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30 Times Women Were Mansplained The Dumbest Things, Shared In This TikTok Trend (New Stories)
Some people really like to talk to impress others, but what actually happens is that they come across as annoying and seem to think they are better than others. It is especially evident when men explain obvious things to women or don’t believe them when they say they know. The best case is when they are so convinced of something, they need to explain it to a woman, but they are so far from the truth, it’s not even worth correcting them.
This phenomenon is so prevalent that it even has a name—‘mansplaining.’ It is very annoying and shows that some men think women are not smart enough to know certain things which essentially is belittling the whole gender. Just by itself it’s not that harmful, but it is a symptom of a bigger problem, so talking about it is necessary.
A good place to vent is TikTok, where you don’t know when a new trend will start. Victoria Gravesande simply asked in a video for women to share the stupidest things men have ever explained to them and started with her own story. Bored Panda has already made one list of the most amusing stories stitched with this video, but there are constantly new ones, so here they are for your enjoyment.
We would also like to hear your own stories. Does it happen a lot? What are the most annoying types of mansplaining? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to upvote the stories that you found the most ridiculous.
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@victoriagravesande Ofc I know what a pillow is I’m a pillow princess 👸 #feminism #mansplain #stitchthis #iluvwomen #ughmen ♬ original sound - Victoria Gravesande
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#1
So I bought that shirt from TikTok that says, "Teach a man to fish and he'll turn around and try to teach you to fish like he invented it and you're an idiot." This girl on TikTok, I can't find her, please tag her, let her know I love that shirt. Anyway, I wore that shirt to work at our brewery. And a man was like, "Hey, what that shirt mean?" And I explained it to him. And he was like, "No, I think it kind of gives me biblical vibes" and told me about how it represented Jonah in the belly of the whale, which did not even make sense. But yes, a man did try to mansplain my mansplaining t-shirt to me.
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
ikkkk that’s so unironically and ironically hilarious like ??? those kinds of christains are weird
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J-A Laine 3 years ago
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” is a quote from the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism. It's not biblical.
André Roth 3 years ago
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, give him a poisoned fish and he eats for the rest of his life.
Load More Replies... Betsy Novack 3 years ago
I have a t-shirt that reads "Just because I fish with you, doesn't mean I have to sleep with you." Mansplain usually ends before it begins.
Archer Harris 3 years ago
HAHA! It definitely sounds more like the part where Jesus said to be fishers of men 😂 that is hilarious
Last year, when Bored Panda made an article with the stories shared in this trend, we talked with Victoria, the person who started it and we found out that Victoria did for a reason as her TikTok is dedicated to addressing similar issues, "My goal with my TikTok account is to talk about everyday experiences for women and to think critically about everyday things that we don't realize are rooted in misogyny."
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#2
One time I went to the grocery store with my ex boyfriend because I needed tampons, and I had made a comment about how I thought the tampons were getting so expensive. And he straight up told me to stop complaining. And I said "No tampons and pads should be free because it's something that a woman needs and something that they just can't control" then he says "No, buying one box of tampons is like buying a bulk item from Costco." And I was like, "What are you talking about? Some of the boxes only have like 10 or 20 in them. That's not a lot." And he tries to tell me that women only need one tampon throughout their whole entire cycle. I'm full on arguing with him in the middle of the grocery store saying "No, you have to change them every couple hours or you can get toxic shock syndrome and get really really sick and potentially die." And he said, "See you're paying for something that could be deadly. Of course it's not going to be free." I broke up with him after that.
It's Me 3 years ago
wait. what? The sad thing is, he was taught this. Someone out there told him that this is accurate. There are more like him. Holy crap. I scared myself.
Lexipoo 3 years ago
Another sad thing is, he thinks he knows how we work and he’s not even a woman
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Caspian Walver 3 years ago
When I read things like this it makes me even more annoyed that people are so mortified that the new Pixar movie, turning red, had a scene where pads are involved. People of all ages need correct information about periods! I swear, I new someone who literally thought that females know exactly when they’ll get there period and was angry that they always have pads on them. He is was literally a 15. Boys and girls a like should be taught about periods, that’s all I’m saying.
WatermelonTheDutchie 3 years ago
people: hey we want a movie we can relate to / pixar: *gives relatable movie with real world moments* /people: no not like that
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
The day I HAD to have a hysterectomy was one of the happiest days of my life! I was in my early 50s and had already had my tubes cauterized, but to suddenly have no more cramps and no more products was FANTASTIC!
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
Me too sister, except I was 41. Tubes tied for years prior. Love being done with that 15-20 yrs early
Load More Replies... SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
This reminds me of the guy who said a period comes out a woman’s butt. He went on to mansplain that it couldn’t come out when you pee, “so unless there’s another opening down there…”???!!!???!!!
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
The world is probably a better place if he never finds out the truth.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
This amazing mindset..."I'm a man who is completely ignorant about periods and am talking to a woman who grew up with them. Obviously I must be the expert since I'm a man and also I have the ability to pull facts about such things completely out of my ass at any time." Good on the OP for breaking up with him, he would be a nightmare as a partner.
lonewolfdraws 3 years ago
ok ok.....i can relate because i was out of pads and i only had one left and i told my dad and he was lik you can just re-use it....lik EXSCUSE ME WHAT???? re-use it? thats gross we cant simply re-use them
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
The sad thing is he had an opinion on a topic that he had no what the expression a horse in the race.
Emma Brown 3 years ago
Had an ex who thought women only had 2 'holes' down there.....this man was 35, had advanced science under his belt, worked in a hospital laboratory, AND watched me push our son out of myself!!! 🤦♀️
#3
So a little bit of backstory here. I'm seven months pregnant. And at 20 weeks I posted a bump update. And I had a guy messaged me and say that it's disgusting, that I'm flaunting my weight gain. And I was like, "Dude, I'm pregnant." And he's like, "No, women's bodies aren't supposed to get bigger when you're pregnant. Your body is equipped with the room to carry an entire child and that any weight gain, swelling is because you're eating your cravings and you're being unhealthy and hurting your child." I pray that this man never reproduces.
Jaaawn 3 years ago
Extremely limited social interaction with the opposite sex.
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
If the uterus didnt expand when women are pregnant then abracadabra fetus deletus
Laura Lett 3 years ago
This is a guy/child who should never reproduce. Probably home schooled by ultra conservative parents. Or just REALLY stupid.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
What gives these people the confidence to spout such utter nonsense with so much conviction. And how bad has his education been.
#4
I was just leaving Lowe's and the kind gentleman decided to inform me that the veterans parking at Lowe's is for the veteran and not the spouse. Sir, sir, why do you think I'm parked there?
Gabriela Decurgez 3 years ago
This is great. How just for your gender they cant even imagine you're a vet... How dare you shake his preconceptions of the world!
Squee She 3 years ago
A woman I know, who served and got medals as a man, would really throw this guy then 🙄 what a dinosaur.
Load More Replies... Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
Another idiot who thinks the military is made up of cartoon style GI joes 😆 not the regular citizens of the city you live in 😂
Marina Rocha 3 years ago
Too soon for GI Joe remarks! Jahahaha. You can soon be b***h slapped for no valid reason
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Woets 3 years ago
Veterans have a parking spot? (Sorry if this is a stupid question) Why is that?
Kelsey Cirmotich 3 years ago
To pay respect and express our gratitude for their service in keeping our nation safe and fight for human rights (at least that's what it's supposed to be about).
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Mary Leverett 3 years ago
Had an old sailor at the VA DEMAND how was I able to receive care there? Ummmmm, 6 years as one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, and 6 years Navy Reserve, during the First Gulf War? He DID NOT want to believe I was the first woman in my field in the USMC
Krazy Kat 3 years ago
I'm an Air Force veteran (female)" I can't count how many times I've been asked what rank my husband was. When I say I am the vet, they counter with " I know the military experience is a family thing, but what rank was your husband?" Some people just can NOT believe that women can be military veterans in their own right.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
You know this guy wasn't even BORN yet when the first women started serving in the military. Growing up with eyes closed, ears firmly held in hands.
