious men is a frequent occurrence in a woman’s life.
One of the best present-day "wonders" would probably be the mansplaining phenomenon. It’s insane how many men find any opportunity to explain something to a woman in a condescending and overconfident way when, in fact, nobody even asked them to share any of their input. It’s an issue that will probably be around for a while since society loves to presume that a woman is less knowledgeable, less skilled, and desires to hear men’s opinions 24/7.
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Some folks just love to explain things to women
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Though this particular problem is not humorous whatsoever, and many women have no other choice than to endure this kind of behavior on a daily basis, sometimes all we can do is look at it from a different perspective and just laugh. Thankfully, these days, many men are extremely self-aware and actually love women, so who knows, maybe in a couple of decades, we can all coexist peacefully.
Twitter users asked ladies to share instances when men tried to mansplain something they actually knew a lot about
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This Twitter user asked fellow women to share amusing examples of men mansplaining things that the women were quite aware of. The post received 627 likes and heaps of comments revealing entertaining stories and discussing the nerves of some individuals.
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Charlotte Sandoval 3 years ago
Lpl his friend took psych 101 and... what? Are they communicating via telepathy at all times? Osmosis? Aliens? How does this dumbell have his friend's knowledge 😂
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
I took Psych 10, abnormal psychology, in college. Now I think everyone is crazy.
The official definition of mansplaining is the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman in a patronizing or condescending way. Essentially speaking, when men mansplain, what they do is they explain a certain topic assuming that a woman has either no obvious knowledge about it or she's significantly lacking in understanding.
Sadly, gender issues have been around for pretty much forever and most folks have been so sucked into our patriarchal society that they constantly feel the need to show their toxic power and to project it on others without even realizing that they're doing it – which is why a good deal of men don't actually get the meaning of "mansplaining".
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Anthony Roberts 3 years ago
I bet idiots like this think they're actually impressing the lady instead of realizing they're just showing their ass.
Chrissy Dee 3 years ago
I once had a man argue with me that I didn't *actually* hate the taste of beer, he was trying to convince me that I just hadn't found one that I liked yet. I was grilled about how many types I had tried, which brands, etc. Utterly exhausting.
La Kalypso 3 years ago
When anyone tries to "tell" you what you like or not, it's better to leave, no explanations, not a word of excuse, just leave. These people are profoundly controlling. Total waste of time.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
If men are talking about beer, cryptocurrency or women, I am leaving.
Imogene Cargeaux 3 years ago
Omfg. I would pay for you to wear a camera on you at all times and record this. You could start a whole ass YouTube channel I bet!
Even though it might feel like the term was invented fairly recently, mansplaining has definitely been around for a while, yet the actual word was inspired by an essay written by Rebecca Solnit that was published in 2008.
In the said essay, Rebecca shared a story that sort of provoked folks to actually name this behavior. It all happened at a party when a conversation arose between Solnit and a man who heard that she had previously written a few books. Rebecca began to talk about her recent publication when the man decided to cut her off, asking if she was aware of this interesting book that recently came out – which in fact was hers. Though the author didn't use the word "mansplaining" per se, she described the occurrence as "something every woman knows".
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Eric Forman 3 years ago
Did they tell the doctor they invented it??? It's not mansplaining when the Dr is literally just doing his job and explaining how devices work to patients. Simply just tell him you know how it works. This is just an example of pretentiousness. Not at all mansplaining without further clarification. I welcome the downvotes for basic reasoning...
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
I agree. Explaining and mansplaining different by tone and intent. Just because a guy explains something without knowing a woman’s knowledge it’s not mansplaining. Unless the do the “ok sweetheart” voice.
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Corey Smith 3 years ago
I dunno. I have designed and built stuff that others used in ways I never thought of.
Eric Forman 3 years ago
Why are you being downvoted? This literally happens everyday. Some of the devices we use today were because of this very reason. Invention doesn't dictate sole applications.
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Eric Forman 3 years ago
Who is downvoting all these logical comments. The post doesn't say they informed the doctor they invented the device. There isn't a med school class where they teach inventors.
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Usernames 3 years ago
My friend did programming for printer software. It is a big company. He never told us. Then when my other friend set up new printer, he asked me to set it up, when my programmer friend present. i complain a lot because of the new software less inconvenience. After i successfully installed it, my programmer friend told me it is his software and the company want it that way. I never been so embarrassed
der sebbl 3 years ago
Further clarification: doctor can't know if someone knows some device, so yeah, nothing wrong if he explains it. If he know that the person build it, doctor is mansplaining. Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion, don't want to force it upon you
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May 3 years ago
Aw.. Bless his heart... Wait? 22? I was thinking of my 8 year old nephew - he always wants to show me things he saw in a book
Sawyer Kidder 3 years ago
Is this really mansplaining though? Maybe he was just pumped about his book and is a child at heart!
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Yeah, I'm kinda wondering if this fits the definition.If guy had a idea that she knew what she was doing, then there's no doubt. If he didn't have any idea of her experience, he may have trying to legitimately pass on knowledge.That he showed that his knowledge was from a DIY book proves that his skills weren't too advanced. Just another view to look at it from.
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Despite many believing this term to be sexist, it doesn't change the fact that it constantly happens to women all over the world. Gender inequality exists and society has made it easier for men to get away with things like that. Though many argue that nowadays folks overuse the term, it's important not to assume that someone's overreacting and to never dismiss the person's feelings, as those rarely come from nothing.
#5
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Well you asked a question about specifics so naturally you wouldn't know anything. People are so ridiculous.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
Then you secretly message all your colleagues and everyone he then asks says, "Oh, no, you should talk to Lucid about that. She's the expert."
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
This sounds akin to the running joke of walking into an auto parts store and asking for an air freshener and the employee asks you for the make and model. His response was terrible, don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the response, but sometimes when I'm working on a project and hit a snag where I'm frustrated because I have to make ANOTHER trip to the store and I know what I need, just tell me where it is.
Fiery Llama 3 years ago
But I bet you don't respond saying you'll find a male to talk to instead, right? You probably would feel the same about not wanting a conversation no matter what gender associate was asking you, and you wouldn't make a point of saying you'd find someone of the opposite gender to help.
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Imogene Cargeaux 3 years ago
I love going into lowes for building supplies and having every man that I walk past (even men who DONT WORK THERE!) ask me if I need help with something.. and when I say "nope! I got it!" They'll say "are you sure?" .... b***h... yes.. yes I am sure. My father owns a construction company which I have worked at on and off for nearly 20 years on top of the fact that him n I have been renovating and flipping houses since I was 13... Not only do I know exactly wtf I need.. but I also don't need fucken help lifting s**t or carrying s**t.. it's amazing because my husband n I have tested this.. he walks in, we walk separately.. nobody asks him if he needs help.. n in the off chance they do, they never say "are you sure?" But then I'll walk in right after him n I'll get asked right away.. n I get the "are you sure ?" Every Time. My husband could barely change a fucken lightbulb (not really but close) when I met him. I taught him everything he knows.. so annoying
Maxie Mills 3 years ago
You must be very attractive. When I was young and did home projects I would be offered loads of help. Now I am old and still a woman and I have to search for help in both of those big box hardware stores. Once I was doing a bathroom remodel and trying to hire a drywaller. This guy came into my house that I had owned and been working on for decades and proceeded to explain everything to me about the job except drywalling. I just said with a deadpan expression, "Get out of my house."
