Who here can relate?

Newwavesupport3657 · 2020-08-13T06:18:55+00:00

Or when you make a joke and everyone laughs so they try and “one up you” are you 7 and insecure dude? Grow up.

meat_brick · 2020-08-13T02:57:26+00:00

Wish it said "unfounded confidence."

luna_prismatic · 2020-08-13T08:17:16+00:00

Can you even imagine being raised to believe that you are inherently smarter than an entire half of the population on this Earth? That this was a fact as natural and indisputable as gravity? I don’t even know what that would be like.

LunaValley · 2020-08-13T09:18:32+00:00

I was seeing a guy and had my period. I took some painkillers and told him I was in quite a bit of pain and he said:

“Yeah, I don’t get that.”

Me: “What?”

Him: “Surely your body has adapted to the pain by now. It can’t be that sore.”

Me: “Should I kick you in the balls every month and tell you to adapt to that pain?”

Him: “That’s not the same though, your body is built for this”

I asked him not to try “mansplain” my body to me, or tell me what level of pain should be acceptable to me again, and he laughed. Arghhhh!

loudest_gusset · 2020-08-13T11:24:21+00:00

I love when men try to mansplain a certain tool or product they're using after I literally tell them that I designed the item itself and the machines used to create it.

Teenie34 · 2020-08-13T04:48:01+00:00

I have a master’s degree in a certain field. Recently, a man tried to tell me about topic X. I said he didn’t need to bother to explain X to me since I have a master’s degree in X and many years’ experience in X. As if I’d said nothing, he said, “yeah but...” AND HE KEPT ON MANSPLAINING it. I repeated that I already know everything about what it is and asked what were you going to say about it? As if I said nothing, HE CONTINUED TO MANSPLAIN the definition of X. Their brains produce a chemical that drowns out the sound of our voices.

aqualily6 · 2020-08-13T12:17:29+00:00

Female engineer. This happens all the time.

xxlacey3110xx · 2020-08-13T12:31:10+00:00

I’m a licensed cosmetologist and I’m very into beauty things as a hobby. I’ve been in the industry for years... Men will try to tell me they know more about makeup and its affects on skin meanwhile not even having a skincare routine of their own. It always makes me laugh that they think they know more than me about makeup/skin. Men only have the audacity lol

ashwheee · 2020-08-13T13:13:16+00:00

I work in neurosurgery reading brainwaves for a living.

At my sons birthday party one year, a dad of a kid, who worked from home doing some kind of graphic design work, asked me what I do for a living. When I started explaining, he asked about brain surgery and I explained what I do. He interrupted me to tell me I was wrong about how they do craniotomies because he watched it on a documentary.

I can’t even bring up what I do anymore on dates. I don’t even list it in my profiles

estu0 · 2020-08-13T13:34:56+00:00

It’s her nearly empty wine glass for me

Levelupmama · 2020-08-13T12:39:35+00:00

My date this week and also yay to your username lol

soundslikeautumn · 2020-08-13T13:21:39+00:00

I love the expression on her face like "Great. Here we go again!"

DonDove · 2020-08-13T10:41:40+00:00

God forbid a woman is confident AND has expertise

2020-08-13T06:39:52+00:00

I think you meant "mansplaining"

the_researcher_ · 2020-08-13T14:05:49+00:00

Yes, I run into this a lot. I'm right, and I know I'm right, but it just doesn't arrive. So many times at work when I have to withhold the urge to tell everyone I was right. With people outside of work, I'm less hesitant. One thing I often hear is "It doesn't matter if you're right if you can't convince people!" Hello! I've been working here for 7 years!

Ace-Bee · 2020-08-13T14:44:27+00:00

Aww don't you love it when some random dude tries to mansplain your profession to you? /s

I know an amazing woman who dumbs herself down to make the dude she's with seem smart. Dude runs away with his mouth and creates a mess wherever he goes. Just why.

tauruspiscescancer · 2020-08-13T19:46:38+00:00

Unrelated but this is how a lot of the people who aren’t in healthcare / medicine look like when they wanna fight scientists and medical professions about COVID-19.

I’m an epidemiologist and I had some dude argue with me about COVID because he works in construction and he has asthma, but was confident enough to rebuttal every single thing I had to say in our discussion.

BasieSkanks · 2020-08-13T19:52:34+00:00

My worst mansplaining stories are as follows:

My ex-FWB tried to tell me how the menstrual cycle worked and wouldn’t listen when I told him he was wrong.
I studied Law at uni and the same ex-FWB was telling me how politics isn’t black-or-white and that many political topics have no “correct” answer.
When I went to pick my ex-FWB up from the train station (which was a two-hour drive each way), he rewarded me by criticising my driving and telling me how I should be driving instead. I told him I would kick him out of the car if he continued.
My brother argued with me over the EU. He said that the bloc is a federation when it isn’t. It’s similar, but it’s not an official federation. My thesis was about EU politics, and I’ve actually read and studied the EU’s major treaties and agreements. He has not.

lillythecat007 · 2020-08-13T12:03:27+00:00

I once went on a date with a guy, who tried to mansplain my PhD research to me because he once read a book about mental health. The trash took itself out, I guess.....

zzeeaa · 2020-08-13T09:48:41+00:00

As a woman with a PhD... I relate

:/

bbtexy · 2020-08-13T11:22:23+00:00

Oh, and the pseudo-intellectuals! The “know it all” kinda LVM. They’re just trying to bash us!

BellaMob · 2020-08-13T14:33:17+00:00

I also get a similar response if I mention I play video games. Almost every man immediately thinks it's his duty to recommend games for me without even knowing the genres I like. Like thank you, I am not interested in being told how to do my hobby properly.

throwaway631391220 · 2020-08-13T21:26:50+00:00

1.7k upvotes wow! We have a lot of support here💕

Title	Who here can relate?
Author	BasieSkanks
Upvotes	2002
Comments	59
Date	August 13, 2020 2:26 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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