Mansplaining is a real phenomenon that is observed by not just women who ge mansplained but also in the academic environment. We talked about mansplaining with linguistics professor in University Of Florida, Diana Boxer, whose areas of interest, among others, are discourse analysis and pragmatics, and gender and language.
She told us, "Mansplaining is an insidious and pervasive issue in current gender relationships. It displays society's disparity in power dynamics between the binary poles of gender-female-male. "
The professor exlains further what the dynamic is, "We are shown how men feel inherently empowered to take on the explanatory role for what is said by women, even women who are experts in the area that is being 'explained. '"
#5
A friend of mine asked me to share her story because she doesn't have TikTok. Her name is Madi as well, full name Madilynn. And she has a long last name with a bunch of random letters on it. Also, she's a scientist. She's very smart. Okay. She's in some kind of training class for work. And the male teacher decided that she spelled her own name wrong, so he corrected it for her. He told her to pay more attention to detail and that he fixed her mistake. He changed the ending of her last name to what he thought it was supposed to be and took the second -n off of her first name, because that just didn't seem right to him. This has happened her whole life. People tell her her last name is spelled wrong. No, I think she knows how to spell her name. Thank you very much.
ima cat 3 years ago (edited)
(im a guy, sry if that wasnt clear) person with a weird first name here... (turkish origin) so i once had this chess teacher in 3rd grade, and he asked my name, and i said _____, and then he asked how is it spelled, so i answered, and he said it was pronounced a different way. I said no, and he still said: "pretty sure it is." this is not a thing men do to women, as i am a man as well. some men are just insecure and need to sound or look smart.
Nicola Doyle 3 years ago
Yes I would assume that is because you were a child. Has it happened as an adult? This is a grown woman at work. So completely unprofessional of the boss. I have an unusual name in North America and have had it "corrected" to Nicole lots of times half the men at work called me that, I gave up correcting them except in important meetings. In my experience women were more careful in remembering it especially after being corrected. I am also an engineer and have a bucket of stories of mansplaining believe me!!
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the awesome Piplup 3 years ago
People have done this to me too! (I am male). One of my teachers said my name wrong and I said "That is not how you pronounce my name. It is pronounced ****** ** ***** . Then the teacher said "Um no. Honey, I hate to say it but, you're pronouncing your own name wrong". So I just gave her a dumbstruck look and then deliberately mispronounced her name in the most horrible way for the rest of the year😈
Michele Viney 3 years ago
My name is spelled with only on L. I have gotten used to people spelling it with two because that is a much more common way to spell it, that's fine, they aren't doing intentionally and when they do notice, many are quick to apologize. I really like the folk who pay attention and spell my name right first time. However I draw the line at the person who took official documentation from my hand and saw the spelling of my name and picked up a pen to "correct" the spelling of my name. I had to point out the spelling on my birth certificate (I did say that the documentaion was official) before she would believe me that was how my name was spelled.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
And why are strangers so invested in the way you spell your name?
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Wynter wolf 3 years ago
i have an odd last name too and there was this guy who nagged me about it all the time saying there was too many letters for a word with that amount of syllables. yeah it think i can spell my name. i feel you there
Cath poop 3 years ago
My name is spelled Cathrine, in first grade my teacher said I was spelling it wrong so I told my mom and she wrote her a note saying that I was spelling it correctly. This still wasn't good enough for her and she made me bring in my birth certificate! Man, my mom was livid.
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 3 years ago
That was going to be my suggestion due to reading all these stories. Bringing in the birth certificate. I'm livid just reading these stories. If I had to take a day off work to explain the spelling of my child's name, or even my own, dinner better be involved.
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JLN 3 years ago
My first name is Jennie-Lind, I have no middle name, I have the less common 'ie' ending instead of the usual 'y' for Jennie and it is not short for Jennifer....I am so tired of arguing with people over my own bloody name! I mean I've only had my name for 40+ years I couldn't *possibly* know how to spell it or pronounce it...ugh
Cathy Shirley 3 years ago
I spent 20 minutes on the phone with an idiot at a doctor's office who didn't believe my last name is Shirley. She talked to me like I had a learning disability. "No, not your second or middle name. The third one. You know, like Jones or Smith".......I finally hung up after telling her "No thanks, I'll find and office with a receptionist with a brain".
Gaby Almodovar 3 years ago
My family name has an "ly"-ending, what in my mother-tongue is pronounced "j", guess how many times they say it correct? Nope, like never. Best they can do is "li". I don't even correct people anymore. Oh, and it's not gender-related.
#6
I don't know if this counts, but this one time this guy was telling me something and I was like, "I don't think that's correct." And he looked at me and he said, "Well, I'm very well read and I have an IQ of 130" and that prompted the best comeback of my life. I said "Sir, do not flex being well read on an English major, I read dissertations for fun. Do not flex having a high IQ on me when I was in my school's gifted students program, the minimum IQ requirement for that is 130. Your high IQ is my bare minimum." He didn't want to talk after that. I don't know why.
- 3 years ago
To be fair, I've had two women use their IQ to score points in a discussion. Anyone can be condescending. Also, IQ can be based on multiple skills or just a few. I was charmed by a man who had a high IQ: I beat him at Boggle (a word game) and he admitted that his IQ was based on his math skills. I'm sure he'd beat me big at math games. :)
Rachael Sampson 3 years ago
True but it's different when men do it because they use it against women for thinking they are smarter than us. Women who do that just try to show off to EVERYONE.
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Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 years ago
If you feel the need to use your IQ in an argument, your IQ is not worth talking about.
Zophra 3 years ago
This is a really good point. Smart people don't have to advertise or justify that they are smart.
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Ellie Rosser 3 years ago
IQ is a function of problem solving. You can have a high IQ and still not know or understand things. And be a d**k.
Austin Hicks 3 years ago
IQ is so misunderstood and misrepresented. It's like some sad way for an insecure person to assert dominance when they feel inadequate.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
Honestly, I dont care what your iq is as long as you're a good person
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Anyone who brings I.Q. up in a conversation about themselves is telling you they're both entirely ignorant of what that even means, and a narcissist.
#7
Okie dokie, I feel like as an athletic female this was just made for me. So, my specialty is benchpress. Most of you guys that follow me already know that, you already know that I'm a state record holder, and that I am pushing for nationals in the next couple years. Hopefully, to take the title that'd be really cool. Most of you already know that right? Okay. Benchpress is a predominantly male activity, apparently. I swear to God if one more man comes up to me in the gym and says, "Oh, honey, honey, honey, honey, you can't bench that." "B***h the hell I can't? I bet I can rep it for more than you can. Okay, so step off." They're always trying to critique my form and I'm like, my guy, you're just making yourself look stupid.
EyeYamStewPeed 3 years ago
Ah yes you should totally assume the amount of weight someone can f*****g bench press based on their physical appearance.
lonewolfdraws 3 years ago
girls are stronger than they look guys, but not just physically, emotionally too, with all the s**t we go through
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
Yup. I'm a little guy (woman) and I'm 5 ft 2.5in tall. I weight less than 130, my husband is 6ft 6in tall, weighs like 175-190lbs .. one day we were play wrestling n he kind of pissed Me off because he just kept picking me up instead of like.. actually wrestling.. so I ended up getting kind of angry n I just fucken tackled his ass n flipped him over n pinned him down n he had the hardest time getting me off him.. the look on his face when he stood up was priceless... he's like "how the F**k did you do that!?" And I'm like... "dude, I have 2 older brothers... I've been getting my ass kicked since I was born.. I learned how to fight n wrestle purely thru survival.. the second I learned how to throw a punch or how to pin my brother down (in front of all of his friends too!) was the day that my brothers stopped f*****g with me! Don't fucken piss me off! So now he calls me "little hulk" n I tell everyone this story because women ARE FUCKEN STRONG!