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
It would have been so awesome if the guy he found was like 'oh ugh... not sure. Hold on let me go get [her] she's way more of an expert.' Just to his face when she came back over.
Dave In MD 3 years ago
Or, he might have just wanted to know where the part is located and not have to explain what it was for. And the comment about knowing what he is talking about just meant knowing where it is located in the store. I do retail for auto parts and I do get her side about asking for details about the project to ensure the customer is getting the right thing because most times the customer is, shall we say, less than informed about what they actually need. But on the other hand, I have also been the customer that just wants to know where something is in the store without a long conversation about what I am working on.
Fiery Llama 3 years ago
Someone who just doesn't want a conversation doesn't need to add "then I'll find a man" in their response though, do they?
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Jo Iverson 3 years ago
Am female who worked in paint store. Man asked steps he needed to take for his project, I told him. Angry went and asked man. Bless his heart he asked, did she tell you what to do? yes? Well then that's what you need to do. My hero
Gypsy Lee 3 years ago
As a woman who regularly visits hardware stores, if I had a dime for every time a man told me what I was buying was wrong (I don’t ask for help specifically because of this, & I can usually find what I need).. because they refused to hear what I said, I would be a millionaire.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
This! People don’t seem to realize they can FIRE their doctors when they pull s**t like this. A few years ago, I had one that prescribed wrong medication for a chronic condition that made me feel worse, and had side effects that made me so miserable I wanted to die. Their answer to my problems? Double the dosage of the same wrong meds! Wouldn’t even listen to my pleas to try different meds. So I fired them and found someone who actually knows what they’re doing—-who really listens to me—-and who was royally pissed off at my previous doctor’s total deafness toward what I was telling them about my symptoms. New Doc (Now Doc) prescribed me different meds and I have felt like a million bucks ever since.
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Ozacoter 3 years ago
I wish that we could make our doctors feel our pain and symptoms for a day or two. Then they would start listening to us when we have complaints. I have heard it so many times how "I am perfectly fine, nothing is wrong". F**k them.
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Doctors who don't recognize how much more medical science has to learn about health matters are maddening, as they should at least intellectually understand that there's a lot left to learn. Shoutout to anyone who has been ill or in pain and was told by one of those doctors that they are fine - there are legions of people who know you're not a hypochondriac and, if you haven't already, find a better doctor - they're out there.
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Laura1985 3 years ago
One of the things why I truly believe men have no business in women's care: They don't have our bodies and CANNOT know what it's like. No amount of empathy can change that. (Yes I know this is an unpopular opinion. No I don't care.)
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Vicky Zar 3 years ago
Had to google GP. General practitioner. So, an actual doctor but no gynaecologist. Still, as a doctor he should know better! Idiot
Cathy 3 years ago (edited)
House doctor or family doctor.. In some languages
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Imogene Cargeaux 3 years ago
This is why I don't go to make doctors anymore. If they're not minimizing my symptoms and pain, patronizing me or misdiagnosing me (which almost led to me fucken dying when a huge ovarian cyst ruptured after I went to the ER n was told "it's just your period! Take some advil! I came back a few hours later n had to have emergency surgery) then they're talking to my husband about my issues instead of talking to me directly n asking him how he feels about me having a MEDICALLY NECESSARY hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis and PID... I couldn't work or function at all.. n yet this a*****e was asking my husband if he approved in me having surgery. My husband chewed him the F**k out. Which I'm grateful for because I might have just murdered the dumb flaccid d**k had he not. But yeah, only women doctors for me now.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
F**k that is horrible. I also have endo and it took me three years to find a decent doctor that would give me a hysterectomy. Most doctors see women as a baby machine, its ridiculous. Its one of the reasons why gynecology and obstetrics should not be together; most gyns just care abour the babies.
Load More Replies... Penelope 2 3 years ago
I was in the ER a couple wks. ago for an apparent UTI. I'd told the dr. I wanted a low dose painkiller. Yeah I had to wait till near the end of my visit to get it. And also she was cold [emotionally], didn't believe I knew my own body. The amount of pain isn't the point. Clearly, she's in the wrong profession. And apparently. W/ ERs [apologies to those who already knew. I didn't] it's not like the patient can just. you know, choose a dr. I did this when I was deciding between dentists. But yeah what a b***h. I. Yeah, wow.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
I once kicked a man in the balls really hard and he was fine, so please stand up for a second and don't move, you won't feel a thing.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
A lot of Doctors are not trained properly! You know Garbage in - Garbage out!
However, a good deal of folks believe that womansplaining is also a legitimate thing. Presumably, it comes from entitled men who cannot apprehend the fact that they're wrong, so instead of dealing with the consequences, they come up with a term that'll help them justify their actions once again. Of course, everyone is equally required to behave like an actual human being – whether you're a woman or a man, it's your job to not be a jerk towards folks that live on the same planet as you – but it doesn't mean that male entitlement should be ignored.
#7
Kate Jones 3 years ago
I always kind of expect this stuff from random guys but it's always a little shocking when it happens with husbands. Like... have you met your wife? My dad does this to my mom (and me) so much it's ridiculous. I work at a bank where among many things I also am a mortgage underwriter who explains and takes mortgage applications all day long... and he's trying to explain how mortgages work to me. I can't afford a down payment myself, which is why I haven't bought a house yet, but it's really just because I 'don't understand how to get a mortgage' according to him.
Memere 3 years ago
My eyes just rolled so far back in my head that I think they may be permanently stuck there.
Freelove 3 years ago
Also a pediatric speech pathologist here 🙋♀️ When I pointed out that our 8 month old son was saying "dadadada," my husband said "Yeah but he's not really saying 'Dada,' he's too young." And that's how my husband died from the crushing weight of my master's degree in speech pathology and almost 10 years of working in the field.
Flopsy 3 years ago
I don't know, it really depends how he put it. I used to do science communication with kids and sometimes their ideas were genuinely interesting and worth considering. Although they didn't have a phd and years of training. If it's not rude, why not?
Rosanna Jackson 3 years ago
Because he wasn't floating an interesting idea with the understanding that he was not an expert. He was acting as an authority when an expert was involved. Not acknowledging his wife's expertise because he believed his genitals afforded him greater credibility than her education and experience.
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Noah Schafer 3 years ago
Imagine that he wanted to be a part of the conversation about his kids. I get that you are very qualified but he is their dad so maybe respect EACHOTHER?! Perhaps her husband wasn't coming at it with malice but instead just wanted to have a part of that aspect of parenthood. The attitude towards the husband is all wrong here I feel bad for him. And shame on anyone shaming him for attempting to be one of two parents.
#8
Anthony Roberts 3 years ago
People don't really understand that Americans are absolutely brainwashed. Fox News is straight up literal propaganda that's designed with basic beginner psyops in mind. Isolate the subject. Make them afraid. Make them angry. Give them a target for all this new fear and anger. Tell them that their "enemy" is pure evil and subhuman. Warn them that the "enemy" is lying about everything and only wants evil things because, again, their "enemy" is pure evil. Now with this conditioning you can lie to them all you want and censor real information from them. People who have been lost to the right wing propaganda are unreachable - they literally won't hear real news (such as anything negative about Trump) and will hear tons of made up stories about the "evil democrats". It's why the United States is collapsing and why there's simply no way to save it.
Who the What 3 years ago
Agreed. Or pretty much any news outlet at this point.
