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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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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.
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."
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.
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.
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?
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!
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. '"
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.
(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.
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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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😈
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.
And why are strangers so invested in the way you spell your name?
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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
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.
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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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
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".
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.
I´ve gotten Mayah, Mya, Amaya, Amayah, Mia, and for some reason Mayo. Names are fun.
What I would've said: So you're telling me that you, who've known me about 5 minutes, know how to spell my name better than me, who's been spelling my name for [insert age] years? Ok, that makes perfect sense You know what, why don't we call my parents and ask them how to spell it? or do you know better than them as well?
I have two last names (my real name - not the one on this site) - that are both weird. I get told im lying, that i dont know what my name is, that i have them around the wrong way etc.... sometimes, i have to show drivers license... sometimes i just tell them to f**k off.
'"Excuse me, but at this point in my life, I'm pretty sure I know how to spell my own name."
I have a very long Polish double-barrel last name and it's amusing when people pronounce it the way it looks- I've heard all sorts!
I'd guess that depends on where you live too. My home town has a LOT of people of polish decent. You get really good growing up there at pronouncing a random scramble of letters, lol
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I once had to drop film at a Walgreens for a photography class. If you don't know film is considered sensitive documents and you have to provide ID to pick them up, the guy who took my film spelt my last name wrong. I have a very easy last name, it's 3 letters. When I told him he spelled it wrong he said that's how it's spelled. I said no it's not, it's my name.i had to escalate the matter to the division manager to get my film back because of him. My teacher gave me a late grade because he didn't believe that someone would spell my name wrong.
I can't even imagine what goes on in someone's brain to think you don't know how to spell your own name. Like are they okay?
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I had a Spanish teacher try to tell me my last name meant something like, "I declare my faith in Islam." I'm like, that's cool, but in my case it's Old English for "hazel." Then he tried to argue with me. I dropped that class. Dude's supposed to be teaching Spanish, not Arabic.
I have had native German speakers tell me I am SAYING my last name incorrectly. I tell them I don't care, my family is Czech. When I get the follow up, "How come you have a GERMAN last name, if you are NOT German?" "First, I wasn't aware the Germans had a copyright on the name, and second, it is part of a Baronial title bestowed on my ancestor by the Austrian Emperor himself for bravery in one of the many wars Austria fought in." Shuts them up every time!
Who the f**k has the audacity to tell someone they are spelling their OWN name wrong!!!?!?!? This whole planet is doomed based on this level of stupidity and ignorance.
That really takes the cake, people like that shouldn't be allowed to teach.
Nobody ever says my name right. It's been that way my whole life lol. Its pronounced exactly the way its spelled..A li sha. But everybody always says it A lee sha. Nope not right. I got to a point where so many people constantly pronounced it wrong that i quit correcting them unless it was someone that i was going to be around more regularly. Some of my friends would correct people for me though, i swear it seemed like it pissed them off more than me lol. Now anytime someone actually says it right (without me correcting them) I always say omg you actually pronounced my name right, that doesn't happen very often!
When I read the first word I looked at your username and said A-li-sha in my head
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I’m Shelli with an i, and people do stupid stuff. I can’t even imagine this person’s frustration! 💕
My last name is rather simple = Davison and I have had all too many idiots tell me that I spelled it wrong and it is supposed to have a D in the middle. I even had one kid mark it as spelled wrong on a test in class once when we had to hand the papers around to have other students correct them in class.
There was literally one time, and one time only, where I wasn't paying attention to what I was writing down (as in handwriting), and wrote my last name as David instead of Davis. Only did that once...
Had that with my maiden name, I’d correct them because they were saying it wrong and they’d ask if I was sure and I’m thinking no, some stranger knows my name better then I do apparently.
I have a different 1st name and people are always asking if I spelled it right! And NO, it's not 'Pamela'.
I'm a guy. That's happened to my mom (regarding my name) and directly to me my whole life. People will argue that it's pronounced like "Michael", they will switch the positions of the 'a' and 'h', and they will mispronounce it on purpose in an attempt to convince me I'm wrong. The best was when a co-worker looked at my name tag and called me "Malachi." I literally took the name tag off and took an unscheduled break.
My moms name is Michel, pronounced Michael and as soon as people hear her voice they're like oh Michelle? People can't handle a woman with a traditional "boy name"
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Well, there's good news and bad news still to come! Good news: By the time you hit 70, like me, people quit trying to convince you that you are spelling and/or saying your own name incorrectly! Bad news: They just roll their eyes with that "why bother?" look, because they're certain you're already experiencing dementia and that it's, most likely, too late to teach the old dog a new trick ~ I just smile !