Load More Replies... Rahul Pawa 3 years ago
I bet at least some of that is misguided flirting. Also an important lesson I learned in the last year is "unsolicited advice is criticism". Most people don't see it that way when they're trying to be helpful.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
LOL. Someone challenged me to leg press in high school. Him big macho linebacker. Me skinny geek. Him really embarrassed when I leg-pressed same as he did ---- without the weird noises or flatulence.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
And people wonder why some women prefer females only work out places.
Victoria told us that she felt that "It's not fair that we have to 'just accept' that as women, we will not be taken as seriously as men." Although she sees mansplaining to be a problem, she doesn't think that this is the most burning issue concerning women, "Women don't die from it, I wouldn't necessarily say that we are traumatized from it, but just because there are no casualties doesn't mean it's harmless or not a real issue."
#8
I once had a male coworker told me that by putting my body out there on the internet, men weren't gonna take me very seriously. And then when I tried to explain to him that I'm literally doing this for everybody but men, like men are literally the last person on my list that I hope my content reaches. He told me that that was misguided because men are really in control of a lot of things. So I need men on my side. Seriously, I'm a fat lesbian who preaches body positivity and smashing the patriarchy to the girls, gays and theys. Do you know what, if a straight cis man stumbles across my profile that I hope he gets educated. But other than that, move on.
Zophra 3 years ago
Hooray! This is positivity that I wish was more mainstream!
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Hex Gurls 3 years ago
guys gals and nonbinary pals is another good one :D
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TrixicBird(Any pronouns) 3 years ago
"men aren't gonna like that" "men arent gonna like this", sure, but my wives do.
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
"To the girls, gays and they's" I LOVE THIS!!!! Lol. Also, what's your damn handle. You sound fun as F**k!
#9
I have a lot of these and most of them come from first dates, but my favorite is the time a man asked me what I studied in undergrad. And I told him I studied Middle English literature, medieval literature. And he spent the next several minutes explaining that Shakespeare was meant to be performed and viewed on stage, not studied in classrooms on paper, and I'd probably wasted my time. Of course, Shakespeare is not medieval literature.
EyeYamStewPeed 3 years ago
Yes, of course, why would you read a play, which is just a book with instructions on how to act it out? /s
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
This one is one of my faves, I’m into paleo anthropology as a hobby and passion etc I love when I bring that up and men are like - ‘ yes I’ve seen Jurassic park’ etc or ‘oh wow I love dinosaurs not many girls like those’ - yesterday I commented on a thesis someone wrote about musical instruments (of bone) and Neanderthals, I wrote that I can’t believe some people still dispute wether or not they could make said instruments - I was mansplained about how I didn’t read the article properly and that it wasn’t about wether they enjoyed music his paragraph was so big I gave up half way through 😂 I told him thank you, I didn’t realise I had to read the article to his specifications. He kept going and I didn’t bother to read his response 😆
Cyd Charisse 3 years ago
As an archaeology major, if one more person asked about dinosaurs....grrrr
Claire 3 years ago
I read this as aracheology and I thought you studied spiders T-T
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I loved that when I was a biology major I was constantly asked if I was going to be a nurse. No women in biology don't just become nurses. And actually I was planning on becoming an medical examiner before medical issues screwed up my college days
Sue User 3 years ago
I gave up college the first go around because my advisor told me that sll I could do with a math degree was teach.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
😁 woman ag scientist/ farmer. Corporate farmers don't know jack squat about farm equipment but they will pretend they do all day long while you're fixing their tractor for them.
Melanie Burlock 3 years ago
It’s funny how many people think that Shakespeare is Old English, when it’s actually modern English. Middle English is Chaucer and the like. Also a medievslist. 😊
#10
Off duty OBGYN here. Where do I begin? So I used to do circumcisions on newborn baby boys and a dad was very specific on how he wanted his son circumcision done and offer to show me his own circumcision, so that I would see exactly what he was referring to. I refused. And more than once that a gentleman had to explain to me how to repair an episiotomy to his exact specifications immediately after the delivery of his child. And then in the office, more than once gentlemen insisting that I give their partners medication so that they would want to have relations with them. And of course, there's the more than once that I was told in front of people's partners that I was too pretty to be a doctor.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
My Aunt who is an OBGYN told me about the number of guys who think they're funny asking for her to "throw in an extra stitch or two for me" when she's sewing up their wives after childbirth. One time she looked the guy up and down and said, "No problem. Exactly how tiny is your d!ck?"
Ephemeral Mochi 3 years ago
"gentlemen insisting that I give their partners medication so that they would want to have relations with them" WTF??
NsG 3 years ago
Because when you've pushed a baby out of your nethers, your next immediate priority is letting your man get his jollies by pushing his bits into your nethers. Obviously. (Shouldn't need the sarcasm flag as this is bitter anger at these idiot "gentlemen's" obliviousness)
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Shabette the Great 3 years ago
I was so torn up down there after birth, the only "medication" that could make me want to have sex was meth. Goodness gracious! Lord have mercy.
Charlotte Keep 3 years ago
OBGYN friend's favorite story was the guy who INSISTED on going with his wife for her usual checkup and why? He wanted the OBGYN to give his wife pills to make her ' not crazy '. Transpires wife argued with him- that's it, just argued. Wife said " Sorry, couldn't stop him ". Next visit? She was alone and why? Kicked him out.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
I would have offered to improve on dad's circumcision. Take a couple of inches off.
Diana Boxer also thinks that masplaining is a problem that should be solved, but it shouldn't be targeted as it is and raher the cause of the problem should be the main concern, " Until true parity in gender power dynamics is reached in society, mansplaining will be evident in all areas of life by virtue of the fact that many men feel it is their role to be the 'expert, ' even when they are far from it."
Do you think that this goal is possible to reach? Do you think that more women talking about it can help solve the problem? Let us know what do you think about this issue and if you see any positive changes in the comments!
#11
I once had to explain to a man, that I was sleeping with, that a woman does not pee out of her clitoris, but that we have a urethra it's called urethra meatus. And it's located below the clitoris but above the vaginal opening. And I spent several hours arguing back and forth with him about this. And he kept insisting that I was wrong and he knew better because he was a biology student and had passed as an anatomy class with flying colors. And finally I had to sit him down on the floor and take off my pants and show him, and afterward, he insisted that my vagina was deformed because women peed from the clitoris.
Aleksandra 3 years ago
It says they were already sleeping together, so no, he was just a huge idiot
Load More Replies... SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
I think I would’ve googled for a chart to show him, but whatever works for you…
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
How he passed anatomy I’ll never know because THAT was highlighted because of how many idiots in class said the above. Lecturer even threatened to fail anyone who was dumb enough to answer that
weatherwitch 3 years ago
One he's a TOTAL d!ck. Two. Why would you demonstrate using Your own body when he's so stupid he then thought you had a deformed vagina? Three.... This is the Real shock to me.... He knew where the clitoris was??? 😮
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Me too. You'd be surprised how many otherwise educated guys believe this
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Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Put your knickers back on and get out. This will be insufferable in next to no time.
#12
One time this 20 ish year old dude was telling me that it's not possible to pee with a tampon in. And I was like, "Yeah, it is, the urethra and the vagina are different things." And he just like wasn't wrapping his mind around it and he just continued to argue with me. And I was, "First of all, I'm literally both a female and a female that works in women's health and wants to become an OBGYN. Like, I'm not sure why you think you have the right to argue with me on this in the first place. Also, like how stupid you have to be to think that."
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
You mean I don't have a cloaca? This is troublesome now
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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
I think we all need to arm ourselves with the line, “I’m not sure why you think you have the right to argue with me on this in the first place.” 💕🎉
C.Douglas 3 years ago
Man here, wondering if the lack of education on female anatomy is a US problem because of some of our puritanical tendencies or if this is also a problem in Europe. Anybody?
L Melville 3 years ago
Well, I'm Canadian and our sex ed classes covered basic anatomy and yes...we learned that the urethra was separate from the vagina.