Load More Replies... Dave P 3 years ago
I call BS on this story... No Libertarian ever trusts FOX News which is Conservative and fairly anti-Libertarian. Either you made up the whole story or are lying that your friend was a libertarian.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Or the libertarian friend was trying to be funny. As written, it's pretty good deadpan humor.
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MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
Lots of great intellectuals are libertarian. Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, lots of Enlightenment Thinkers, and the American founding fathers. And just search up the Mont Pelerin Society, if I remember correctly, 8 or so of their members have won Nobel Prizes.
Load More Replies... Who the What 3 years ago (edited)
Fox is just as biased as NBC, only for the right instead of the left. Same for Reason, with Libertarian.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
The big difference is that MSNBC doesn’t just make shít up!
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DragonflyGreen 3 years ago
For the record, most libertarians avoid Fox News for this very reason. That guy is a fraud.
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Who the What 3 years ago (edited)
Don't worry, it is, the kid was just a moron. Source: my reading of the first two Dune books.
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Ernesto Guevara 3 years ago
There are college classes on sci fi now? Did we finally get fed up with people confusing Star Wars with Star Trek?
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
Dune... The book about alien species, highly advanced technology, spaceships, set 10000 years in the future, in another galaxy... Is not sci fi?
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Sure, Dune isn't sci-fi. And Asimov wrote romance novels and Henlein wasn't sexist.
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
I love the books too! Such an interesting story. I am too young for the first movie but I loved the mini series. Did you see that?
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face be drawn lmao 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
why did they eat his lunch? that doesn't seem like that fair of a punishment.
Kross T. 3 years ago
It's not literal. To eat someone's lunch means to badly defeat them.
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Neither was Star Trek. It was merely a decades long trailer for Kindle.
Melinda Flick 3 years ago
I read that book before that goober was born.... Unless this is an OLD story!
The world is changing, we constantly progress and learn from each other. It's crucial to remember that everyone understands that it's not "all men", though the amount of unpleasantries women had and have to deal with to this day is very saddening. Our number-one priority as the people of this rather cruel world is to always listen to each other, never dismiss someone's emotions or feeling and to constantly learn in order to make our society a safer place for everyone.
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Venatrix324 3 years ago
Aww look there's a heart in the photo!!!! Also some people just need a good ol' kick in the microscopic balls every once in a while.
SirWriteALot 3 years ago (edited)
Did he know? Seriosuly, you can't call it "mansplaining" if he didn't know you know your s**t. Chances are that more often than not a woman will not know boating. I don't call it "womansplaining" when women try to talk to me about cooking and they don't know that I know my s**t around a kitchen. EDIT: awesome photo!
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
Fine line between just talking and being convicted of mansplaining,you know this is how we talk to each other as well right? We sit at bars, explaining things to eachother.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Yeah ? If you can drive boats, somebody should have told you, the motor props need to be IN the water to make the boat go!
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T5n 3 years ago
I don’t think so, but they obviously took too much of his out.
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K Witmer 3 years ago
So dumb my sil had a breast reduction on one Breast when she was teenager and her parents insurance paid in full. People are just stupid. It's a shame it's mostly men that can't shut up when they think they know more than women. On another post on here about male birth control a man screeched about why men couldn't take it when the study shut down he gave me every side effect women are told to shut and suffer through. Then said it wasn't that bad for us. Utter trash.
Penelope 2 3 years ago
Wait aren't . . .? [I'm actually not being a jerk. I really don't know much about the medical aspect of getting them.].
Piper L 3 years ago
No problem asking. A friend of mine had a reduction done, finally, once they could start to see the cracks in her vertebrae. Her very first, and sweet, text after all her healing simply said "I can jump up and down now".
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Bright Colored Smile For Happy 3 years ago
When you have boobs that are bigger then your head and damage your back just carrying them, you need a breast reduction.
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
My daughter had one and is immeasurably happier. Back/shoulder pain is no joke.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
I think a lot of the world's ills could be solved if men would just grow their own breasts.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
When men make these stupid comments, take a rope and tie each end to a 5 lb bag of sugar. Hang the rope around his neck and place the bags of sugar over his breasts, under his shirt. Then tell him to wear it all day, from morning to night, without removing them. THEN maybe he can make a comment to a woman about breast reduction.And I can tell you now that some large breasts weigh more than 5 pounds each!
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L.A. Trefry 3 years ago
People don't get what Old English is. A lot of people say SHAKESPEARE is Old English!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Seriously. People don’t realize that Shakespeare is Modern English, just Elizabethan everyday language with quite a bit of slang mixed in. Middle English is different but still readable if you have at least a passing familiarity with German and French. Old English, on the other hand, is unrecognizable.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
Old english, for those interested: ðes is Eald Englisc hwic is writen hēr. That's about as close as I can make it look to modern english.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
That looks more like Middle English, because I can make out a lot of the words. Now, as an example of true Old English, this is the Lord’s Prayer: Fæder ure ðu ðe eart on heofenum si ðin nama gehalgod to-becume ðin rice geweorþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofenum. Urne ge dæghwamlican hlaf syle us to-deag and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgifaþ urum gyltendum ane ne gelæde ðu us on costnunge ac alys us of yfle. Notice the difference?
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Andy Frobig 3 years ago
Old English furniture polish, or Olde English 800 malt liquor? I'll admit the difference is pretty subtle...
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
When I was growing up, we used Old English red oil on our wood furniture
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Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
All Advanced English classes in my HS (public school, U.S., 1980s) had to memorize the introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury tales. There is nothing like learning Middle English (and Latin which happened to also be a requirement before taking other languages at our school) to give you a much better understanding of Modern English.
Melanie Burlock 3 years ago
Because it sounds old fashioned, and they think that’s what Old English means. As a medievalist, I feel your pain.
Noah Schafer 3 years ago
Most people don't know. The correct response is not to assume he's mansplaining. Everyone gets all upset about mansplaining (which is a thing) but most of these posts are like: "he was just being a decent human being and explaining what he knew but he didn't know that I possessed SECRET MASTER KNOWLEDGE/SKILL! What a terrible person that man is!" It's disgusting. I hate this attitude. Why don't we all show grace to each other. And stop with the gleeful posts where we explain how we OWN the men who are just humans who make mistakes.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
Maybe the correct response is not to assume a) that everything you "know" is correct, or that b) anyone wants to be corrected, if they didn't ask to be.
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TotalNerd(And proud) 3 years ago
If you don't mind me asking what is old English then? And middle English? (I'm doing English Lang lit in college but we've never really discussed this and I've never heard of middle English)
Anna Snorrepot 3 years ago
my bfs dad explained my name to me, complete with wikipedia, first time we met.
Who knows, maybe soon enough we'll get to see the times when gender issues will finally disappear into thin air so that everyone can live in calmness and solidarity. It takes time to learn and to listen to each other's worries, so for now all that we can do is to voice our concerns and to occasionally laugh at threads similar to this one.
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Sam 3 years ago
I get that a lot with my PhD topic too. Its always the ones who never read further than the title too
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
IF they ever even went to college in the first place.
Load More Replies... Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Yeah but you know a PhD only means you spent years of study on it so you could've missed those posts and blogs on the internet he read that make him an expert.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Plumbers have been mostly men for decades now, and that's how men know more about the tubes that make up the internet.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
The trick is to introduce yourself as Dr Whatever then they get the hint that you aren't f*****g around.