Different cultures have different names, and sometimes the parents were just bad at naming. Before I changed my name, people spelled my birth name wrong all the time
I know the struggle. Not necessarily mansplaining. I have people ask me my name (it’s complicated). Then they’ll ask how my name is spelled. Then they‘ll say what my name should be pronounced… Like hey, i don‘t know what my name sounds like?!
Story of my life. All through school (not college), teachers kept telling me houw to pronounce my own damn name…
Female here.I had a female teacher tell me that I was spelling my name wrong. Colohan is an actual Irish name although not a very common one. Callaghan is as well and more common. My English teacher told me that I was spelling my name wrong and that it should be spelt C a l l a g h a n. I got so sick of trying to explain it to her as she would often ridicule me in class over it. If she was telling someone else off she would say "Well at least you're not as bad as her. She can't even spell her own name." The only way I could get her to stop was to bring in my Birth Certificate. And this from an English teacher who readily admitted she didn't know the difference between effect and affect.🙄 I had great pleasure in telling her the R.A.V.E.N acronym for that one.( R remember A affect V verb E effect N noun).
I had a friend that had a "Weird" first name in middle school. I told my mom how her name was spelled and how to say it right and all I remember her saying is "Is she sure she knows how to spell her name?" ...We are literally in the academy and she one of the smartest out of all of us. I think she knows how to spell her first name.
If that's how they spell their own name that's how their name is spelled. It's simple feckin logic
By comparison, I have a fairly easy first (and last) name that is spelled the way it sounds. Still doesn't stop people (sorry, mostly men) from telling me how they think it should be spelled. Gtfo of my face! Take it up with my mom, she named me lol
A lot of this problem with name pronunciation isn't about gender but a language thing. Especially here in America. Native English speakers will apply the rules of English, and especially their own specific dialect and accent, to names that are Non-Anglo in origin.
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.
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. :)
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.
Ah yes you should totally assume the amount of weight someone can f*****g bench press based on their physical appearance.
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."
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.
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.
Yes, of course, why would you read a play, which is just a book with instructions on how to act it out? /s
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.
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?"
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!
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.
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."
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."
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!"
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I thought this was going to be he explains that the gift cards are stocks. Idk
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He doesn’t deserve for you to put any thought into what he said, keep doing you boo.
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.
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!😡)
So sorry for you about your father's reaction to this... I hope you stay strong, the onlyperson who gets to make decisions about your life is you, and you are the only one who can say what'll make you happy. My best wishes for you <3 On a side note, my cousin (born female) informed us last year about his wish to be adressed he/him... took his mother a lot longer to get used to it the his dad, but I'm happy to say that no one in the family has a problem with it. You'll find your people who accept you just as you are :)
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The comments on these articles are funny. Men complaining that mansplaining doesn't exist while proving the point. 😂
Well actually, if you understood what mansplaining really is, here, let me.../s
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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.
I'd like to apologize on behalf of men, but guys who pull this crap don't deserve me getting them off the hook.
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.
well he remembered the important part of your message about the tomatoes. He just forgot the unimportant part of who told him. But the tomatoes are safe. All my respect to him from a fellow tomato waterer!
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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.)
The facts that a bunch of these are guys explaining how women anatomy works to women is just odd
When I got my first credit card in my name, my husband sternly said, "You do have to give the money back." A little history here: his mother didn't understand credit cards - someone had to explain that it was not a gift from the bank.
Anyways, he jokes about his ignorance about some practical matters and he sometimes asks for my input on problems. I can laugh off this silly Captain Obvious moment.
Load More Replies... Though I detest the heck out of the word, as "condescending" and "ar$ehole" work the same way and mean the same thing about every person who acts this way. I did once have a guy on reddit waste five paragraphs on condescendingly and patronisingly explaining "mansplaining" to me. So in effect, "mansplaining" the term "mansplain" to a woman.
I once dated a guy who would tell me all about the different ways his female school counselor tried to talk him into going to college. Then he talk about meeting he BF and the one line the BF said that made him decide to go. It was the exact same stuff!! Drove me up the wall!! He thought this man was so profound! I'm like no you d**k, you just couldn't hear it until it came from a man. So frustrating!
