40 Women Share Stories About Men Who Confidently Mansplained Something Obvious To Them

I hope this was some sort of divorce contract?

Well, then let him sign to Snatcher first.

David Retsler, what the ducking duck is wrong with you? There is no need to say these things! Mewton's Third Paw, are you okay?

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i’d pick my battles. this a small thing over the life of a marriage. small thing in a friendship. small thing at work.

Hmm, so that explains his existence.

When I had a biliary colic a few years ago and got my gall bladder removed my mother told me giving birth to me has hurt as much as the biliary colic she had in the 90s. If this comparison is accurate I (a man) can confirm that childbirth and pooping are completely different.

I wish it was no different to taking a poop. Probably wouldn’t have screamed the maternity ward down lol.

I am a 56 yr old male. Can't stand men either. When I go to a hardware or auto parts store, I seek out a female to help me because men are (mostly) idiots.

Don't mind me just pooping human children over here

I had this happen too. In the 11th grade a friend of mine said my dad had misspelled my name in my lunchbox lid. It was spelled correctly and this kid had known me for 11 years. It was sad. And yes he was a boy

My last name is Hungarian, and everyone that sees/hears it for the first time spells it wrong or says it wrong, but they're nice about it. But I've had a couple incounters with teachers who have seen my last name on paper and have pronounced it wrong, and when I corrected them, they say I'm saying it wrong. -~- dude. I think I know how to pronounce my own last name. I kinda learnt that like 10 years before I even met you.

My spanish name ends in an O and I have so many (white) men explain to me that only male names end in O in Spanish.

I had this happened a few times (by both women and men to be fair). My surname starts with V but it sounds like B because spanish is weird. I remember three times when being abroad I said "my surname is Valenciano with a V" (pronouncing it with B) and they had the audacity to correct me "you mean "Valenciano" (pronounced with a V). Thanks but I know how to pronounce my own name you idiot... (Obviously this is a fake surname)

A man once corrected my pronunciation of my own name to me.

What I dont understand is, if getting kicked in the balls is so excruciating why do a lot of guys do it for fun? Hell some men have even made careers out of hurting their balls but I've never met a woman that would find it funny to rip her friends vag open.

There's a comment on Friends where Chandler said it was impossible to know which hurt more because no one would ever experience both. My husband angrily told the TV that any man who'd supported a woman through labour and birth knew damn well which one hurt most.

To be honest, I don't understand the existence of this debate in the first place - what's the point of comparing "who's got it worse"?

Some guy once tried to say this to my mom. She said: so being kicked in the balls is worse than childbirth ? Maybe if cut your balls with dull, rusty knife, you can start to compare...

I've had horrible menstrual cramps since I was 13, given birth to two babies, both with and without an epidural, and I am so glad that this guy has cleared everything up. The cramps are in my head and I exaggerated and imagined the birthing pain, it was just like pooping. Thankfully I can share this information with my daughter when her periods start; "the pain is in your head, just stop thinking about it and be grateful you don't have balls!!"

Can it be mansplaining without including an actual explanation? This is just sexism.

That's why they didn't choose him.

Good for you! I'm a female hockey coach and am constantly fighting for myself.

I played 1st base on a Jack & Jill team. Guy complains because HE'S a first baseman, so they let him play one game. Never once caught the ball, overshot the shortstop resulting in the other team gaining 2 runs on us and missed an infield fly. Yeah - I played the rest of the season. We went to division championships as well - I played with a broken finger and held my ground when another "male player" charged me at the bag. He was disqualified. BECAUSE OF A GIRL.

Nice One.

I like to drive, but I avoid driving when having my period because I realise I have diminished concentration due to all kinds of discomfort, so no, this cannot be wished away by working harder and pushing through.

"Knit Your Cramps Away"! Strange how we women don't know this after eons of passing advice to one another... ;p

When I was I grad school, my ob/gyn was an old French guy. At one appointment, he asked what I was studying in grad school, and I told him-- public policy and women's studies. He responded by telling me that was great because women need to know how to balance checkbooks. I found a new doctor.

oohh really

JFC... I keep mentally thinking "F You" with every one of these.

Had a battery issue and subsequent starting problem (wouldn't start) up after a fill-up at the gas station. Dude came over to tell me, waving hands wildly, that I needed to hold my clutch in to start the bike. It was already neutral and I was perfectly aware of my Beemer's operation.

maybe he was asking you how it's done

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To be fair, you look like a dude ... so maybe he wasn’t mansplaining, he was fellow-dude-splaining, lol