Gypsy Lee 3 years ago
I truly don’t understand what drives men to think they have to do this. I really don’t. Maybe one could mansplain the thought process behind the assumption that in order to think one needs a pe n*s, & not say, an actual brain. I mean I get some only use the one to think with, but still.. they know which organ is really the one that generates intelligence, right? Otherwise those little dangles on either side of their thinking wand would have to be brains… right? If that’s the case, I’m not impressed, & I would have to be crazy to take their advice.
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Otter 3 years ago
Sure, a movie where people go into bladed weapon combat shirtless and armorless is historically accurate.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
C'mon, next you're telling us bikini-chainmails are useless too?
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Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
I often watch historical movies knowing artistic license will be taken. I love the movie 300 but that's more due to a very handsome, fit, half naked Gerard Butler and Michael Fassbender. I'm a simple woman.
L.A. Trefry 3 years ago
I hate that SO many people get skewed views of history because of movies. I know they're not documentaries and they're fiction but too many people don't understand that they're not actually learning any factual information!
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Sadly enough media disctates how people see the world. Thats why sexism, homophobia and racism are so damaging in movies or other media. The majority of people "know" how the past was because of movies.
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Party Poison 3 years ago (edited)
Here is a blog series by an actual historian with speciality in ancient Mediterranean Greek and Roman history explaining real Sparta. https://www.google.com/amp/s/acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/%3famp=1
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Did nobody tell him the movie was based on a comic about the event and not off the actual historical event?
Truth Monster 3 years ago
Next you'll tell me the Titantic was not a conspiracy to raise the ocean levels to support climate change claims! #weisnotfooled!
Eppe 3 years ago
Well, it's based on an actual historical event. Very, very, verly loosely based.
Amanda Alexandre 3 years ago
As in "I learned Greek mythology playing God Off War" loosely based
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
And then there should be a link with a photo verifying your proposition…
Load More Replies... Essex Eagle 3 years ago
Why is that mansplain ? Sounds more like the person dosnt know about history.
Gregg Long 3 years ago
I love 300 but the names, the basic fact of the invasion of Greece, the existence of the 300 Spartans, the fact that the battle happened, the name of the final victory at Platea, and some of the lines are the only thing that are historically accurate in the whole movie.
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Otter 3 years ago
It's true that sometimes authors write stuff into a story that they don't intend to be there, like their prejudices, political POV, or secret desires. But that doesn't mean that the people in question were aware of that.
YHZ 3 years ago
Ironically, that's much different than what the OP is describing.
Load More Replies... Nicole 3 years ago
I don't understand what your fantasy universe has to do with your coming out? Was your fantasy story about you coming out?
the electric frog 3 years ago (edited)
maybe they're ftm/nb trans and someone was mansplaining to them when they still presented as a woman
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Doogie Howzer 3 years ago
Maybe they tried to mansplain why they/them came out and wrote about fantasy?
MissCheezleFox1 3 years ago
yes! This has happened to me exactly. I created an entire world. A power structure, new species, a social hierarchy, maps, flags, city's, ancient traditions, an entire language, monarchies, history etc etc. It took years of artwork, and writing. I sent it to my buddy because he thought it looked interesting. Then he tried to mansplain it when I talked to him about it.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
I like to point out, that a lot of people wouldn't know this person was the author if they're just replying to tweets that have been retweeted, they would just say their stuff with out checking, "about 99% of these Mansplations, are people that don't know that the other party is the owner or in the line of that subject, and there just trying to do what they think is right by helping
The Chicken 3 years ago
I think she is using him coming out to show that mansplaining happened before.
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Fat Harry 3 years ago
I had a woman cyclist come up behind me quite fast when I (a man) was cycling casually along a country lane. She hung back for a while, which I thought was odd because she was clearly going quicker than me, so after I while I said "You can come past you know!" and she explained that basically some men get cross or try to pedal faster or whatever when she overtakes them. How fragile must these egos be? Woman was in better shape than me and clearly a better cyclist, but held back because *I* might be offended.
Sam 3 years ago
No likely because the offended men have harassed or tried to harm her by running her off the road or something. Women are cautious of the male ego because we don't want hurt
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Helmut Kok 3 years ago (edited)
Don't start triathlon then.They think a bikefit cures anything. Including your childerns welbeing in school
Eve Libertine 3 years ago
Bike fit will cure many things. But it won’t cure being an insufferable tri athlete
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Eve Libertine 3 years ago
Someone just showed me this, *for half. Half a decade. My one tweet that lands somewhere unexpected and it’s got a big a*s typo
Load More Replies... Don't Look 3 years ago
Didn’t know there were pro cyclists. Hm. Learn something new every day.
rumade 3 years ago
There's more than one cycling event in the Olympics alone...
Load More Replies... Steve Fischer 3 years ago
Bet he couldn't tell the difference between a Harley Davidson and a Harley Quinn
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
You need a bike with big fat tires and training wheels so when you’re coming home from the bar, less likely to fall over
Eve Libertine 3 years ago
This was my comment and yeah, one time i majorly f****d up was tipping over at 0 miles an hour after the bar and broke my wrist, so this suggestion works
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Jp@nda 3 years ago (edited)
Ahh so by your logic then gentlemen, if I'm a chef then anybody who enjoys food is allowed to tell me how to cook once I mention that? Is that correct?? I would love for you guys to mosey on up to any male chef and give him a few pointers, like maybe how to boil water, or scramble an egg. Kick rocks!
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Have you considered making the female character’s breasts bigger and her clothes tighter? /sarcasm
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
I came into a job about 20 years ago, I was to identify problems from the consumer side of the soon to be released ( hopefully) software, and build a small tech support department from scratch. Within two weeks I identified that a major problem holding the software back from public release was already covered in windows so didn't need to re-invent the wheel in ours since ours was a Windows add on. Cute little program ahead of it's time called VIOS. This enabled the program to fit on one cd ( twenty years ago, remember?) There was a great and thankful move as they had been wrestling with this for EIGHTEEN MONTHS! The CFO said that yes they were going to put my being me, name on the software as well. Big deal. I was pleased. But oh no no no. They just couldn't stand this. The old boys club of the programming group refused to work if that happened. I was like whatever. I took the pop up bonus on the q-t and wasn't surprised at all when they folded. I had left some time before.
Noah Schafer 3 years ago
But isn't game development a somewhat artistic venture? Art as a team and coding are both very cooperative fields. I would expect everyone involved to be explaining what to do to each other? I would also expect everyone to reach out if they think others might not know something. The level of selfishness in these posts is ridiculous!
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
Again, men talk to eachother this way also. Not everything is male vs female, we tend to talk to eachother like this 99% time. In fact, we tend to use insults to address eachother as well in the work place.
Moose 3 years ago
I think this is a case of hiding behind gender. Fans will tell any developer of games how they are doing it wrong, your not being singled out because your a woman your getting equal treatment to any other developer
Leo Sjölander 3 years ago (edited)
I agree, my brother is in Game dev at a bestseller company and whenever I play games he's worked on I point out if the cam maneuvering is too dificult, UI to advanced or dialougues too long. Not because I think he's bad at it, but because I've worked on games with him and know how easy it is to become blind to your own projects. But then again, I wouldn't give that same feedback to complete strangers.
Load More Replies... Michael Sanders 3 years ago
This is another one of did she tell her job? If these guys are random it doesn’t sound like they have seen her resume.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
It sucks that they treat you like you don't know your job. But I also couldn't help thinking, "isn't that what players are ALWAYS doing?"