My pediatrician told me for nearly a year that I had growing pains, tomorrow I'm going to my actual "adult" doctor to see what I've got. I'm 15. Growing pains don't happen at 1 and definitely not with the intensity that I'm experiencing them in. Oh, she was a woman, let's hope my new doctor (also female) will do a better job of actually listening to me and trying to figure out a solution. My pediatrician basically said, "nah, you've got growing pains, because it's in your knees. If you told me it was also in your ankles, I might consider something else, but since knees are the most common areas, I'd say you have growing pains" I mean c'mon lady
Mansplaining is definitely a thing. But working in a field that's about 95% men, I can attest that men often do the same thing to other men. I've seen male coworkers make fools of themselves by walking up to engineers and rattling off the most absurd, nonsensical, unsolicited opinions about technical things. I think for some people, it's a misguided attempt to make small talk. They're just too socially awkward to realize they'd look more intelligent if they asked smart questions instead of volunteering dumb opinions.
Men and women can both be idiots. Yeah men have egos and stuff but can we just treat each other equally.
lol... we are..... it's rude to mansplain... so we must call it out in the name of equality...
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These kind of articles are just so toxic. If man does it - than it's mansplaining.. if woman does it - she is Karen. And if you do it - than is just an option.
At this point you could tell me that these posts were just the ones from the last mansplaining thread just with different pictures and I’d believe you.
So, like when did it become a thing to start sentences with "so". So, it's so annoying, ya know?
Why do people on Bored Panda use ???? so much when they're not actually asking a question ⁉️
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.
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!😡)
So sorry for you about your father's reaction to this... I hope you stay strong, the onlyperson who gets to make decisions about your life is you, and you are the only one who can say what'll make you happy. My best wishes for you <3 On a side note, my cousin (born female) informed us last year about his wish to be adressed he/him... took his mother a lot longer to get used to it the his dad, but I'm happy to say that no one in the family has a problem with it. You'll find your people who accept you just as you are :)
Load More Replies... The comments on these articles are funny. Men complaining that mansplaining doesn't exist while proving the point. 😂
Well actually, if you understood what mansplaining really is, here, let me.../s
Load More Replies... 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.
I'd like to apologize on behalf of men, but guys who pull this crap don't deserve me getting them off the hook.
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.
well he remembered the important part of your message about the tomatoes. He just forgot the unimportant part of who told him. But the tomatoes are safe. All my respect to him from a fellow tomato waterer!
Load More Replies... 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.)
The facts that a bunch of these are guys explaining how women anatomy works to women is just odd
When I got my first credit card in my name, my husband sternly said, "You do have to give the money back." A little history here: his mother didn't understand credit cards - someone had to explain that it was not a gift from the bank.
Anyways, he jokes about his ignorance about some practical matters and he sometimes asks for my input on problems. I can laugh off this silly Captain Obvious moment.
Load More Replies... Though I detest the heck out of the word, as "condescending" and "ar$ehole" work the same way and mean the same thing about every person who acts this way. I did once have a guy on reddit waste five paragraphs on condescendingly and patronisingly explaining "mansplaining" to me. So in effect, "mansplaining" the term "mansplain" to a woman.
I once dated a guy who would tell me all about the different ways his female school counselor tried to talk him into going to college. Then he talk about meeting he BF and the one line the BF said that made him decide to go. It was the exact same stuff!! Drove me up the wall!! He thought this man was so profound! I'm like no you d**k, you just couldn't hear it until it came from a man. So frustrating!
My pediatrician told me for nearly a year that I had growing pains, tomorrow I'm going to my actual "adult" doctor to see what I've got. I'm 15. Growing pains don't happen at 1 and definitely not with the intensity that I'm experiencing them in. Oh, she was a woman, let's hope my new doctor (also female) will do a better job of actually listening to me and trying to figure out a solution. My pediatrician basically said, "nah, you've got growing pains, because it's in your knees. If you told me it was also in your ankles, I might consider something else, but since knees are the most common areas, I'd say you have growing pains" I mean c'mon lady
Mansplaining is definitely a thing. But working in a field that's about 95% men, I can attest that men often do the same thing to other men. I've seen male coworkers make fools of themselves by walking up to engineers and rattling off the most absurd, nonsensical, unsolicited opinions about technical things. I think for some people, it's a misguided attempt to make small talk. They're just too socially awkward to realize they'd look more intelligent if they asked smart questions instead of volunteering dumb opinions.
Men and women can both be idiots. Yeah men have egos and stuff but can we just treat each other equally.
lol... we are..... it's rude to mansplain... so we must call it out in the name of equality...
Load More Replies... These kind of articles are just so toxic. If man does it - than it's mansplaining.. if woman does it - she is Karen. And if you do it - than is just an option.
At this point you could tell me that these posts were just the ones from the last mansplaining thread just with different pictures and I’d believe you.
So, like when did it become a thing to start sentences with "so". So, it's so annoying, ya know?
Why do people on Bored Panda use ???? so much when they're not actually asking a question ⁉️