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Karin Jansen 3 years ago
Haha, this is right up there with "kidney stones don't hurt nearly as much for women, they can push entire babies out of that hole." Different hole, my good sir.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
I had an age-appropriate conversation with my grandson about the difference between boy bits and lady bits. (He has an older sister.) He will not make this sort of mistake.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I would've stuck a tampon in and went for a pee just to prove him wrong - I mean, fair enough if he originally thought that but it's the refusing to accept they're wrong that gets me - of course a woman would know better than him on this one considering we pee with tampons firmly in place all the damn time *eye roll*
PebbleBoy Gaming 3 years ago
How can guys be so dumb, I'm one of them and I'm getting embarrassed
MelB. 3 years ago
WTF. I do not understand how people are repeatedly this dumb. The issue with women's anatomy keeps appearing in this article. Have they never had sex and been down there exploring? At the very minimum, Didn't they learn anything watching porn? Wouldn't you want to know Everything you should know about anatomy to better pleasure your partner?
Seabeast 3 years ago
Porn is probably the last place they should be learning about female anatomy from.
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Bruce Pummeroy 3 years ago
who is the bigger idiot, the idiot or the person who argues with the idiot, lol
#13
So I used to work front desk at a hotel and I was chatting with a guest one day, and at one point he asked what my name was. I said my name is Cartier. And he was like, "Oh, that's interesting. How's that spelled?" And so I spelled that for him. And he was like, "Um, no." And I was like, "What do you mean no?", and he was like, "That's pronounced car tee err." And I was like, "Um, no, actually, it's French. So it's pronounced Cartier. But Cartier is fine in English." And then he proceeded to argue with me about it back and forth. Trying to be like, "No, -er does not make an -a sound" and I was like, "Not in English but in French in does." And then he was like, "Okay, but it's French. Can you even name one person who speaks French?" And I was like "En fait, moi je parle français."
- 3 years ago (edited)
Oy gevalt. Someone refused to believe that the Italian name Lucchino was pronounced "Lou-Keen-Oh" because it sounds like "leukemia". And today's lesson, children: Italians need to consult many dictionaries before naming their offspring: "Oh crapola, 'Leonardo' sounds like 'ugly toad' in Etruscan!"
Ozacoter 3 years ago
People can be incredibly arrogant. I am spanish and my first surname starts with V. Lets say "Valerie" like the name. In spanish the V is pronounced like a B so my surname sounds like "Balerie". So i would pronounce it and then sya that its written with a V. I had several ocasions where belgian people correct me "Dont you mean "Valerie"?. No. I know how to pronounce my own surname thanks. Nowadays i just pronounce it with a V sound to avoid idiots.
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M Calad 3 years ago (edited)
Oh, I have one with language. My mothertongue is Spanish. I studied Italian as second language. Anyway, I don't think you need to know much Spanish or Italian to know "gracias" and "grazie", right? Wrong. I had a male colleague (young engineer, native English speaker) saying "grazie" to me because he heard that I spoke Spanish. I nicely replied "oh, do you know Italian?". Then he proceeds to mansplain to me that gracias was in fact Italian and grazie was Spanish. I tried correcting him saying Spanish is my mothertongue, but not only he insisted I was wrong, he even argumented that I probably spoke a "dialect" and learned it differently. Women, now you know. We don't even know our own mothertongue.
- 3 years ago
Presumably, it's referred to as "mother tongue" because mothers teach it - and all wrong - to their offspring. Seriously, it's not hard to say, "Oh... I always thought... Okay, learned something new." I hope your colleague learns that being wrong outside his field (and gracious about it) doesn't hurt his reputation in his own field.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I got told once I pronounce my own name wrong, my name is Lorna - literally pronounced how you write it lor-na - easy. But no, apparently the R is meant to be silent so would be lo-na - no, just no. My name came from the book Lorna doone and was derived from Lorne - in Scotland and us Scottish folk aren't known for subtle R sounds. I've heard English folk say my name and soften the r quite a bit but that's more due to accent rather than changing how it's pronounced - if that makes sense. And anyway, it's my name, I'll say it how I choose and you can have the decency to say it how I want it. Also had so many different spellings over the years, it's so odd considering it's a pretty simple name, simple name for a simple lassie, haha
Visco_Squirrels 3 years ago
Google Translate: “In fact, I speak French” For people like me who doesn’t know anything about anything
Khavrinen 3 years ago
"Are you familiar with the entire country of France? Not to mention the province of Quebec?"
- 3 years ago
...and Wallonie and Senegal and several Swiss cantons and Cameroon and the Central African Republic... et ainsi de suite...
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Nolgoth 3 years ago
Calais Maine is pronounced "cal-iss" Calais France is "cal-lay". I have seen benoit be pronounced ben-oit and ben-wah. Seems that people that have never been outside the usa (which is weird cuz we have places here not pronounces how they are spelled... Worcester, MA is pronounced "woostah" for example) or have never learned another language tend to be the most ignorant when it comes to these kinds of things
#14
So I'm a certified athletic trainer. I did my master's thesis on concussion in sport. I deal with it every day elbow, apple, carpet, saddle, bubble, you know what I'm talking about, yeah, so I know them in and out. I was standing on the sideline of a football game guy gets hit, he kind of goes down, does a whiplash type of counter-coup type of mechanism. And I just see a light go out in his eyes, he does not look like he's there. So I immediately go over to him. I'm going to pull him off to do a quick eval when a coach literally steps in front of me says, "No, I was standing right there. I saw him he didn't get hit in the head." I said, "I know. But he hit his head on the ground. You don't have to get directly hit in the head to have a concussion." He says "No, that's not true. I played football all my life. I know." This guy literally is body checking me, will not let me do a concussion eval on this kid. Keeps bringing up how he's played football all his life, so he knows. I said, "Are you a medical professional?"
It's Me 3 years ago
So he tried to let someone possibly die in order to out do a woman? That simply sounds criminal to me.
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago (edited)
"elbow, apple, carpet, saddle, bubble, you know what I'm talking about" I have no idea what she's talking about 😂
Holly Marley 3 years ago (edited)
The coach was also being greedy. In some leagues, if a player is checked for concussion, they have to sit out a certain amount of time, and if confirmed with concussion, they have to sit out a day or the rest of the game. This coach didn't want to lose his player for the game, and tried to bully the trainer to keep that from happening.
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
Super unpopular opinion in 3,2,1 ....Ban football already. Everyone will be better off in the long run.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
Meanwhile just about every man who has played football has actual brain damage.
Courtney Christelle 3 years ago
I won't allow my son to play football because of its reputation for head injuries.
Load More Replies... June’s Very Own 3 years ago
Is he crazy? I bet you my life, if a man tried to do an evaluation to him mid game he wouldn’t have refused. Appalling
Kate 3 years ago
No, he's been playing football all his life -- he's brain damaged.
Load More Replies... Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
This should be illegal (if it isn't? I'm not a doctor or a lawyer (yet) ) but this seems like it could lead to some sort of charge.. manslaughter, attempted murder? Something... if this kid died n he refused medical attention for the kid... while he's not even that kids parent, family or guardian, but he's not the kid who just got hurt.. so therefore no authority over what this doctor does to this kid... and the stands in the way of a doctor doing her job... all because football?
deanna woods 3 years ago (edited)
The reason he behaved like this was probably some untreated concussions.
Gregg Long 3 years ago
Likely this isn't actually ignorance. It's a coach that thinks keeping a player on the field and winning a game is more important that his player's health.