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Johnny Rodriguez 3 years ago
And you shouldn't take high doses of dumbomin because it will aromatize into idiotin..
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
Testosterone is converted to estrogen by the enzyme aromatherapy. It's why men who use steroids have to take aromatase inhibitors or they grow boobs. The man telling femdad not to take estrogen got it backwards.
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Bonnie Edwards 3 years ago
To be fair, I just googled the definition of 'Aromatize', and it came up with almost that exact line. "in primate brains, testosterone is aromatized to oestrogen"
Jo Iverson 3 years ago
Smoking pot raises your estrogen levels boys. Worked miracles for me with hot flash's during menopause. Gets rid of them completely.
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
Personally I prefer the philosopher Popeye when he stated "I am what I am."
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Took you that many times to understand Descartes ? (Just remember, never put him before Dehorse!)
WhatEvenIsLife 3 years ago
Ugh. My ex thought he was the absolute s**t just because he read philosophy. And shat on any opinion I ever had about it.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
You obviously know nothing about it. Here's a sample paragraph or two. See if you can follow it, while you're busy mansplaining how smart you are. Screen-Sho...28-png.jpg 
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Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 3 years ago
No, it's a "whack-the-ball thing", get it right
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De Gueb 3 years ago
I don't see why people have such thin skin I (m53) cook. I've always cooked. When I lived with my GF I normally did the shopping, planed and cook at home. Xmas at SIL I did the cooking. I still get my mates wife's explaining how to fry an egg. Are the womansplaning?
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
It's a thin line I've noticed talking, people like to share ideas but, as humans, we are defensive. Mene do this sitting at the bar to eachother, just explaining stuff. Woman explain things to me all the time, not that worried about it. It will be to a point that it's just wrong being a man.
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Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
That happened in my country (Germany) with a female Football commentator. But this was back in the 70's...
Lyyyy 3 years ago
In the 70s in Finland women started to play football (not the american one) where I live, and there was a male reporter doing a television interview, and instead of genuine questions he was asking them questions like ”Are you like seriously going to play football?”
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Bubs623 3 years ago
I have a masters degree in sports history. Was one of the first to even get a degree in this field, period. (Before, it was a USA history degree with an emphasis on sports). Wrote my thesis on Negro Leagues baseball. Men constantly tell me all about baseball and the 'history of the game'. It's gotten really tiresome the older I get- you know, looking like a grandmother because I am one!- b"and young men cannot fathom someone who looks like their mother might know more than they do regarding America's pastime......
Karen Lyon 3 years ago
Yeah, that sucks. I grew up basically a tomboy, playing in the backyard with my Dad and 3 brothers, watching them play, going to games, spending Sundays watching the pros. Not high end stuff, but I know both games well. Drives me nuts when men are surprised I understand stuff like the infield fly rule, or the difference between pass interference and defensive holding.
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
Yeah a man would do this to the couch on the field if he could. Nothing to do with being a woman, we talk to eachother this way, we talk to the actual players this way. Look up videos of what some the fans yell at the actual players on courtside in basketball. A room full of just men would just tell eachother they know more than the other.
Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago
Awesome! Can you recommend some good sites for auction values for fantasy baseball? Love to hear what an analytical expert would recommend
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Kesam 3 years ago
Sorry but what does one have to do with the other? I'm a musician and have made a lot of recordings but I wouldn't be able to explain in any detail what a wav file is.
Naesil 3 years ago
I also think that there is some steps missing from this mansplaining story.. like only way I see someone explaining file format is either the other party asked about it, or they said they use something else and then the other giving their 2 cents why they think this file format is good.
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Not all musicians know or bother with the engineering side of things. Your point is?
Homer Jay 3 years ago
Prolly they got to te wav argument ceuse they were talking about technical things, but somehow assumed the other one was stupid
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So the person was a man, did he know that you knew about .wav files Why would he have assumed that you would, as usual context missing....
Red 3 years ago
I have been singing for the majority of my life, have classical training and I'm studying music in university and a guy tried to explain to me how I should consume lots of ginger and lemon for my voice and that I could only sing opera because I'm big. I guess he thinks classical singers are all heavy, horn viking helmet wearing women.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
I'm mostly wondering whether Wav is still a serious format? I haven't seen one for years. I thought the "official" format nowadays was AIF?
M O'Connell 3 years ago
That's only in the world of Apple devices. Most lossless audio is in the .wav format.
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NsG 3 years ago
If those were the exact words he used, I'd be tempted to give him a pass. His brain went whoosh all right - this is less mansplaining and more normal thought and words have left the building.
Otter 3 years ago
Yeah, people in delivery rooms have to be forgiven some things. Rather more of they're the one actually giving birth.
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Lp Johnson 3 years ago
Ok now, to be fair on this one, I, a mom of eight, naturally birthed and now adult children, was FASCINATED that I could to the moment watch and listen as the machines related what my body was doing. At least up until Transition, because, you know. Lol.
Julia Mckinney 3 years ago
Funny labor not mansplaining comment to add here- my (retired doctor) father commented that the graph monitoring my labor pains was now a perfect sine wave. I told him to shut up (one of the very few times in my life that I've ever told my father to shut up).
Paulina Wu 3 years ago
Mine told me that having contractions is not being in labor, that labor is when expulsion begin… we went together to pregnancy and parenting classes…
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
Ah yes, mansplained to me: how to learn to speak English .... by a Dutch bloke who spoke real lousy English. I have to admit I played along before I told him politely in English to ef off.
Tom 3 years ago
Must have been a politician. Seriously - many Dutch people speak pretty decent English, but somehow almost all politicians butcher the language. I am Dutch, but given a day or two in any location and i'll pick up the local accents so you wouldn't know i was not a native speaker. (same in German btw - just French i cannot 'adapt' enough to not be obviously foreign)
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Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
Was he from the US? Seems to be a uniquely American thing to think that someone can have no accent
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
It's insane, American variants* are one of/ some of the most noticeable accents on the planet.
Load More Replies... Linouchka 3 years ago
Every time someone finds out I'm actually German, not French, and says "Oh, you have zero accent, wow !" Dude/Girl, I moved to a french-speaking country when I was nine, that's probably a longer time than your whole life, so there's a chance I speak French way longer than you. And better, because I learned it in school !
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Mobey Drunk 3 years ago
My wife knows a hell of lot more than I do about cars than I do (she and her dad rebilt a 57 Chevy Bel Aire together). Her dad is a retired mechanic and taught her well. I'll take her advice with no hesitation when the hood gets popped.
YourWorstNightmare 3 years ago
I know this, we were watching a video on some mountain bike in 6th grade. A boy in the class asked how the bike didn't break and I told him that it had high quality suspension. This twelve year old boy told me that I don't know anything about suspension before turning to his friends and saying that girls don't know anything about suspension. Teacher looked it up after he asked again, and guess who was right?
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
I just don't get this at all. I've ran into a few women who were heavy into cars and it was super exciting! A girlfriend that will get greasy with you and may notice something you didn't and save you hours of back breaking work? Sign me up!!!!
Wednesday 3 years ago
Went to buy a car recently. Specifically a 5 speed manual. The guy looks at my husband and says, "Don't you want to test drive it?" and looks back at me questioningly. My husband, god bless him, said, "I don't know s**t about cars. She does though, so what she says goes."
Abdul Khan 3 years ago
I'm a jump on this one. Any engineer can say this crap. But I dare him or her to yank an alternator out of an escape or a right motor mount out of a Chevy 1500 ESPECIALLY if they designed it. I have spent many pints of blood on the floor for just dumb stupid idiot engineers.
