Ladies, be honest with us: how often does a member of the opposite sex mansplain something to you?
If you’re not familiar with that term, it’s defined as “the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.”
It’s probably happened a decent amount of times in your life, right?
Well, on behalf of all men, I apologize…
These ladies went on the record on Twitter to share infuriating stories of when guys felt the need to mansplain something to them…ugh.
1. Appalled by it.
That is very rude.
I had a male peer try to explain my senior thesis to me in the middle of me presenting my senior thesis. I just, i was so appalled it took a second to even respond and I’m still angry that all I could think of was, “Well, yes. I’m glad you understand the premise.”
— Mattie @ ?Social Distancing? (@galaxy_bard) August 2, 2020
2. Guide me in.
That’s just bizarre.
The man in the local supermarket car park who was “guiding ” me into a parking space. I thanked him and said I had 30 + years driving experience & reverse parking sensors on my car.
(My reverse parking skillz are thing of beauty ?).He called me a stuck up b*tch.
— Little Brown Bird (@_the_lbb) August 2, 2020
3. Did you know that?
He must have been a scientist.
Talking about getting plants for his apartment, “they use carbon dioxide to create oxygen” so they are good to have inside.
— rb (@rachelaureen) August 2, 2020
4. Ouch. Not a good one.
Mom almost punched him.
I remember my brother once telling a room full of campers that a mans voice changing was worse than childbirth. I swear if there wasn’t a room full of kids my mother would’ve decked him. Instead she was like “you give birth and get back to me”.
— Emily G (@em_was_here_) August 2, 2020
5. I’m actually an expert.
And you’re not.
Someone tried to explain to me my own field of expertise. At an event where I was invited to speak. (He was not) He used my own book as reference and explained to me the absolute basics which everybody who is remotley interested knows.
— Natascha Strobl (@Natascha_Strobl) August 2, 2020
6. You blew it!
Don’t talk about things you don’t know about.
My husband explains to me how to hang washing up to dry “properly”
For clarification, this is one of his efforts (but *I* do it wrong ??) pic.twitter.com/x7mAOVMIu5
— Julie Stuart (@JulieStuart19) August 2, 2020
7. Oh, my…
It is pretty complicated.
How to operate an elevator.
— Jenn (@numberlessed) August 1, 2020
8. Get out of my space.
Especially during these times.
not words but actions. at my job (supermarket) some older man REACHED around AND behind the plastic barrier OVER the register, less that two inches from me, all to swipe his store card himself over the scale. during a pandemic. i almost lost it.
— gavin (@gavinxstone) August 2, 2020
9. Will you stop talking?
What an idiot.
One time a restaurant manager incorrectly explained my own food allergy to me WHILE I was mid-anaphylactic shock and struggling to breathe. (The culprit was pecans; the manager tried to argue with me that it was pine nuts when pine nuts aren’t nuts at all — they’re seeds.)
— Chelsea Cristene ? (@ChelseaCristene) August 2, 2020
10. I just said that…
Some people…
My ex-boss, I’d explain in full detail how I planned to execute the project I’m working on and the moment I was done speaking he’d regurgitate it back to me in his own words explaining to me how he thinks I should execute it…which was the exact same way I first explained it
— Aly Collins (@lalalaly) August 2, 2020
11. This old classic.
Guys…stop acting dumb.
A classsic one: had a man explain to me the level of pain felt in natural child birth after I told him I birthed two 9+lb babies naturally
— S A R A B U C K L E Y (@nottheworstmom) August 1, 2020
Will it ever end…? Who knows…
But now we want to hear your stories.
In the comments, tell us about the times you’ve had something mansplained to you.
Please and thank you!