#15
I don't know if this is so much like mansplaining or it is just men, but I gotta say my fave is whenever a man tries to say that getting kicked in the nards is worse or as bad as child birth. Honey, I've seen you crush your peanuts and I've also seen dozens of women deliver children. What happened to you, when you took a trip to pain station in between your legs? Huh? You went "Oh" and you doubled over for a few seconds and then you got up, smack your buddy on the a**, and took a shot. So many things that happens to a woman when she delivers a human but just one of them is she's not even cleared for sexual activity for at least six weeks. I've accidentally kicked my husband in his downtown during foreplay and we continued onward. I think you're gonna make it, I think you're gonna be fine.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I actually asked a Dr while in the hospital for kidney stones if they were worse for men than for women and he said that it could maybe be a little worse for men if the stone is really large and trying to pass but keeps keeping stuck. Other than that it's the same for both. Sorry but it won't ever be worse than pregnancy but you will get a tiny taste of s small fraction of the pain
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Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I've often explained to guys that being kicked in the balls may hurt as much as one contraction, but in order to compare they would need to be getting kicked every few minutes to increasing intensity and frequency for hours and then squeeze a massive thing out their d**k. Childbirth is very difficult to determine exactly how painful it is because it's a pretty unique pain that comes and goes with breaks where you feel fine - that was the only reason I could manage, because I had those few minutes/seconds in between contractions to prepare for the next one, if it were constant I'd have went insane I think. Having said that, after my first born my placenta wouldn't come out and my body was furiously contracting trying to push it - that was the worst pain out of all my kids, ended up having a drug free birth (to a 10lbs10 baby!) only to end up in surgery with a spinal block to get the placenta out - was terrified of it happening again but thankfully it never did.
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 years ago
There is no way to compare. Not worth talking about. But as a guy I try not to get kicked in the balls and manage it easily, it is not necessary for procreation. Actually somewhat counterproductive. How many guys would get voluntarily kicked in the balls in order to have a kid?
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
I wonder if a man's ever been kicked in the balls so hard he shits himself.
Karin Jansen 3 years ago
S**t himself, threw up, had a tear so big they had to stitch up his a**s. Only then the dude has my blessing to compare.
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Moezzzz 3 years ago
I'm not going to say that a guy doesn't get hurt when he gets kicked in the nards, I mean, I have two boys, who lived to torture each other. But I went through 5 hours of straight pushing, trying to get one of them out (second was a c-section right off the bat), so, yeah. When a dude has Pitocin and gets hit with THAT wall of pain for 5 hours, while trying to push a 9 lb 14 oz 23 in long TODDLER out of a hole the size of a lemon, then please get back to me
Moezzzz 3 years ago
My bad, Pitocin was 8 hours and pushing was 5 hours. Husband reminded me lol
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Sea otter simone/ froggy 3 years ago
Put em' on a period simulator. Or- maybe not. Poor guy might die of shock.🥺🥺🥺😐🙄
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
Ask a man if he'd prefer a needle shoved through his pod or his eyeball...
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
My other half is infuriated by these sort of comments. He says any man that's looked after his SO while in labour knows clearly which is more painful
#16
So as most stories would start, I was dating this horrible guy. We're both in college, I'm studying biology. I told him this fun fact that being polydactyl, having more than five fingers, is a dominant trait. When I learned this in class, my mind was blown. So excited to tell him this. And he laughs at me. He starts telling me all these things, that it's absurd, my professors wrong. They don't know what they're teaching us. I mean, he was a business major, obviously, he would know. So, I tried explaining the Punnett Square to him about dominant recessive genes. And he stops me mid sentence and just says, 'I can't take you seriously right now.' Basically, he wouldn't hear me any further until I had come back after researching it more. Really tried explaining that just because it's not desired, doesn't mean it's not dominant. You know, joke's on me. I have to admit I was wrong because obviously a business major would know more about genetics.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
You mean your kids, who will have 12 toes and 12 fingers?
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It's Me 3 years ago
I really thought this was going to head in the "pterodactyls are extinct" direction.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I too thought it would boil down to something with pterodactyls
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Kitty Kat 3 years ago
I kept waiting for the part when he misheard you and thought you'd said a dominate trait was being a pterodactyl.
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Is nobody going to mention those adorable little fluffy black paws in the picture? <3<3
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Well you have to admit that those business majors, with their high-school level math classes and underwater basket weaving filler classes, are really something to be intimidated by.
#17
So I'm a book editor. And I had to explain to a full grown man that women do not get their periods while they're pregnant. He had a pregnant character and there was some plot point for drama where she starts bleeding and they think it's a miscarriage. So it's this big sort of emotional thing. And the plot point was explained by it not being a miscarriage, but being a period, and she's like, eight months pregnant or something. So, I came back with all these suggestions. I'm like, "There's other reasons why she could be bleeding, can't be a period though. Like just anatomy. This is how it works." And he literally sent me a long, detailed email about how, yes, women do have their periods while they're pregnant. This man was like 50.
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago (edited)
Let's say his book takes place in an alternate universe where women do get their periods during pregnancy. That would still be an incredibly dumb dramatic moment because A) the woman would know that women get their period during pregnancy so she would expect it and B) it would have happened during the pregnancy several times already. If she was 8 months pregnant, what happened the first 7 times? Or did he forget to include those in the story? It was only a mystery the 8th time?
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
TO BE FAIR, you CAN get your period while pregnant, but it’s extremely rare and definitely wouldn’t just happen once 8 months into the pregnancy. Google it, it’s bizarre.
Load More Replies... Cecily Holland 3 years ago
They are both wrong! There are plenty of documented cases of women getting periods while pregnant, sometimes like clockwork all the way through.
Júlia Fortes 3 years ago
there are women who continue getting their periods during pregnancy, of course if happened with my cousin. But only after 8 months? In the other 7 no?
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The way some men write female characters you could swear they'd never actually met a woman in their entire lives.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
With a guy like this, that means 4 billion women are luckier than they know.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I didn't have periods but I sure did bleed a lot and frequently with my 3rd - thankfully she was born perfectly fine, perfectly healthy - I'd never really understood how bleeding can happen and it not be a miscarriage before that - I was convinced I'd lost her the first time it happened - I found out I was pregnant on the Sunday, on the Wednesday I started bleeding, I kept bleeding on and off throughout the pregnancy, and I spent a lot of it in hospital once I got to 24 weeks in case I needed to deliver her early. T'was a rather stressful time. And I'm not talking light bleeding here, I'm talking like a heavy period soaking your trousers halfway to your knee bleeding, so many ambulances called if I happened to be in a shop or somewhere - seeing other people panic would make the whole thing so much more stressful too. Wouldn't wish that on anyone
SilverSkyCloud 3 years ago
actually sometimes women do have periods while pregnant, its not often but sometimes it does happen, so she wasnt right either
Lp Johnson 3 years ago
I'm an editor. I'd have fired that client. I can't even deal with that type of ignorance.
Lindsey Turner 3 years ago
But some women do have periods through their whole pregnancy. I'm definitely not saying I'm on the dudes side, but op was kinda wrong
C.Douglas 3 years ago
Happened with my fiance, she was 6mnths pregnant before we found out. Caused her to have anemia issues throughout the pregnancy. But we had a healthy happy baby 4 years ago :)
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#18
So I was writing on a show once and we did a table read to go through all the sketches that was written. And a man turns to me and explains why one of the sketches was funny that I wrote. And I just said, "Oh, yeah, I'm glad you understood the jokes I wrote. Now I don't have to explain them. Good job!"
Saida 3 years ago
He was in a writers room preemptively explaining jokes to people. Assuming OP didn't understand the joke.
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#19
One time this guy tried to explain to me that women's vaginas are just one giant labia. I told him "Well actually, women have two pairs of labia majora and the labia minora." He double down and told me that I was wrong. And that it's incredibly dangerous that sexually active women, like myself, don't have a basic understanding of our own bodies.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
Yeah he’s right, him along with a lot of the other men on this thread, we women have little to no knowledge regarding our own anatomy, and men are all knowing about us. S/
Cecily Holland 3 years ago (edited)
Idiot. He’s one of the “duuuhhh dis goes in there and makes a peoples” club
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
People should be forced to take a test and get a license before they're allowed to have intercourse.
Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
I’m amazed that all men don’t really apply themselves to understanding a woman’s sexual organs. If you learn to pleasure someone, they’ll be much more likely to go for more.
zovjraar me 3 years ago
i didn't learn all the parts of my vagina until my 20's and i was blown away. i had a book and a mirror and would point out all the bits and name them to my husband. so we both learned. like i didn't know the vulva and vagina were different things. i thought it meant the same thing. and yes i took sex ed. maybe i just didn't pay attention lol.