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
God forbid anyone to talk about their knowledge on cars. A man would explain cars even to a NASCAR racerale or female. A lot of these just seem like "he has a penis so he's a big poo head"
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Baffling. A pregnant 18yo approached me at work - she was homeless, I'm a shelter worker - and asked me a question about pregnancy. I automatically asked her to talk to my coworker who A) has some training as a nurse, and B) has given birth. I was pretty sure I knew the answer to her question, but my coworker was more qualified to answer. I don't understand why anyone would pretend to have knowledge they don't have.
Otter 3 years ago
The stupid think that the little they know is all that they need to know. The intelligent know how much they don't know, or at least, they know that they don't know all there is to be known.
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Just chucking around 3 years ago
In defense of the article readers, when I was pregnant I had plenty of unwarranted advice from people who read books from "reputable sources" that suggested all kinds of unproven Bs. Being an obgyn doesn't stop you from presenting your opinions as facts to sell books to vulnerable people who are just looking for answers. Now if you said you were reading peer reviewed journals I would agree but there is plenty of trash in books and plenty of fantastic articles that sum things up. Just saying, without knowing what the argument was about there is a good chance this was one arguing for holistic unproven methods and one arguing that those methods aren't proven. Just venturing a guess/giving an example of when an article is more accurate than a book. Also didn't put what year the books were written and that has a massive impact on accuracy.
Memere 3 years ago
Good point, but I still feel that men, even OBGYNs, shouldn't tell any woman that 'they' know more about the female body, much less a pregnant one. No. Not happening.
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So, a man who will never ever be pregnant in his life, telling a pregnant woman, someone actually experiencing it firsthand, that she doesn’t know as much about being pregnant than he—-who isn’t even an OB-GYN, btw—-knows about it. F. F. S!
Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago
Don't forget though, that most women who birth a child think they are automatically an expert on everything baby-related, which is also BS.
Not Proud British 3 years ago
I think this is gender neutral. When I was pregnant I would get women my age, who were not and never had been, pregnant telling me what to expect during labour. This included anecdotes about a friend of a friend whose womb fell out, or tore all the way, etc. Waaaay more women than men took it upon themselves to explain my pregnancy and impending birth to me "ooo the bump is bottom heavy, that means it's a boy!" Bonkers.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
It's like me who has no children giving advice on how to raise them - they come to me with problems - they have two kids didn't you learn anything from the last? IDK
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Ah but childless people are the "perfect" parents, didn't you know?
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Football: grown-ass men who specialize in recess and make 20 times what a heart surgeon makes.
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
Men explain football even to eachother. So, a know it all? Is that gender exclusive? I could understand patronizing, again is that gender exclusive? Or let's call a spade a spade, you don't like men. That's ok, not sure when being patronizing or a know-it-all became gender pacific but, ok. You all know that this is what Men do at the bar, just explaining stuff to eachother. Man would explain a car to a Nascar driver, regardless of gender.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
When I used to troubleshoot software, a dude called and refused to listen to me. He insisted upon speaking to a man instead, so I transferred the call. My male coworker had only been there for two weeks so what could've been a 15-minute solution took two hours instead.
Sarah Semsch 3 years ago
I've had several guys mansplain football(American) to me. I watch every game and love to study up on draft picks. I wore my favorite teams shirt and a guy called me a wanna be fan girl. So obnoxious
Joryen Bixler 3 years ago
You know that's what we call eachother as well right? A lot of the times we use harsh insults as identification to eachother as well. So your complaint is they treat you as they treat eachother? So, you want special treatment but at the same time treat me the same as your other league buddies. Ok...
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Sea otter simone/ froggy 3 years ago
my sis just read this over me and said what about spoon windows and didn't hear it
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
So... you WANT to be turned into an encrypted disk which can only be decrypted with bitcoin donation to crooks? or crash every few months? eep. I had one windows server (get this), it auto-installed some patch and then stopped handling mail. Yay. Why? The DLL was borked and crashed. I said to the sysop do we really have to use this crapware and can we not use linux? He just looked scared.
SharpDressdDyke 3 years ago
OP here: Whenever I brought up concerns like that, particularly with that place's horribly inadequate network security, I got brushed off with "that's not possible" and "we don't have anything valuable enough to hackers." This wasn't even specific to Windows: they refused to enable SSH and turn off telnet on other platforms! The people who were deciding "we need to move to Windows and I know how to do this" refused to actually do the work to make it all work and support any of it, which was how I got assigned to it. My background was Unix and VMS before that, and I went to run Linux servers after that job.
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Mad Dragon 3 years ago
Skunks were originally classified as part of the weasel family, but have since been placed into their own family Mephitidae (mephitis being Latin for “bad odour”).
YetAnotherSarah 3 years ago
This feels so rude. It's like classifying humans as "criers" since it's what we do in intense situations.
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Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
I feel like this is appropriate here (stole it from Imgur, no clue where they stole it from) Tactical-F...3274cb.jpg 
Pamela Tapia 3 years ago
By "horses have leads at the trot", do you mean that one side is the leading side, and is the same as the "lead" at a canter or gallop? If so, he's right, they do have a lead side. If not, what ARE you talking about?
Upstaged75 3 years ago
No - horses do NOT have a lead at the trot. All 4 legs move the same when they are trotting. But when they canter the leading leg is the one that hits the ground first depending on what direction they are going. If they are going to the left, their left front leg should hit the ground first. If they are going left and strike off with the right front leg we call that "on the wrong lead". Of course there are exceptions like counter-canter, but that's not what's being discussed here.
Load More Replies... Cecily Holland 3 years ago
No they do NOT have a lead leg at the trot. Canter and gallop yes. My neice said her mind was blown watching mine skip at the week while I was exercising her and practising lead changes. Didn’t know horses could do that. They can with a lot of gentle cajoling and pats
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
OK... I majored in biology. I have a huge gripe with the way biologists try to impose phylogeny onto the English language, insisting that common terms don't apply to animals that fit the English definition. For instance, long ago people weren't unaware that whales were more closely related to mammals, not fish; the word, "dolphin" literally means "uterus." But Noo! Melville's wrong! Shakespeare's wrong! The Bible is wrong! Whales have a uterus, doncha know! That means they're mammals! No, they're from the seas, so they're fish. (See: cuttlefish, starfish, jellyfish, crayfish, shellfish, ad nauseum.) They're just not related to certain other fish. Well, except now birds are dinosaurs because they have dinosaur ancestors, so I guess dolphins are fish and so are we (unless sharks and lungfish aren't fish, either). But here's the thing: Fish live in the seas. Rodents gnaw. Skunks don't gnaw.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Fish are animals that live in the sea. Sponges have not traditionally been thought of fish, but the ancients WERE wrong about sponges not being animals. That is they were not thought to have animal souls, meaning they couldn't move of their own will.
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Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I don't understand what this person means about horses having leads at the trot. If she means horses leading with one leg first, they most certainly do.
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
I don't know either. Figured I'd let you know you're not alone in that.
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L.A. Trefry 3 years ago
I'm assuming she means a war involving England (Queen Elizabeth being the Lizzy and the war being the "scuffle".)
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Bobby 3 years ago
Aye. Called many colorful words in uniform. Usually by guys I supervised but also by a Chief I caught trying to break into my house and the Commander who threw the report chit into the ocean.
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Otter 3 years ago (edited)
What's an SHO? (I'm an ICU nurse and I don't know the abbreviation.)
Allison Riley 3 years ago
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_house_officer&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiUwZrfwcD2AhVTKUQIHaQ_BQ0QmhN6BAgEEAY&usg=AOvVaw355psqDU6BxDbJ54l8R0E6
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Junior doctor (SHO) tried to explain Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to a nurse with 30 years experience. Ten of those years in specialty field of Intensive Care, Intensive Therapy (ITU). At least, that's my translation.
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Sasquatch The Almighty 3 years ago
What does any of this mean? Can you break down the acronyms for us thickies?
jade s 3 years ago
Hey. SHO is Senior House Office, a type of Jr Doctor. GCS is Glasgow Coma Scale, a tool to rate level of consciousness.
Load More Replies... Bonnie Edwards 3 years ago (edited)
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Intensive Care Unit (ITU). Senior House Officer - junior doctor (SHO). Basically, the newly trained doctor was telling the person who works with coma patients, how to tell if a person is in a coma. I'm a base newbie - can someone who has more medical knowledge tell me if that's correct?
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Essex Eagle 3 years ago
Sounds more like the two of you could have spent more time getting to know each other
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
...so you learned about the topic *after* he explained it to you?
Maxigrod 3 years ago
I don't understand this one. She has a discussion with a partner about a topic that both didn't know in that moment. And later, when the relationship was end it, she got a degree in a related field?
Rage of Aquarius 3 years ago
No, she ran into an ex who then tried to mansplain her field to her.
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Kim Bush 3 years ago
Unfortunately not everyone remembers what was taught to them in grade school, partially due to being bombarded by the horrific slang and abbreviations that dominate social media. It sadly shows how lazy the human brain is becoming.
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Who the What 3 years ago
"Do you need help with your computer?" "I know more than you." "... All right."
SirWriteALot 3 years ago
Honey, for real ... I'm sure you forgot to defragment your bios megahertz cache!
Sea otter simone/ froggy 3 years ago
...how? HOW DO YOU KNOW MORE THAN MOST COMPUTERS? ANSWER! Is it-it's not- it's not-...THE INTERNET?
Jamie 3 years ago
I had a "genius" try to mansplain how my MacBook battery works, even though I've used Macs longer than he's been alive. That was a fun visit.
Moose 3 years ago
Just because you use something doesn’t mean you have any damn clue how it works
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Ozacoter 3 years ago
You would be surprised at how many incorrect things doctors say. Mostly because they are not paying attention to the patient, they didnt read their file or they are too stuborn to admit that they arent educated in that topic. Any women with chronic illneses is used to doctors who dont know what they are talking about.
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
I'm really not sure about this one. It's a bit like one of those ones, "And then I randomly injected hormones into everyone in the ER and all the doctors thanked me for educating them and the beds clapped."
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Being in a hospital with Clapping Beds sounds to me like a TFN!
Load More Replies... Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Self medicates, argues with a doctor, and then pulls up studies on her phone. I think we have an anti vaxxer here.
rumade 3 years ago
More likely a trans woman who's been belittled and denied access to hormones in the past
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olaff 422 3 years ago
This sounds just the opposite. It sounds like a medical professional was doing their job that they went to school for many many years and then someone came in and showed them Google and how crystals heal people.
Moose 3 years ago
As my surgeon said (love her) Dr google isn’t allowed to have a medical license for a very good reason
Load More Replies... Just chucking around 3 years ago
Same vibe as the pregnancy one saying they read books from obgyns so someone arguing with them was somehow laughable. There are junk books and junk studies too. Did you just pull up articles about studies or actually read the studies? There's a MASSIVE difference. Formatting alone is a different language and you gain a lot by reading more than just the summary. Given that it's HRT, I don't know why or how you would even be taking that properly self medicated. I'd just assume you would need your levels done first by an actual Dr to get your amounts right because too much estrogen/testosterone can be damaging. So there's that too. Let alone interactions with other prescriptions. And you never said why you were in ER and how HRT came up. Was your self medication the reason for the visit? Too many reasons this sounds like BS.
Chicago Dog Lover 3 years ago
Given the number of people with crazy ideas about health (horse dewormer, anyone?), I can understand why a doctor doesn't trust people. But the doctor needs to be right.
Lingon 3 years ago
How do you know he wasn't? For every study claiming one thing, I can find one claiming the opposite. A layman does not have the knowledge on how to determine which is the one that are reliable.
Load More Replies... Mary Leverett 3 years ago
I would REALLY appreciate having Tibolone available here; it provides A LOT of the benefits of HRT, without many of the problems associated with HRT. As a smoker (hey, I'm a widow, have MAYBE ** one ** alcoholic beverage a year, don't use street drugs, can't get Rx for anxiety due to age - I need SOMETHING pleasurable!!), Tibolone is MUCH safer for me, plus, believe it or not, having a period would HELP my menopausal maiden issues - feel like I'm permanently PMSing. 🙄 Semper Fi' Mary
Alban Bizet 3 years ago
in 2022 with all the did my own research people drinking bleach, can you blame the Doctor?
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Ozacoter 3 years ago
They dont but men tend to assume that women know less than them. That is what mansplaining is. Given the option between believing her and not most men dont believe a womans experience.
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Noah Schafer 3 years ago
I wouldn't expect anyone to know much about Clayton given he's a fairly obscure character in culture. This isn't a gender thing.
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
The only significant thing he did was accidentally hang himself.
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 3 years ago (edited)
When I read about guys explaining their fandom stuff, I just want to write it off as them being passionate about the topic and thinking they know more than ANYONE, not just women. I mean, I don't care who you are if you try to talk to me about my favorite thing that I obsess over daily, you're not going to convince me you know more. Fandom stuff can be consuming and you end up having the equivilant of a ph.d in the topic for all the time and effort you spend in it. But sometimes it's just super blatantly because they think a woman can't possibly know more than a guy. Like video games--- so many guys think women can't understand video games as well as them. It just makes no sense. What does my having a vagina have to do with my ability to play a game or understanding a fandom? Do men think that vaginas somehow control your brain.... OHHH wait. So because men's penises control their every thought maybe they think women operate the same way? Lol.
TL Wagener 3 years ago
Hmm, you may have felt insulted, but this isn't "manslaining." Sounds more agist than sexist, as well.
Jo Iverson 3 years ago
Men will make up ridiculous crap rather than say the hated 3 little words, I don't know.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago (edited)
Oh I loved all 22 of the Tarzan novels! Absolutely devoured them (don't even try to tell me there were more after the 22nd. Those were NOT written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.) You can't read 22 books and then not know exactly how an author writes and not recognize a fake when you read it.
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Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
So many, but my personal fave was the male ex-friend (this is why he became an ex!) who met my 34-year-old autistic son for the first time. Yeah, apparently all those years of doctors and medicine and teachers were for nothing because, after just 30 minutes with my kid, this guy told me, "He's not autistic, he's just very needy and you're falling for it!" Oh dear, thirty-four years down the drain, why did nobody tell me?!
Anna Snorrepot 3 years ago
I bet your son doesn't even look autistic! And also didn't throw down some matches on the ground and call out a number. Pfft, your other son probably isn't a young Whatsit Cruise either. You've been had, Tiny Dancer, you've been had!