#20
He told me "You can't get pregnant on your period" and I was like "Yes you can" and he was like "No you can't, I'm a medical student, I know what I'm talking about", and then I was like, "No uterus no opinion."
Remi 3 years ago
You can get preggo on your period. The chances are lower, but especially if you're not quite regular, don't risk it. "What do you call people who trust on 'safe' days?" - "parents.'
Milady Blue 3 years ago
One of the best lines I ever read on the internet was, "A male gynecologist is like a mechanic who has never owned a car." I am also going to be remembering, "NO uterus, no opinion," with the same reverence.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah I cant take male gynecologists serious. They will never experience our symptoms. How are they supposed to understand their patients?
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Marnie 3 years ago
'and then I was like, "No uterus no opinion,"' is a completely irrational response to this. First of all, this has nothing to do with opinion. This has to do with medical fact. Because it has nothing to do with opinion, someone having a uterus does not automatically make them correct about medical fact. If roles were reversed in this argument, he'd be right, she'd be wrong, regardless of who had the uterus.
VM37 3 years ago (edited)
A women can get pregnant while she is already pregnant. If the hormones are off, another ovulation will occure during early pregnancy, and if there is room, the second embrio will embed it self in the womb and whola, 2 babies.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
The human body is an amazing and f*cked up thing. It can do so much and screw with you in so many ways
Bi-Polar Express 3 years ago
I get a little tired of the "no uterus no opinion" crap. Mine tried to kill me so I had it taken out. I still get a f****ing opinion.
L Melville 3 years ago
This. I mean...CAN it happen? Sure. But does it happen regularly? No. That's WHY "natural family planning" or the "rhythm" method/charting works relatively well to prevent pregnancy. Ovulation has to occur for one to get pregnant, so you're USUALLY "safe" during your period.
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
The egg can still be in the Fallopian tube even if the uterus is shedding its lining… 🤦🏽♀️
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
You can get pregnant on your period and you can get your period while pregnant.
#21
I had a male coworker argue with me one time about how I couldn't work the 24 hour on call because the staff quarters only had showers and not tubs, and women need tubs, and how can I respond at a moment's notice when I'm dealing with my menstrual cycle. It was all very unprofessional. Keep in mind this is a very religious person that was married to his wife when they were 16. They were only 19 at this time, but they lived a very traditional life. She was a stay at home wife. Eventually, I just asked him "Hey, why don't you just tell me and explain to me, why I need a bathtub for my menstrual cycle?" Long story short, this man's wife told him that women have their menstrual cycle for three weeks. And the only time you can have sex is for a couple days when you're ready to receive God's gift. I'm assuming when you're ovulating. For the other three weeks, women need to lay in the bathtub for two hours every night and be left the f**k alone so she can let the blood out. To f**k with her game I told him that God looks down on women working, so our periods are cut down to only one day and we deal with it on our days off. Educate f**king kids.
- 3 years ago
If that idiot believed his wife, he might believe that working women have a different cycle. Let's hope...
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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
Definitely. Although to be fair my longest period was 3 months in a row. So maybe she is just ill. But i doubt so
Load More Replies... Júlia Fortes 3 years ago
Probably the wife invented this so she could go two hours without an idiot around. Wise move
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Oh man is he gunna be mad when he figures her scam out LMFAO! Have to give her credit though for coming up with that one! 10 points for creativity
Niki Banuelos 3 years ago
Why would you ruin another woman's life like that, especially one you don't know, but you know has to put up with such an idiot and pulled off such a genius move?
Tom Drummer 3 years ago
she didnt. she just said it's different for working women. I know she said something about f*****g with her game but I don't think she meant it like that. have I mansplained that enough?
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Tyranamar Seuss 3 years ago
I hope to God he still believes his poor wife needs 2 hours of tub night 3 weeks a month. Sounds like heaven. That woman was smart. Let's hope this other woman didn't send him to an elder looking for clarification.
#22
About a year ago my mom had been briefly dating this guy and on the night that I met him, he picked me and my mom up in his truck. And it was a pretty chilly night. It was like January or February. My mom was feeling chilly. She was sitting in the front seat, so she decided to turn off the AC. I sh**t you not. He decided to explain to her that AC in fact stood for air conditioning. And that even if she was cold, she was not allowed to turn off the AC because that means that the air in the car would not be properly conditioned. Word for word, he explained that to her and me in the backseat. My mother has a PhD. Not that that even has anything to do with this, but I was flaming with rage in the backseat, and she broke up with him shortly thereafter.
LB 3 years ago (edited)
Not saying this guy wasn’t being condescending in the way he explained things or his tone (obviously I don’t know since I wasn’t there), but he was correct. (I’m a woman btw.) If the heat is running in the car, the AC won’t make it cold, but it will dehumidify (condition) the air. Which is essential if you are driving in cold weather, when moisture in the air inside the car condenses on the windows and makes it hard to see! Obviously this is very dangerous. And it’s the reason why the AC automatically turns on in most cars when you turn on the defroster. Someone riding in the passenger seat once turned off the defroster while I was driving because he didn’t want the AC on. I didn’t understand why the windows were fogging up so badly until I glanced down and saw he’d changed the settings. I told him not to do that again.
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
Uhh. You may be Correct about this. But this is not at all what this man was talking about. He wasn't running the heat in the car. He was ONLY running the AC... this man had no idea about anything you're talking about. He was an idiot and OP was correct for thinking he was an idiot. But thank you to everyone in this thread for mansplaining HER OWN FUCKEN STORY TO HER!
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Les Izmore 3 years ago
He's right. In Canada we use the air conditioning in winter since air conditioners dehumidify the air clearing the windows of ice. Air conditioners can heat instead of cool
LB 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, exactly. In most cars the AC turns on automatically when the defrost is turned on for this very reason. The air coming out of the vents will still be warm if the heat is on, regardless of the AC. I can understand this person’s confusion. And maybe the bf explained it in a really condescending way. But he was right.
Load More Replies... Milady Blue 3 years ago
So, what does this guy think the air is being conditioned to do? Jump through hoops?
LB 3 years ago
Conditioned to remove moisture from the air, which is what causes the windows to fog up in a warm car during cold weather. https://www.cars.com/amp/articles/how-does-a-car-defroster-work-437630/
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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I dated a guy like that once. Literally, on the 3rd date I just looked at him and said, "I'm sorry, but you are just WAY too stupid for me to date." And left.
Holly Marley 3 years ago
No guys, he is not right, because he is running the AC -without the heat- on a cold night. He's probably been freezing his, ummm, hands off thinking he was doing this "right."
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
Glad they broke up. Some people are just not fit to be in a relationship
#23
I was 19, stuck in the car with my dad on a trip and having a hellish period. So I happen to mention how bad the cramps were. And my father, a normally, you know, palatable aging hippie with a master's degree in science, turns to me and says, 'Maybe if you worshiped your uterus, it would be nicer to you.' Excuse me, Jim.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I feel for ya babe! I had brutal, brutal cramps for decades. They were so bad, I went into denial every friggin month because it was so hard to face. One day, I was going home from work (early…cramps), and this sweet young man comes up to me and says “you look like you need help—I’d carry you if I could, but please let me get you a taxi.” He even prepaid the taxi, which I didn’t find out until I got home. Thank you 20 years later, sweet young guy!
Shabette the Great 3 years ago
Lol, I like your dad. The uterus does require a monthly blood sacrifice.
David Forrest 3 years ago
'Maybe if you worshiped your uterus, it would be nicer to you' is how I'm gonna end all Facebook arguments with stupid men from now on.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I have endometriosis and my periods were incredibly strong. I had several male gynecologists and doctors telling me how it is impossible to get the symptoms and pain that i used to get because of periods. Said symptoms are text boom symptoms of endometriosis but since they "knew better" and i "just need to relax" it took 10 years to even get diagnosed.