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Number 5 3 years ago
You really never know when you're going to run into mansplaining; sometimes it's over the stupidest things. I'm a really big fan of the Tintin so I wrote up a review aimed at others familiar with the comics that the Spielberg movie didn't do the best job trying to cram 3 comics into one movie. A former male friend I had at the time, who I took too long to realize didn't like letting me have an opinion, decided to berate me for it. Apparently he knew more than me because he read ONE Tintin comic and saw the movie. It was seriously stupid how much he wanted to tear me down for one little review.
Sofia Jones 3 years ago
While at college and majoring in neuroscience, a guy who had taken a total of zero bio or psych classes tried to explain to me how male and female brains are "different." When I told him that everything he was spouting ("Guys use the left side of their brain more." "Guys have fewer connections in the brain because they think more rigidly" etc) was utter nonsense, he tried to backpedal and say he meant it figuratively. As if these were abstract concepts and not quantifiable metrics
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah. It is very clear by now that men and women do not think differently. It is true that on average some areas develop more often in a way or other depending on the gender. But it is not due to sex but to gender roles. It is because brain developes according on how you use it, so people doing the same tend to have same brain structures. For example taxi drivers have extremely well developed hypocampus because of their jobs (dealing with space memory). One of my closest friends is a neurologist and yeah, you can estimate the gender of the person seing a brain scan but it is extremely unreliable. Same as you can assume that a short adult is a female because we tend to be shorter on average but that does not mean that you can identify the sex of the skeleton by its height.
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ZentheOgre 3 years ago
Ugggh as a guy I wanna apologize for this behavior. My father is one of these guys and he will do this behavior to any race, gender, age, or education background. It's not the same but it does allow me at least a glimpse even if it's only through a small hole.
JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
You don't need to apologize for men that aren't you. Feel the freedom of being different! Glad you are aware though.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
As a female farmer you wouldn't believe the crap that men with no farming machinery knowledge have tried to mansplain to me.
Usernames 3 years ago
I'm a coffee tester. a man told me how to enjoy a black coffee on our date when I ordered tea because I drank too much coffee that day. When he figured it out he started ghosting me.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Even if you weren’t an expert, how did he figure telling you what you should drink or how to drink it would end? That’s bizarre! If my partner fancies a cup of tea then that’s exactly what I make, I don’t explain the other choices available, she’s a grown woman FFS!
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Anne Reid 3 years ago
I had a rookie EMT school me on how to drive my ambulance. Loudly and in front of several other crews. I waited until he was done to respond. Before I could, my medic (a great guy) just looked at him and said, “she’s been an ambulance driver trainer longer than you’ve been alive.”
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I'm not going to go into how often non legal men explain the law to me, a lawyer ( also in not so arrogant as to assume I know everything about the law, and I will certainly listen if, for example, an accountant explains tax law). One of the most infuriating mansplainings I've dealt with is a man who spent a great deal of time correcting me in what the main themes in Hugo's Les Miserables are. I was talking about the book, which I have read many times. He had only seen the musical. Not even any of the many films. Just the musical.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I think I've been mansplained on just about every subject under the sun at one point or another. I have learned to let them dig a little hole and then step in ever so sleekly with my superior knowledge/experience/qualifications/facts.
Irma 3 years ago
Im a manager, chef, barista, bartender, waitress and sales.. guess which of those jobs most men believe i do. A male coworkers has the same jobs. Even after i tell them what i do, i cant be in charge im just the waitress there... they never question my male coworker
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Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
So many, but my personal fave was the male ex-friend (this is why he became an ex!) who met my 34-year-old autistic son for the first time. Yeah, apparently all those years of doctors and medicine and teachers were for nothing because, after just 30 minutes with my kid, this guy told me, "He's not autistic, he's just very needy and you're falling for it!" Oh dear, thirty-four years down the drain, why did nobody tell me?!
Anna Snorrepot 3 years ago
I bet your son doesn't even look autistic! And also didn't throw down some matches on the ground and call out a number. Pfft, your other son probably isn't a young Whatsit Cruise either. You've been had, Tiny Dancer, you've been had!
Load More Replies... Number 5 3 years ago
You really never know when you're going to run into mansplaining; sometimes it's over the stupidest things. I'm a really big fan of the Tintin so I wrote up a review aimed at others familiar with the comics that the Spielberg movie didn't do the best job trying to cram 3 comics into one movie. A former male friend I had at the time, who I took too long to realize didn't like letting me have an opinion, decided to berate me for it. Apparently he knew more than me because he read ONE Tintin comic and saw the movie. It was seriously stupid how much he wanted to tear me down for one little review.
Sofia Jones 3 years ago
While at college and majoring in neuroscience, a guy who had taken a total of zero bio or psych classes tried to explain to me how male and female brains are "different." When I told him that everything he was spouting ("Guys use the left side of their brain more." "Guys have fewer connections in the brain because they think more rigidly" etc) was utter nonsense, he tried to backpedal and say he meant it figuratively. As if these were abstract concepts and not quantifiable metrics
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah. It is very clear by now that men and women do not think differently. It is true that on average some areas develop more often in a way or other depending on the gender. But it is not due to sex but to gender roles. It is because brain developes according on how you use it, so people doing the same tend to have same brain structures. For example taxi drivers have extremely well developed hypocampus because of their jobs (dealing with space memory). One of my closest friends is a neurologist and yeah, you can estimate the gender of the person seing a brain scan but it is extremely unreliable. Same as you can assume that a short adult is a female because we tend to be shorter on average but that does not mean that you can identify the sex of the skeleton by its height.
Load More Replies... ZentheOgre 3 years ago
Ugggh as a guy I wanna apologize for this behavior. My father is one of these guys and he will do this behavior to any race, gender, age, or education background. It's not the same but it does allow me at least a glimpse even if it's only through a small hole.
JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
You don't need to apologize for men that aren't you. Feel the freedom of being different! Glad you are aware though.
Load More Replies... Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
As a female farmer you wouldn't believe the crap that men with no farming machinery knowledge have tried to mansplain to me.
Usernames 3 years ago
I'm a coffee tester. a man told me how to enjoy a black coffee on our date when I ordered tea because I drank too much coffee that day. When he figured it out he started ghosting me.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Even if you weren’t an expert, how did he figure telling you what you should drink or how to drink it would end? That’s bizarre! If my partner fancies a cup of tea then that’s exactly what I make, I don’t explain the other choices available, she’s a grown woman FFS!
Load More Replies... Anne Reid 3 years ago
I had a rookie EMT school me on how to drive my ambulance. Loudly and in front of several other crews. I waited until he was done to respond. Before I could, my medic (a great guy) just looked at him and said, “she’s been an ambulance driver trainer longer than you’ve been alive.”
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I'm not going to go into how often non legal men explain the law to me, a lawyer ( also in not so arrogant as to assume I know everything about the law, and I will certainly listen if, for example, an accountant explains tax law). One of the most infuriating mansplainings I've dealt with is a man who spent a great deal of time correcting me in what the main themes in Hugo's Les Miserables are. I was talking about the book, which I have read many times. He had only seen the musical. Not even any of the many films. Just the musical.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I think I've been mansplained on just about every subject under the sun at one point or another. I have learned to let them dig a little hole and then step in ever so sleekly with my superior knowledge/experience/qualifications/facts.
Irma 3 years ago
Im a manager, chef, barista, bartender, waitress and sales.. guess which of those jobs most men believe i do. A male coworkers has the same jobs. Even after i tell them what i do, i cant be in charge im just the waitress there... they never question my male coworker
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