JJ 3 years ago
I feel you. I think this is worst about endometriosis (or any other extremely painful condition) - that those who are supposed to help you, because it's their bloody job, tell you not to be so sensitive. (directly followed by all those "It's just because you drink milk/didn't have a baby yet/don't do yoga/eat sweets/don't relax/have stress/... -advice. Yeah, sure, that's why, it's just my fault, not nature's little, special gift fo me)
Load More Replies... Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
So that explains why I feel like my uterus wants to bust out of my belly button! I'm not worshipping it! Shame on me.
Suzi Gauthier 3 years ago
Well, I don't know if it helps cramps, but I think everyone should worship uteruses (uteri?)? Otherwise, we wouldn't be here.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
Nah they are evil mean jerks. I used to call mine Satan
Load More Replies... Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
Thank god my dad, partner And míst coworkers understand how bad it can be. I literally gad massive cramps ať work Last week And my male coworkers pat me on my Back, asking whats up. I gritted through my teeth "cramps!" And theyimediatelly backed up with apologies disturbing me, asked me if I need anything more than peace And quiet. My fem coworker had it today, our boss set her aside, ease her workload And gave her choko icecream. She was high on painkillers smiling into her icecream cup
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Reminds me of an Saturday Night Live classic:: You and Your Uvula. Sister: Gee, Babs, you look like something the cat just dragged in. Babs: I know. I feel crummy. But I just can’t seem to put my finger on what’s wrong. "Sister: That’s too bad, Babs. Has it ever dawned on you that it just may be your uvula? Babs: Gee, no, Sis.. I must have stupidly glossed right over my uvula."
#24
A man once told me that Jeff Bezos didn't own any stock because all of his net worth was tied up in his ownership of Amazon. A share of stock is ownership of a company. He effectively owns Amazon because he owns like 35 million shares with Amazon stock. That's what stock is. That's what it is.
Owen Eshelman 3 years ago
I thought this was going to be he explains that the gift cards are stocks. Idk
Dave P 3 years ago
Now what people dont understand is that Stocks and other assets are not cash, and while they count towards net worth, they are not liquid assets/liquid worth, which is the amount of cash you have to spend. And to tax not liquid assets takes a long time because of evaluations, FTC (for large stock options, such as Musk had to spend months with the FTC to sell stock to pay taxes, because of the amount), etc, etc.
Jennifer Crompton 3 years ago
I don't know if this really qualifies as mansplaining. I have a feeling this moron would argue the same point if he were talking to a man. Just because a man explains something to a woman doesn't automatically make it mansplaining
Droopsnoot 3 years ago
Maybe he was actively denying, I sometimes want to do that too when millionaires are brought into the conversation
#25
When I was working at Spencer's a guy came in and he was looking at our jewelry cases. And he noticed, at the time we get these little at home, do it yourself ear piercing kits and he tried talking to me about how horrible those are for your ears and like "That's not the proper way to do piercings." I was like, "Well yeah, I know but I'm just paid to sell the products. I've no saying what we carry here. I just don't have a say in that." And he tried talking to me about the proper way to do piercings with clams and hollow needles and how it's more like a hole punch and all that stuff. And I was, "Well, yeah, I know." And it's grown man who had no visible body modifications, piercings, tattoos, anything, was looking at the metal hanging out of my f**king face. And he goes, "I don't really think you understand what I'm trying to say. I have a buddy who does piercings and I'm always down at a shop and I'm seeing him do this all day long." You're right. I just like don't know about piercings.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Omfg 😂 my bff does it for a living and I chill in her studio all the time, I couldn’t body mod a person if I tried 😆 hanging out is hanging out 😆 although one thing I did notice the girls you think are gonna cry or wince, ace it. The toughest looking tattoo and piercings men have mini meltdowns before piercings 😂 or get scared from the pain, I did giggle at that a lot 😂 I didn’t expect that at all.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
I swear I’m not hating on you, but so much emojis lol. (No shade)
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ThreeAngryLlamas 3 years ago
I thought it wasn't a hole punch. I thought the point of that style of needle was to slice a tiny line instead of just poke a hole so that the slit would comfortably separate like curtains rather than stress like trying to fit a zucchini through a doughnut. I am not an expert, so I'm not positive, but I heard a professional Correct someone in that, once.
#26
One time I was at my husband's work function and one of his co workers asked me what I do for a living. I said, "Oh, I'm getting my PhD." He goes, "Oh, what are you writing on?" I say, "Oh, I actually do sci fi adaptations of the canon, mostly comic book adaptations of like the "Odyssey In Outer Space", that kind of thing." It's kind of my line. He goes, "Oh, you must be really excited for the Octavia Butler comics that are coming out soon." I go "What?" And he goes, "Octavia Butler was a really famous sci fi writer. She wrote a lot of Afrofuturism, I don't know have you heard a 'Parable Of The Sower' or 'Kindred' Those are kind of her most famous works and you should really check them out. They sound relevant to your work." I said "I don't, do you possibly mean adaptations of her work?" And he goes "No, I think they're gonna be original comics that Octavia Butler is gonna be involved in writing." And I go "I don't think so." And this man proceeds to really double down, he really thinks Octavia Butler's coming out with comics, so eventually interrupted I go "Sir, Octavia Butler passed away in 2006."
Miss Kat O 3 years ago
That's not really mansplaining... it's a conversation where an incorrect fact was stated then corrected, and no one argued about it... everyone gets facts wrong sometimes
Marco Conti 3 years ago
Funny, I am reading 'Parable Of The Sower' right now. Before yesterday I hadn't read anything by her. Now I am going to come across her or her work on a daily basis, you just watch.
Dave P 3 years ago
Sometimes they write new books under a the old name with a Ghost Author to continue an existing series. The Estates of the Authors do this a lot, and people who dont know much about the authors, dont realize that. Additionally they also publish works that the author didnt publish in their lifetime at a later date.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
This one is a little less mansplainy than the others, just a little
#27
So, I have an accent and when guys asked me where I'm from and I say Iceland a lot of them will reply with something like here's the thing about Iceland and tell me a fact about my own country.
It's Me 3 years ago
That's actually somewhat common. Trying to relate to you. It's just ... a thing.
Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
I was in York one time and met some French guys. Their English wasn't great but they did perform a faultless version of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' which was quite touching. So yeah, people just want to relate to you is all. That's got to be a good thing. EDIT: Yes thankyou. I realise that I was 'real-life' rickrolled by the French.
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Tom Drummer 3 years ago
if you want to connect with someone, ASK about their country, don't teach them about it.
CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago
Im Chinese/American and when people find out about it they are like: "KNEE HOW" DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS............
Glirpy 3 years ago
All men know where Iceland is because of the game, RISK.
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Sigrid Vinter 3 years ago
Im danish, living in The Netherlands. I have once failed in convincing a man that I'm really not german and hardly speak any german. I feel you!
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I love the Ari Eldjárn special! I’ve seen it at least eight times…it’s right up there with Seth Meyers’s Lobby Baby as being one of my favorites.
#28
Oh, yes, please. I'm a comedian and I used to do a joke about my bra size. And I would say G42. To make the joke work, I said G42. Okay. And I had a male comedian, an old male comedian, come up to me and he was like, "You're doing it all wrong, because like, no one understands what you're saying. Do you know anything about bras. You know, bra size?" Do I know bras? Um, yes, I do. And then he just went on to say that no one understood it because I didn't say 42G I said G42. It was ridiculous. I mean, to be honest, I think he was just mad because my boobs are bigger than his like, that's jealousy.
Gypsy Rose 3 years ago
So recently I went to a new optometrist. A male. I am a 39-year-old female. He asked me for my family history I said I didn’t have one as I was an orphan. He looked me dead in the eye and said “well you have a family history you just don’t know it“. I was shocked but stayed because I really didn’t understand what had just happened in the moment. Moving on I told him that my eye sight had been declining in recent years. This man looked me dead in the eye and said “ you probably just think that. Next year I’ll let you know if your eyesight really is declining” needless to say he lost a patient and my husband as a patient that day.
Sa Ruuu 3 years ago
I mean in this specific situation, he is correct. The joke wasn't included but I'm really curious how it would "make more sense" to say it incorrectly
Linda Lee 3 years ago
Maybe the joke us "G four two, and two for tea, G four you, and tea for me." Yeah, I'm not a comedian. (Pulls hat down)
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Jeff Striks 3 years ago
"Your joke doesn't make sense. I understood it though. Even though it doesn't make sense"
Bonnie Edwards 3 years ago
To be fair, I wouldn't understand that as a bra size either. In my country, the letter goes last. And yes, I wear an F or G depending on brand.
#29
So a few weeks ago, I was on a date in Colorado with one of my friends. And I was explaining my van built to him and telling him all about the work that I did on it and my solar setup. And I have 750 watts of solar power available to me on my van, which was a very intentional choice. It's a huge investment. It's, I knew what I was doing, wanted to run sewing machines, all the stuff that I need to work and potentially be able to install an industrial sewing machine in it one day. Anyways, this man gets up from across the patio comes over interrupts our conversation to ask me if I understand that's a lot of solar power. And if I was aware, because it was just so crazy to him that I have that much solar power, and he just wanted to make sure that I knew that that was a lot. Okay.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Wow. The rudest part is that he could have just politely said ‘oh wow, tell me what about your trips…’ and politely asked what she was gonna do with all that power. But instead goes first to second guessing her ability.
Anne McKinney 3 years ago
Her date didn't say that, some stranger from "across the patio" said that.
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Dana Shepard 3 years ago
I work in Solar and you can’t even imagine the mansplaining…but this is funny to me bc 750W is literally so minuscule bc I’m doing houses that have lots of big appliances. Much different powering small things in a van setup tho. Hope you have fun with your power and adventures!
weatherwitch 3 years ago
To be honest, I get why he did this. Following the tiny house movement the solar panels power is what most people get Really excited about! When it's their thing it really is! If you'd told him that you were planning on running an industrial sewing machine with it he'd probably have wet himself in excitement 😂 The systems can be baffling to many and a lot of people over power or under power for what they need. If you'd been a guy he'd have done the same I feel 😊 Unless he really was a condescending twat in which case I completely apologise ❤️
Glirpy 3 years ago (edited)
Or he could be concerned that she could start a fire if the wiring wasn't hooked up right? But, I don’t know why someone would want to run an industrial sewing machine inside a van? Traveling tailor?
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This one doesn’t seem to bad IMO. It just sounds like he is generally asking her if she was aware. The interaction in real life between you guys could have been very different, but from what I read it seemed ok. 🤷♀️
Lp Johnson 3 years ago
"gets up from across the patio" To. Get. In. Somebody. ELSE'S. Business. THAT, is The Problem.
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#30
Okay? Do you guys know that TikTok trend where people are like, "Oh, did you spend all day scrolling on TikTok? Or did you like spend your time curating an algorithm blah blah blah." Okay, so I posted a video like that format and had this guy leave this comment "you stole this content, you need to credit the original creator." And then he tags this other creator who gives career advice. But, I made the trend. I literally posted it, May 5th, I mean, I'm really not mad. I have a couple accounts that steal all my ideas. Some literally word for word, but that's how TikTok works. I don't really care about getting credit. It's just funny when people get mad at me for not crediting somebody who, copied my thing.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
He doesn’t deserve for you to put any thought into what he said, keep doing you boo.
Droopsnoot 3 years ago
No matter how much I keep hoping, I keep being reminded that tiktok and a few other tgings sadly still exist
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Liz 3 years ago
Male doctor explained to me that my knee wasn't buckling underneath me and I just needed to lose some weight to make my joint stop hurting. I stood up. My knee buckled underneath me. I'm getting corrective surgery next summer with a different doctor.
Swan 3 years ago
my father mansplained to me that I wasn't transexual that it's not like me that I'm not masculin enough whatever reason he chose. that being finally free in my right body wouldn't make me happy that he knows better than me what I like and what I need (because women don't know what they want and he still adresses me everyday as a woman because that's "all you'll ever be") that I'm just saying this for attention (yes i looove risking my life to try and be happy for the first time in my life!😡)
Sonia Leonard 3 years ago
The comments on these articles are funny. Men complaining that mansplaining doesn't exist while proving the point. 😂
GreenShoeLaces 3 years ago
I'm female, worked in TV and Radio for over 15 years and I once tried explaining something about broadcasts to my dad and he just wouldn't believe me. 10 minutes later my boyfriend at the time said the same thing and my dad goes "Oh, ok, so that's how that works." Not the 1st or last time this has happened to me or my sisters, so now I just give up and don't say anything and let him believe what he wants.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
I'd like to apologize on behalf of men, but guys who pull this crap don't deserve me getting them off the hook.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
This happens so often. My partner does it extremely often and it drives me insane. To put an example, when we moved together he knew so little about plants that i needed to explain him that the flowers turn into the fruits, he was 33 and didnt know that, which is fine. That summer he watered our tomatoes while they were in the sun and burned them so i explained him why its not good to water plants when the sun is very strong. The next year he told me to be careful and proceeded to explain me why. I was like "Yes, I know. I taught you that...". This morning he mansplained me something about human evolution even tough its one of my specialties... He is a sweethearr sometimes but others i could strangle him.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
To all women, from a female MD: I believe you, and I do not think weight is your main problem, nor your attitude. And I get treated the same. It's insane, but there it is. One GP recently told me, "Well, you tell ME what's wrong!" and I said, "Your bedside manner, for a start," and walked out. Seriously, my toe was purple and red and oozing ----- this wasn't a tough call. However, by ethics, I do not and will not prescribe for myself or a loved one. FFS.... (Pro tip: Don't get your toe run over by a gurney holding a patient. Ow ow ow.)
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
The facts that a bunch of these are guys explaining how women anatomy works to women is just odd
Liz 3 years ago
Male doctor explained to me that my knee wasn't buckling underneath me and I just needed to lose some weight to make my joint stop hurting. I stood up. My knee buckled underneath me. I'm getting corrective surgery next summer with a different doctor.
Swan 3 years ago
my father mansplained to me that I wasn't transexual that it's not like me that I'm not masculin enough whatever reason he chose. that being finally free in my right body wouldn't make me happy that he knows better than me what I like and what I need (because women don't know what they want and he still adresses me everyday as a woman because that's "all you'll ever be") that I'm just saying this for attention (yes i looove risking my life to try and be happy for the first time in my life!😡)
Sonia Leonard 3 years ago
The comments on these articles are funny. Men complaining that mansplaining doesn't exist while proving the point. 😂
GreenShoeLaces 3 years ago
I'm female, worked in TV and Radio for over 15 years and I once tried explaining something about broadcasts to my dad and he just wouldn't believe me. 10 minutes later my boyfriend at the time said the same thing and my dad goes "Oh, ok, so that's how that works." Not the 1st or last time this has happened to me or my sisters, so now I just give up and don't say anything and let him believe what he wants.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
I'd like to apologize on behalf of men, but guys who pull this crap don't deserve me getting them off the hook.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
This happens so often. My partner does it extremely often and it drives me insane. To put an example, when we moved together he knew so little about plants that i needed to explain him that the flowers turn into the fruits, he was 33 and didnt know that, which is fine. That summer he watered our tomatoes while they were in the sun and burned them so i explained him why its not good to water plants when the sun is very strong. The next year he told me to be careful and proceeded to explain me why. I was like "Yes, I know. I taught you that...". This morning he mansplained me something about human evolution even tough its one of my specialties... He is a sweethearr sometimes but others i could strangle him.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
To all women, from a female MD: I believe you, and I do not think weight is your main problem, nor your attitude. And I get treated the same. It's insane, but there it is. One GP recently told me, "Well, you tell ME what's wrong!" and I said, "Your bedside manner, for a start," and walked out. Seriously, my toe was purple and red and oozing ----- this wasn't a tough call. However, by ethics, I do not and will not prescribe for myself or a loved one. FFS.... (Pro tip: Don't get your toe run over by a gurney holding a patient. Ow ow ow.)
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
The facts that a bunch of these are guys explaining how women anatomy works to women is just odd
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